So hot!

I really don’t understand how people can live in these high temperatures. It rose to 35C (95F) quite early in the day but then we had a short lived thunderstorm passing by so the temperature dropped to 22C (71,6F) It did however not take long before we had 35C (95F) again after that plus the now higher humidity 🙂 🙂 🙂 I feel so sorry for all places around nd the world who have even higher temperatures.

I managed to move my eyelid ever so slightly this morning, 3:25 am, so the dogs decided it was time to go outside. I was awake but thought why not stay in bed a while longer since it after all is Saturday but that eyelid of mine betrayed me 🙂 It was really pleasant outside though so I watered the plants in the greenhouse went in for a cup of tea and out on our morning walk just as the sun started to rise above the trees.

The Monster decided it was best to follow us on the walk, mostly because the magpies do what they can to make her life hard 🙂 A magpie never forgets when someone tries to take one of their babies. She wasn’t really happy about having a walk with us because she wanted to take tours in to the forest but still didn’t want to be out there alone, so every now and again she shouted loudly when she thought we had come too far away from her. That shout scared the deer so they started to bark to warn all other animals so it would be a lie to say we had a calm and quiet walk 🙂 🙂 🙂

For two days now I’ve felt a strange smell in my kitchen but couldn’t figure out what it was or where it came from. Turns out that the monster had killed a bird and hid it in them kitchen!!! Thankfully no maggots crawling around on it yet 🙂 🙂 🙂 Normally she eats what ever it is she has caught but I guess she wanted to enjoy this one later on.

I haven’t done much today, well I did two rounds of laundry and we had a long nap as well. The dogs have mostly been sleeping the rest of the day as well because we aren’t used to this kind of heat. I didn’t have any energy to make dinner so I’ve mostly eaten French rolls and after this I’ll have some yogurt with banana slices (it’s also banana yogurt 🙂 )I will make some tea and have that last cup for the day but I do it mostly so that I just have to warm it up tomorrow morning 🙂

I’ve bought two vines of “real” Kiwi fruit. I’ll have them in the greenhouse all year round and want to dig them down into the ground but I have a rubber sheet, from when I had a pond, that covers the ground because otherwise it would have been filled with stinging nettles and wild roses 🙂 So I’m trying to figure out how I’ll do it but without inviting any of what has been growing in that spot earlier, a first world problem I know but enough to think of in this heat 🙂

This is a relative to the feared Japanese knotweed. It does however not spread especially much. It has been growing in the same spot for well over twenty years. I had one more before but it was outcompeted by a rose, a grass and stinging nettles.

Have a great day!

Japanese climbing rose, Rosa multiflora. Here it behaves but spreads like wildfire in warmer climates.
Beautybush.
Fireweed.
A white flowered Dog rose.

4 responses to “So hot!”

  1. catsworking Avatar
    catsworking

    You have a photo (12th from top) of deep woods with a yellow light shining through the trees that reminds me of a TV I watch called “Paranormal: Caught on Camera.”

    This is the kind of thing they show all the time. A viewer was innocently walking in the woods one night – or they were in the house and heard a weird noise outside so they went out to investigate – and saw this strange yellow light through the trees and took a photo of it (which they submitted to this TV show).

    They think it must have been an alien spaceship landing, or Bigfoot dancing around a fire, but it scared them so much because they’d never seen anything so horrifying near their house before, they ran back inside immediately and have no idea what it really was.

    Then all the so-called “experts” on the show give their theories on what they think it was.

    In your case, what was it?

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi catsworking!

      🙂 I’ve seen that show over here too 🙂

      No spaceship to blame here, just a few rays of sunshine reaching in to the forest between all the trees 🙂
      We were out so early that the sun just had started to rise.

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  2. carolannie1949 Avatar
    carolannie1949

    I hope you all don’t suffer from the heat too much! Lovely photos, I guess the Monster is the boss!

    Kiwi vines can get really big. We have then growing on overhead trellises in the community garden. The trellises are 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall and about 6 feet by 20 feet long (1,8 by 6 meters). The one kiwi fills it (it is a few years old. We have another kiwi just starting. I had one growing in Colorado, and it pulled a fence down, so I had to cut it back and put in a strong wire fence. Just so you know!

    Have a great week!

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi caroleannie!

      They say it will turn tonight and that we’ll have reaso
      nable temperatures tomorrow 🙂

      Thes variety is said to grow up to 4 meters (much the same in yards) long. That is of course most likely wrong and it will most likely grew much longer 🙂 I’ll let them, if they survives cover the roof of the greenhouse and then prune it so it doesn’t grew longer.
      The Hardy Kiwi vines grew much much longer, I have one growing up in the crabapple tree and it must be almost ten meters long now 🙂 🙂 🙂

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