Category: Chilly mornings.

Today we were lucky with the weather.

We had thick fog again this morning but I could see the sun rise behind it so we hurried out before the fog would evaporate. I would have loved to go out to the bog and the island but it was noticeable that the sun would remove the fog just as I would reach it. So we walked down to the creek instead.

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When one read about our beings it often says that this is the season they’re the most active because it’s so dark all the time. Then one read about them in all other season and those are also when they are most active, usually because we have all our holidays from christmas till midsummer πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Then again we have so much daylight here during summer that they wouldn’t be able to do much at all if they were sensitive to daylight πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I think that this morning would have been great to see any beings in the fog out there πŸ™‚

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In the northern parts of Sweden, by the high mountains and deep forests they have a being called Vittra, a close relative to our vΓ€tte (vaettir or wight in English) Both live underground and can look much like a human but being considerable smaller. While the vΓ€tte normally can live rather close to humans the Vittra prefers to stay away from us, plus they have their own livestock, like cows or goats. They don’t dislike us but they tend to stay away from us which I guess means they don’t like us πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Normally they also almost always wear beautiful folk costumes. Back in the days humans let the livestock walk up on the mountains during summer and that’s when the young girls that lived with the animals up there often could meet the Vittra or their livestock. If the girls were smart and quick in thought they would throw an iron knife over the animal they had met and when they had done that they could keep the animal.

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It wouldn’t take long before the original owner would visit them though to set the rules. Not milk the animal too much and any offspring from it would go to the Vittra. Their animals looked just like ours but were much smaller and gave lots more milk. It is said that their cows were purely white and wore a silver bell with a wonderful sound. Usually there were never any problems with the Vittra but there were a few things to look out for. They could steal our livestock or our children but they usually returned them back after three days πŸ™‚ Another thing is that they behaves much like our badgers when it comes to where they walk. If one would be unlucky enough to build a home on one of those paths one had problems. One wouldn’t be able to sleep at all during nights ever. So the only solution to that problem was to move the house or sleep with all doors open so that the Vittra could pass at nights πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Vittror never came alone though, the entire family would have to pass and also their livestock πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ (one Vittra several Vittror)

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This photo is a bit blurry but I think it came out pretty good anyway.

There were also Vittror that reigned over lakes and if one tossed in a silver coin (or I guess anything silver) before going fishing in those lakes one would catch lots of fish, unless it was one of their pikes, no matter what one tried they were impossible to get out of the water πŸ™‚

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It is time for that last cup of tea for the day. The dogs and I had our dinner not long ago so I’ll just have that cup of tea.

Have a great day!

Malkolm and Alma do like Sara the cat but she’s never calm so they prefer to avoid her when they want to sleep (if they can πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ ). Old Nova made Sara calm in some way I don’t know so I think she’s missed by the kitten. Sometimes however they make an exception and let her stay close πŸ™‚

A sort of meh fog today.

Much the same weather today but the fog was sort of meh. It was too thin to really make a big difference and instead just made the world look a bit more sad πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The hunters were supposed to be in the forest today but I don’t think anyone actually came. Anyway we walked in to the village instead and Alma behaved well enough until we had walked slightly more than half the way. That’s when a car passed around 200 meters (much the same in yards) ahead of us, I guess someone had to go to work. After that she pulled the leash a lot and whined all the way home. I really can’t understand why, she really doesn’t care about cars passing by on the gravel road here at home.

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This is the tree with the pastel colored leafs and it looks like an old tree with a thick trunk.
But it’s actually several trees, there are some trunks one only can see from a distance.

If it wasn’t puling the leash she has this nasty habit on walking behind me sliding towards my left side (she should walk on the right) and if she see something then she suddenly can start running forward like crazy. That is how she has ripped my right shoulder a couple of times. It hurts a lot and I had to stay at home for quite some time both times but thankfully I never needed surgery.Β  I have no problems of letting her do that if she walks in front of me because then I see what’s about to happen but she only does that when Malkolm have found something interesting to sniff on πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I’ve had rice porridge for dinner today and Malkolm and Alma both had a tiny portion as well. I don’t think it’s especially good for their stomachs since there’s so much milk in it but a tiny portion won’t do much damage to their stomachs. Sara the cat’s stomach is a bit wobbly today so she had to be without.

