For a while in the early morning it looked like we were going to have sunshine while we were out walking and we did for around twenty seconds 🙂 Then the rain arrived, no heavy showers but either a steady but calm rainfall or misty rain. It wasn’t until just after noon the sun made a come back and now three hours later I can see that the rain is falling again.
So I haven’t done a lot today, mostly drinking tea and watching tv, well I wouldn’t be able to tell You what it was I looked at because mostly it was pretty boring and nothing I really wanted to see. When the sunshine finally arrived I’ve mostly been throwing away what I’ve had in pots and poured it all out close to where the plum tree stood. I dug up all the dahlias and for the first time in my life only one can be saved till next year, I have no idea why they didn’t create root lumps like dahlias always do. Could be that I’ve watered them too little.
No signs of any wolf still staying around, they rarely do to be honest. I did see some tracks from moose though and they looked really fresh, if they had been old the rain would have wiped them out. To my very big surprise I finally found my jigsaw!! and it was pure luck because I can’t really understand why I had placed it there, beneath the entrance stairs??!! It must have been that a shower passed by and that was the closest place I could find, otherwise I have absolutely no idea 🙂 🙂 🙂 Thankfully it is in a sort of plastic suitcase so no water from the latest rains had managed to get to it. So it still works and soon I’ll be able to have that third rainwater barrel 🙂
Well the weather doesn’t seem to become any nicer again so I guess I better make a pot of tea and perhaps doze off in front of the tv 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Don’t you hate it when you put something somewhere perfectly logical and it takes you months to find it again? Story of my life!
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Hi Carol!
It truly does but this time it was totally enological so therefore I think I should have found it immediately 🙂 🙂 🙂
I should be used to it by now because it is also the story of my life as well 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Your tomato photo inspired a questioning about ripening that maybe you have an answer for. It’s about bananas.
I like bananas slightly green, not sweet and mushy, so I bought a bunch of 6 that were greener than usual, but they usually ripen.
(Sidenote: I also bought oranges that are barely peelable, hard, and almost bitter. My theory is that unripe fruit is being picked and shipped before Trump’s insane tariffs make it unaffordable.)
I usually put bananas in a paper bag because I read somewhere that it keeps them from browning (more recently I read it hastens ripening, so ???). After a few days, I took out one of the 6 and it was still so unripe, it wouldn’t peel and I had to throw it away.
Two weeks later, the remaining 5 were still green, so I laid them on the kitchen table to get afternoon sun. They were still green after 3 days, so I threw them all away.
Do you have any wisdom on this? Could those bananas have been saved in any way?
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Hi catsworking!
Well to be honest I don’t think so, my guess is that they were picked way too early and some fruits just stops and decays without getting ripe, after some time. I’m pretty sure it was the same with Your oranges, they were picked too early and no matter how much sunshine they get they’ll never taste especially good. I also think that those oranges were picked by people who don’t know what they are doing, all the usual workers are gone now so unqualified people, the few they can find being willing to do such a hard job, weren’t educated or just didn’t listen to the one in charge.
From what I’ve learned bananas should be kept dark and cool if You don’t want them to ripen too fast, not cold like refrigerator cold just cool. I prefer bananas the other way 🙂 so I place them light and room temperature warm.
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You make a lot of sense.
I think you are right about the oranges, which probably come from California or Florida. The pickers have been kidnapped and deported, or growers were afraid they will be, so they had them pick the oranges way too early.
I think my bananas come from Central or South America, so it was probably a tariff thing. I just found an article from September saying Trump lifted tariffs on stuff we can’t grow here, like coffee and bananas, but these bananas would have been picked before he did that. Aldi bought a whole shipment of them that’s worthless unless suckers like me buy them to throw them away.
We can’t buy much in the U.S. anymore with any idea of what it’s going to cost, particularly big things. Prices in the grocery store keep rising. Our economy is being destroyed because he changes his mind every 2 minutes and slaps tariffs on anybody who annoys him in any way. Congress refuses to stop him, which they could do. You’re lucky to live in a sane country.
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It’s tricky to live in Your part of the world right now and if nothing is done to stop it it might already be too late I’m afraid.
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