According to the weather sites we’re having sunshine right now, we don’t 🙂 🙂 🙂 but it is at least not raining. It rained so much last night that I had little lakes in my garden even though it’s just sand and no soil. I do hope that there won’t be any long living puddles anywhere because that would most likely become a mosquito explosion because that’s what they like, small long living puddles where the eggs can hatch.
For me it’s enough with the forest flies 🙂 🙂 So many now and even though they are quite harmless I still can’t stand them. I went to the bank yesterday to see if they could help me to renew my bank id because when reading their info about it I would need either an international id card costing around $ 45 US or a new passport and both would take several weeks to get and we use our bank id for everything here. Turns out that somewhere in the text it tells about another way, I should just open my banks app, press the button to renew my bank id and then ok it by using the bank id I have now 🙂 🙂 🙂
Why don’t write that first of all??? I wonder how many have gotten a new id card they don’t need just to fix the bank id and for money they might not have? Anyway it made my day so much better so I really didn’t complain 🙂 🙂 After that I made a visit to my old work friends and then stopped by at the grocery store to shop and also pay them a visit since I’ve been shopping there since I moved to this region, 28 years ago, I still shop there every now and again even though I really have no reason to go there since it’s further away from my cottage than most other stores but they sort of are my friends too 🙂
I’ve ordered a new bed mattress online (well it’s actually a thinner mattress that one put over the mattress for the sheets to be folded over but I have no idea what that can be called). I know one really shouldn’t but instead go to the store and try them out but to be honest I wouldn’t know anything more after trying several since it takes a few days or more to actually know if it is a good mattress or not anyway. I was close to buy a Hastens (for You who don’t know about Hastens bedd, it is a luxury brand that mostly rich people buy, like sheiks 🙂 ) but they didn’t have the size I need. They had bigger and they had smaller but not the size to my bed. No I’m not rich but they had a sale with very reduced prices.
Today I got a message that it will be delivered week 32 directly from the factory even though it said they had them in stock. Also on sale by the way but still rather expensive but when one need a new mattress one must buy it, night sleep is so important so if one can afford it one better buy it.The monsterkitten did horrible things to my old duvet last winter so I need a new one when winter arrives but I better order one since I’m getting a mattress and perhaps buy new pillows as well. I want firm pillows but still to be able to shape them as I want 🙂 🙂 I do that when I sleep I’ve noticed 🙂 🙂
Also my remote to the tv has died, not a huge problem except for that it’s really hard to see what one is doing when trying to do it on the tv itself. It’s made to look invisible and they’ve been quite successful in doing that so I need a flashlight to be able to see even where I can do it 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
My old cat has destroyed sheets and blankets and a down blanket! He’s so old I decided to wait until he dies before replacing them. No more cats for me!
It’s good to visit with many people, it keeps your mind open. And hurray for the mattress pad!
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Hi Carol!
Mattress pad! Thank You!
Thankfully she has stopped to do that 🙂 I was never going to have another cat either and then we found her in the middle of nowhere screaming like obsessed so now we have a cat again 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Since I have 4 cats who could all go on the bed at any time (2 do it daily), I’ve learned to live with little holes in the sheets, which are very old anyway and why I don’t buy new.
I cover the quilt on top of the bed with smaller blankies they can lay on that are easier to wash than the quilt. So, my bed always looks a mess.
Same goes for furniture. Every piece covered with little blankies so no human knows what my upholstery really looks like. (But I can tell you, under all the covers, it looks like new!)
Here’s a trick: If you ever want a cat to sit in a certain place, just lay a small blanket or towel there. The cat will be drawn to like it’s a magnet and claim that spot as their own.
Living with cats means giving up any notion that you’ll ever have nice things. If they don’t shed fur all over stuff, they scratch it.
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Hi catsworking!
Thankfully she doesn’t do that any more, to be honest she’s rarely in the bed at all now days but she did horrible things when she was a kitten 🙂 🙂
I cover my sofas but unfortunately that doesn’t help much so I bought a small carpet/ furniture cleaner that I use every now and again on the sofas.
I’ll remember that tip! I have been thinking of using a small box but a small blanket sounds much easier 🙂
Very much the same with wild dogs 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Christer, the first photo in this post is amazing. Is it a snail or a slug and how did you capture it mid air? The flowers were lovely as always.
Good luck with the new mattress pad too.
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Hi Beatrice!
It is a slug and in the original photo one could barely see the thread it was hanging on 🙂 First time I’ve ever seen a slug hanging like that, didn’t even know they could 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m a bit annoyed that I have to wait for it but then again the old one works nicely anyway so I’ll just have to wait 🙂
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