I hope I can mow the lawn tomorrow because today has been both reasonable warm and sunny plus we’ve had a wind blowing helping to dry up the grass. The early morning wasn’t that fun though, misty rain and so warm that the flies behaved like crazy so we never came out for a morning walk. We waited to have any walk until the weather became much more pleasant.
Instead I started to collect all cardboard boxes, breaking them down in to smaller pieces and then loading it all in to the back my car trunk. I still have loads to pack but it is almost completely full there now 🙂 My big problem is that if I have an empty box and I have something in my hands where I don’t know where to place it it goes down in the box 🙂 All but one of all those boxes are now in the car but I still have several big ones that needs to be unpacked and find somewhere to place what’s in them. I have almost no storage space in this little cottage, I have the cool cellar but I need that space for my plants that need a cool but not cold space to spend winter 🙂
Yesterday I went with my neighbor to a vintage shop, I’ve wanted to go there for a long time so yesterday my neighbor brought me there, turns out it’s her brother in law that owns it. I really lied it and found lots of things I would have liked to buy 🙂 I did come home with an old kitchen scale. There were a couple of really old ones but one need counter weights to make it work and those are always missing, so I bought a not so old, made sometimes in the late 1900’s. I have an almost new digital one but it eats batteries and it can change how much something weighs if I weigh the same thing again 🙂 I’ll take a photo of my new one if I remember it 🙂
We walked down to thew creek today. Still lots of puddles in the gravel road but the grass bushes along the creek were almost dry, the sun and the wind had done a great job there. For You living where temperatures around 22C (71,6F) is almost chilly this time of year 🙂 my dogs didn’t think it was 🙂 Totally ok while walking in shadow but coming out in the sun made them pant an awful lot. Alma always pant so I can’t say much about here 🙂 but Nova slowed down considerable and also Malkolm was less energetic. So I let Nova of the leash already when we were down by the creek, none of the dogs have show that there are wolves around so I felt it was safe to do so. I let Malkolm of the leash at the usual place and I must say that he’s really good at coming back if I call him.
So it’ll be an early walk tomorrow while it still is cool after the night because tomorrow will be warm, Scandinavian warm that is 🙂 25C (77F) and that will be too much for my Swedish dogs that are used to much lower temperatures 🙂
It’s time for a last cup of tea and then see if there’s anything worth watching on tv, I doubt that though.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hello, lovely to see your dogs enjoying themselves in the lush green pastures and woods.
Have a wonderful day
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They never seem to be bored 🙂
I wish You the same 🙂
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Lots of butterflies in your place. I’ve only got cabbage butterflies and small moths that won’t sit still long enough for me to identify what they are. This year there are many dragonflies in the yard and lots of fireflies. Not raking the leaves last fall worked.
There’s lots of jewelweed in the wet part of my yard this year. I’m hoping they bloom so that I’ll get some hawkmoths. They like jewelweed flowers. Something, probably a deer, is nipping the tops off the jewelweed so they might not flower.
We’ve been taking our walks around 6AM. It’s light and reasonably cool. So far, no coyotes but so many bunnies of all ages. It’s supposed to be a little cooler tomorrow and even more by next week.
Lovely portraits of Alma and Malkolm. I especially like the ones of Malkolm running towards you. He looks so happy.
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Hi Caryn!
We also only had the cabbage butterflies but suddenly we had lots of different ones. Fewer damselflies than I hoped for but one can’t get it all I guess.
I have to say that hawkmoths are beautiful! I rarely see jewelweed here but we have it’s bigger relative the himalayan balsam. I can’t say that I’ve seen any relatives to Your hawkmoth flying around those though. Nothing eat the himalayan here though, it’s invasive and we have so many that I think it might be impossible to get rid of them, it’s an annual but those seeds seems to be able to survive for many years and germinate as soon as the conditions are right. I removed the ones I had here in the garden for well over ten years ago and they still popp up every year 🙂 🙂
We take our walks around 5 am when it still is really cool, the only way to be outside without any flies and mosquitoes 🙂 🙂 The other walks can be a bit too much with all the flies so they are usually shorter 🙂 Getting warmer here for a couple of days and then the rain will return. We now have so much groundwater here that it is above ground in many places 🙂 🙂 The lake behind my garage is proof of that 🙂
He is a happy guy 🙂 Only time he isn’t is when he’s waiting for his food 🙂
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Hawkmoths are lovely but I was thinking particularly of the hummingbird clearwing moths. They are the ones I see most often nectaring on the jewelweed. I’ve read that sightings of hawkmoths are uncommon because some species are night fliers and also because gardeners get rid of their caterpillars because they’re huge and eat tomato plants. Well, they eat nightshade plants, really, so all one has to do is move them to those plants.
I had to google Himalayan balsam. It’s very pretty. I won’t add it to the jewelweed forest, though. Jewelweed is native here but it’s also very invasive. Fortunately, it’s really easy to pull up. My old dog Tegan used to love when I pulled jewelweed. She’d leap up and grab each root right out of my hands and shake it. It has a moist, crunchy sound vaguely reminiscent of crunching tiny rodents. Gross, I know, but it’s true.
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I think we have one or two species with clear wings here, never seen either of them except in photos. Also we don’t have fireflies but instead something called glow worms, I think that one also is a beetle but the females can’t fly. We should have them in the area but I’ve only ever seen them in the far south of this country. I would gladly sacrifice a tomato plant or two to just be able to see those moths 🙂
I’ve read about jewel weed being invasive but during my 24 years here I’ve only seen it three times and here in my garden because seeds comes with the bird seeds I buy 🙂
It’s the same sound with the himalyan but to be honest I’ve never thought of how it sounded 🙂 🙂 🙂
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