Category: Chilly mornings.

It was cold this morning when the dogs, monster kitten and I woke up. -14C (6,8F) but there was no wind at all so when I walked out in to the shine from the rising sun it actually felt rather nice even though I only wore a sweatshirt and sweatpants. It didn’t take long before I could hear drops dripping from the roof.

Still I can’t say that the snow did a lot of melting during the day even though it did become rather warm. Today the birds started to sing again and I could hear cranes from fields not too far away. I could also hear Alma the entire walk because today she decided that whining in a high pitched tone would make us all happy πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She did behave very well otherwise. Instead I had to scold Malkolm because he decided that if Alma was supposed to walk without pulling the leash someone else had to πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I haven’t done much today though, applied for some jobs and been outside in the garden every now and again. The snow is slowly melting around the early spring bulbs but that’s it. This is the time of year when newly plants die, the ones planted last autumn that is. Their roots haven’t spread down properly Β in to the ground so if the ground still is frozen they’ll dry out pretty quickly when the warmer weather comes, that little soil that they brought with them from the pot will dry out really quickly and since the ground is frozen it can’t get any moisture from it. So just before the cold weather would arrive I was outside watering everything I planted last autumn and those plants that live on the border to what they can manage. All I can do now is to wish that I watered enough.

Everything down in the cool cellar are now getting tiny leafs, rather annoying since I can’t bring anything of it outside and since one of the plant lights I had broke so it is a bit too dark down there now. Can’t do much about it though, not until the nights a get warmer. As soon as they’ve gotten used to be outside they usually can take a night or two in a row without getting damaged. Doesn’t look like that will happen in the closest seven day πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I think I have one peach tree, five apricots, two red mulberries and lots of quince seedlings and even though mice? (could also be a monster kitten πŸ™‚ ) have chewed on all the giant sequoias it still looks like four of them have survived, cross Your fingers and hold Your thumbs for good luck πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and I hope that it will warm up quickly tomorrow morning (after a pretty cold night again) so I don’t have to scrape ice from the car before I’ll go to the supermarket πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

So now the snow falls again.

Not the best photo but it is at least Cranes, they were flying to the other small lake we have in the nature reserve.

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It is snowing again and will continue for a day or two more. How much we’ll get is hard to guess since they change the amount on the web sites all the time. It will most likely stay for the rest of the week but after that they’re guessing we’ll get warmer temperatures again. I’m not surprised though because as the first Crane arrives here we usually get at least one more snow storm before spring really arrives.

The two days previous to this one was quite wonderful though, a bit chilly in the mornings but sunny and temperatures rose to 10C (50F) and above. Lots more Cranes have arrived though so now I can hear them every morning as soon as I go outside πŸ™‚ I’ve also heard the Larch and the Eurasian curlew. The last one has become a bit rare so I always enjoy hearing it again. So even if spring has reached a temporary halt it feels good to know it’s just around the corner.

I’ve been a bit busy now, well busy isn’t perhaps the right word but I have been to an interview at a staffing agency for a job in the same village as where I worked before but for another company. I must say it did feel like a good meeting so now I’ll have to wait and see what happens. The staffing agency will now recommend the people they think will work well for that company so all I can do now is to wait and hope for the best.

A while ago the employment agency asked if I wanted the help from a job coach and I said why not and today I met her for the first time. She asked me what I had done so far to get a job and it turns out I’m doing what they want me to do. I’ll have a talk with her over the phone every second week and meet her in person the other weeks. When I returned back home she had mailed me some links to companies looking for hiring people. So tomorrow I’ll send an application to each place, as long as the orange idiot doesn’t disturb the world too much I might have a chance.

I would say that the cold is gone but the coughing isn’t. Still very little coughing during nights thankfully. Lots of people have that cold or flu or what ever it is at the moment so I guess I should be happy about having it early especially now when we’ll get winter weather back. I could at least go outside to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather, those having it now just have to suffer through it and not have anything to make the day better.

Can You see the back of the wild hog in the middle of the photo?

