It looked really nice outside when I woke up in the morning and looked out through the windows but it wasn’t. The sun was shining but the strong wind we had was way to chilly. That changed later in the day thankfully.
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Nova wanted to go out to the bog again this morning so that’s where we went. One good thing with the strong and chilly wind was that most mosquitoes and moose flies blew away. I did kill one mosquito so I had to get rid of a blood stain when I came home 🙂 and the one moose fly that landed on me is no more either 🙂
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I was going to do so much today but I never came around to it. To be honest, all I’ve done today is to do dog walks, some of the laundry and pancakes, I have no idea what I’ve been doing for the rest of the day 🙂 🙂 So I guess I can say that it has been a good day 🙂
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They say we’ll get sunny and warm weather tomorrow so I hope I can come around to start picking the apples on my apple tree. I did after all buy one of those fruit picking things, the ones one can reach way up in the tree without having to risk the life by climbing on a ladder 🙂 I’ve bought what I need to try and preserve apples the way we always can buy pear halves in. Apples can of course be stored in my cool cellar for quite some time but I really want to try this. Pears on the other hand can’t be stored at all to be honest so I guess that’s why one never see preserved apple halfs in the stores 🙂
Working those one and a half hour longer on Fridays really makes a lot of difference, more than I thought it would. I’m constantly tired even though I have taken long naps several times during the weekend. It’s not only me feeling like this, my work friends says the same thing. So today I’ve mostly napped and done the laundry 🙂 🙂
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Alma behaved like an angel today when we started our morning walk. I was really surprised! She didn’t pull the leash and only whined a little. I got that feeling You know that this is too good to be true :-)So we kept on walking, she being just as great when suddenly wild hog ran out from some trees and over the gravel road. She didn’t behave like an angel after that 🙂 🙂 To make things worse Albin too started to act like insane.
..I managed to get two photos with pigs in them despite the way Alma and Albin behaved.
I can deal with one insane dog but not two, the rest of the walk was not as nice and to make things worse we had to go back the same way again and even though we didn’t see any more pigs those two nuts behaved like we did 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’m so tired of wild hogs now! Nova however behaved like the Lady she is, she watched the hogs and then continued on her merry way down to the creek and was just as calm when we passed the place on our way home.
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Yesterday I started to put some potted plants down in the cool cellar. Only those who need their leafs all winter so far, the rest like the small apricot trees can stay outdoors until the frost takes their leafs. they don’t need any more light after the leafs have dropped so I can place them where it is darker in the cellar. Still I realized that I most likely need to buy a new plant light anyway, I don’t have more plants to place there but they have grown and become much bigger.
The temperature had dropped down to 5C (41F) when I drove home after work last night and we all loved it 🙂 After staying in a way too hot factory for so many hours the cold air made us less tired. Good thing it did because when I drove homewards I had to break hard three times. Two times because deer was passing the road and once for a hare. There was a fox passing to but from a place much further down the road.
Nova wanted to go out to the peninsula at the bog today but I managed to make a turn andd walk down the path to the island we like to walk at.I wasn’t sure it would be dry enough to even walk that way but it was just enough dry and hard to walk there.The big creek is still full of water but this creek was actually less full than I thought it would be.
So because of the cold air last night was the first time in a very long time I wasn’t attacked by mosquitoes when I went out of the car, this morning was cool as well but a few mosquitoes didn’t care about that, so now I have a new itching spot on my right hand. So far it looks like this isn’t a moose fly year. We went down to the bog this morning and not a single one landed on either me or my dogs. I really wouldn’t be sad the least if those nasty things just died out 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I have been really tired today though even though I slept really well and just enough hours. So after I had been at the grocery store in Gudhem to pick up a package I took a two hour long nap in my recliner. To be honest, two hours sleeping in a recliner is a bit too long. Yes it is comfortable but since one doesn’t move at all the body really aches afterwards 🙂 🙂
It does look dry enough to walk there but I won’t do that mistake again. The mud is knee deep and jumping from one grass tufft to another is great as long as one doesn’t loose ones balance 🙂 🙂.
The package I was picking up contained an old Kodak SLR camera. I really didn’t want the camera but I wanted the two lenses that followed with it (I haven’t checked if the camera works, to be honest I haven’t even looked at it yet 🙂 ). The only problem now is that I actually can’t find the camera I wanted those lenses for 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well it’s here somewhere so sooner or later I’ll find it.Â
Next year I’ll plant the Gladiolus along the east wall of my cottage, there’s less wind there so it’ll be easier to keep them standing up.The Nasturtiums are finally taking over the old wheel barrow.The Red leafed rose still gives a flower or two.This year we even get a chance to see the Jerusalem artichoke in bloom.
