The Christmas cactus liked to be placed outside again 🙂
Well the rain that didn’t fall during easter did fall yesterday evening, all night and well in to this day 🙂 We need it so I will for once not complain about it. I did forget to check how much it filled up the water barrels though, I want them full before summer starts properly.
I write properly because the meteorological summer has actually arrived here already, that means that the temperature never falls below 0C (32F) five days in a row. They showed a map on tv and it is slowly getting closer to this village. Won’t happen this week though because there’s a risk for night frost during the weekend the weather apps say. Days will be warm though.
I still like to go to work so I think I like this place I’m working at 🙂 It’s hard to think but even though Falköping is a rather small town the traffic is horrible 🙂 🙂 🙂 It goes faster to take a detour when driving home than to go the most logical way. Also there don’t like it when one follows the traffic rules 🙂 🙂 They all want to go home so don’t You dare to follow those because that takes so much longer 🙂 🙂 🙂
We still have a few Elm trees in the forest but one is now dying so I guess the other will follow soon.
It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and then watch some tv, I’ll take the sofa instead of the recliner because then the dogs can join me 🙂 This change from being at home all day to now go to work is worse for them than it is for me so they need that extra time staying close 🙂
I have a Korean spruce where the top once died and it has taken lots of years for the tree to chose another branch as a new top. Now it looks like a n odd chair 🙂 🙂Ninebark.Elder leafs.Lungwort spreads happily here and they don’t seem to care about me mowing them down all summer long 🙂
It’s a mix of photos taken both today and yesterday. This was the only time we could see some sun yesterday 🙂
So my car didn’t pass the annual vehicle inspection a month ago, the lamda emission was a tiny, tiny bit too high most likely due to the exhaust pipe wasn’t put together properly so it leaked slightly. I thought I would just go to the garage and order an appointment but forgot it, so on Monday I suddenly remembered it and as always they have so many customers that I really couldn’t have an appointment this wee but the car would have to been fixed at latest on Friday, otherwise I wouldn’t been allowed top drive it.
Not many christmas decoration in Falköping but then again I didn’t walk close to the town square where most decorations are.
For me this looks like an old Cinema entrance but it’s actually the entrance to the sports center.
They were really kind at the garage so if I left it there today they would try and fix it before Friday. If I’m lucky it’s just to fix the exhaust pipe but when is one really lucky when it comes to cars and repairs? 🙂 🙂 🙂 So when I had left it there I walked down to the bus station and took the bus home. Well it’s a 45 minute long walk before I’m home from the bus stop 🙂 I had brought a camera with me but it was way too dark to get especially many photos in Falköping but the walk home from the bus stop was better when it came to light.
The church and old school in Bjurum.Walking towards Bjurum Castle.
I had around 3 km (around 1,9 mile) left to walk when a car suddenly stopped by my side, it was my neighbor so she picked me up and guess if I was happy 🙂 🙂 🙂 If the car is done late in the day tomorrow I’ll follow her fiance when he drives to work on Friday, if it is ready tomorrow morning I’ll have to walk to the bus stop. The bus comes once every hour so if I miss it I’ll have to wait and I do hope it isn’t raining or a hard wind blowing or both 🙂 🙂 🙂
Just as I arrived here my neighbor picked me up 🙂
There’s something out there that disturbs the dogs, They do go out into the garden but just for a short while but a bit longer if I’m with them. Today Malkolm even growled just after we had come back in again. Could be a wolf or two but usually when they are around they refuse to leave the entrance at all, we do have loads of wild hogs hanging around now though so it could be the reason. They do have pigs in the farm just up the slope and they might attract wild hogs, Alma tends to stare over the pasture in to the forest every day now and doesn’t look happy at all.
I think it is time for that last cup of tea for the day and after that fall asleep in front of the tv 🙂
We didn’t have any morning walk today because my car would get the new winter tires, instead we had our first walk just around lunch time. The tires are not studded but still get a really good grip on icy roads. I must admit that I never fully feel safe with unstudded tires so therefor I always drive much more careful when not having that 🙂 🙂 🙂 Plus the car is so much more quiet with the unstudded ones.
I brought a camera with me of course so today You’ll see photos from elsewhere than usual. It wouldn’t take long to get those tires changed but I took a little walk anyway and also stopped at a cafe just beside the garage. They did have some things gluten free but not any of my favorites. I still bought a cookie and it actually tasted worse than they usually do 🙂 🙂 🙂 To make it even worse it was nasty expensive but what should one do when one want something to the coffee 🙂
I thought this building was pretty ugly at the backside.On the other side one can see that it is the City Theater andHotel Falköping. Great views when staying in that hotel 🙂These houses are built at the top of Mösseberg, that’s the other side of the Mountain You can see in my photos. One gets a higher status if one live on that mountain and on the side turned towards the town 🙂 🙂
The sun was shining but it still felt a bit too cold in the morning to make it enjoyable, especially since the wind still was pretty hard and Falköping is built on two mountains and the valley in between, so the wind reach everywhere, even between the houses. After that I went to a place called Forentorp ängar (Forentorp Meadows), I think it is a nature reserve even though cattle roam there most parts of the year. It is a favorite place of mine to stop at even though I really can’t bring the dogs just because of the cattle. One pasture in the middle of all trees has a table where one can sit and eat and drink coffee if one so wish and to be honest I’ve never seen cattle there.