Our morning walk was quite nice though, despite the cold wind and dark skies. We walked out to the bog and stood at the end of the peninsula. Alma is behaving so much better now, even the whining is quieting down. We stood there at the end looking out over the bog, all quiet, when we suddenly heard something walking towards us in the thicket. Two wild hogs that must have known we were there suddenly showed themselves to us. This was a bit too much for Alma so she started to whine a lot, so they slowly turned away from us and walked in to the thicket again. I did however get a photos of one of them, even if it only was the back side of it πŸ™‚

It is time for something to eat, haven’t had dinner today. Thinking something easy like sausage and baked white beans. I’ll have my last cup of tea for the day after that πŸ™‚

More croci are showing up just before winter comes back.
Also some spring irises show now. They are built to survive some time of winter returning.
Dying needles on the Himalayan cedar, lets hope it just sheds of the old needles and not dies.

Have a great day!Β 

Feeling better and spring’s approaching :-)

We’ve had a couple of wonderful spring days here. Chilly nights perhaps but sunny and warm days. The birds are singing spring songs and I hear the drum rolls from woodpeckers all over the forest. Earlier in February I also heard the owls when it went dark and I do like that sound. Haven’t heard the foxes or the Lynx so far though.

The cold is slowly going away, it shows no hurry to do so though but it is easier to breathe now when the pain is almost gone but a too deep breath only starts the coughing again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It doesn’t feel like I’ve run a half marathon when we come back home after our walks either thankfully. By the way the photos You’ll see today can be from three days, two days ago or from today.

The monster-kitten is back to her evil ways, every day she attacks the dogs πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Alma has finally started to react to it so the little monster has realised she’s best to use when napping and not playing πŸ™‚ Malkolm still accepts that she chews on him but then again he’s just a year old yet so that might change. His shot has finally started to kick in while Alma slowly is going out of heat. Every now and again though they show that I still can’t trust them being alone for any longer period of time πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I must say that being leashed to him during nights is working without any problems at all, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have said that if it was Alma who had to be leashed to me, she would have been dragging me on the floors all over the cottage πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day. I’ll have nothing to eat though, a good thing with this cold is that I haven’t been hungry at all, normally no sickness of any kind has dampened my appetite but this one has πŸ™‚ I’ve been under surgery lots of time and every time I have woken up I’ve asked when I can have something to eat πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

A wonderful spring day :-)

I’m glad I didn’t have to go anywhere this morning πŸ™‚

So the cold is slowly getting better and this morning the sun shone, which it wasn’t supposed to do and there as frost on the vegetation so we had a short walk in almost perfect weather. Β It was so nice to finally be breathing fresh air again πŸ™‚ Alma almost behaved so that helped a lot πŸ™‚ The coughing has started to annoy me a bit but it is at least only while I’m awake and not while I’m sleeping. The sleeping leashed to Malkolm works much better than I thought it would, when he does try to walk away towards Alma I notice it immediately, pulls him back and he just goes back to where he’s supposed to stay.

Even though the walk was really nice it still felt like I had run a marathon when we came back home πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I had a nap as soon as I sat down but can’t say I feel anything from that now, I’m just as tired as if I hadn’t napped πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ We’ve also been outside in the garden a lot, I continued the cleaning after the dogs at the same time I kept an eye on the dogs πŸ™‚ The Himalayan Cedar looks really good and so do the two small stems on the English walnut tree.

The hardy Rosemary has some frozen leafs but looks fine otherwise. Some frost damage on the red mulberry tree but that one is still much better than the black mulberry and the white mulberry. The pawpaws look amazingly well since they are the least hardy trees I have, much better than the Persimmon tree. I think that if we don’t get any more cold cold periods that all still has survived this winter. I won’t buy anything more when it comes to trees because now I must think where to plant all the seedlings I have in the cellar πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I have at least six small pear trees, five or six apricots, two red mulberry trees and one peach. I really don’t have that space but since when has that stopped a gardener πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Hard to see but the Himalayan Cedar looks really well, conifers this small usually show pretty early if they are dying.

Hardy Rosemary, it’s an variety from the US and seen as the hardiest Rosemary there is.

Snowdrops.

An iceberg in the water barrel πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

It isn’t easy for them but they still manages to play even though they both most likely wants to do something else πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Warmer winds.

So today was the last day with cold weather and sunshine for quite some time it seems, I’ll miss the sunshine but not the temperatures πŸ™‚ The low pressure is arriving with a roaring wind now and it might even be as warm as 10C (50F) already on Saturday.

