So slow today.

This day has been so slow! I’ve been able to do what I wanted to do and have had lots to do as well, still this day has been slow as cold molasses 🙂 We’ve been waiting for the rain and thunder to arrive but today it never did. Well I did hear some thunder at work, at least I think it was thunder but there were also some people up on the factory roof working and at one time it sounded more like they dropped something really heavy 🙂 I also hear the thunder once when I came home but it was from far away.

     

We had morning mist here in the village when I drove to work. I was already a bit late already from the start and it didn’t help that I stopped here and there to take some misty photos on the road to work 🙂 I made it just in time thankfully but I missed my morning coffee. I stopped drinking coffee for a while because my stomach got upset, well more upset than it usually was. Then we found out that I couldn’t eat gluten, my stomach became much better and now I dare to drink a cup of Cappuccino each morning, so far so good 🙂

   

We are supposed to kill all Lupines we can find in nature because they are invasive, they have even created a special day when everyone is supposed to go outside and remove them. The problem is that we love our Lupines so no one touches them 🙂 🙂 🙂

NO attempt from Alma to dig her way out of the dog yard today but I found evidence that she had tried after I went to work after getting the summer tires on. So I blocked it and put new obstacles in the way. This does not mean she’s given up, she’s just biding her time, checking out eventual weaknesses and will most likely try again soon. I was supposed to measure the length of the fence today so I can get what I need to repair the fence but now I can’t fine my tape-measure. I used it a few days ago and I was pretty sure I knew where I had placed it but no I didn’t 🙂 I had even borrowed tools from work to fix some things today so I guess I’ll need to do the same tomorrow, including a tape-measure 🙂

More from Falköping. The streets around the town square.
The original church that stood here almost a thousand years ago is actually still there, it’s built in to the “new” and bigger one.

 

Even Alma has figured out how to get the treats out of the little bottles I place in the dog yard every morning now so I better come up with something else soon, a few treats only keep her occupied for so long after all. I did have an amazing toy like that but old Sune, a dog who liked his treats for himself dug it down somewhere  in the garden 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ll need to buy something similar. I do have one in the kitchen but it’s been put away fro a while. looks like a turtle with a see through cover. It is supposed to be pushed by the dogs and the treats will sort of pop up through a hole in the back. Alma never got that one but happily stole the treats from Albin who to my very big surprise understood it after a few minutes and he wasn’t the brightest star in the sky 🙂 🙂 I’ll put it back on the floor as soon as Malkolm is big enough to at least get a few treats as well 🙂

 

The red house to the left is actually for sale.

Alma and Malkolm is playing wildly at the moment, they’r running in and out of the cottage, up the stairs to me, run back out and chase each other like crazy. Even Alma seems to be on the edge of what she can managed and not collapse 🙂 🙂 🙂 I hope that means I’ll get just as good nights sleep tonight as I had yesterday, they were playing just as much yesterday as the’re doing now 🙂 🙂 🙂 Unfortunately Alma just decided that she would go on a hike by herself to the other side of the little lake behind my garage to eat wild hog poop, it’s a gift she has, to sort of ruin the fun they had and have a breath that smells horrible 🙂

Cratageus of some kind.

Sibylla sell hotdogs, hamburgers and other things like schnitzel. They were here before the big hamburger chains moved in and to be honest they are so much better.
If You want me to calculate how much more expensive our petrol is compared to Yours I’ll do it. This was the last photo of Falköping for this time. And if You wonder why there were almost no people in the photos it’s because Falköping is more or less dead until the shops open around 10 am 🙂

It’s time to prepare something to eat at work tomorrow, I think I’ll save that chicken I bought for next week instead 🙂 I’ll see what I can find in the freezer and put together something from that 🙂

Have a great day!

7 responses to “So slow today.”

  1. carolannie1949 Avatar
    carolannie1949

    Nice misty morning shots!

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  2. ppekka24 Avatar
    ppekka24

    What a delightful post, as always. Maybe I will buy that red house 😂. I noticed the lupines; I didn’t realize they were invasive. Very pretty anyway!

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi ppekka!
      That is a nice looking house but I wouldn’t like to have so many neighbors 🙂
      They are invasive over here in Europe and the big problem here is that they make poor soil much better and some of the flowers that now slowly are dying out here need that poor soil to survive. For me the big question is, will they survive the climate change those endangered flowers or will they die and then we have nothing? If they’ll die anyway why can’t we just be allowed to have the loved Lupines?

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  3. Joy Atwood Avatar
    Joy Atwood

    Happy you got your stomach figured out. If your dogs eat wild hog poop don’t they get worms? I would be worried about that. Have a nice week.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi Joy!

      Thank You!

      Well those worms usually follow special species so I don’t think dogs can get worms from hogs, they do however get worms from mice and voles. I’m more worried about them getting the ticks that hogs have plenty off.

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    Caryn O’Keefe

    We’ve had foggy mornings the last few days but not picturesque fog. Just nuisance fog that is damp and chilly and sometimes turns to actual blowing mist. Then it burns off late in the day and the sun comes out for a little bit.

    I think lupines are sort of native here but I only ever see them in gardens. What is growing wildly in my yard is Dames Rocket, celandine, buttercups, privet, lily of the valley, forget-me-nots, red sand spurry, gill over the ground, chickweeds of various kinds, thyme leafed speedwell, hawkweed (which may or may not be the native one), japanese roses, star of bethlehem, skunk cabbage, senstive fern (Onoclea sensibilis), jewelweed, pokeweed, and American elderberry. The last 5 and possibly the hawkweed are natives. The rest are invasive aliens. Actually the jewelweed is a native invasive as is the pokeweed. I’m supposed to rip them all up. But I like them (not the japanese roses) so I don’t.

    Today is Piki Dog’s birthday. He is 11 years old. Still a goofy guy.

    Why does the sidewalk in front of the Svenska kyrkan rise up like that?

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      Christer.

      Hi Caryn!

      That’s just annoying fog and comes way too often. I want those early morning fogs that look like waves in the air when the sun rise 🙂 Or the really thick one that makes the cameras confused so that can’t focus anywhere 🙂

      We have most of those as well 🙂 We have lupines everywhere here but now days rarely in our gardens 🙂 If a plant is European and invasive it still doesn’t count as an invasive species, really odd!!! So it can spread as it likes!? We can still buy seeds from annual Lupines even though they com
      from the American continent and we do have a European Lupine, a yellow one, that’s annual so we can buy seeds from that one too but none of them are as beautiful as the perennial ones. The Japanese rose is still calm here but I guess with time and longer summers it will turn against us and spread like crazy here as well 🙂

      It used to be stairs at the entrance but to make it more easily for handicapped people to get in the removed the stairs and raised the side walk. It’s a second hand shop behind the walls.

      Send Rocky our congratulations and best wishes this important day!

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The Cottage by the crane lake.