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I need to buy a couple of box traps to place in the cool cellar. There’s a mouse/ mice there that tends to bit of thin stalks from the plants I have there during winter and now I’m getting annoyed. it/ they never eat anything just chops them off and leaves!!! I would like to try and find weasel or ferret poop and put some around my cottage and perhaps indoors where they can come in. There’s nothing more frightening for rodents than weasels or ferrets. I have no idea where to find some, I doubt that Ferrets are sold in pet stores even though it isn’t a specially rare pet. I really don’t want a ferret myself though even it it would help keep mice away πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I’m not a fan of horses to be honest but I really like these two. No matter how much my dogs (Alma that is) would sound they still don’t care πŸ™‚

Then again Sara isn’t a hundred percentΒ  when it comes to the litter box, she does however always pee on paper I have on the floor, I could perhaps use that in the cellar? What do You think? I’ll try it next time I find a wet paper on the floor πŸ™‚ It is time for the last cup of tea for the day but I won’t have anything with it, the rice porridge still make me feel full πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

Foggy morning.

As I wrote yesterday we had really thick fog last evening so I expected I wouldn’t see much when the dogs and I was outside just before going to bed. We had a clear sky and absolutely no fog what so ever, so I must admit I was a bit disappointed.

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The first thing I did after I had woken up was to see what it looked like out there and the fog had returned πŸ™‚ plus it was below 0C (32F) so it felt a bit nasty chilly to be honest πŸ™‚ We went out to the bog and it was absolutely quiet and no wind. These last days I’ve heard spring songs from birds, the only thing I heard today was a couple of Ravens when they passed above us.

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I went to the supermarket after our walk, I really didn’t need much but I needed to post a letter. A couple of days ago I was offered to see if I had “invisible” bleeding in my intestines so they could catch and cancer in my intestines. I’m not sure if this is because of my kidney, they have started doing tests for all kinds of things when we come to a certain age, free of charge of course. It could just be a coincident and of course I did what they asked for. Just as well check the entire system when I can πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Anyway, I went to the super market and was just going to buy some milk and perhaps something to have on my sandwiches. So I came home with a small kitchen assistant, they are already displaying everything christmas there now and I guess this is seen as a christmas present. It was really cheap and online it would have cost almost twice πŸ™‚ So I’ve already used it today to bake a loaf of bread that now is in the oven. This was my christmas present to myself this year πŸ™‚ I can’t remember the brand right now but the reviews are good, I really should check something like that before buying anything πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Besides that nothing much has happened, the fog stayed until I came back home after the supermarket and after that it has just been grey and dull. I don’t mind really, I didn’t have anything planned and we have been outside in the garden every now and again.

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They have made an update on Windows Photo program and it annoys me so much. Windows wants me to upload every photo to the one drive app up in the clouds πŸ™‚ I refuse that so then they make it harder with the downloading. It creates a folder by itself and put all photos in that, the problem is that it’s impossible to find again!!! So I need to move the photos from that folder to one I’ve made to be able to find them again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Also anything from my wildlife camera doesn’t show up when I try to download it to the blog?!!! I now must download it to YouTube and then download it here. Nothing exciting so far, just a couple of Roe deer passing by.

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It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and a slice or two from the new bread πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

Today I realized to my very big surprise a big bud on one of my Paphiopedilum hybrids (slipper orchids)! That almost never happens for most of us. I must have done something right for once!

-3,6C (25,52F) outside this morning according to my thermometer. A tad chilly but since we didn’t have any wind and the sun was rising it didn’t feel that bad. I had hoped that they had removed all cattle from the big field/ pasture but I could see that there was still just as many left as they had moved yesterday so we had to walk back and walk in the village instead. Unfortunately we met a huge tractor carrying all the food to the bulls and after that and of course when we passed lots of half adult cows in another field Alma behaved like crazy. She isn’t afraid, her tail shows that clearly but she gets excited and then can’t calm herself down and I can’t calm her down either.

