A day with warmth and sunshine, it’ll rain tomorrow.

Written by Christer.

Every year since long before I moved here poppies have grown outside the Beekeepers garage.

I have two really happy dogs beside me right now. Warmer weather and no rain so now they’ve been playing outside all afternoon/ evening 🙂 Also a short walk after I had come home was really liked. Unfortunately the Forest fly season has started so after walking to the bog we all hurried out of the forest again 🙂 These flies are really harmless in all way but they always try to get inside the ears and nostrils and if they can’t they just walk around on the hair. So annoying!!! So I better find my mosquito hat otherwise I’ll refuse to take any walk after it becomes warmer than 10 C (50 F).

Clouds missing my village, they pass south or north of us :-)

This is some kind of Lathyrus, Sweet pea relative and it grows along the gravel raod.
I can’t remember the name but this is a close relative to Sweet Pea. Could be Spring pea perhaps ?
The first wild strawberries, they grow all over the forest and in to our garden :-)
The first ones for the year. I didn’t eat any because too many dogs walk by there and god only knows how many pee on them 🙂

They’re guessing that it’ll stay this warm tomorrow again but with rain and thunder. After that a few days with lower temperatures again and then up to summer temperatures and with rain almost the entire time, I guess the mosquitoes will be happy about that 🙂 🙂 🙂 I think it might be time to go fishing and put what ever I catch in the little lake behind my garage, a few fish can eat a lot of mosquito larvae 🙂

White beam, not especially common growing in the wild outside this village. Whitebeam isn't rare here normally but I can't find it anywhere in this area except for in this forest.
Whitebeam.

The Birch wood on the way out to the tip of the peninsula in the bog. 

Lots of butterflies here now :-)
I’m not good at butterfly names 🙂

I found a new anti tick, horsefly, mosquito spray in the pharmacy last Friday. The last one I had smelled like really bad deodorant, the kind of buy while being abroad somewhere warm and wonder why one never find something like that at home and when You do come home fully understands why not 🙂 🙂 This one doesn’t seem so bad to be honest, it smells like a very flowery perfume older ladies used in the sixties. Sort of discrete but powerful. The thing is that it sticks around and if some of it has hit the floor or a wall that discrete smell sort of grows and fills the entire home and in the end forces You out of Your own home 🙂 :-)Nova doesn’t care much, Alma shows her displease and Malkolm starts to roll around in anything that might smell so bad that it at least kills the flowery smell 🙂 🙂 🙂

The bog.     

It’s supposed to be for humans as well so I sprayed some on myself as well. That smell has now followed me at work and it’s really hot where I work and I can tell You that heat really make this smell grow thousandfold. The bottle is new and it seems to do the job so I’ll keep on using it until I find something else 🙂 Can’t they come up with something that works but at least doesn’t stink so much 🙂 🙂

Maianthemum bifolium, relative to Lady in the valley and smells really nice.
Maianthemum bifolium, the Swedish name for it is Squirrel berries and I have no idea why 🙂

   

I won’t write anything tomorrow, too much to do but I’ll return on Thursday. I used to take Wednesdays off from the blog when I helped my friends daughter with her French homework and that continued even after she left school for good but instead of Wednesdays I’ll have a break every Monday, I never seems to be able to do what I should on Mondays any more 🙂 It is time for a cup of tea and perhaps something to nibble at as well 🙂

I guess You want a photo of Malkolm 🙂

Have a great day!

4 thoughts on “A day with warmth and sunshine, it’ll rain tomorrow.”

    1. Hi ppekka!

      Had I known how much flies we can have here during summers I would never have moved here 🙂 🙂 🙂 Now I love this place and wouldn’t move if so my life depended on it 🙂 🙂 well if I won the lottery I might move to southern France, could live here during the summer half year and move south during the winter half year 🙂 🙂 We have lots of flies and other insects due to the bog, always damp somewhere even if we have a drought.

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  2. Your pea looks like some kind of vetch which is logical, I suppose. Same family.

    I’m trying to think of a sixties perfume worn by elderly ladies that was discreet but powerful. Evening in Paris? Certainly not Chanel #5 😀

    The stuff I use for flea and tick killer says it smells like a walk in a summer garden. It’s cedar oil, rosemary oil, sesame oil, and one other thing I can’t remember. Doesn’t smell anything like a summer garden. The dogs hate it. I’m not overly fond of it. It does seem to work so it stays for now.

    The weather here has been balmy. They are predicting a possible heat wave for next week. I hope not. I don’t want to put the AC unit in the window yet.

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    1. Hi Caryn!

      Could be but some of those flowers have switched families so it could also be a Lathyrus 🙂 Genetics helping to see what families they actually should belong to has really messed up the plant world 🙂 🙂 🙂

      No especially not Chanel 🙂 🙂 🙂 It sort of smells like a spring flower mix and it’s just too much 🙂

      I guess the one saying it smells like a summer garden might have been badly hit in the nose with the Corona 🙂 🙂 🙂 The same here, it seems to work so I’ll keep it. I tried to use it outdoors and poor Malkolm rolled around on the ground doing everything he could to get rid of it 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Chilly, rainy and with thunder here but they have much the same prediction over here, at least it will rise to 68 F 🙂

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