I’m tired of this drought now!

Yesterday was horrible, temperature wise. 30C (86F) and the wind just made it worse by being warm as well. Everything dried out so I had lots of watering to do when I came back home from work. It did help some but there are lots of roots looking for those few drops of water they can find so I had to do it all again already when we woke up this morning. As long as it’s just warm but no sunshine the plants look so more better but then the sun shows and everything looks just like it will die at any minute.

The problem I have is that most of what I like and have planted needs low pH water while my tap water id very much high pH. It runs down from the mountain with more or less is made from lime 🙂 🙂 So I fill up a watering can with that water and then pour in some citric acid in it. Let it stand for a couple of hours and then water with it. So tonight I’ll fill up that can again, pour in some citric acid and use it tomorrow morning. The vegetables however have no problems what so ever with my tap water 🙂 My greenhouse is now a safe space for frogs and toads 🙂 The humidity is always right and they help me by eating snails and slugs 🙂 and what else they might like to eat 🙂

It was quite warm this morning when we. went out on our morning walk, so I thought that most of the few flies we still have out in the forest would be pestering us but it looks like the forest fly season might be over. Still flies out there but mostly those who really doesn’t care about other animals. No moose flies here yet, at least none has tried to land on me or the dogs. I so wish that they would die out in this area. Moose flies are fairly new to most of Sweden, they have moved north with the warmer climate. We didn’t have any when I was a kid and come to think of it we had barely no ticks either. I ran around in the forest in shorts and was never bitten by any tick, I think I was at least 25 when the first one bit me.

The monster hasn’t followed us on our walks in quite a while now, I guess she’s been busy elsewhere. It was the same today until she suddenly jumped out behind us on our way home quite far in to the forest. She then. ran ahead of us and just laid down on the ground 🙂 🙂 🙂 I don’t like it when she walks in to the forest by herself, so many things that would like to eat her if they’d get the chance. Then again I’m pretty sure this summer has been great for rodents so perhaps she isn’t worth the extra job it would take to get her? The only time she’s indoors for longer than ten minutes is when she comes in when I’m off to bed because no matter how loud she shouts I will not get out of bed just to let her out again 🙂 🙂

It is time to have that last cup of tea for the day. The heat has made me so tired so I think I would be able to drink an entire pot without having trouble sleeping 🙂 🙂 It was not as hot today as it was yesterday but rather close to it, now cooler weather will fly in but most likely no rain until Wednesdays best, I really am tired of this drought now.

Ravens are one of my favourite birds. So much bigger than one think, very intelligent and quite horrific in the way they hunt.

Have a great day!

4 responses to “I’m tired of this drought now!”

  1. catsworking Avatar
    catsworking

    When I was growing up in Massachusetts, I spent a lot of time playing in the woods and walking through forests, where where we found low stone walls everywhere in seemingly random places. I was told the Pilgrims built them to mark their property.

    I don’t believe I’d ever even heard of ticks, and certainly never got one on me. The most bothersome bug was mosquitos that would come out at dusk. It wasn’t until I moved to Virginia that I learned about ticks.

    Today they are predicting wild storms off an on, but right now it’s calm and sunny. The humidity has been brutal. Makes it feel 10 degrees hotter, and you quickly get wet and clammy just standing still outside. I don’t know how people with outdoor jobs survive it.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi catsworking!

      We had mosquitoes and midges and back when I was a kid midges loved me and they are horrible because they are tiny and bites through the skin so they can drink our blood. Nowadays however they don’t care about me at all, have no idea why they changed their minds but I like it 🙂

      Lots of remnants from Stone Age to late 19th century here but it is impossible to know what age they have unless one really know ones history. In Gothenburg where I grew up we never found anything like that 🙂

      We’ve had a really nice and cool day here, long periods with a cloudy sky but also some sunshine. There was a minimal chance for rain but if it fell it sure didn’t fall here 🙂 🙂
      I don’t understand how they survive that either 🙂

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    Caryn O’Keefe

    Ticks have been a thing in this area for at least 40 years but they were not so big a deal. We used to have colder, longer winters with snow and that would keep the numbers down. The first time I had to worry about ticks was in 1983 when I moved my horse to a coastal town. We went on a long ride to the beach and there was a sign at the beginning of the beach path with a giant tick on it. The sign said BEWARE! I had to ask what it was about. The road we had ridden down was a hotbed of Lyme disease because of deer overpopulation. Starving deer. Many of the residents on the road were feeding them because who wants to see starving deer in their yard. The state decided to have a one day deer hunting season on that road which explained all the pickup trucks driving slowly up and down it while we were riding. Hunters checking out good spots. But PETA stepped in and protested that the deer “had a right to starve to death” and the one day season was canceled. Residents on the road could hire sharpshooters to cull deer on their property. It was funny but sad. The ticks won. They are everywhere now and they have even more diseases to bless us with.

    Sarah looks like she has no cares at all.

    Frogs and toads in the greenhouse = Free pest control. Win/Win.

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      Christer.

      Hi Caryn!

      It’s the same here, too warm winters even though it can get cold it’s for a too short time. It’s the same with the moose flies, real winters and they would be gone.We’ve never had any signs here but they used to warn us about walking in damp areas since they thought most ticks with diseases lived there. Now we know better 🙂

      So nice to protect the deers right to slowly starve to death 🙂 🙂 Sometimes I wonder about people like that!
      Yes isn’t it nice that they now can bring us so many more diseases 🙂 Also we have a new variety of meningitis coming from north that really doesn’t care about vaccines against it. If one would get that variety it’s almost impossible to survive they say.

      She doesn’t 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Yes I’m very happy about my frogs and toads 🙂

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