This morning however was still pretty cold and the sun shone as well. Thankfully once again totally wind free (it arrived later in the day) so it was quite nice being outside walking. Alma behaved reasonable well but Malkolm pulled the leash instead. He’s not that big and strong though so that isn’t so bad to be honest but if Alma isn’t allowed to do it neither is he. I must start thinking about the possibility that the tutor on my kidney has grown and that I’ll get treatment during the summer so having dogs pulling the leash when I most likely won’t be especially strong is a bad idea. However we aren’t there yet so perhaps I can make them both calm down by then.

I’m so lucky that my neighbour works in a supermarket now when Alma is in heat and the shot Malkolm had doesn’t work properly yet because I realised that the cat litter wouldn’t last for long so she brought home a bag for me plus I suddenly had a craving for some soda, I normally don’t drink soda unless I have a head ache so it will be something with caffein in it. Today I wanted something else, so now I have pear soda at home. I didn’t think they still made that so when she said they sold it I really wanted it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I remember when being at my mormors’ (grandmother on my mothers side) I was always allowed to go downstairs to get a soda and I usually chased between raspberry soda or pear soda πŸ™‚ I was also always allowed to take an ice cream if I wanted to πŸ™‚

The monster kitten was allowed to be without the cone of shame for a couple of hours today and she really enjoyed it. Tomorrow it’ll be eight days after surgery so I’ll allow her to be without it even longer and on Saturday she will not have it any more. It should be totally healed already now I think but it might still be a bit fragile I guess so better be safe than sorry. The scar doesn’t seem to bother her at all though Β  but to be honest neither does the cone πŸ™‚ The only thing is that the the place where the cone is tied together seems to be itching, as soon as it goes off the itching stops.

Today I won’t have that last cup of tea for the day, instead I’ll have some pear soda πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

Foggy and cold.

I woke up to a thick fog this cold morning, it was so thick that there wasn’t any idea to take a walk in it πŸ™‚ at least not if I wanted to be able to take some photos. So we had a calm morning where all the animals took a nap on the sofas and I watched something on tv.

It was still pretty cold when we went out but no wind so it was quite Β enjoyable walking around. Alma behaved pretty well for the first time in a long time so that made the walk even better. It was almost totally quiet in the forest except for some quiet tweets from small birds called Long-tailed tit. It is more or less a ball of white feathers and a tail just as long as the body. In my opinion the cutest bird there is. Unfortunately they never sit still for any longer period of time so I never got a good photo of them.

We were almost at home when suddenly tiny snowflakes started to fall around us. They must have been created in the fog somehow and it was an odd sight seeing that it snowed in the fog πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ We were supposed to have sunshine all day but since I like fog I for once didn’t think bad thoughts about our weather service πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β We did get a few hours of sunshine from around noon and till the sun set so we were out in the garden a couple of times, I don’t dare leaving Alma and Malkolm alone for more than a minute or so so even I was outside πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I was going to do a simple meat sauce today and then boil some rice noodles but then I saw this opened package with frozen vegetables, so I tossed those in as well. I also bought white baked beans from a brand I’ve never tried before. To be honest they don’t taste bad at all but they don’t taste right and by that I mean Heinz baked beans πŸ™‚ I had one package left so I tossed in those as well πŸ™‚ and I do like mushrooms so why not have that as well πŸ™‚ I was looking at it slowly boiling when I realised that I could put in the noodles as well and let them soak in some taste. I now have dinner for at least five day I think πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Since I was going to be by the stove for quite some time making dinner I also baked some bread. Normally I always put grated cheese in the dough but I didn’t have any at home but they turned out quite well anyway. We were in the garden in between and I could see that both the apricot trees and the peach tree looks really well, not even the thinnest twigs had frozen, the same on the red mulberry tree, the white and the black one is badly damaged though. The persimmon has damages and so do the pawpaws but as it looks right now the pawpaws have just frozen at the tiniest twigs. Β It is however the early spring that do the most damage here, when the air is warm and waking up the vegetation but the ground is frozen so the plants can’t get the water they need, so there’s still time for them all to die πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day but I still feel full after that dinner so I will not have a sandwich to eat. Almost sad since the bread is as its best while it still is a bit warm and it isn’t the same to heat it upon the oven I’m afraid.

