It smell a bit of burning dust at the moment, I had to start two radiators today because we had frost and -2C (28,4F) when we woke up this morning and it never became warmer than 13C (5534F) during the day. We’ve had lots of sunshine though so during the day it almost was too warm indoors. The kitchen door has been open until the sun moved over to the other side of the cottage.
So a bit chilly when we went out on our morning walk, not as much frost as I thought we would have but fly free so I forgave nature 🙂 🙂 🙂 Alma walked really well today but instead she want back to that high pitched whining she’s so good at and after four years that sound cuts in to the brain like a dull knife creating a pain I just can’t stand. I doubt that she’s a fan of nature at all. She is getting better though but I really can’t stand that sound any more.
We went out to the bog and since it was as chilly as it was not a fly moved so I could pick the mushrooms without constantly make sure any of those nasty moose flies were crawling around on my head or elsewhere as well of course. I only picked the mushrooms I could find on the forest road so I’m pretty sure that if we had taken one step in between the trees I would have found plenty more. I think we might walk there again tomorrow if it is chilly enough and take that extra step and no moose flies can fly around and find us 🙂 🙂
I mowed the lawn when we had come home, the grass was still a bit wet but it didn’t clog inside the mower. Can one hope that this was the last time I had to do it for this season? After that I brought out the compost grinder or wood chipper as I like to call it. I had all these thorny branches from the wild plum to take care of plus a lot from the other plum tree and the apple tree. I actually also have lots of grape vines. The grape vine almost never gave any grapes and to be honest, grapes are really just weeds to be honest and grows like crazy 🙂 🙂 So I tried to entangle all the vines but that’s an impossible job so I’ll do them another time.
I wasn’t done until rather late, around 3 pm, so after that I haven’t been doing anything to be honest 🙂 I have had coffee and also tea but can say I’m just as tired as if the caffeine had run out of what ever it is that livens one up 🙂 🙂 🙂 The cows in the pasture on the other side of the gravel road outside my cottage has been rather loud from yesterday afternoon and still is, I think they removed their calfs and it’s heartbreaking to hear them call for their babies.
It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and I’ll have a bowl with ice cream at the same time. Elsbeth is on tonight so I’ll need to go outside to check for badgers in the garden before letting the dogs outside so I can watch tv without having to do that during the program 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
You won’t have to worry about tomatoes soon! Today we have had wildfire smoke drifting in, so it smells like smoke and is cooler than it would be otherwise. I pulled out the tomatoes in the community garden and now must cut them up for compost. A bit at a time. I have three tomatoes ripening on the vine here at home, which I will watch to see if they actually turn dark at some point, They’re supposed to be Japanese Black Trifele, but so far they have been all red, although the seed mass is very dark
Time to walk the dog!
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Hi Carol!
Depends on how long autumn will be, I hope we’re lucky and have autumn until December 🙂
Smell of smoke can be nice when it’s coming from a chimney during a cold day but not when it comes from the wild fires. Especially if it’s warm outside.
I noticed that at least some of my tomatoes are changing colours now, from light green to sort of pinkish red. I guess that means I can hang them by the window and let them ripe there if it gets too cold. So far they’ve managed to come through two cold nights.
I hadn’t heard about Your tomato until late this summer, new to me but not new to the world I see. So I can’t say much but hopes it turns dark soon!
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