We didn’t get a morning with cool air and morning mist, instead we had fairly warm morning with a thick layer of clouds above us. So instead of having a really nice and cool walk we had a walk in the forest where flies and mosquitoes reigned. Still we’ve had worse walks so I’m not complaining too much 🙂
I think there was just one horsefly flying around and it found my hand so now it itches something nasty. Another one found me when I mowed the outside space but that one will never bother anyone else any more 🙂 To be honest this year has been pretty good when it comes to flies, with that I mean fairly few. If we get in to an area where suddenly lots of flies fly around it means animals are close, most likely wild hogs because there are always many together and therefore draws more of those annoying insects.
I had to go to the store in Gudhem today because the package with the Red Mulberry tree had arrived and it was just in time, the soil in the pot was so dry that I had to put it in a bucket of water as soon as I opened the package. As soon as the soil was wet I planted it in a bigger pot and I think I’ll keep it like that until next spring, down in the cool cellar. Now I have three different mulberry trees. This red one, a white mulberry with tasty berries and one called Mulle which is a Morus accidosa. I can’t find any info about M. accidosa so I think it must be some kind of hybrid. It gives black berries, really tasty ones, but they are smaller than the ones the Black Mulberry tree gives. So lets now hope we get a mild winter so that they all survive plus of course the Pawpaws and persimmons 🙂
So this is the last week on my vacation and I’m desperately hoping for that lottery winning 🙂 🙂 🙂 I wouldn’t hesitate to quit my job immediately even though that is frowned upon (I really don’t hate my job but I’m not crazy in love with it either 🙂 🙂 ). Normally we have one month to work after we’ve given notice but since I wouldn’t plan on going back to work again ever so why bother 🙂 🙂 🙂 However until that happens, most likely five minutes before I leave this earth 🙂 🙂 🙂 I will have to keep on working, at least until I can retire and I think I’ll start with part time retirement when I’m 64, just a few years left 🙂 I think I would be really pi…d if I died before I could retire 🙂 🙂 🙂
It is time for a last cup of tea for the day and later on I’ll watch Midsommer Murders, unfortunately they show Death in Paradise at the same time in another channel but since I’ve watched all the murders in Midsommer from the beginning the choice is easy tonight 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
More lovely photos to enjoy from your walk today – thank you. It’s fun seeing how Malkolm is maturing from week to week.
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Hi Denali Sam!
He is growing a bit slower at the moment but his paws says he’ll become bigger. He’ll continue to become higher until he’s a year old so who knows how big he’ll be 🙂
I’m glad You like my photos 🙂
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What lovely little fairy lights to see outside your kitchen window.
I have finally seen snails in my yard. I’ve only ever found slugs but had never seen an actual snail with an actual shell on its back. It didn’t put out any horns, though. It was probably too small to have horns.
I’ve been watching the Olympic equestrian events. It starts at 5 AM here and goes for five and a half hours. I loved doing dressage when I was involved with horses and I loved watching dressage at horse shows but I have to say that watching it on tv is very soporific. Found myself nodding off several times.
Which is worse: horse flies, deer flies, or greenhead flies? You probably have worse flies but I’m going with greenheads. They’re like the yellow jackets of the biting fly world. Aggressive, with a painful bite, and they come in big swarms. Fortunately, they have a short season.
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Hi Caryn!
It is nice to see those sunflowers early in the morning 🙂 and I like the fact that they are so invasive that not even stinging nettles can grow where the sunflowers grow 🙂 🙂
Snails and slugs actually have those eyes and antennas from the start but they are of course tiny.
They show equestrian competitions quite often on our PBS, I tend to doze off during the dressage but the rest keep me awake, especially Eventing (Google says it’s called that and I hope it’s right. I mean when they ride through the landscape jumping in to water and all that. I always worry that a horse will get injured, the rider I don’t care about that much 🙂 🙂 🙂
I would say the green eyed flies and horse flies are equally bad since they bit so hard, the moose or deer flies rarely bite me but they are impossible to get rid of as soon as they’ve landed. I’ve read that they can stand any poison and the only way to kill them is to roll them between the fingers 🙂 Yes thankfully their season is short 🙂 🙂
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The horses running through the landscape bit is called Cross Country and it is phase 2 of Eventing. Phase 1 is Dressage (or Stressage as many riders call it.:)) and Phase 3 is the Stadium Jumping. The cross country part has been drastically changed since my day. It used to have three parts: Roads and Tracks, Steeplechase, and Cross Country. The whole thing was 25 miles long done in one go with a 10 minute vet check between steeplechase and cross country. And the obstacles on the cross country course were big and scary. Like How The F#@$ Do We Jump THAT?!? scary. The old way was logical for back when the military was the only group doing any of this because they were training remount horses for battle. Somewhere in the last 30 years or so they’ve dumped the first two parts and the obstacles tend to be technical rather than big and scary. Although they are still big. And I would find them very scary 😀
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Aha! so eventing would be all three together. I listened to horse jumping on the radio today from the olympics. We did manage to go to the finals but our last jumper sort of messed it all up, they said he trusted the horse too much. Well we managed to go to the finals tomorrow I think but just barely 🙂
I knew they had changed something because now days we see very few headlines about horses getting injured or dying during the cross country. Thanks for the info!
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Wishing you all the best luck with your trees. And the lottery too of course, but honestly growing things and burgeoning life are the bigger miracle.
Best to you and the dogs.
John in Saskatchewan
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Hi John!
You’re so right but it would be fun to try both 🙂
I wish You the same!
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