Have a great day!

A bit less cold today.

Another sunny, beautiful and cold day. Not even close to how cold it was yesterday but cold enough to keep the air dry and therefore not feeling how cold it actually was when we had our morning walk. Some birds were singing in the sunlight and I did hear a couple of ravens but otherwise it was rather quiet out there.

The dog food I had ordered came just in time, there would have been none left to tomorrow otherwise πŸ™‚ Since he came with the package he also brought the rest of the mail to me. Nothing special until I noticed that I have a registered letter I need to pick up in FalkΓΆping. My neighbours are working so I’ll need to bring the dogs with me to the post office.

I’ll have to put Alma in the back attached to the seat belt and Malkolm the same but in the passenger seat beside me in the front. I doubt they would try anything while I’m gone because Alma will be too busy screaming the second I leave the car πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ most likely do what she can to tie herself with the seat belt πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β I’ll hurry in to the store where they have my mail and hurry outside again as fast as I can just as they open up. Hold Your thumbs and cross Your fingers so that she doesn’t destroy too much in the car πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea and after that we have our weekly science program on tv, one of the few programs I actually wants to look at πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

A tad chilly :-)

For being me I woke up quite late this morning, I can’t say that it was anything but dark outside but I could see that it slowly was going towards brighter where the sun would rise. I took a look at the thermometer and then I took a new look at it, -18C (-0,4F). Β It was cold outside but it didn’t feel that cold because of low humidity and no wind. I took a look at the stars and Betelgeuse is still shining bright orange up there. It is 645,2 lightyears away so even if it had gone supernova 500 years ago we still wouldn’t know about it πŸ™‚

The bitter cold weather we’ve had for a few days now will soon leave us. On Tuesday the day suddenly will have above 0C (32F) temperatures but nights will still be pretty chilly. Well I’m not out and about at nights so I don’t mind that but it feels nice that day temperatures will be more pleasant again. I think it was still -15C (5F) when we went out on our morning walk but the sun gave away quite a lot of heat so I enjoyed it quite a lot. Thankfully neither Alma nor Malkolm have sensitive paws. We weren’t supposed to have any snow the other day so of course it snowed πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ we didn’t get much though but I still don’t like it but it does make things look more beautiful to be honest.

Sara the monster kitten seems to feel much better now, she even tried to jump up on the aquarium this morning πŸ™‚ it didn’t work of course and I think I like that cone πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ As soon as we get more stable warm weather I’ll bring her out so that she can start inspecting her domains. Since I think her mother was/ is one of the farm cats up the road I do hope they won’t be too hard on her, my neighbours cats might be something else though, they have reigned in my garden for a couple of years now and might not want to resign.

Nothing much else has happened here like it should be. Tomorrow I’ll go to the grocery store in Gudhem to buy a few things I don’t have at home. I’ll bring the dogs. Alma will have the back seat all for herself and Malkolm in the passenger seat beside me. That would make it very hard for them to reach each other just in case, I really don’t want puppies no matter how cute they are πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea and after that it would have been nice to just go to bed but that would most likely just mean I’ll wake up a couple of hours earlier instead πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

That made grocery shopping a bit more tricky :-)

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Last night just before I fell asleep I heard a what I think is a fox kill an animal, could have been a hare but didn’t think much about it. Hares cane make the most horrible sounds, as my mother always says, when they are killed they sound like a woman getting stabbed with a knife in her back. I would perhaps say it differently πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ but it’s true. It didn’t sound quite like that but I couldn’t figure out what else it could be.

-14C (6,8F) this morning but wonderful sunshine and no wind so it didn’t feel bad at all πŸ™‚

It wasn’t until this morning when I couldn’t find the monster kitten I started to worry about it. After all she’s small and really fast when she wants to so I started to wonder if she possibly had managed to get out, I was however still pretty sure she was asleep on one of the sofas when we walked up to the bedroom. I had looked everywhere downstairs and just couldn’t find her. So I said to Alma find the kitten and it took her ten seconds by showing me that she was sleeping in my bed πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ :-)Alma is a natural when it comes to find missing things she knows what they are called. Every time Malkolm disappears I just tell her to get Β Malkolm an a short time after she brings him home πŸ™‚ Good thing because one of my neighbours daughters are amazingly quick to vanish from the surface of the earth, so far she’s never been really lost but if that would happen I’m sure Alma would find her quickly.

