The dogs woke me up at 3:20 am and I really didn’t want to get up. However if it was because they needed to do their business and I didn’t want it to happen indoors I had to get up. I’m not sure what they did because they ran around the garden a couple of laps and then they wanted to go inside again 🙂 🙂 I guess they heard something and I guess that especially Alma wanted it to be the badger so she could chase it out from the garden 🙂 It could also be because the monster wanted to go indoors after a night of hunting but if that was the case the dogs didn’t seem to care about here as soon as the door opened up, she went in and they ran outside.

I went back to bed again and I had almost two more hours of sleep before the dogs demanded to go outside again 🙂 So up I went and when they were doing their thing I opened up the greenhouse and watered the plants in there. One of the bigger tomatoes is almost ripe now, I might be able to pick it already this afternoon. I continued to remove caterpillars from the broccoli plants and noticed that I have at least two spaghetti squashes growing. So far no normal squashes though, the few I’ve seen growing turned yellow and died shortly after. Some of the tomatoes growing outside the greenhouse are also going red. They are rather small but the ones I’ve eaten so far have tasted so much more and better than the beefsteak tomatoes I’ve had so far. That doesn’t mean those big tomatoes are bad in any way but I’m pretty sure it means I won’t grow the big ones next year.

We went out on our morning walk an hour later. Still cool and nice, sun shining on its way up and a weak but steady wind blowing. Today I wanted to go out to the bog. We don’t get a lot of variation with a dog like Alma. She’s finally calm and happy after five years when we walk in the forest/ out to the bog so a walk in the village isn’t something I want to try again in the near future 🙂 🙂 It is even more limited when the grass is high and there are loads of ticks in that grass. Fortunately for us the hunters are now preparing for the hunting season so they had trimmed away lots of grass from the forest roads and paths, so we could easily avoid most of those places ticks thrive 🙂 Still the forest flies don’t care about how high the grass is so lots of them followed us on our way. Still very few compared to how it used to be here. However it only takes one fly tying to do research inside ones nostrils to get annoyed by them 🙂 🙂 🙂

Now clouds cover the sky most of the time but it’s just enough warm and the little wind that reach my garden keeps most of the few flies I have here away. Too bad the clouds doesn’t release any rain though. The ground is dry and the little water that was caught in my water barrels wasn’t enough to last for especially long, so soon I’ll have to use my own tap water to help the smaller newly planted trees and all the vegetables. I try to avoid using that for as long as I can because even though I get water from a deep drilled well there’s still very little groundwater now.

The dogs and I had small pancakes, called plättar (plaettar) in Swedish. They are the size of the palm of ones hand and should have double cream instead of milk but who remembers to buy that when full fat milk works just as well? 🙂 So the dogs had a few small ones because they love it and I had strawberry jam on mine, something the dogs had to do without 🙂

It is time to make a pot of tea and start with the laundry as well. I really have no wish what so ever to do the laundry but I also don’t want to smell bad at work tomorrow 🙂 🙂 I think I’ll have that tea before doing anything else today 🙂

Have a great day!