The weather has been so nice today, an almost perfect summer day like the ones one tend to remember from childhood even though here most summers used to rain away and the only reason one had to remember those warm and sunny summer days was because summer breaks were so long as a child 🙂 🙂 🙂
We walked down to the creek this morning and thankfully there was a strong wind blowing so mostly we weren’t that annoyed by the flies, some did try and bite us but it was mostly the small really irritating forest flies that managed to keep up with the wind. Also the wind and sunny weather has now dried up the grass so for once none of us was soaking wet when we came back home and even better I couldn’t find a single tick on the dogs when I checked them before going inside. They do tend to calm down this time of year but normally I always find one or two anyway.
How come is it that every time one is waiting for more than one package they never arrive at the same day? I was up at the grocery store in Gudhem yesterday to pick up that tree I had ordered, today the next package arrived!!! I didn’t want to go there again today, just didn’t have the energy to be honest. I will however have to leave home tomorrow to pick up those new shoes and insoles. The rather annoying thing is that I have to drive the opposite way to pick up the package and then turn around to go to the hospital, almost back to home, and drive all the way to Lidköping. I know it’s a first world problem but oh so annoying 🙂 🙂
I haven’t done much today to be honest and that’s just how it is supposed to be while having vacation. I have watered all the trees, potted plants and all the newly planted perennials, there’s very little soil in the ground here, it is mostly sand, slate and bog ore so the ground dries up really fast as soon as it gets warmer and dryer. We have lots of Iron in the ground here so that’s why the water in the creek has that rusty color. Luckily not enough for anyone to start trying to bring it up and at the same time destroying the area. We also have one of the biggest deposits of Uranium in the mountain north of the lake. At the moment it’s forbidden by law to try and mine it but the right wing government that supports on the fascist party wants to remove that law. It is never a good thing for the environment to have a mine and especially not when it’s about Uranium. Well the people stood up and fought the government the last time they tried and they will again 🙂
It is time for a last cup of tea and today I won’t drink as much as I did yesterday, I woke up around three am and desperately needed to go downstairs 🙂 🙂 Oddly enough I managed to go back to sleep again and didn’t wake up until after six am 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
It’s good to see Salmiak is still around. I used to confuse him and Bertil. It’s good that he has developed a sense of self preservation at least as far as dogs are concerned.
Not many damsel flies here now but there are a lot of small, orange dragonflies hanging around the lake shore plants. They don’t stop for photos. The huge brown ones fly away from the shore out over the lake itself. They don’t come in to land for photos either. How annoying. 😀
Rocky has to take pills twice a day for a cough and he has decided the he will not take them hidden inside anything that he normally likes. Not even lamb paté. It’s amazing how dogs can single out that one teeny pill in a mass of tasty meat, hold it in their mouths until they’ve chewed and swallowed all the good stuff, and then spit the little pill out with not a speck of food or saliva on it.
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Hi Caryn!
The problem is that if he’s caught by a dog he does nothing to defend himself. Bertil would at least tried to rip out the eyes of an attacking dog but then again he was the one attacking dogs 🙂 🙂
These dragonflies were so quick that I didn’t even have a chance to see the color 🙂 I think they at least could stop for a few seconds so that we could take photos of them 🙂
Nova has given up spitting out those pills, she’s 18 years old and is just happy that she’s getting a treat 🙂 🙂 I hope it’s nothing serious that Rocky has!
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