I had been drinking a bit too much water last evening so I woke up in a panic that I wouldn’t make it downstairs to the toilet in time at 2 am 🙂 🙂 Normally if that happens I is to woken up to fall asleep again but last night I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. That on the other hand made me sleep for too long so it was already too warm to have any walk. Nova struggled yesterday and today has been even warmer so we have stayed at home.

Well Alma has paid visits to our neighbor but only to check when the kids have sounded like they were unhappy and also when their dog complained because they left him alone for five minutes 🙂 🙂 Nova has slept almost the entire time. We also were outside the garden, Alma, Malkolm and I and had a chat with the neighbors so both Alma and Malkolm had a chance to meet other people than me. Malkolm is a very different dog than Alma 🙂 🙂 He ran around happy greeting everyone and actually listened when we called for him 🙂 🙂 :-). I noticed how Malkolm walks like a rather big dog, sort of heavy instead of how smaller dogs walk, sort of tripping. He will grow higher until he’s around one year old so I do wonder how big he’ll be.

     

It has been so hot that the dogs only played for a couple of minutes each time and then went indoors and napped. Today is actually the first day on my vacation that I haven’t napped, feels like a failure to be honest 🙂 Instead I have pruned trees and bushes, mostly because I want more light coming down to the Pawpaw trees. It was so dark there so only the most stubborn weeds managed to grow there beside the Pawpaws. Still lots to do there but I need to fix my electric chainsaw before I can continue.It isn’t important to get sunlight down there just to make it less dark. So I have removed big parts of the Laburnum so that the Wisteria that grows there starts to grow upwards and not sideways as it does now 🙂 🙂

I’ve also collected much of the grass still on the lawn, I couldn’t use the collector because the mower just clogged when the grass was both high and wet. I now use that grass to cover pots and the newly planted trees in the garden with that grass, it keeps the ground from drying out (a bit fun since it has rained constantly these last two weeks 🙂 🙂 ) and also that it fertilizes the soil when it is breaking down. Actually it is really good to grow vegetables in pure sand and cover the surface with cut grass, You’ll use less water and since the grass breaks down You’ll almost never have to fertilize it at all.

  

We finally have a wind blowing so I have both windows open upstairs, the wind feels so nice and cool and I hope it continues all night so old Nova will have an easier time sleeping, well the rest of us as well of course 🙂 Also I will have a cup of tea after this but I will try to not drink as much this evening as I did yesterday 🙂

   

Have a great day!