Close but still no thunder or rain.

June 1, 2024

The path down to the creek is bordered with Dog biscuits. — The path that eventually leads down to the creek is full of Dog biscuits. I’m glad they have driven four wheelers there, otherwise we would have been drenched in water from the rains and morning dews.

Hot again today so it was really nice that we were able to have our morning walk in the early morning while it still was cool. Not cool enough to keep the mosquitoes away but cool enough for them to not attack us to hard 🙂 Malkolm woke me up at 3:27 am today but after he had been outside we all went back to bed and slept for another hour.

A Roe deer buck is eating in the field. — This wasn’t the only animal we saw this morning. It is a Roe deer buck.

Still lots of water in the creek. — There’s so much vegetation along the creek now that it is hard to see it 🙂

All the dogs are at the moment a bit wobbly in their stomachs so today I boiled rice and fish for them. Nova loved it, Alma loved it and Malkolm put his nose in the air and refused to eat anything until he realized they all had the same food 🙂 He did eventually eat all of his food but I can clearly say that he’s not a fan of boiled fish 🙂 Too bad for him because he’ll get this tomorrow as well 🙂

The path along the creek is very narrow now days. — The path along the creek is now so narrow that we need to walk in a line, something Alma have big problems understanding 🙂

There's a little brige at the both ends of the creek where we alk so I had to stand on one of those to be able to see more than a couple of meters of it.

My camera refused to do as I wanted so here are two rather bad photos of fox cubs running away from us. — Some previous owner of my camera thought it was a good idea to adjust the camera to being able to go through the photos when turning the shutter speed wheel. Idiotic since if I need to adjust the speed after just taking one photo instead of changing the shutter speed I then started to go through my photos already taken. So instead of actually capture these two fox cubs so it would be easier to see them I instead took several photos that an editing program then tried to make at least some better. We met the mother later on but it happened so fast that I wasn’t able to take any photos of it.

Thunder and heavy rain is nearby again but it looks like it’ll go either south or north of us. I wouldn’t mind if we at least got the cool air that always follow thunder but even if we don’t get it today it will cool down considerable next week. It’ll drop from today’s 26C (78,8F) to 14C (57,2F). It will stay that cool during the entire long weekend and I think I’ll enjoy it a lot, cool weather plus what they are guessing rain as well sort of forces us to just relax all the time 🙂

Nova didn't like that I wanted to go down to the creek, she wanted to go out to the bog. So she dragged her feet all the time until I let her go un leashed, then suddenly she had all the energy in the world :-) :-) :-)

Malkolm decided to not follow Nova and instead kept himself close to me and Alma.

Nova did stop and look after us every now and again :-) — Nova checked after us on and off, last time she walked away like this she too a wrong turn and it took some time until she finally found us. She’s more or less deaf so no use in calling after her 🙂

I moved the lawn, well most of it, when the grass had started to dry up some. I drank too little water while doing it so now I have a slight headache. What’s left will be moved tomorrow and it’s on the north side of the cottage and beside the woodland where the Pawpaws are growing. I do hope we’ll have a wind blowing because that’s where all the mosquitoes are and I have already been bitten quite a lot. I was bitten by a horse fly this morning as well, they’ve started their season a bit early unfortunately. Last month was unusually hot here and I guess that kickstarted them.

I do like the European Hornet, a gentle giant unless one comes too close to their nest. If one do one must run fast :-) — The European Hornets are back, favorites ogf mine :-)

Alma and Malkolm playing in the garden :-) — Alma and Malkolm had a few minutes to play before it became too hot.

It looks like both the thunder and rain will miss us so I better put together the new hose and spray gun so I can water the vegetable patch. Something is eating the beans I sowed but the rest looks untouched, the carrots however hasn’t shown them selves yet so I’m starting to wonder whether I’ll have to sow something else in that spot. I’ll give them a couple of more days before I do anything.

Have a great day!

4 responses to “Close but still no thunder or rain.”

Caryn O’Keefe

June 1, 2024

I played catch up with your posts. I missed a whole week. They don’t always come up on Facebook and if I’m on my phone, I can’t comment anyway. I have to be on my laptop and even then WordPress requires that I log in via Facebook. It’s weird.

I’ve asked about which plant is Dogs Biscuits before because google wasn’t being helpful. Now it says they are Wild comfry or Cynoglossum virginianum. It’s hard to tell from the photos if they are the same plant.

Malkolm looks really good sitting in the middle of the grass and the dog biscuits. I have to say my first thought looking at the road that goes to the creek was TICKS! 😀

The weather here has been nice except for a couple of days that were rainy and chilly. All my winter stuff was put away but I had to dig out a wool sweater and wool socks for those days.

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1. Christer.
  
  June 2, 2024
  
  Hi Caryn!
  
  I can’t understand why Wp continues to do like this, I have to approve You every time, after all it’s not like You’re here for the first time 🙂 🙂
  
  No the Dog biscuit is Anthriscus sylvestris, It’s naturalized in America and is seen as invasive. Well it’s everywhere here so I can understand that it is over at Yours.
  
  That’s always my thought as well 🙂 🙂 🙂 Oddly enough it seems like the ticks doesn’t like to be there, they rarely get any when we walk there. I know that Yarrow is a flower ticks don’t like so I usually tries to make the dogs walk where they grow 🙂
  
  When looking at the weather apps yesterday they said it would cool down considerably next week but the closer we get the higher the temperature 🙂 🙂 🙂 So I think I can forget about finding warmer clothes 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
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ppekka24

June 1, 2024

I have always found that carrots seem to take forever to come up. Hopefully yours will soon!

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1. Christer.
  
  June 2, 2024
  
  Hi ppekka!
  
  The fun thing is that the carrots showed this morning 🙂 🙂
  
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