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Besides that though we did have a nice walk but if any villager on the other side of the village saw us they must believe I hate her πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The rest of the village knows what she’s like though and most people feel sympathy for us both πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Just imagine to walk with a dog whining a screaming constantly for well over an hour on every walk and then have no way to calm her down πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Then here at home she’s absolutely amazing! She even gather the other dogs if I ask her to and then bring them to the front door. She makes sure Nova is ok all the time, plays with Albin, keeps an eye on Sara the cat and also always check on me that I’m ok but as soon as we go outside the garden with a leash on she starts whining and screaming, once she even started to howl πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I haven’t done much todayΒ , not even dinner but I have actually dome some of the laundry. I have loads left but I thought why not take a little at a time. I don’t have a big washing machine because I have no space for one, my bathroom is tiny but I do have one made for campers/ mobile homes. Works really great but it is what I would call a manual washing machine. I have to decide how warm the water is so I usually put in the same temperature as when I shower and then open the tap for cold water to rinse it all. Not especially hard but it is annoying sometimes πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β  So when I do the laundry I need to think about what I put in, one or two heavier things and the rest light things and so on πŸ™‚

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Yesterday evening when we went to bed I could hear Sara the cat miaow loudly from downstairs. I called for her to come up but she didn’t, well You know cats πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She still wasn’t with us when I woke up and must admit that it was nice with a night of undisturbed sleep. I couldn’t find her when we came down either so I called after her and I could hear here but not figure out where she was. I became a bit worried because we had just been outside and I thought she might have escaped and now was outside in that cold temperature but I couldn’t find her there either. Turns out that I had locked her in the cool cellar all night, she must have went in when I for a second had opened the door to place a potted plant on a shelfΒ  just inside the door. So now I check the door every time we go outside she she doesn’t follow πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It is time to have a last cup of tea for the day and I’ve bought some candied ginger, dangerously yummy that I think I’ll have some of πŸ™‚

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It takes a lot of energy to biting my hand all evening so a nap was needed πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

They moved the cattle.

You know that when it looks like this on the ground just after the sun has disappeared that it most likely will be misty the next morning.

Morning mist, then sunshine quickly vaporize it for thick fog to roll in and stay for quite some time just to be replaced by warmish weather and lots of sunshine. I was surprised when the thick fog came because the air had become rather warm by then. It did roll in from the bog though so I guess it must have been cold out there. I liked it though and we did have plenty of time in the garden when the sun finally won that battle.

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WE walked in the village this morning and for once Alma seemed pretty calm, yes she did whine and shout some in the beginning but then seemed to get bored doing it πŸ™‚ Then suddenly all the cattle started to bellow and really loudly plus I heard what I thought was a car honking the horn and then a few more but could not figure out what was happening. Turns out it wasn’t cars but four wheelers and they were moving the cattle from the big pasture to their winter pasture. We met them just as they were going from the big one over our gravel road to the winter one.

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I really can’t be angry that Alma started with all her sounds even louder and I can’t be angry that she had problems calming down after they had passed either but that dog can be really loud πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I think that I from now on can have walks in the big pasture from now on. It’s actually several pastures combined to one big, so they can make it bigger or smaller depending on what they need to do. It’s hard to believe but our walks can be as long as 10 km (6,2 miles) and I still would be able to see the village the entire time, well the few homes there is here anyway.

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If I can figure out if they moved the entire heard we might have a walk there already tomorrow, would be great because then we wouldn’t have to pass all the dogs being outside barking when we pass them and then Alma would be much calmer, at least as long no lorries pass on the big road beside the pasture. Big road is a bit much to call it but they do drive lorries there quite often. The drivers use it as a short cut to towns and cities further south and I can tell You that it isn’t fun to meet a timber lorry in high speed on that winding road because they almost always use a big part of the meeting lane as well when the road turns.

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Two dogs are sleeping in my bedroom, one in the basket, I can’t see who because it’s dark in there now but my guess is that it is Alma and Malkolm is in the bed, probably with Sara the cat. Alma isn’t too happy about the cat since she keeps her awake most f the night πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Malkolm just ignores here and then the cat walks over to Nova to sleep beside her for the rest of the night πŸ™‚ Nova is too old to be bothered by anything now days πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I think it is time for a last cup of tea for the day. I bought a jar of pickled cucumbers yesterday and I do like that but I’m not hungry but still want some cucumber so I think I’ll have a hard bread sandwich so I don’t eat it straight out of the jar πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

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My second favorite weather.