Besides that very little has happened here. I do get more hours awake with the dogs working evening shift and it looks like I’ve managed to change the hours I sleep to fit my working hours but I also know that if I stopped working I’ll go back to my old self within a day 🙂Â
I’m trying to change the hours I’m awake and I must stay up at least two more hours but I’m really tired right now 🙂 That’s why I write this post as late as I can today. We’ve had a rather nice day, chilly morning and with morning mist and sunshine as well. It was actually enough chilly to keep even the mosquitoes calm.
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The dogs and I have had our pancake Saturday, I’ve done the laundry and I even made a apple crumble pie. I have loads of apples in the big tree and most of them that hang low are eaten by wasps but I found enough to give to my neighbors and also to make that pie. It was a new recipe and of course gluten free. I would have loved to recommend it but it is actually so sweet that I can’t taste any apple taste in it at all 🙂 🙂 🙂 I love custard though so even if I’ll toss the rest of the pie away tomorrow I still can use the rest of the custard 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Two or three nights ago Alma and Albin started to bark like insane while standing (well most likely running and jumping along) the fence. My guess is that it most likely were deer walking on the other side or that it could be badgers. They’ve removed the lynx safe electric fence that was there before so now it’s only the old, rather low fence there again.
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So I looked after my new wildlife camera and just couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere, even where I later found it 🙂 🙂 I don’t think my kitchen has been this clean in ages 🙂 🙂 🙂 The camera had slid down from the kitchen table on to a chair and then been covered with a sweatshirt 🙂 🙂 Anyway I’ve now put the camera on the old fence so if I’m lucky I’ll know tomorrow on what walks around in that field at night.
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Still one and a half hour left before I can go to bed so I think I’ll play mahjong solitare until it is time.
My Chinese Catalpa is still in bloom but hasn’t produced a single seedpod yet.
So it’s September and from today I’ll work the evening shift. I’ll work every second Friday but today is not one of those Fridays so I’m starting the evening shift by staying at home and have a long weekend 🙂 🙂 I don’t like to have to do this but I do like to have a job and I like the people I’ll start working with. Also there are a few things that are positive as well, like I’ll be able to see daylight every day through winter and also being able to have our walks during daylight as well 🙂
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The Ghost tree 🙂
So if I can change my sleeping habits fairly quickly this might be a good thing because I really hate when I leave for work in darkness and it also is dark before I go home again in the afternoon. So I stayed up a bit later already yesterday and actually managed to stay asleep until just after six am, not bad for being me since I normally wakes up just before five am no matter when I go to bed. Perhaps I already is mentally adjusting towards the hew hours?
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I did however wake up to a light rain that ended early on so that we could go on our morning walk. It was a bit chilly when we started so the mosquitoes stayed calm but it was much less chilly when we were half way through and the mosquitoes started to show us how much they love us 🙂 🙂 There is at least very few ticks around now, I only found two and those were sitting on Alma, she truly is a tick magnet. It does feel like it is Saturday though 🙂
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Something was walking in the field outside the cottage yesterday night. I had let the dogs out for a last time before going to bed and they rushed to the back and started to bark like crazy. I have no idea what it was but I think it most likely were either roe deer or badgers walking around just outside the fence. I hope my neighbors didn’t sleep because they sure wouldn’t after that 🙂 🙂 They’ve removed the lynx safe fence around that field so now it’s just the old one and animals might once again start to walk through the garden at night. I don’t mind that at all but I need to make some noise so they can get away before I let the dogs out at night.
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It is already after noon so it is time to make something to eat. I’ve started a new routine for the dogs as well. They’ll get half a portion when we wake up, a full portion around 2:30 (before I’ll leave for work) and half a portion when I’ve come back home again. They did look at me as if I was trying to starve them to death this morning but I’m pretty sure they’ll like the next meal 🙂
It was a nice and cool morning but those mosquitoes are just awful.
Even though the sun has been shining all morning and that it is fairly warm I still can feel it in the air, autumn has arrived. There’s a sort of bite to the air that I only can feel in autumn. Still the morning walk was really nice even though the mosquitoes doesn’t understand that they now just should fall down to the ground and die 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Alma was just as annoying this morning as she was yesterday morning. She were all over the place and in the end she entangled both me and Albin in her leash. Both she and Albin also sniffed in the air all the time. Nova didn’t but instead of walking far ahead of us she walked by our side. I thought it was because I possible had taped her knee in a bad way. As soon as we had come to the long straight road towards the creek she resumed to her normal position, far ahead of us.
