I think we all now are getting rid of our ailments. The dogs stomachs are much better and I finally woke up without a sour throat. I was really tired yesterday so both the dogs and I slept almost all day. The morning was quite nice and cool with some sunshine so we could have a nice walk before the rain and thunder arrived. I’m not sure for how long I slept but it was several hours and I woke up an hour before my usual bedtime and went to bed again and slept the entire night š š š I think the dogs slept the entire time as well but My sleep was so deep that I didn’t hear the thunder at all so they could have had a party while I was in the land of dreams š
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I was oddly enough really tired when I woke up this morning so I didn’t have the energy to go out with the dogs while we had a really nice and thick fog, we even had fog in the garden. We’ve only had one short nap after that and I woke up to heavy showers and thunder. As I woke up I remembered that the kitchen door was open so I had to dry the floor from the little lake that had formed in the kitchen š š š
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The morning wasn’t especially cool when we finally went out for our walk so the flies were quite happy to greet us in the forest. To be honest there weren’t that many out there but the ones that were annoyed us enough. There’s unusually few flies flying around this summer, not that I mind but we do need these flies so the birds will have enough with food to raise their young ones. I remember not to long ago when one had to stop at petrol stations because the windshields were just disgusting covered with dead flies, so far this year I’ve had one fly crashing in to the windshield. It is nice to have clean windows on the car but something are clearly wrong out in nature now days. To be honest though, I have so many in my garden that it might be that they all have moved here š š
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I drove to the big grocery store in Falkƶping this morning. I don’t live in a tourist area so there weren’t many cars on the road. I bought what I had forgotten to write down on my list last Tuesday š and then some š I tried some new gluten free cookies they had gotten and I must say they were for once really yummy. If it is something I’ve learned since I got to know I can’t eat gluten is that most baked things taste like shit so even though I was hesitant I bought two different cookies and to my really big surprise they didn’t taste disgusting š I’ll see if they can get them in my usual grocery store because what they have are abominations to mankind š š š
They are guessing that we won’t have any rain tomorrow and 20C (68F). No sunshine though but they said that about today as well and we had plenty of it in between showers. They’re also guessing that the three days after that will give plenty of rain but mostly after noon each day so we’ll be able to have our morning walks without getting soaked. Well the grass will be dripping of both rain and dew so my feet and Malkolm will be really wet. Malkolm won’t mind though and Nova will walk after both him and me so she’ll mostly be rather dry when we come home.
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It is time to go downstairs and watch the English Antique Roadshow. There’s always someone there who had an old aunt that was a Russian grand duchess or similar and they always pretend that they are so surprised when the jewelry they brought are worth a small fortune š š š Ours is so much more dull when it comes to that and sometimes the owner of the object tells from the beginning they already know the value of what they’ve brought. To be honest if I had something worth loads of money I wouldn’t want the world to know, it would be just like asking to be robbed one day š š š
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
It sounds like you are catching up on some much needed sleep on your vacation!
Are you able to harvest many hazelnuts? I think they are my favorite nut!
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Hi ppekka!
Yes this cold has really taken its toll! I’m still tired but not even close to how it was before š
I haven’t checked especially close to be honest, I was just happy to see these š š It’s the first time this bush gives any and as long as the Jays haven’t seen them they’re safe š Squirrels are way too shy here to even come close to my hazel bush š I do hope for more Black walnuts this year but I need to get some kind of nut cracker that can manage them, I broke my last one this winter, it just cracked and the walnut wasn’t even scratched š š
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Sometimes you just need a good long sleep. I have nights if the cats will let me, which are rare because they enforce a rigid schedule, where I sleep 10 or 11 hours straight through.
We just started getting an old English TV show here called Celebrity Antiques Roadshow, and it’s a different format. 2 antique experts take 2 British celebrities (I rarely recognize them, except one was from Downton Abbey), they split into pairs and travel around England for 2 days in restored vintage cars, browsing through antique shops with $400 (in pounds) each to spend, looking for things they can then resell at auction. The celebrity who ends up with the most money after the auction, either by not spending it in the first place or making a profit off what is auctioned, wins.
They find so much junk. Usually they pay too much (even after haggling the poor shopkeepers down a lot) and then lose money at auction. It’s really stupid, but there’s something gentle, restful and good fun that we don’t get on American TV, and the scenery they drive through is lovely.
Today Virginia is having its first rainy day in MANY weeks. We have a drought and I have 5 new azalea bushes that need water, so it’s welcome. And it’s only in the 80s F and humid today, where it’s felt over 100F most days. I actually prefer rainy days because I sunburn instantly.
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Hi catsworking!
The dogs usually stay calm here until they notice I’ve moved my eye lids š š but then again I rarely sleep more than eight hours.
I haven’t seen that one but a rather similar Danish program. There however it’s two antique dealers / flee shop owners that have a week to buy things as cheap as they can and then have those things sold at an auction, rather fun. It looks as if they are just as bad as the British celebrities š š š
I think we for a while reached 77F here today and with a 100% humidity, not my favorite weather but we did at least get the chance of being outside for a while. It sounds as if we’ve gotten all the rain You needed š I avoid sunshine mostly because I once had the start of malignant melanoma. There was never any risk for me because they took it just as it had started but the doctor told me not to sunbathe or wear shorts from then on. I only get sunburn in my face and I refuse to wear long sleeved shirts during summer š š
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The Danish show sounds like the same premise, only without the restored vehicles and celebrities.
In May I had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my top lip. It was very small (I thought), but now I have a big crater. It’s slowly filling in, and I hope one day will be unnoticeable enough that I can wear lipstick without it puddling in that hole.
I used to get burned all summer every summer when I was a kid (there was no such thing as sunscreen), so I guess it’s catching up with me now. But I didn’t expect a cancer on my lip. Now I have to get a skin check every six months, and every time I notice some little bump, I worry. The time to catch all that is early. Very early. Once they start taking chunks out of your skin, they can make a real mess of you.
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I remember reading about it, that they had removed it from You. I’m glad that it is finally filling out!
I have a rather big scar on my chest, it looks like a fancy L š š š I had to go on check ups for five years before they knew it hadn’t spread even though they knew they had removed it totally. I guess You’ll do the same too.
Yes who cared if the skin became red as a boiled lobster, just powder lots of talcum powder on it and one would be fine š š š I’ve just read that there’s a ticktock trend that makes people go outside without any protection when the UV-index is as highest so they can get that “healthy sunburn” they all want??? To be honest I sometimes feel that when they behave like idiots they shouldn’t get any treatment when the cancer comes. Over here all Swedes know about the risk but as one said, I’ll take that problem if it comes???
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I really enjoy the moodiness in each of the photos but especially the fog images.
I fondly recognize the Linaria vulgaris flowers. Because they are naturalized in this region, I have some popping up in my garden and some already in bloom. My dad was a landscape architect, so he used the botanical names and taught my brother and I to do so too. But all of us neighborhood kids loved the common name, toadflax.
Iām glad you are all feeling better and are free to nap as often as you feel the need to do so. That sounds like a great plan for the first week of vacation.
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Hi Denali Sam!
I love foggy mornings, well days as well as long as I don’t have to drive around in it š š
I do like that flower too! I did plant it in my garden and people said I would regret it because it would take over totally. It never did, it gave up after four years, too much competition with all the other invasive flowers I have I guess š š š It is so much easier to use the botanical names because a flower can have totally different names even in the same county. Also I use the names I heard where I grew up, so no one around here would have a clue on what flowers I was talking about š š š
I’ll continue to have long naps all four weeks š
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