Well none of us slept especially well last night because a certain kitten decided it was fun to terrorize the dogs πŸ™‚ every now and again she also decided to go close to my head and start to sniff all over my face πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She’s a little monster that cat πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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So none of us was especially eager to go out for our walk to be honest πŸ™‚ Then I removed the curtains from the window and noticed that we had wonderful fog and I changed my mind, one never knows for how long it lasts. I didn’t have to worry about it going away though, it lasted for very long after we had come back home. Sometimes it was so thick that the camera couldn’t focus on anything πŸ™‚

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I really like to walk around on the bog when we can but this year it has rained so much that it has been more or less impossible to and when it is this foggy it would be down right stupid to do so because one can easily get lost even on a sunny day. But we did walk to the bog staying on dry land on my favorite peninsula instead. Alma, who behaved really well for being her today, and Malkolm stared out over the bog. They could both hear and smell what was out there but I could only guess and of course my mind went towards beings and folklore πŸ™‚

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They’ve changed the weather predictions for the rest of this week from grey, dull and rainy to sunny, dry and almost warm, up to almost 15C (59F) on Friday. You all know by now that that can change several times every day and when Friday finally arrives it might snow instead πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I don’t think the risk of snow is especially big even though it has already snowed way up north and since they up there seems to like winter they’ve saved snow from last year so they have already started to cross country skiing. Not my cup of tea but I’m not judging peoples strange behaviours πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I think it is time for a pot of tea and perhaps a cookie or two. I might get visitors later this week so I’ve even bought instant coffee so perhaps I’ll have a cup of coffee instead? I’ve only used my coffee maker for tea so if one then suddenly makes coffee in itΒ  it will give a coffee with a side taste of Earl Grey tea πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

It would have been nicer if it had been spring :-)

Grey and dull as predicted today and not especially warm, 10C (50F). No wind though so it could have been worse. If this had been in spring time I most likely would have thought this was pretty nice and warm πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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We walked down to the creek instead of the village today, no hunters were out and the fun thing is that I saw moose tracks on the gravel road and by the look on them they weren’t more than a couple of hours old πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Still I don’t think they are allowed to shoot more than a calf and there were no small tracks that showed that there was any calf around anyway but now they don’t have any new story to tell while sitting by the fire after a day of being out hunting πŸ™‚

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We did have a nice walk because Alma did finally calm down. She didn’t like all the cows in the pasture just after we had passed the creek though, they were anything but quiet and have been quite loud now for over three days, I wonder if they have removed all the calves because cows do call out for them over a long period of time after they have taken the calves away and I always feel sorry for them.

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I think I might have seen who I think is Sara’s mother today, the distance was too far and I only saw the cat for a few seconds but it did look like her. She was walking on the road close to the old stable, then Malkolm came a bit too close and she ran away, probably inside the stable. I’ll keep my eyes open every timeΒ  we pass the stable because it would be nice if she still is hanging around here and not have been taken by a predator.

The electric wires were hanging across the road so I had to remove them quickly because
the entire gang were on their way towards us πŸ™‚

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The afternoon has been a rainy one. So I baked some french rolls. I can’t complain about the result πŸ™‚ The odd thing is that one actually can cut them in half without destroying it while it is warm, even normal bread are usually impossible to cut when it still is warm. So the cheese melted nicely when I did that πŸ™‚ It is time for a last cup of tea and perhaps another french roll πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Sunny and nice.

That cold we’re having going around here never want to leave. I’ve talked to those getting hit by it before me and just like me they still have it! No fever what I know but runny noses and coughing. So I’m pretty sure this must be covid, I’ve never heard of a cold staying for this long. It’s annoying but it doesn’t seem to want to kill us anyway πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The odd thing is that at least I don’t cough at nights, only in the early mornings and in the afternoons. Well I’ve had worse things so it’s just annoying to be honest.Β  We’ve had rather nice weather here for two days, lots of sunshine and rain only last night. We had a walk in the village yesterday just after noon. Alma had one of her impossible days, that dog wasn’t quiet for a second and she became even worse when first the mailman drove by and even more so when we met some villagers out walking as well πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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This mornings walk was better thankfully. At least she didn’t pull the leash that much. Both yesterday and today we passed dogs in dog yards, a under stimulated labrador in his garden. Nothing wrong with him really but to be honest I’ve never seen them taking him out for a walk and another little yapping dog in his garden but not close to the gravel road so none of the dogs cared about him at all πŸ™‚ She didn’t care about all the bulls we passed though which I’m happy about because I really don’t want her to anger them up πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Malkolm and Sara have played all day, even upstairs and it did sound as if they tore down everything up here πŸ™‚ After that Sara went to Nova for a nap πŸ™‚ Alma is still a bit unsure about what she can do since the day I had to rip her out from the couch when she twice sat down on Sara and not moving when the cat screamed for her life πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Alma does after all weigh 35 kg (77 pound) and Sara 0,5kg (around a pound). So if the cat is with me and Alma in the sofa I quite often lift over Sara to Alma so that she knows she’s allowed close to the cat, as long as she doesn’t sit on her πŸ™‚

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It is the upper part of my little cottage You can see here πŸ™‚

Again it is time for a last cup of tea for the day and perhaps a banana as well.