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I saw something but couldn’t really say what kind of animal it was.
Then a much smaller one came out to the road too. Then I saw the ear of the bigger one.
I didn’t think more of it than that she perhaps didn’t feel that bad in her knee anyway. We walked up-stream the creek but neither her nor I wanted to walk in the high grass and in to the more dense old forest, so instead we went back the same way we came and I thought that we perhaps would walk in the forest where we walk out to the bog. I didn’t look especially much ahead of us but when I did I saw something I first couldn’t figure out what it was, an animal that I could guess but not what.
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I think I could see seven or eight piglets.
Turns out that where Nova suddenly walked ahead of us again now stood a rather big wild hog sow 🙂 Thankfully far away from us but I am annoyed at myself for not bringing the right tele photo lens. Then suddenly a piglet came out from the trees and then one more and suddenly I think it was seven or eight piglets in total. This is the moment when Alma actually decides to stand still and be quiet. There’s something with wild hogs that makes her do that, never otherwise but always when we see hogs.
My spring flowering Clematis has restarted 🙂
The Sarracenia sure is slow to open up. I do hope that at least one of the four buds will before frost takes them all.
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One can hate or love the Big Dragon flower (Nepeta sibirica) but bees love them and they flower from early summer till frost take them all.
The wild hogs crossed the road and in to the forest where I had hoped we would walk so no chance on doing that 🙂 🙂 I started to talk loudly to the dogs because I didn’t know where the boar could be or if there were more sows waiting to cross the road. Both Alma and Albin did look at the direction they had come from but that doesn’t mean there were any more out there. I don’t really like to come close to wild hogs but it is fun to see them from a safe distance 🙂
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No more sightings of hogs though. I took a tour in the garden when when we had come home again. There are still flowers in bloom, even potatoes flower still. This is the time the Hardy Kiwi decided to finally start growing and I do hope it calms down before the frost arrives. I’ve re-potted all but one of my apricot trees and also the cherry plum tree seedlings I have. I’m not sure what to do with those cherry plum seedlings to be honest. I really don’t need any more but have no place to plant them and since they tend to spread like wildfire via their roots I’m not sure I can give them away either. Well I do live beside a forest 🙂 🙂 🙂
I have three Hardy Kiwi vines planted towards the fence around my vegetable garden. They have finally put some speed in their growing.
I managed to break the top of this vine when I tried to pull it through the loops in the fence. I have no idea if the top will grow new roots but I’ve put it in a pot and either it dies or it starts to grow new roots.
The third one is a sad one. It does grow but slowly and when it finally put some speed into it something ate the top of the vine 🙂 🙂
Kankakee mallow.
Have a great day!
Time flies and it won’t be long until we’re back to snow again 🙂 Taken with the Agfa Ambiflex.
We actually had quite nice weather here this week, until yesterday when it poured down most of the day . This morning was rain free but thick clouds covered the sky so it almost felt like the sun had disappeared behind the horizon and that night was on its way. Well now it’s a bit darker and the rain has started to fall. We might get up to 35mm (one and two fifths inches). It all depends on where the heaviest showers will pass.
Quite misty up on the mountain today.
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Nova decided that we should walk in the forest and out to the bog.
I now have the radiators on a couple of hours each day, yesterday because it was cold but mostly because everything is damp with all this rain falling. Still I wouldn’t want to change to how hot it is in some places on the American continents or southern Europe to be honest.
Autumn has arrived. This place was bright yellow last week.
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Alma just stood by my side whining a lot because she wanted to go outside. I opened the door and she together with Albin rushed out, stopped immediately when they got wet from the rain and rushed inside again 🙂 🙂 🙂 They ran up to my bed as soon as they had come inside again 🙂 🙂 🙂 Those two wouldn’t survive for long in the wild 🙂 🙂 🙂
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The bear hunt has started in northern Sweden and at least three people are already injured because the bears attacked them. I don’t know if they want sympathy when talking in the news or to news papers but to be honest, if You actually isn’t knowing how bears react when being hunted, often with dogs chasing them, You really shouldn’t be out there hunting bears. These are often the people who call them selves nature conservationist claiming that they hunt to make sure there aren’t too many herbivores eating too much of the trees and the rest of the vegetation.