The rest of the day has been rather calm and nice. We had our walk in the forest and Alma does behave much better still, the big test will be when we walk in to the village, so much things moving and sounding that she might not be able to stay calm. We will keep on trying though, she will calm down even if it perhaps don’t happen until she’s 13 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’ll show You photos from Forentorp tomorrow if I remember it 🙂 It is time for that last cup of tea and most likely a sandwich or two 🙂
This day has been so slow! I’ve been able to do what I wanted to do and have had lots to do as well, still this day has been slow as cold molasses 🙂 We’ve been waiting for the rain and thunder to arrive but today it never did. Well I did hear some thunder at work, at least I think it was thunder but there were also some people up on the factory roof working and at one time it sounded more like they dropped something really heavy 🙂 I also hear the thunder once when I came home but it was from far away.
We had morning mist here in the village when I drove to work. I was already a bit late already from the start and it didn’t help that I stopped here and there to take some misty photos on the road to work 🙂 I made it just in time thankfully but I missed my morning coffee. I stopped drinking coffee for a while because my stomach got upset, well more upset than it usually was. Then we found out that I couldn’t eat gluten, my stomach became much better and now I dare to drink a cup of Cappuccino each morning, so far so good 🙂
We are supposed to kill all Lupines we can find in nature because they are invasive, they have even created a special day when everyone is supposed to go outside and remove them. The problem is that we love our Lupines so no one touches them 🙂 🙂 🙂
NO attempt from Alma to dig her way out of the dog yard today but I found evidence that she had tried after I went to work after getting the summer tires on. So I blocked it and put new obstacles in the way. This does not mean she’s given up, she’s just biding her time, checking out eventual weaknesses and will most likely try again soon. I was supposed to measure the length of the fence today so I can get what I need to repair the fence but now I can’t fine my tape-measure. I used it a few days ago and I was pretty sure I knew where I had placed it but no I didn’t 🙂 I had even borrowed tools from work to fix some things today so I guess I’ll need to do the same tomorrow, including a tape-measure 🙂
More from Falköping. The streets around the town square.The original church that stood here almost a thousand years ago is actually still there, it’s built in to the “new” and bigger one.
Even Alma has figured out how to get the treats out of the little bottles I place in the dog yard every morning now so I better come up with something else soon, a few treats only keep her occupied for so long after all. I did have an amazing toy like that but old Sune, a dog who liked his treats for himself dug it down somewhere in the garden 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ll need to buy something similar. I do have one in the kitchen but it’s been put away fro a while. looks like a turtle with a see through cover. It is supposed to be pushed by the dogs and the treats will sort of pop up through a hole in the back. Alma never got that one but happily stole the treats from Albin who to my very big surprise understood it after a few minutes and he wasn’t the brightest star in the sky 🙂 🙂 I’ll put it back on the floor as soon as Malkolm is big enough to at least get a few treats as well 🙂
The red house to the left is actually for sale.
Alma and Malkolm is playing wildly at the moment, they’r running in and out of the cottage, up the stairs to me, run back out and chase each other like crazy. Even Alma seems to be on the edge of what she can managed and not collapse 🙂 🙂 🙂 I hope that means I’ll get just as good nights sleep tonight as I had yesterday, they were playing just as much yesterday as the’re doing now 🙂 🙂 🙂 Unfortunately Alma just decided that she would go on a hike by herself to the other side of the little lake behind my garage to eat wild hog poop, it’s a gift she has, to sort of ruin the fun they had and have a breath that smells horrible 🙂
Cratageus of some kind.
Sibylla sell hotdogs, hamburgers and other things like schnitzel. They were here before the big hamburger chains moved in and to be honest they are so much better.If You want me to calculate how much more expensive our petrol is compared to Yours I’ll do it. This was the last photo of Falköping for this time. And if You wonder why there were almost no people in the photos it’s because Falköping is more or less dead until the shops open around 10 am 🙂
It’s time to prepare something to eat at work tomorrow, I think I’ll save that chicken I bought for next week instead 🙂 I’ll see what I can find in the freezer and put together something from that 🙂
...The Daffodils (we call them easter lilies) had started to flower in Falköping. Here at home I can see one bud so far.
So on Monday afternoon they called me from the garage and told me that they had found an oil leak and wondered if I wanted to get it fixed now or later. I said now and they said good, You can get Your car on Tuesday after 1pm. No problems for me, I just called my work place and told them what had happened and they never complain when things like that happens.
My favorite little shop that only is open if one calls ahead and asks to come in. I don’t know much but I do know that the lamp we can see here is pretty expensive...
