It isn’t the printer that doesn’t work as I want :-)

Written by Christer.

I’ve been trying to print out some documents and it has been so annoying! It’s actually not the printer that makes me angry, it’s the Open office documents I at the moment put all my hate towards 🙂 🙂 I use an old laptop and don’t have a mouse to it, so I use the touch sensible thing on the laptop. As soon as I have managed to get it just like I want it and have saved it and by accident touches that area  it suddenly totally changes the look of the document, doesn’t matter that I’ve saved it. So then I need to go though it all again, fix all that has changed and ever so carefully try to print it out.

   

The Iceberg lettuce and also the Chard is growing fine.

It is quite often not enough to be ever so careful, so I’ve printed out three pages at least five times now 🙂 🙂 🙂 The last copies came out alright, not perfect but close enough to just give up and accept that the universe hates me 🙂 🙂 🙂 The strange thing is that the printer always works as it should!!?? Normally printers die just when one need it the most but not this one. I’ve started to call it the old faithful 🙂 🙂 🙂

   

My first strawberry 🙂

The weather has been really mixed, well the temperature hasn’t been mixed at all, 10C (50F) or just around that. Lots of sunshine but even more clouds, rain and thunder plus the addition of strong winds. I guess the relatively low temperature has kept the grass fairly calm and I haven’t had to water anything 🙂 Now I can start using the vegetables I’m thinning out on especially sandwiches 🙂 The tomato vines have stopped growing though, too chilly for them I’m afraid. Also I think me melon vines dies, it looks like they have though 🙂 🙂 🙂

My Pawpaw seedlings are a bit confused I guess because they never experienced winter but it was cool in the cellar and then were tossed out into hot summer just to be thrown in to chilly weather again 🙂 but they all live and only two of them refuse to let the old leafs drop 🙂
My Mango tree has just been re-potted.
Lupinus texensis. I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed when the flowers became white instead of blue but now I at least have lupines here 🙂

I’ll get new working hours, again 🙂 , from next Tuesday but this time they’ve only changed it from 6:20 am- 3:20 pm to 7 am- 4 pm. I’ll be a resource person that they can put in anywhere in the painting department because I know it all. I would have preferred to leave the painting department for ever but for some reason they’ve decided that I’ll stay there till I die or retire 🙂 🙂 🙂

     

I think my cold is calming down now, I’m really sure it isn’t pollen because after all this raining there can’t be any pollen left in the air. Lots of tea with sliced ginger in it and I think the ginger has helped but then again i really like the taste of fresh ginger so if it hasn’t helped it did at least make the tea delicious 🙂

Have a great day!

12 thoughts on “It isn’t the printer that doesn’t work as I want :-)”

  2. Glad you’re feeling better, C. Sorry about the infuriating docs. Computers are like horses for some of us…somehow strong emotions make them skittish too 🤦

    What beautiful photos and beautiful flowers. Are your strawberry flowers pink??

    I took a photo of the digitalis purpurea this week too, it’s thrilling being in the Northern Hemisphere and coming across the same flowers that you’re posting 😃😃

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    1. Hi blythedunbar!

      Thanks!
      It happens every year when I do this and it wouldn’t happen if I actually bought a mouse for that laptop, the one I have to my computer is too tricky to remove for just one day every year 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Yes I found pink flowered strawberry plants three years ago and now they have gotten really popular. I also bought white with two rows of petals, also really beautiful (and both give yummy strawberries) but the white ones died last winter.

      It is fun to see the same flowers at almost the opposite side of earth 🙂 I have a few others You might have around You as well, two different perennial sunflowers and one called Illiamna remota (can’t for my life remember the English name on it at the moment 🙂 ).

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  3. Sorry you’re stuck in painting. I finally had surgery on my nose to remove skin cancer and my face is a mess. They had a plastic surgeon to do skin and cartilage graphs to fix my nose so I’ll look human in about 2 or 4 months. Can’t wait to see it. You have a good week and wear a big brimmed hat so you don’t have to go through this. Joy

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    1. Hi librall!
      I’m glad You have had Your surgery! Nasty thing to get! I can understand that You look forward to do that!

      I wish You a good weekend too and I have a couple mosquito hats to keep those flies away from my head 🙂

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  5. I’ve only seen pink strawberry flowers once, in Christchurch, NZ and the variety was called ‘lipstick’ which I thought was a fun name. I wondered if they were ornamental…good to hear they are not and that they taste good.

    I hope Santa (Jultomten?) brings you a mouse for your laptop for Christmas ☺️

    Google says is Illiamna remota is Kankakee mallow. I’ll look out for it as I’m in London now and going to a flower market on Sunday. Hope they have some.

    Will be checking all my Euromillion tickets tomorrow, before heading back to NZ on Sunday night. Hold thumbs! US$300k won’t even make a dent ☺️

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    1. Hi blythedunbar!
      My friend sold these three years ago and that was the first time I saw them, now days they seem to be sold everywhere, with those pink flowers (they flower all summer) they can have them in normal flowerbeds 🙂

      Well I could just order one online 🙂 🙂

      I’m not sure they sell Kankaee mallows in markets, they seem to be rather unusual on this side of the ocean and quite frankly rare even in the US. Mine has started, after well over ten years, started to spread. I guess it likes the milder climate we’re having now. I do hope You find some 🙂
      Well I’ll hold my thumbs 🙂

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  6. It always warms my heart to see photos of the dogs playing!

    I’m always learning a lot about your climate and growing seasons thanks to your posts and now that the potted plants are outdoors and vegetables are sprouting I’m getting greater context too.

    Your native wild lupine is lovely. We also have a native lupine that naturally thrives here, particularly in rural locations. It is a larger plant overall than your lupine. I tried to post a photo without success so I’ve linked to an excellent site with good lupine photos.

    https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/329757

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    1. Hi denalisam!

      I was truly lucky that those two go together so well 🙂

      Summer started unusually early this year but it looks like most plants love the cooler weather we’re having now. Normally I wouldn’t have put out any potted plants until around June sixth.

      That Lupine isn’t native here, I did sow one that sort of makes guest appearance here most year, a yellow lupine but those never grew up. That one is bigger than the one I have but the flowers aren’t packed together especially much and compared to the ones from the American continent it looks as if it is starved 🙂 🙂 But lupines are invasive so we can’t get the perennial ones any more (well we can pick seeds from the ones growing in the wild but it wouldn’t be legal 🙂 🙂 )

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