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Then when nature is coming back and takes care of that problem they go on about those predators taking too many herbivores so there’s nothing left for them to hunt 🙂 🙂 🙂 I could perhaps respect them if they stopped being such hypocrits. They also hunt foxes because they eat too many fawns but then when they heard that we might have a new predator, the Golden jakal (slightly bigger than the fox and eat much the same things) they started to scream about how it will reduce the ammount of foxes! There is a fun thing about the jackals though, hunters aren’t allowed to hunt them since they naturally have migrated to this country and is natural to Europe. It would have been a different thing if they had escaped from fur farms in Europe and not being a natural habitant in the part of the world.
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I found some Hedgehog mushrooms today and these are just as delicious as the Chanterelles. Therefore one pick them even though one hasn’t anything to put them in besides the big pocket of the hoodie one wears 🙂 🙂
It is time for something to eat and after that I’ll do something that I might show here later 🙂 I’ll tell You more about it some other time 🙂
It is raining and thunder is closing in as well. We didn’t have any thunder at all when the heatwave was here or when the cold weather started but now we’ve had it several times. I hope it won’t be as bad as it was the last time because it lasted for hours and sometimes the sound just kept on all the time because of all the lightnings 🙂 🙂
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We did have a really nice morning and up until just after noon though, mostly sunshine and actually rather warm weather, something we haven’t been spoiled with this vacation. Still I’ve had a really nice vacation and I am so relaxed that it will be hard to start working again tomorrow 🙂 🙂 I’ll have no problems waking up, I’ve woken up the same time I normally do when going to work the entire vacation 🙂 🙂
The ghost tree 🙂
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It was 6C (42,8F) when we went out on our morning walk today, perfect because there were no flies flying around and I only found two ticks in total when I checked the dogs and we had walked in pretty high grass quite a lot. Ticks normally don’t like temperatures around those degrees. The water level is still quite high in the creek and I guess that after these four coming days it will rise even higher, they’re guessing we’ll get up to four inches of rain.
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Four days ago I was stung on the backside of my ear by one of the wasps that lived between the roof and ceiling by my entrance door. I did swell a bit but not much, normally I swell like a balloon where I’m stung but I think it hit the cartilage in the ear. My ear has been aching ever since, it isn’t until now that the pain has gone away. It has been itching a lot and the skin started to sort of flake away 🙂 🙂 The ear is still rather warm though but that I can live with 🙂 🙂 It actually took three days until all the wasps were gone. I didn’t think that many actually stayed outdoors during longer periods. There’s still the occasional wasp flying there but they don’t even try to get in any more. I don’t mind wasps as long as they don’t attack me or the dogs, if they do it’s good bye!
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It looks like the thunder will continue along the mountain and go north but these last have sounded to be really close even though the lightning apps says different so I better stop for today.
She will become 17 years old next month 🙂
Albin’s only 8 🙂Â
and Alma a bit more than two years old now.
She and Albin loves to eat the Japanese quince fruits. I can’t understand that because they are hard as rocks 🙂 🙂
The weather has been mostly meh today. We had some sunshine in the early morning and about two minutes in the afternoon but it has at least not been raining. That however will change tomorrow evening if they’re guessing right. From Tomorrow evening till Tuesday night, perhaps early Wednesday, we’ll get around 4 inches of rain. I am happy for the rain we’ve gotten but now we need some sunshine and warmer weather so that the fruits will ripen properly and become sweet.
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They’ve removed the warnings about low ground water levels now and I haven’t seen so much water in the creek since the snow melted this spring 🙂 🙂 I think these last heavy rainfalls have killed off a lot of flies because I really don’t need to wear my mosquito hat on our walks now. I can’t say I mind especially much but I guess birds still need them so they can build up energy for the move south. Still lots of mosquitoes though so they can fiest on them instead 🙂 🙂
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The ice cream van came by today, I missed it the last time because I was in the bathroom and had no chance of getting outside in time 🙂 🙂 Our ice cream vans doesn’t sell individual ice creams but only sell packages of different varieties or mixed boxes with their most popular varieties. I actually don’t know if they’ve ever sold individual cones or popsicles, they did however sell both frozen fish, ready dinners and hamburgers back in the day. I couldn’t see any of that today though. So now I have one box with gluten free cones with chocolate ice cream and one with vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate and crushed almond on sticks. So if I don’t win the lottery today I can at least have some ice cream to comfort myself 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Do You remember that I planted those sprouts that broke off when I planted the potatoes in the potato patch? Today I emptied the bucket with just two stalks. Last year I got enough potatoes in each bucket/ pot to last a week but in this one I got enough potatoes for one dinner 🙂 Well first they almost drowned because I had forgotten to make extra holes in the bucket so one shower was enough to fill up the bucket with water. After that the drought came and I forgot to water every now and again so I think this isn’t too bad after all. I do hope for better results in the coming buckets/ pots. This variety of potato is called Asterix.