It actually looks like The monster has accepted the punishment of having a cone around her head πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She isn’t stopped by it in any way, she just finds a new way to handle reality and so far it has worked great. She was of course not too happy this morning but thankfully the painkillers she’s gotten she’s up and about almost like normal. It does help a lot that they have given the pill a taste of something she really likes so she just ate it out of my hand πŸ™‚

Alma is supposed to be in heat next month, that’s why Malkolm got his injection yesterday, it takes around a month before it is working at 100% So I wasn’t the least surprised to find out that she’s in heat now πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ :-)She is really good at taking care of any blood but yesterday evening I found a small drop on the floor. Thankfully he hasn’t shown too much interest in her yet and with each day it should be less and less but I once had surprise puppies after a dog was here (a brother to one of my dogs, old Erna) where he got the injection too late and my old Erna went in to heat. He never showed any interest in her until I had to go away for two hours πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Even though this was anything but good those dogs were the most easygoing dogs I’ve ever had here πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Orvar and Hector had two sisters as well and they were just as wonderful (yes the new owners knew about it).

Grocery shopping will be a bit difficult now though because I really can’t leave those two alone in the dog yard. So I’ll either have to bring them in the car if I just need something small and I just have to go to the small grocery store in Gudhem but I can thankfully ask my neighbour who works in a super market if she can help me if I need a bit more πŸ™‚ I really have the best of neighbours πŸ™‚

It is time for a last cup of tea, in fact I already have it here by the computer πŸ™‚ and then most likely read a book because I doubt there will be anything interesting on tv.

Have a great day!

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I only had to call twice to make it work :-)

Must have been a full moon last night.

We had sunshine for quite some time yesterday and even sunshine for hours today, It was around noon when the clouds managed to cover the sun fully. Also in the morning there was a thin cloud layer but the sun managed to shine through it. Β From now on days will stay just below 0C (32F) but nights will get pretty cold, we might even have the chance to see more of the sun if we’re lucky.

The beekeeper still have his bees here, I don’t think he will be in a hurry to get them since the price for the property is insanely overpriced.

So yesterday I got the new 5G router sent to me. I know I always get frustrated when changing system and nothing ever goes like one wants so I just left the package on the counter until this morning. It is never a good sign when they write must read the instructions before trying to connect. So the first thing I did after our morning walk was to pick out all the things in the packages and to read the instructions. To be honest there wasn’t that much to read more than put up antenna first of all because the system is designed that way.

Ok and of course it said the antenna works much better if it is outdoors. Well they really don’t care if the cables are long enough to put the antenna (a square little thing) at its best location, towards the south east. Well I was lucky there because I could put it on one side of the cottage that is placed south to south east or round the corner with is south east to east. The first wall would have been so much better because then I could just use a ladder to reach the highest point (just three meters above the ground. However the antenna cable wasn’t long enough for that.

The old hunters lodge.

Instead I had to lean out from the window upstairs and put it under my window. Leaning out like that while trying to fasten the holder with four small screws isn’t nice and when I was going to put the antenna in the holder it turns out I’ve placed the holder way too close to the windowsill, if I ever have to remove it I’ll have to break either the windowsill or the antenna πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The antenna needs electricity so I plugged it in, placed the router on the desk (apparently I should have screwed it to a wall or something but I thought it would be better to have it on the desk.

Well, turns out that there is a cable that needs to be attached from the antenna to the router so at the moment everything is placed just inside the window and I’m pretty sure the monster kitten will do her best to tear it all away during the night πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’m also pretty sure that if I screw it to the wall beside the window she’ll try even harder to rip it off plus then she’ll have lots of cable she can chew on as well πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’m mostly proud of that I only had to call my phone company twice to get it to work πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time to get that last cup of tea for the day, I’ll have nothing to eat though because we had pancakes today and even though we ate those pretty early in the day I still feel full.

Have a great day!

Why did they waste paper on that?

The “lake” behind the dog yard.

