Well today didn’t start like yesterday mostly was at all but it was warm enough for me not to care about it 🙂 A nice little summer rain and we spent a lot of time in the garden before we went out on our morning walk.
We walked out to the bog and unfortunately we met our new neighbour, well the new neighbours Arte really nice so that wasn’t it but they have a new puppy, Border collie by the looks of it and when Alma and Malkolm saw that they went insane. The puppy barked so that was what my two idiots did as well, scaring their white dog who normally comes rushing towards Alma and Malkolm with joy, today it turned away because of my two idiots. It didn’t help that one of their cats was present as well 🙂 🙂 🙂 I do hope we can repair this so that they won’t be scared when they meet us again 🙂 🙂 🙂
After that I’ve been a bit busy today. I’ve made dinner for the coming week at work and since all I had was potatoes, prince sausages and a packet of bacon at home that will be what I’ll have for dinner next week 🙂 I both boiled and then fried the potatoes so it took some time. I have as usual also done the laundry. It isn’t fun but has to be done.
As You know I’m at war with the stinging nettles in my garden as well as with the Cleavers plus now days the Greater Celandine. So I have been raking a big part of the more wild areas of the garden ripping up lots go cleavers, they will grow up again but I’ll continue every week since they are annuals and if they don’t produce seeds they will slowly disappear from my home. They tend to grow well amongst the nettles as well so hopefully I’ve damaged those too 🙂 The greater Celandine is easier though, just rip them up with their roots. The problem is that those seeds can lie dormant for quite some time but I’ll be happy if I just have some control over them. They are really beautiful but they spread like crazy 🙂 🙂
After that I’ve tossed out lots of older seeds here and there in the garden, they might grow or they won’t 🙂 I’ll have a really beautiful wild garden if they do 🙂 🙂 It will be a good weather for those seeds though, its of rain tonight and tomorrow, also the temperatures will rise again and we’ll even get some sunshine in between rainy days (well we all know by now how great they are in guessing the weather here 🙂 🙂 ) It should also be time to sow beans, peas and other vegetables now so I’ll have lots to do this coming week 🙂 Carrots and beetroots are already sown and on their way growing. Also the strawberries that always gives berries in the autumn for a reason I don’t know flowers really good right now so perhaps I’ll get some berries for Midsummer, a holiday that perhaps is even more important than Christmas is here.
It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, tomorrow I’ll have dayshift again 🙂 The bread I baked yesterday turned out so much better than I thought since I forgot to start the timer 🙂 🙂 So I might have a sandwich with the tea 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer, good to read that the bread turned out better than expected! It’s too bad that Alma and Malkolm were not better behaved around the neighbor’s dogs and cat.
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Hi Beatrice!
I was surprised over how good it came out, it was the cheese in the bread that fooled me for a while 🙂
The problem was that they were both so happy to meat the dogs so they became too excited. Well I wish for better luck next time 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Do you know how long it was before you started the timer so that you can recreate the tasty bread?
I have celandine of some kind as well as buttercups which I’ve been told are also celandine of some kind. The grow all over my yard but I’m not too worried about them. It’s the bittersweet vine that is the scourge of my yard. It’s everywhere. Even if there’s no bittersweet vines present in an area, if I dig a bit into the soil, I’ll find the roots. Right now the swamp is covered in Dame’s Rocket. It’s pretty and has a pleasant scent but the flowers go by fairly quickly. Then comes the privet flowers and vicious roses.Two heavily scented flowers that become stinky as they age. After that it will be pokeweed. This year I suspect there’ll be a lot of jewelweed, too. The hawkmoths like those.
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Hi Caryn!
No idea what so ever 🙂 🙂 🙂
The celandines grow so big and dense that anything trying to grow up where they are won’t stand a chance, well the nettles will make 🙂 🙂 🙂 it but very little else.
I’ve sown Dames Rocket and had them here when I moved here 25 years ago but now they just refuse to grow here again. My vicious roses behaves so well 🙂 They are fighting for survival between other rather invasive bushes 🙂 🙂 I do get the occasional jewel weed here but they don’t stay for long but I’ve been fighting with its relative Himalayan balsam for years and at the moment I think I’m slowly winning the battle 🙂 🙂 🙂
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