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I think it is time to go downstairs and to have one of those ice creams 🙂 I think I’ll have one of that vanilla with chocolate and crushed almond 🙂
I bought a Mahonia yesterday just because I wanted the plastic pot it was growing in, narrow and deep. I’m now using that pot for one of my Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) seedlings, well it’s just a seed with a tiny root so far. I did want the Mahonia as well because it gives quite tasty berries that both look and taste rather much like blueberries.
The harvest 🙂 🙂 To be honest I did find two more as big as the two smallest in this photo 🙂
So after this weekend I’ll only have one week of vacation left, well until Christmas time when I’ll use my last week. We have no holidays at all until then so I really hope I’ll like working evenings again. AI’ll at least get fewer hours to work with slightly more in pay but I still don’t look forward to work evenings. Still I’ll have a job so I won’t complain too much.
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This week had been rather chilly and we’ve had so much rain that I haven’t had to water anything out in the garden. I really didn’t mind that much but some of those showers were so bad that I thought much of what’s growing in the garden would break. That didn’t happen but I still hope that the coming rain next week will be less heavy 🙂
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Nova decided that we should walk in the forest this morning. She went out to the peninsula in the bog and I hoped that there would be lots of fog because we had fairly thick fog everywhere else. I was sort of disappointed because there was almost no fog at all. We hadn’t been out there for especially long when the dogs suddenly wanted to walk home again and they seemed to be in a hurry. We hadn’t walked far when we heard the deer “barking” around the place we had been at so my guess is that a wolf must have arrived.
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It was while standing here the dogs suddenly wanted to hurry back home.
I read an article that most dogs when smelling a wolf nearby reacts just like that, they want to leave unless they are terriers because they want to attack 🙂 🙂 but as the article said since they were so aggressive towards wolves the wolf would most likely run away even though they were so small. Well one terrier didn’t react like that and that was the Amstaff, Albin really doesn’t like other dogs and would love to be able to attack but as soon as he smells wolf he reacts just the opposite 🙂 and I’m glad he does 🙂
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I haven’t been able to do much because of the rain but I have weeded (well to be honest that sounds a bit lame because I used spades and secateurs to get rid of what was growing there. I used to have blueberry bushes there but all the sand that I dug up while doing the root zone had to go somewhere and that was the best and closest place to put it. I did find three blueberry bushes still in there amongst the high grass, wildflowers and grapevines though 🙂 I let the blueberries stay and added some peat around them. After that I placed all the pots with the apricot seedlings and some citrus trees there but couldn’t stop myself from planting the seedlings I had this year. I have even sowed some seeds from perennial Hollyhocks and they’ll look good already next year . I also found lots of things I forgot I had placed there before the weeds and grass started to grow in the sand 🙂 🙂 🙂
This is the before photo.
This is the after photo. The angle of the photo make the place look smaller than it is but it is around 4 square meter (much the same in yards).
I also placed the rubber sheet from my old pond over all those shoots from the thorny sloes, roses and the false spirea.
I’ve “pruned” (with big and heavy tools 🙂 🙂 ) the Rowan tree that grows beside the plum tree. It sowed itself and I like it but it was starting to push away the plum tree plus it was so dark and dry on the ground that almost all ferns that grew there had died.
No all the plums will get sunshine and ripe nicely 🙂
It is time to have something to eat and after that I have no idea. Nothing worth watching on tv so perhaps I’ll start reading a book?
We haven’t had much rain this week, a shower now and again. The weather has been very much the same each day though, lots of clouds, sunshine in between. Rather chilly when cloudy but really nice when the sun shone. One day it did reach above 20C (68F) but mostly it has been lower than that. Sunshine in the early and cool morning so not many flies or mosquitoes annoying us while having our morning walk.
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The Norwegian site says it will be warmer than the Swedish one but then again they say we’ll get more rain. I looked at the weather sites early this morning and none of the sites said rain tomorrow, they do now. So I sort of regrets that I didn’t mow the lawn today while it was quite windy and the grass was dry. Well we know how great they are in predicting the weather over here so it might be sunny and warm all day 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I have gotten the carpet/ furniture cleaner but I haven’t tried it yet. So I guess I’ll try it tomorrow if the rain actually arrives. I think I’ll start with something not as thick as the big cushions I have on my sofas, they will after all have to dry up before I can put them back on the sofas. I have a couple of those thin mattresses on my bed, I can easily sleep one night without one of them.
