Winter is on its way I’m afraid.

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Two peaches,three Guavas and a mango tree. The mango tree still looks fine, better than any of the old ones that died ever did and it now have two top branches.

The weather is rather meh but it is at least not windy. We can’t expect any nicer weather except for tomorrow when we might get to see some sunshine. Around two hours of it they’re guessing and then it’ll turn to meh again and on Sunday it will start to snow. Apparently we’ll also get lots of rain in it and mostly it’ll stay just above 0C (32F) but since we’ll get up to almost 8 inches of it it might stay for a while anyway.

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The only track we saw today was this kind, we have lots of horses in the village now.

They change how much snow we’ll get every hour or so and they’ve confessed on tv that they actually don’t know how far south the snow will be so they’re just guessing more than normal πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The morning walk was really nice though, since there was no wind. Birds were tweeting, we saw a deer in the distance and Alma almost behaved the entire walk πŸ™‚ Nova however does as she please when we’re walking homewards. Today I wanted to leash her the last three hundred meters (much the same in yards) but she figured out why I called her so she just turned around and walked away even fasterΒ  than before πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I really don’t like planting bulbs or tubers, I can’t say I know why but I just don’t. Still every autumn I do buy bulbs and tubers πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So today I planted 20 wild tulip bulbs, ten Dutch Iris bulbs (close to not being hardy enough but they are beautiful if they survive the winter) and 15 Croci, yellow ones. I planted them at the back of my garden because almost all spring flowering bulbs and tubers in my garden grows in the little space around my cottage and in to the woodland. I thought it could be nice to see something in spring when I look out the kitchen window and door.

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I’ve also baked some bread today. I sort of half failed because they didn’t really rise especially much but they are still soft and tastes really good, only they are half the size I thought they should be. I’ve failed much worse with other breads, like eating concrete so I only call this half failed πŸ™‚

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Mostly however I’ve felt tired today. I have a cold that won’t break out, instead I’m constantly tired. Of course it’d nice not top be sick with fever but the colds that doesn’t break out are almost more tiresome πŸ™‚ If not for anything else because they tend to stay for longer instead. The last (from what I can see when looking up the tree) walnut is still hanging on but I have now sown the first one I took out. If it germinates it will be slightly hardier than its mother tree and would be more adapted to what the climate is like around here. Now I must say that the tree I have is very well adapted to this area as it is, it has after all survived fifteen years here now (well twelve I had it in the cool cellar its first three winters). So I do hope it’ll start to grow, one way or another I will find a place for it to live either in my garden or close to it πŸ™‚

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My Japanese quince still believes it’s spring πŸ™‚
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One frozen strawberry proves it isn’t πŸ™‚
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Edible but the dogs pee everywhere in the garden πŸ™‚

I think it is time to make another sandwich and then check if there’s anything worth watching on tv tonight, I doubt that though πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

2 thoughts on “Winter is on its way I’m afraid.

  1. We may get some snow next week but so far it has been warm.. Do daffodils do well in your area. I like them because they can grow anywhere, even in the woods. They multiply too. We are going to have a freeze next week so then I’ll have to clean up the dead plants. You have a good weekend and shake that cold. Joy

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    1. Hi Joy!
      They’ve now changed the weather predictions, so now it’ll be warmer and instead of snow we’ll get loads of rain instead. It might snow tomorrow though but very little and it’ll melt away pretty quick.
      Yes daffodils grow everywhere here, all the cow pastures are filled with them and also my garden πŸ™‚ One of my favorite flowers to be honest.

      Have a great day!

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