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We’ve had sunshine for one and a half day!!! It felt like walking around in another world, birds were singing, the air smelled wonderful and I even felt a hope that the world soon would turn back to its normal violent self without that fat orange man creating chaos. Now the grey and duck weather has returned but they’re guessing next week will give us lots of sunshine. We’ll see if that happens.

I got a letter from my phone company that said the order was done. I had absolutely idea what that meant but wasn’t too worried because it didn’t cost anything πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It drove me slightly crazy though not to know what it was so I called the company. Even they were a bit confused (and I didn’t have to wait for more than three minutes until I got help?!!) but then we realised that I had created a new e-mail address and that must be what the order was πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Why on earth do they send me over five pages to tell me that, without actually telling me what it was πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β πŸ™‚

Then the guy said: You’re paying an awful lot for Your internet, both the phone and the computer, so now they’ll send me a new router with 5G connection, we lowered the amount of data for the phone but I now have unlimited amount for the computer and this will cost me around $ 25 US a month less than before. Normally I would perhaps not bothered that much but now when I’m unemployed I took it. Apparently this new router will have an antenna and I have a wild monster kitten, could be fun to try and get the best signal for the router πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I also called the vet so that Sara can be neutered and Malkolm get a chemical neutering that will last for six months because soon Alma will be in heat. They couldn’t answer but the answering machine said to leave a message and they would call me back. Two hours passed and no call back. I’ll have to call again on Monday so it gets done. I don’t like this chemical thing, one never know what hormones will do besides what it should but since the prices are so insanely high it must be done this time.Β 

I also went to the grocery store in the village where I used to work this morning. I’ve done my grocery shopping there since I moved to this region. 27 years now, so even if it is a bit far to go there I still want to do it every now and again. After that I went to the factory and had a chat with all my old work friends and they aren’t happy. Very little to do in most parts of the factory. The main problem though is the same as when I worked there, the leadership. If You’re a leader in a work place Your job is to make people feel they are important and make them like the workplace, that isn’t happening there I’m afraid.

The sun is actually already giving away some heat noe, a bit early but I like it, nights the temperature can drop down to -8 C (17,6F) This is a season we call Springwinter. Not spring because it is still too cold at nights but not winter either because it is too warm during the days. A prefect season for picnics πŸ™‚

It is time for a last cup of tea and then my favourite show on tv.Β 

Have a great day!

The flu.

So I have the flu or something very similar, every single fiber Β in my body has been aching, especially in my thighs and it really hurts while walking in stairs πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Not so great when the computer and bedroom is upstairs πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It still would most likely hurt really bad but I’m putting on anti inflammatory ointment and it helps enough so that I can hav walks with the dogs and get to the bedroom without wondering if it wouldn’t be better to just sleep in my sofas πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

To be honest it also helped a lot by walking the dogs, terrible in the beginning, got easier the more we walked and it felt almost normal when we arrived back home again. However an hour or so later it felt worse than before πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’m freezing like a doge every no and again, not especially sour in my throat but almost no coughing, so far that is. So this could have been far worse to be honest.

Between walks very little has been done though, lots of resting and tea drinking and watching tv programs I haven’t enjoyed and I’ve also read a lot. I only wish I’ve had some rose-hip soup at home so I’ll make sure to buy some next time I’ll go to the store. Warm rose-hip soup with tiny almond biscuits/cookies (when asking google about the name it suggested almond macaroons but to be honest I don’t think that fits at all) they’re only 1cm (two fifths on an inch) big and not in two pieces as macaroons always seems to be. They more or less only works with rose-hip soup or as a sort of snack to be honest πŸ™‚

Yesterday we had a nice thick fog almost all day and today we’ve had a grey and dull weather bit with frost instead. We were supposed to have fairly much snow but only had a dusting and that’s just enough. Still a long time till spring but I don’t mind if it comes early and I really don’t want a snowstorm like we had last April, the snow melted away after a week and then spring sprung but I still didn’t like it even though it happened when Malkolm just had arrived and I was forced to have a week of vacation since I couldn’t leave a puppy in the dog house/ yard in there while I was working.

I think it is time for that last cup of tea for the day and then find that book again. I think I finally have found a way to move the photos from the editing program to the blog, I’m crossing my fingers and holding my thumbs for good luck πŸ™‚

Have a great day!