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It was quite nice when we were out walking early this morning. No wind but cool enough so that most flies stayed calm, at least until we came closer to home and the sun had warmed up the air. Nova decided that we should walk along the creek again. We have lots of morning dew here right now and there’s a lot of relatively high grass along that way so we were soaked by the time we came home. What surprises me each time we’ve walked there is how few ticks I need to remove from the dogs. It should be tick paradise there and lots of animals full of ticks walks there as well but each time I go through the dogs there are just a few. Well I can’t say I feel sorry about that 🙂
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Nothing much is happening in the garden right now. My Persimmon seems to do very well, my Pawpaws grow and look healthy and so so my Ginkgos. The English walnut still grows but it is hard to see it since the plant in front of it is so big that I barely can see it 🙂 🙂 🙂 The last two Nectarine kernels that I’ve had in and out of the fridge finally started to germinate this week. Mostly it’s enough with one round to the fridge to make them start but these two needed several times in and out. I think that means that they come from a tougher area (climatewise) and that their spring can be as treacherous as ours, like really warm and sunny in early March but then full blown winter in April 🙂 🙂 🙂 The Apricots are growing fine and the biggest ones are now over 30cm (one foot) high.
Finally, the Nectarines germinated. They are now planted in two small pots so cross Your fingers and hold Your thumbs for good luck 🙂
The Apricot trees looks fine.
The Sarracenias do their job well 🙂
The Bittersweet continues to flower.
I think I’ll make myself a cup of tea even if it is well after 4pm. I have vacation, it doesn’t matter if I can fall asleep normal time or not 🙂
The Teodor rose 🙂
I’ve planted one of the Cherry plums on the north side of my cottage, close to the gate. I’ve put a bottomless tub around it so that the roots can’t spread and give new Cherryplums. I’ll plant one on the other side of the gate when I can find another tub I can remove the bottom from.
The Hazelnut bush has also found a place not far from the Cherry plum.
The House sparrow fledglings learns how to fly under the roof of my old patio, which I haven’t used in over twent years. Now some are daring enough to fly outside it, a whole meter (a yard) out to my Apricot tree 🙂 🙂
The day has mostly been gray and dreary. Rather chilly in the beginning but not chilly enough to keep the flies calm though. Later in the day rain passed by and now there are some cracks in the clouds where the sun can peak through and it’s also much warmer. Still it won’t last for long because it’ll start raining tonight and we can either get almost nothing to very little or just as much as we had the last time. It all depends on where the heavy showers will pass.
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So we’ve done very little today. Alma has been really bored because none of us wanted to go outside to play and the neighbors daughter has been indoors as well. So no one to play with and all that energy has made Alma a very talkative dog 🙂 🙂 🙂 She’s normally not a quiet dog but today she’s been worse 🙂 🙂
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I’ve just ordered a small carpet and furniture washing machine 🙂 I was thinking about how I was supposed to be able to clean the big cushions on my sofas and was thinking of a pressure washer. I’ve seen how good they work on carpets but then again those cushions are quite thick and would become so heavy with all that water that it would take ages for them to dry if at all in this cool and rainy weather 🙂 🙂 🙂 So instead I found this little machine where the only complaints about it is that it is very loud. Does its job really well though. It’s called Bissell SpotClean Pro 1558N. I even looked at international reviews and all said just the same, does its job really well but is very loud. Well I have earplugs at home so I’ll use those.
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The odd thing was that I couldn’t buy the detergent at the same time as the machine, as soon as I had pressed the button there was no turning back to buy anything more. So annoyed as I was I bought the detergent from another business 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ll let You know what I think about it when I’ve tried it and I do hope I’ll say the same thing as the reviews 🙂
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My big apple tree will get loads of apples this year, the rain came just in the right time because it had already dropped lots but now it looks like no more small apples have fallen off.
I have a patio that I haven’t used for well over twenty years, well I put a lot of things there but never sit there any more. It is mostly covered by a big rose, a grape vine and a climbing clematis so now House sparrow fledglings practice their flying in there. Magpies tried to hide there when it was raining but I think I finally managed to scare them away, they are big birds and will have to manage anyway. Every now and again though those little fledglings comes outside very close to my kitchen window and I managed to take a few photos through the rather dirty window 🙂
The Cottage by the crane lake. 