It felt much colder this morning even though it actually was slightly warmer, or less cold is better because there was no warmth what so ever 🙂 It was a bit cloudy when we went out on our morning walk so the cold air stayed and the moose flies weren’t near.
At least one moose fly did wake up when the sun finally showed itself, that fly is no more 🙂 I think it walked over to my hand while I was lifting some branches to pick a mushroom, still cold so it was pretty easy to get rid of it. We walked down to the creek and followed it up-streams and there’s definitely a beaver living in the creek again. The water level was pretty high and since we’ve had little rain it shouldn’t be possible to have that much water there unless the creek is blocked. They have placed materials to build a trap so I guess it won’t be long until we have no beavers here again.
The sun really made the day so much nicer so I’ve finally planted the last two Quince tree seedling, I now have six of them but this is a bit tough climate wise so I’m not even sure if any of them will manage through winter. It all depends on if winter will continue to behave as it has for several years now or if we’ll get a “normal” winter again, very cold and very long. Most likely it won’t be like the old days though but we’ll not know until next year.
I’ve also continued to cut down that huge rose with all the small but plentiful thorns. It’s not because I don’t like it, I do and it gives the birds lots of rose-hips to eat during winter. It is because this rose is seen as an invasive species and it might soon be illegal to have it anywhere. I actually have two of it and both have become huge during the 25 years I’ve lived here. So I’m slowly cutting it away but will leave some so if it isn’t banned it can grow back again 🙂 I might remove the other one totally because even if it is big it still has problems because of other invasive plants I have 🙂 🙂 🙂
It is time for that last cup of tea and I’m waiting for a bread to be ready to be picked out of the oven. I might have a slice or two with the tea but I really should eat the last piece of the bread I still have, then again a warm slice of newly baked bread with strong cheese is a good excuse to wait and use the last bread tomorrow morning instead 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
And here in California, Sept 23rd was hotter for longer than any day I experienced all summer! The high was 95 F but what was different was how it stayed warm later into the evening. Of course, this is only one area of California, and there is a lot of climate diversity in our large state, given not only the latitude that ranges from about 32 to 42N (I just looked that up!) but the deserts, mountains, beaches and inland valleys.
Approximately what latitude are you located? We are in the upper 30’s somewhere in my part of northern California… I should remember more precisely but I rarely think about this.
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Hi GretchenJoanna!
I really don’t want 95 🙂 🙂 but it would be nice if it rose to around 68 🙂
I think that California is more or less the same size as Sweden, slightly smaller but who cares 🙂 🙂 🙂 Still there’s more people in bigger L.A. than than there are in Sweden 🙂 Ten million people in the entire country while bigger L.A has 13,2 million 🙂 🙂 🙂
I live at 58,N, just slightly north of Edmonton if we place my home there 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I’m certain that yours is the most northerly blog I read!
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Thankfully we do have milder winters than Edmonton does because of the Gulf stream and that we have water on both side here in the southern parts of the country.
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