Wonderful weather today, which is quite unusual on Walpurgis eve. Lots of people are out having fun tonight and quite often we have huge bonfires as well but at least here it will be too windy and to dry in the grass to have any. No one knows why we celebrate this day but who cares as long as we have fun 🙂
If I’ve learned it all right Walpurgis (or Aalborg as we swedes say) was an English princes who became a nun in Germany and was quite successful in turning witches to the right way which most likely meant that she was rather unpleasant for those she turned since no matter how much those poor women (mostly anyway because there were a few men as well)turned towards christianity they still had n´been witches and therefore burned by the stake.
I just got the news about the tutor I have on one of my kidneys and it is good news 🙂 It has almost not grown at all since six months back (and therefore too small to take a test from) so now we’ll wait another year before a new x-ray. So perhaps I’m one of the very few that has a benign tumour and not caner? In any way it isn’t an aggressive one 🙂
Tomorrow is May first and in many places on this little globe of ours it’s the workers’ day and a holiday. I will have to work on Friday though since I’m so new that I don’t have any saved hours. I’ll survive one day of work though 🙂 I think it is time for a last cup of tea for the day and then I’ll most likely doze off in front of the tv. Pine pollen is in the air and it makes me so tired 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Nice spider photo. His boxing gloves are impressive.
Excellent news about that tumor. I hope it is benign and takes a long time to do anything inconvenient.
Yesterday it was 85F here but the wind whipped up so it didn’t feel like 85. Today is 70F with a bit lighter wind and a heightened fire risk. It feels warmer than yesterday. The weekend will be rainy, or course, because it’s the weekend. They seem to be going that way this year.
I guess some people here celebrate Workers Day on May 1. Mostly I remember it as May Day and had something to do with the Virgin Mary. There would be processions of girls from the local Catholic parishes in town. Someone would be crowned Queen. They had to wear white dresses. It was all a bit pagan. Now, I think the Catholic Church has designated it the Feast of St Joseph the Worker.
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Hi Caryn!
I read about what kinds of tumours that grow on kidneys (on a web site by our health care system) and it said that yes it can be a benign one but that’s so rare that it almost never happens 🙂 🙂 🙂 So I think the best I can hope for is to have a really lazy bad one 🙂 🙂 🙂 Then again I could be one of the very few who is lucky.
Well we reached 68 so I won’t complain 🙂 85 is way too early now and it’s still very rare that it happens here even during summer, thankfully 🙂 They’ve said that the weekend will be chilly and rainy but then again they said it would be cloudy and with some rain here today and that was anything but right 🙂 🙂
We don’t celebrate Mayday here, Kat has written about that in her blog 🙂
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Great news, C, what a relief and holding thumbs this is always the result. Have a lovely day off and thanks for the beautiful photos 😃🙏🏼🌺
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Hi blythedunbar!
So true 🙂
I had a busy day instead because they said it would rain today which was really wrong 🙂 🙂 Then again now I can rest the rest of the weekend instead 🙂
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Such good news. Let’s pray it continues for the coming year. We had May Day in school so we made baskets with flowers in them and hung them on people’s front doors. This was 70 yrs ago. Take care and have a good week.
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Hi Joy!
Really nice news 🙂 It seems I have a lazy one and I can only hope it continues that way 🙂
I don’t think we’ve ever celebrated Mayday here but it reminds some of our midsummer celebration.
I wish You the same 🙂
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In the United States, we don’t have any official holidays this week, though we call May 1 “May Day” or “Workers Day.” This country is very stingy when it comes to giving anybody a day off for any reason, be it holiday, vacation, sickness. Being granted 2 weeks a year for vacation is considered generous, and I think we only have 6 national holidays, although government workers (the ones that still have jobs) do get more minor ones that aren’t recognized by most businesses, like Presidents Day and Veterans Day.
But this year, tens or hundreds of thousands of people turned out on May 1 for anti-Trump protests. Many were planned for the evening, since it was a work day.
Best wishes on your continued good health. And Sarah is looking like quite the regal little lady these days!
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Hi cats working!
You have Your Labor day in the autumn instead, isn’t that a holiday? We would need a holiday in autumn because after Midsummer we have nothing until Christmas. All our holidays happens when spring arrives.
The more protests towards that man the better! I do hope it isn’t too late though, no matter what one think of him when he has decided to so something it happens so fast no one can be prepared for it.
Thank You 🙂
She does, doesn’t she 🙂
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Yes, our Labor Day is the first Monday in September. We have no holidays between July 4 and Labor Day, so it’s a long two months in the summer. But then Thanksgiving at the end of November on a Thursday and Christmas and New Year’s. The other national holiday is Memorial Day on the last Monday in May. Those are the days everyone generally gets time off.
The protests are bothering Trump because his poll numbers are going down. He’s at 39% approval, but it should be in the teens, considering how much damage he’s inflicting on the world. We haven’t felt anywhere near the full brunt yet of higher prices from tariffs and empty shelves because China has cut us off. But pain is coming…
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Good thing it bothers him that the numbers goes down 🙂 Otherwise he seems to be like a goose3, everything just runs off him 🙂
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