No wind this morning and sunshine. Really pleasant to walk around in the forest listening to all birds and some deer running away when we came close. Still it was below 0C (32F) and the water had frozen during the night. These mornings really are the best because it feels warm and nice but no flies are terrorising us 🙂 They’ll arrive some time in the middle of June. The forest flies are just annoying though and not biting. The biting ones tends to show up a couple of weeks later.
I’m slowly getting the dogs used to me being away a couple of hours every day now so today I went to my old work place for a visit, it might be the last time I do that since I now will work rather far away and after that I went to the grocery store I’ve been doing my shopping for the last 28 years now. I will go there again but not that often, I will have at least four big supermarkets and several other big stores just beside where I’ll be working.
Back in the days when one would sign a contract of employment one sat at the employers desk and signed it with a pen, that’s not how it’s working now days. I got a mail with a link and after reading the contract I signed it with my Bank ID and did it at home. It is amazing how fast things change now days. It is practical though since I now have it stored in my computer. Also I could really take my time reading it, one never did that in the office with the new employer to be honest. One just signed and smiled 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m slowly picking up the plants I have in the cool cellar. Lots have died, either too much or too little water during the winter but most is still alive. The dead plants get tossed in places where the dogs have been digging so the ground evens out again 🙂 🙂 We’ll have fairly warm nights for the coming ten days they say so I planted one of my apricot seedlings where I used to have the Amure grapevine. It will take a couple of years but it will be a good place for the birds to sit while waiting for their chance of eating from the feeder I have outside the kitchen window. I also started to fill the big wooden box I have my , for some reason, autumn flowering strawberry plants . Turns out the packages with soil are small now days (and more expensive) so I need to buy two more.
I have that last cup of tea for the day beside me and soon I’ll go outside with the dogs bringing more dead plants from the cellar 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Such a cute photo of the monster kitten, Christer!
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Hi ppekka!
Thank You 🙂
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I thought we were going to warm up but woke up to snow on the ground last week. It’s been raining since then, turned cold and now warmed a little. Guess we’ll have to wait for May this year. When do you start the new job?
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Hi Joy!
It actually snowed a lot further north here but we were lucky to have a warm front that stopped that nasty weather to reach us and I do hope it stays like it is now. I really don’t want any more snow now 🙂
I start on Monday morning 🙂
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My star of Bethlehem is all white. I’d like some yellow. It would brighten up the lawn on the north side of the house which is where all the star of Bethlehem is growing.
I think the nun’s wort is Corydalis nobilis (Siberian Nun’s Wort). I once found a Corydalis sempervirens (Pale Corydalis) growing out of a rock pile on land that was about to be excavated for new housing. So I dug it up and replanted it in my yard next to the peony. It had lovely little pink and yellow flowers. It did well for a couple of seasons and then disappeared. I keep meaning to get some seeds but you know how that goes. 😀
The weather remains wet and cold and murky. Very un spring-like.
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Hi Caryn!
I think it is the British name for it, we call them spring onions or perhaps spring bulbs is a better word for it.
No that one has yellow flowers and are quite big. If I remember it right this one is a Corydalis cava. It’s native here and spreads like wild fire. I got five tubers many years ago and now it’s starting to spread towards the forest 🙂 🙂 🙂
I do know 🙂 🙂
Quite the opposite here and I do hope it will continue that way, warm and sunny and for once with only a weak wind, I hope it turns over at Yours soon!
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