They are picky primadonnas.

November 11, 2023

We had thick fog once again this morning but since hunters were out in the forest, one can wonder why because they really couldn’t see anything out there 🙂 🙂 🙂 , we couldn’t enjoy it. We might have fog again tomorrow so I hope it lasts long enough for us to have a walk in it.

We call these (well the entire bush) for Goat apple. They are poisonous for us humans and I have no idea why they got that name 🙂 If one for some odd reason would eat those berries one would pee red.

So I’ve put up the new bird feeder and I do hope Alma won’t try and take it down 🙂 The House sparrows and the Tree sparrows are so used to me that they don’t care that I stand on the other side of the window. The Big tits however are more suspicious and flies away as soon as they realize I’m there. So I had to turn off the lights in the kitchen so they couldn’t see me as well and then they came to the feeder. I still haven’t seen a single Blue tit and that’s odd because they used to be the third most common bird around my feeders.

Nova wanted to go out to the bog today but when we reached the peninsula we always walk out on she suddenly didn’t want to. Neither Alma or Albin showed any reaction so we continued out anyway. Turns out that someone had been riding there and Nova has never been particularly fond of horses so I guess that was the reason. Today was supposed to be rain free so I wasn’t the least surprised that it rained every now and again 🙂 🙂 🙂

We had our Saturday pancakes when we came home and even though the dogs had their pancakes Albin still complained when i didn’t give him any more 🙂 🙂 Yesterday I had pommes strips for dinner and the dogs got their fair share of them, besides Albin drooling so much that I had to clean the floor afterwards he still complained when there were no more strips left 🙂 🙂

I need to dig down the pots with plants in the ground since I don’t have space for them in my cellar.

This is how much of the ground in my garden looks like now. Even though the surface is just an inch deep with soil and beneath it it’s just sand the water doesn’t go anywhere.

The weeks when I have a long weekend feels a bit odd. Today was the second day I was at home and it felt like I needed to prepare for working tomorrow 🙂 🙂 It’s around the same time every second weekend, just after noon, that happens 🙂 I guess old habits die hard 🙂 🙂

I’ve placed on of my Camellias in the coolest spot I have in my cottage and now it shows lots of buds. Camellias are picky primadonnas and I really don’t know why I don’t just throw them away, make one mistake during the year and they won’t flower and most likely die as well 🙂 🙂 This one however is at the moment showing lots of buds, it might flower around Christmas if I’m really lucky.

Have a great day!

3 responses to “They are picky primadonnas.”

Caryn

November 11, 2023

Pommes strips = French fries?
I googled goat apples because the photo reminded me of the bitter nightshade that grows all around my area. Of course I got pictures of goats and apples but eventually got a Wikipedia article about the plant but it wasn’t the same plant. I’m guessing yours is a nightshade but not the same species as yours. No giant vicious thorns on yours. And no mention of red pee, either. :O
Thalassa Crusoe wrote about keeping camellias in the house where they do not like to be. She mentioned wrapping the bases of the flower buds with the stuff they make cotton balls out of and keeping that moist so the buds wouldn’t dry up and fall off. Personally, that sounds like too much work to me.
I know what you mean about the bi-weekly Friday off screwing up time perception. I had that shift for years and the same thing happened to me. Eventually, I did adjust. Right after that I went to a 4 day week and had every Friday off. 🙂
Lovely day here. It was a bit cold and windy but the sun was out all day. It didn’t really warm anything but it was cheery.

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1. Christer.
  
  November 12, 2023
  
  Hi Caryn!
  
  Yes that’s what i mean, the thin ones. The thick one is called pommes frites. I forgot that we use the french names for them while You don’t 🙂
  No it doesn’t belong to that family, the scientiffic name is Rhamnus cathartica. It does however have thorns and quite nasty as well but further in in the branches.
  
  Camellias really are too much work for very little reward to be honest. I guess if they had been hardy enough and I could have had them in the garden all year round I would have liked them much better. If the flower buds fall off on the one I have in the cottage I’ll just test their hardiness next winter 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Yes I guess I will adjust after some time but it is really annoying to feel that the weekend soon is over when in fact just half of it has passed 🙂 🙂
  Miserable weather here again even though I actually saw sunshine for around ten seconds 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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  1. Caryn
    
    November 12, 2023
    
    I was always very happy whenever I remembered that the weekend still had another day left. 😄
    
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