Nasty cold night.

 

-5C (23F) here this morning and it was like being slapped in the face when I followed the dogs outside first thing in the morning. Still the sun rose and it has stayed cloud free all day despite they saying otherwise yesterday 🙂  I guess the wind arrived later because every now and again a strong gust hit us even here in my garden.

We walked down to the creek this morning and I’m glad I decided to just have a t-shirt on under the anorak, the sun really warmed up the air except for when we walked through the forest. It wasn’t that cold there either but then again walking with Alma do keep the fittest person warm no matter how cold it is 🙂 🙂 After our walk I have done very little. I have moved out some of the citrus plants I’ve had by the windows up in the cottage all winter so I can place sowing there instead.

Lapwings.

Today I sowed those buns melon seeds I got from one I bought other seeds from, mixed melon seeds from Vietnam. To be honest I’m not quite sure it is legal to bring in seeds from other countries, in fact I’m pretty sure it isn’t 🙂 🙂 🙂 but I don’t think we have any relatives to the cucumber family in the wild here in my country plus our winters are a bit more rough than they are in Vietnam 🙂 🙂 🙂 So if they were to carry any kind of disease I’m sure they won’t spread from my greenhouse 🙂 🙂 🙂 I also found lots of old Jacaranda seeds in my box with seeds, they’re probably way too old to germinate but I dropped them all in water and now I’ll sow them. I do like that tree, sort of looks like a fern with those leafs. Not hardy here of course but I took a look at hardiness and it looks like I can have it in my cool cellar during winter. Too dark and the air is too dry in the cottage to have them there.

I have that last cup of tea for the day beside me and the pollen makes me so tired so I’ll most likely fall asleep in the recliner as soon as I sit down so any amount of tea wouldn’t be able to keep me awake during the night :-):-) 🙂

Have a great day!

4 responses to “Nasty cold night.”

  1. catsworking Avatar
    catsworking

    You just reminded me of a friend I used to know from Norway who worked on a ship out of Miami into the Caribbean. I don’t remember what kind of seeds he found, but they must have been tropical trees or plants. He had a garden at home he wanted to try them in, and he told me he wrapped the seeds in a tissue and smuggled them. So, yes, I believe you are right that bringing seeds in is probably illegal.

    I was missing in action yesterday because I had no electricity all day. First, they installed electrical outlets where there never were any but needed to be, or there weren’t enough because the house was built before computers and complicated TV setups. Now I have 6-8 outlets in those walls. Before, I used power strips and extension cords to trip over.

    And THEN they replaced the whole circuit panel, which was 43 years old. When they were nearly 6 hours into the job, I started worrying about the contents of the fridge, though I’d put some containers of ice in the freezer. I think all the food came through fine (unless I poison myself later cooking something I don’t know went bad).

    They also put in a whole-house surge protector. Basically, the house got an electrical facelift.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi catsworking!

      The punishment for smuggling in foreign seeds to the US is almost as tough as smuggling in narcotics. Not as tough here in the EU but it is seen as a serious crime. We even have laws against bringing some plants in to other EU countries, so if I have a beautiful and what I think is a health citrus tree and moves from Sweden to France and they catch me doing it I would be in serious trouble. The risk of me bringing any kind of disease to them risking their orchards so their trees dies is too big and therefore it isn’t allowed.

      Well the food will not be poisonous if it thaws and freeze again but it will freeze dry and sort of rubbery if You thaw it again and cook it. Freeze dried food is easily recognised though, even if one never have seen it before one knows what it is when seeing it.

      I really would like to have an electrical facelift here too and the kind of fuses that one only flips back again if it would go off.

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      1. catsworking Avatar
        catsworking

        I have cruised in the Caribbean many times and there was a fine (can’t recall if it was $50 or $500) if you took a piece of fruit off the ship and tried to bring it ashore, even if it was first grown and loaded onto the ship in the US and never left the ship until you returned to the US. It was considered foreign. Diseases and bugs, I’m sure, although people probably carry many more of both than plants do.

        Two days after the electrical facelift, everything in the freezer felt wet, so I screwed around with the temperature settings to make it colder, which didn’t seem to help. Now what I think happened is the extra ice I put in there for the shutdown messed up the equilibrium when I removed it and it took a while for the freezer to readjust because it seems fine now. But just the thought of the fridge dying is scary, with all the spoiled/wasted food. I’ve had that happen before.

        My new electrical panel has the flippy switches. I know you have written about needing real fuses, which is more complicated.

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      2. Christer. Avatar
        Christer.

        I’m pretty sure that’s more common than one might think 🙂 🙂

        Yes it is a scary thought! My fridge died but the freezer it was attached to still worked and I had no wish what so ever to buy a new one with both of them, so I bought a separate fridge 🙂 🙂 The old that I can’t remove then became the place where I have all my cookbooks instead 🙂
        I so wish I had those flip switches but to be honest so far in 26 years only three fuses have given up 🙂 but always when it is the most problematic 🙂 🙂

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