Have a great day!

Grey and dull here this morning but cool enough to keep any remaining moose flies calm. I hadn’t slept especially well, have no idea why though. Nova needed to go outside at 4 am so we all joined her in to the garden. I really didn’t want to stay awake so we walked to the bedroom again but I can’t say I slept for especially long.

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I had to go to a grocery store today, I wasn’t going to buy especially much to be honest, so I decided I would go to the grocery store in the village I worked in. I’ve been shopping my food there since I moved to this area, so 27 years and being unemployed is not going to stop me for continue to do that even though it has to be fewer times since it is much further to that place.

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I was really surprised over how much I actually bought πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I did follow my list but an extra thing here and an extra thing there and suddenly it cost me three times as much as I had planned πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Now I won’t have to go to any grocery store again for quite some time πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I brought the camera with me so a few of the photos today were taken on the way there. I like driving there and it is never as beautiful as it is this time of year.

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The moose hunt starts tomorrow and it will rain more or less for the rest of the week. If one is a hunter one really doesn’t want to miss this week even though we don’t have any moose to talk about any longer. Some hunting groups are even refusing to hunt moose now days because we have too few (still around 300 000 of them but they get fewer each year now and we don’t know why to be honest). The only ones wanting the hunters shooting more moose are the big forest owners because they eat lots of small trees. Anyway, the hunters still don’t want to miss being out this week so lots of people have a few vacation days now. I haven’t seen any tracks from moose since early summer here, at the same time, an old work friend not living too many miles away have lots of them.

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It is time for a last cup of tea for the day and lots of ice cream I think πŸ™‚ It’s plain vanilla, perhaps not my favorite but still in the top five πŸ™‚ I think today they don’t make ice cream any more, they make frozen candy. It’s chocolate chips and caramel and toffee and everything must be covered in salt. I like when it is just one flavor and perhaps raisins in it because I like raisins. Or perhaps vanilla with strings of chocolate or strawberries or any kind of flavor with strings of hazelnut but I really don’t like when it is more like a frozen chocolate bar like Snickers. I have by the way never eaten a Snickers in my life because when I was around seven years old I got so angry when they treated me as a customer as an idiot. That’s when I started to refuse to buy anything where the commercial treated me as if I was dumb, there are so many things I never buy now days πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

I did it again :-)

So I did the same mistake yesterday as I did the last weekend, slept too much πŸ™‚ This time I wasn’t supposed to have any nap but I was sitting in the recliner watching something on tv when Malkolm crawled up on my lap. He is rather big now and quite heavy so I leaned the back some so he could fit. It was quite nice and cosy and then I fell asleep πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β  I don’t know for how long but I was even more tired when I woke up than before he climbed up πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The thing was that we were supposed to have quite a dreary weather so I had planned to do all those indoor things one doesn’t want to do when the weather is nice. We had a really nice weather after 10 am but I was sort of locked in by myself for doing those things anyway. So I had finished what I was supposed to do and was just having some tea and a break before we could go out on a walk again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It wasn’t supposed to be especially nice today either so we’ve had a wonderful weather. The morning was once again quite chilly but with sunshine and no wind. We walked in to the village because I knew hunters would be out in the forest today, preparing for the start of the moose hunt the eighth. No morning mist when we went out but a sort of a haze. Last time we were out on a walk both Alma and Malkolm behaved poorly to be honest. so it was a really nice surprise that they behaved quite the opposite today. Well there was this cat passing in front of us that made them go insane for a few minutes but besides that they were really good πŸ™‚

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Alma wasn’t even upset when we walked beside the bulls in the big pasture. She accepts the cows and the bull in the pastures around us but never liked any other cattle. I don’t know why but she didn’t care at all about the bulls, to be honest I’m not that fond of them. OK they are usually really kind and friendly but they are huge and always look like it’s just seconds before they’ll attack πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Every now and again we have some black bulls in the pasture and I always name the biggest one “El Diabolo” πŸ™‚

