It’s raining, it’s pouring.

Written by Christer.

Yesterday morning we all woke up pretty early and I thought why not stay up so I could have a really long and calm breakfast before going to work. I had just eaten breakfast and went to brush my teeth when I heard a loud crash. Malkolm had decided he should push down the glass plate I had my sandwiches on to the floor. So instead of having a nice calm morning I instead had a quite stressful morning going to work quite late instead 🙂

 

The cattle is in the pasture behind the Beekeepers cottage so that means we can’t walk along the creek because the path home is blocked with electric wires.
Can You guess what flower this is? I know You all know about it but perhaps never seen the actual flower. I’ll put the answer at the bottom 🙂

Now it’s Novas turn to have a bad stomach so I decided to boil more rice. I always put the pot on the stove and just barely let it start to boil before shutting down the stove, then put two handkerchiefs over the lid and just let it stay on the stove for twenty minutes, I made pancakes at the same time and put another glass plate beside the frying pan. The water just started to boil so I shut of that part and continued with my pancakes. Suddenly I could smell smoke and wondered what house was on fire when I realized that the handkerchiefs managed to reach down to the heat and had started to burn. The odd thing was that the water just kept on boiling harder and harder. That’s when I realized I hadn’t turned it off, instead I had started the stove top under the glass plate.

The oak refused to break when bigger trees fell over it, now it’ll always have that bend 🙂

   

I was just about to remove the plate when it suddenly exploded 🙂 🙂 Thankfully this plate was of a more good quality so the pieces mostly stayed on the stove but some dropped down on the floor. So I had to pour out the pancake batter, clean the floor (vacuuming it) clean out the frying pan, all the dog bowls and restart with making a new batch with pancake batter 🙂 🙂 I’m glad I had enough with eggs because for some reason I decided yesterday not to buy any on my way home from work 🙂 🙂 Besides that we’ve had a calm day. We managed to take a morning walk even though the sun they said would show before the rain never did.

the first blueberries growing by the bog 🙂

   

It is pouring down outside right now and thunder is on the way, I’m not sure if it will hit this village or if the mountain will push it to the other side. Tomorrow will most likely be rainy as well and we’ll have an almost storm passing by as well. We’ve also had a long nap today 🙂 Nice to know I can have that the coming four weeks 🙂 and since the weather seems to stay like this I might even have the chance to have two naps each day 🙂 🙂

     

It’s time for a pot of tea and then perhaps watch the Eurovision Championship in football (soccer for You Americans :- )

 

Have a great day!

The flowers is a wild carrot 🙂

6 thoughts on “It’s raining, it’s pouring.”

  2. We call them Queen Anne’s Lace and I love them. When I was little I would gather bunches and let them take up food coloring for a mixed bouquet. About the stove, I started college at 28 yo and for reasons it was stressful. One day in a hurry leaving for a test I thought I turned of the stove. When I returned 1.5 hour later the eye was on high and metal from the stainless steel pan was running around the glass stovetop like mercury. So don’t feel alone.

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    1. Hi nduggar!

      Now days I’ve seen them sell them in other colors as well but it is fun to do things like coloring them oneself 🙂

      What a luck that the stove didn’t start a fire! Now days I always go through the same routine before I leave for work even if I don’t have to 🙂 Check so nothing is plugged in just in case thunder arrives (even in winter 🙂 🙂 🙂 and always check the stove even though I might not have used it for days 🙂 🙂

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  3. It’s a good thing that you woke up early. It never rains but it pours. In more ways than just weather. Did Malkolm eat the sandwiches?

    It looks like the trees fell on the oak in a more polite fashion. Most likely it will set one of the branches as a new leader or even sprout a new branch as a leader. The bend will always be there. A similar thing happened to one of my black walnuts. The English sparrows pecked at the very top young part of the main trunk until it finally bent over. It didn’t break but did eventually die back to where a new shoot had come out. It’s the new leader but it has a definite lurch to one side before it goes straight again.

    I call that flower Queen Anne’s Lace which is also called wild carrot. Do yours have the little purple center floret? That’s how we tell that it’s QAL.

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    1. Hi Caryn!

      So true! 🙂 The thing is that I had already eaten them so I guess he wanted to see if there were any crumbs left 🙂

      I guess the other tree more sort of leaned towards the oak than to fall down hard. I’ll keep my eyes on this tree the coming years to see what happens 🙂

      I can’t say that I’ve ever seen that purple center. The way I know it is a wild carrot is to break off a leaf and smell the strong carrot smell 🙂 We have lots of other similar flowers and none of them smell like carrot 🙂

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