There she stood just looking at us.

Written by Christer.

20C (68F) today but very little sunshine. Really doesn’t matter to me since I’ve been working all day  🙂 The dogs must have had a really nice day though 🙂 Summer arrived a month early (I’m not complaining about that 🙂 ) and so did the forest flies, that I am complaining about though. Forest flies are really harmless to be honest, no biting or drinking blood or spreading diseases, instead they swarm around the head and always tries to check out our nostrils and ears 🙂 🙂 I truly dislike them! Still I can avoid them by wearing a mosquito ha so that’s what I’ll be doing when they become too many.

If You want tulips that comes back from year to year buy bulbs from the wild species. They tend also to spread quite happily 🙂

I did wonder how it would be with the wild bees now when the we don’t have any honey bees in the village and today the sound from the flowering apple trees told me they are ok 🙂 The trees were buzzing loudly so they have not suffered by having honey bees here. I had read that it could go bad for them if there were too many honey bees in an area but how many are too many. Well there were up to ten hives for a while and by the sound from my apple trees that weren’t too many 🙂

I’ll get my first pay check soon 🙂 well checks haven’t been used here for ages even though I’ve heard they still can be used. It’s always something special with that first one, even though it only is half a month since I didn’t start working until the 14th let month. How getting paid varies here, in this place You’ll get paid the moth after so if one quits one will get paid the month after on has quit. At my previous work place they paid for the same month on had been working and any adjustments, like sick days or over time would be on the next pay check. I’ll also get paid from the unemployment agency so it will be almost like it would if I had worked a full month anyway 🙂

I’m baking a bread right now so it’ll soon be time to bring it out of the oven. The dogs are eager for me to bring it out because they always get some and some cheese too 🙂 It’s also the first semi finale in the Eurovision Song Contest. If You don’t know what that is I’m happy to explain it as good as I can. Anyway, Sweden is once again a big favourite amongst the betting sites and if we win on Saturday when the big finale is we’ll be the country that has won most times leaving Ireland behind us 🙂 🙂 I will not see any of the semi finals because it takes forever but I will watch it on Saturday.

Now many people wonder why it is called Eurovision since also countries from Asia and Australia competes but I’ve learned that since they belong to the European Broadcasting system they too can compete. I don’t mind because my favourites are quite often from those countries 🙂

We passed this roe goat on our way home from our walk. Alma didn’t notice her thankfully, Malkolm did but just stood there watching her. I took one photo and then we left because I didn’t want to stress her more than necessary.

Have a great day!

8 thoughts on “There she stood just looking at us.”

  1. wonderful photos today, especially the close-up ones of flowers and green things growing. i love the ones of alma and malkolm play fighting, the perfect one of monstercat and the one of the roe goat. 💖🐾🕊

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  2. Roe goat? Hmm.

    I keep meaning to get some of those type tulips but they generally have to be ordered from a catalogue. Most of the places here just carry the regular tulips.By the time I think about ordering, it’s too late to plant them. Speaking of spreading, my grape hyacinths are staging a breakout into the lawn. I’ll let them.

    I got Rocky’s remains back a couple of days ago. I’ll put the urn and his photo in his window so the neighbor can see them. She was as upset as I was about his passing. I’ll make a memory box with another photo and his collar and tags. It’s weird not having him here. Piki Dog is still figuring it out. He’s stopped playing fetch and tuggy with me. He doesn’t like being the only dog in the back seat of the car, either.

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    1. Hi Caryn!

      I forgot the deer part 🙂 roe deer goat, it’s apparently what one calls a female roe deer here in Sweden 🙂

      Yes they can usually only be bought online.
      Well it’s never too late to plant them unless the ground is frozen but if You can make a hole in the ground it will be planting time 🙂 🙂 Also one can plant them in a pot and place it outside and then after they’ve flowered just dig them down in the ground. My grape hyacinths do the opposite usually, they look fine for some years and then they vanish 🙂 🙂

      In one way it’s an awful day to get the ashes back but then again it feels so god to have them back at home.Poor Piki Dog! It must be so strange and lonely for him now. Bertil the cat never really came back after Orvar died and I felt so sorry for him. One can only hope he’ll go back to playing tug of war again.

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  3. Malcolm seems like a pretty level headed dog! I rememberbthe European international song contests, having lived in France and Italy. But I can’t recall what they were called then. I recall Gene Pitney won an award for a song he sang in Italian, but he said he didn’t know a word of Italian so he had to learn the words by heart. I think he probably did learn some Italian because he had a lot of hits about that time! That tells you I’m not a spring chicken 😁

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