It is time for a last cup of tea for the day and for once there’s actually something worth watching on tv. I’ll probably fall asleep anyway but I will try and see an entire program for once πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Sara taking a break from chasing Malkolms tail πŸ™‚ She climbs up my trousers to have a small nap between my thigh and the recliner πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

It looks like this was the last morning with cold temperatures, sunshine and morning mist for at least a week or so. I’ll miss it but then again both days and nights will stay a bit warmer instead. We’ll also get rain next week, still don’t need more water from the sky, especially not now when the trees drop their leafs and also stop drinking so much water. I guess next year will start with full ground water levels. Still compared to have it has been down on the continent and other parts of the world the little water we’llΒ  get is nothing.

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After our morning walk I had to go to the super market, I had a few things I needed and came home with nothing of that except for milk πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So tomorrow morning I’ll have porridge for breakfast πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I did however suddenly remember that I need window putty. I guess it’s the same all over the world, birds just love to eat window putty so every now and again I need to buy more to put where it is needed πŸ™‚ I think I bought too little though but now at least I know where to find it.Β  I remember when I was a kid one could find a glaziery in almost every neighborhood, today I think we can be happy if there’s one in any town in the county.

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Sometimes I miss those good old days that weren’t that good at all to be honest but back in the days we did have grocery stores everywhere. In my neighborhood there was three just around the apartment building where I lived. We also had a vegetable shop, she only sold vegetables and tiny chocolate bars for us kids. We had a candy shop and at least two tobacco shops as well. One butcher and one fishmonger just down the street but that ended the day the butcher found out that the fish monger had an affair with his wife πŸ™‚ Also a haberdashery shop, I still remember the smell from all the different fabrics she had.

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I do actually know about a haberdashery shop in this region but that’s the only one. I don’t think we have fishmongers here any more and butchers? well they do sell meat from the farms around here but it isn’t the same, for one thing it is hard to find them πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ You really don’t want to get lost on the roads here, the risk of never coming home is too big πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It is easier and cheaper now days though, buy everything online, even fish and meat, and it’ll come straight to the door. Even vegetables and fruit straight from the orchard man living down in Spain or Greece or where ever will come straight to the door. The only problem with that is that one need to be at home when it arrives and even though I love mango the quantity of what one need to buy must be quite a lot to not spend a fortune on it.

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It is time for a last cup of tea for the day. Perhaps I’ll have a banana as well. I bought a banana the other day that had deep red peel. I’ve never done that before and it tasted much like a common banana but more like it was a bit old and very sweet, just like I like my bananas but to that price I rather wait until the common bananas just gets old enough πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

She doesn’t care if the dogs still are eating, she jumps in their food bowls and helps them eat it all. So now I need to pick her up as soon as the dogs get their food πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

The coldest night so far but since the sun rose and there weren’t any clouds (but morning mist) it soon became a really pleasant morning. We went out to the forest as soon as I could see the sun rising through my kitchen window, no risk of any surviving moose flies in the air when it was that cold.

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Nova is much better again and the first one to demand food in the morning πŸ™‚ well Sara screams as soon as she think I’m awake but that could be about anything really πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β  Nova is too thin though, even though the vet says that she looks great since she’s so old. I think I’ll start giving her more treats, even directly in to her food, better that way since the two other won’t notice it that much if I do it that way πŸ™‚

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The world isn’t a happy place right now, war in Ukraine, war in the middle east and the risk of Trump becoming a president again feels too big. plus that we have gang wars here in Sweden so it’s times like this it feels really nice to live in a village at the outskirts of the world. Very little happens here any time of the year. The dogs and I are almost always alone on our walks in the forest or out on the bog, the only thing we really need to look out for are angry moose and wild hogs πŸ™‚ Yes we have wolves but they are almost never seen, only tracks made when they have passed by and to be honest, one can never know how moose and hogs will behave if one meet them πŸ™‚

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That I also have the best neighbors one can get helps a lot as well πŸ™‚ The beekeepers cottage is still empty and not a single person came when they had an open house for buyers. No one wants to buy a place for double what it is worth. I do hope however that it won’t be empty for too long, rodents love that and when they start invading a place things can go down hill pretty fast.Β  I won $ 9 US on the lottery yesterday but I’m afraid that won’t help me much πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Sara has sad eyes, even when she’s hunting Malkolm’s tail she look sad πŸ™‚ The first time she chased Malkolm’s tail he looked horrified πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