Felt much cooler that it actually was.

We’ve had a really nice and cool day here today. Looking at the thermometer says fairly warm but we had a cool, semi strong wind blowing and big parts of the day was cloudy so it actually felt much nicer than it was 🙂 Hunters out all day in the forest so we have spent our day either in the garden or indoors napping 🙂

My neighbours kids called me from the fence between our gardens. That fence is rather low and doesn’t even keep badgers outside so I really don’t know why it still is there, especially since there’s a thin lilac hedge blocking the view between the gardens 🙂 🙂 Anyway, it was the older sister calling this time because they have newly hatched chickens in the chicken coop 🙂 I also said hi to their tiny rabbits, I really don’t like rabbits but I can of course not tell the kids that 🙂 🙂 These are at least pretty small so even I can see how cute they are 🙂 🙂

Nothing much has happened here since yesterday, I’ve done the laundry, watered the vegetables and napped. I haven’t had the energy make dinner for the coming week at work but I hope I have that tomorrow so I at least make it for four days 🙂 More tomatoes are soon ripe enough to harvest, I’ll need to make a lot of tomato sauce and put it in the freezer 🙂 🙂 I found a second spaghettis pumpkin and I think I saw a squash as well. Normally I would have drowned in squash by now but this year has been very different. I did have a tiny watermelon growing but it’s gone. Have no idea where or why it isn’t there any more.

Can You see the butterfly?

I’ve decided that I will not grow beefsteak tomatoes, Ritchie tomatoes or melons next year. I’ll also skip cabbage in any variety because cabbage butterflies and cabbage moths lay so many eggs on them. I pick away loads of caterpillars every day now.

I planted the last Heart Walnut in a huge bucket because the pot it grew in was way too small and the tree started to look too sad. I have no idea what to do if it survives winter in that bucket because I’ll have to move it sooner or later and it will weigh way too much for me to even move the bucket slightly 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day. I’ve already had a French roll with blue cheese, meatballs, tomato slices and cheese so I really can’t eat anything more 🙂 By the way, did You know that the Swedish name for dandelions in Swedish would be worm rose in English 🙂

Have a great day!

2 responses to “Felt much cooler that it actually was.”

  1. catsworking Avatar
    catsworking

    Your flower photos today are exceptionally magnificent!

    Last night at bedtime we had one of the worst storms I’ve seen for lightning. It was almost constant, and raining like crazy. The cats were even freaking out.

    Then red lights flashed across the wall and I ran to the window to see fire trucks and police cars flying down the hill from my house. I couldn’t see anything, so I looked it up on my phone and saw they’d been called a for a “structure fire” a couple of blocks away in the bigger expensive houses. But it was still pouring, so that must have helped put the fire out because the call was finished about 45 minutes later and the emergency vehicles quietly drove away.

    This morning I can’t find a word on any news as to what happened. I could drive down there and look for myself. But news did report that my county got 6 inches of rain last night. The clocks on the microwave and toaster oven were screwed up, so the electricity was out for about 2 hours overnight. Thankfully, no fan or air conditioning didn’t make it hot enough to wake me up.

    Today, you’d think 6 inches of rain would cool things off, but it’s as hot and steamy as ever. Right now, any day where it’s “only” 90F with low humidity is considered a cool day!

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      Christer.

      Hi catsworking!

      I do like a good thunderstorm but if it freaks out our cats it must have been really bad!

      So in a way it was a good thing all that rain was there to help putting out the fire but on the other hand would it have started without the thunder? 🙂
      I hate when we have thunder without any rain, it’s dry in the ground and the lightning hits the forest or the bog because it will spread rapidly here. A dry bog and fire isn’t a good combination! So I always have a panic bag packed just in case 🙂

      It is raining here right now 🙂 More than a gentle rain as well so I hope it will fill up the water barrels a lot. The really heavy rain miss us though, it’s to the north and south of us. Then again the ground is so dry that most of it just would have run down in to the bog that starts behind the dog house/ yard.

      Thunder usually cools down everything but then the heat shows who’s boss and it’s like living in a steam bath 🙂 🙂 Here it dropped down to 59F, it’s almost chilly 🙂

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