So I start walking at 11:30 to catch the bus that goes to Falköping at 12:39. Apparently my spine is a bit inflamed which I didn’t know, so after a while it squeesed some nerves that goes all the way down my leg and the walk is 45 minutes long in a good day, yesterday wasn’t a good day at all and I limped badly the last meters to the bus stop but I did make it. After that it’s a fifteen (in a good day) minute walk uphill to the garage. I did reach it after 35 minutes, limping even more bad 🙂 🙂 🙂 I open the door and they guy sitting there says we didn’t get that spare part this morning 🙂 🙂 🙂
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We will however get it this afternoon. At that moment I actually wondered if it was worth going to jail for the rest of my life after killing him for not giving me a call at all to tell me that 🙂 🙂 🙂 I think he could feel that so then he said But we have a car You can borrow. It’s really good to drive but You mustn’t remove the ignition key when You’ve stopped. I so wish I had asked why I couldn’t do that because every time I had stopped the car I really, really wanted to pull out that key to see what would happen 🙂 🙂 🙂 No problem at work really and absolutely no problems here at home since people can’t find this place even with a map or a GPS 🙂 But I wanted to stop by the store on my way home and some people in that village wouldn’t think for a second before that had stolen that car, a small Renault by the way.
...I took this from the bus on my way home. A bit too dark because it’s almost impossible to see the Abbey ruin beside the church.
So every time I left the car I just placed my fleece jacket over the steering wheel so that no one could see the key sitting there. So I had the car until this afternoon when I finally could get my own car back. I must say that the little Renault was quite nice to drive but the seat was so hard that my back started to act up again. I’m glad that I finally understood how the fan and heating worked because we had frost again this morning. The rest of the day has been really nice though, lots of sunshine and warmer winds. I could have the door open to the painting box as well. Another good thing is that my work friend has come back from his paternity leave. Both because I’ve missed him but also because I finally don’t have to do his job 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ll still go through all the nozzles in the big washing machine every Friday morning because he can’t leave his little boy at the day care center so early in the morning. I like that part a lot because that means I’ll still have my going home early Fridays 🙂 🙂
I stopped by the lake to see if there were any Cranes there...Stora Bjurums Castle.
Besides this nothing much else has happened. I haven’t worked much this week but I still feel that tomorrow can’t come fast enough 🙂 🙂 If everything goes as planned I’ll start removing grass on the spots I’m planing on having my vegetable patch and also my potato patch.
.Back in the days there was a lively little village beside the castle, almost all of it is gone now.Here there was a yellow apartment building, it was still there when I moved here. There was also a shop(since long closed) and I think an old garage as well. All the old root cellars that all the villagers had are still there though on the other side of this road.
Have a great day!
It isn’t that long ago people lived in these houses. Too bad the castle owners didn’t know that the pandemic would have risen the price on them so much that it would have been a really great idea to renovate them. The pandemic made people realize that living in the middle of nowhere actually would be a great idea since it is harder to get infected 🙂
That cow kept her hostile eyes on me both on my way home and also back to the bus the day after. She had a newborn calf lying just out of sight here.Home sweet home.
We had a really nice weather yesterday, sunshine, little wind and rather warm, especially in the sunshine. I couldn’t enjoy it especially much though. I did think it smelled a bit strange when I made some pancakes on Sunday and it might have been one of the eggs that had started to turn bad. I woke up at 4 am and hurried down to the bathroom because I thought I was about to throw up. I never did but the rest of the day wasn’t the funniest I’ve ever had 🙂 🙂 🙂
This is a part of a sports center. Anything from soccer field to swimming and handball. . .
I didn’t eat all day but I did drink a lot of rose-hip soup. That also made it possible for me to drive to the garage today because there were no risk what so ever that I would have to find a toilet during the time I was in Falköping 🙂 I asked them if they knew if they would start with my car early or late in the day because if they would start late I better take the bus home and go there the first thing tomorrow morning, so we decided it was better for me to go home and come tomorrow morning.
I would most likely felt more sure they know what they do if those hand written signs weren’t there 🙂 They dress furnitures and fill upp the old stuffing as well. Is it called stuffing? well You know what I mean 🙂 We call this pigeon Turkish dove. It looks very much like a Turtledove but is bigger. . I also passed a second hand shop.
The garage is at the top of a mountain called Ålleberg and the bus/ train station is at the bottom of it so it was an easy walk 🙂 I was waiting for the bus in the cold wind and suddenly it arrived at a time it shouldn’t. Turns out it was the bus I thought I’ve missed that arrived rather late 🙂 Good for me but not for the bus driver. I jumped off the bus at the lake and there are still some cranes there and after that I had the 45 minute long walk home. Most parts of the walk was wind free thankfully so it was actually quite nice even though I really wasn’t that full of energy after yesterday 🙂 🙂 🙂
. I like this old set. It costs around $ 55 US and I could easily repaint it at work. .
I was supposed to call the garage just before 5pm to check if they were ready with my car but they beat me to it. Turns out that the car is leaking oil so some kind of seal has to be changed. I’ve looked on the net and it’s actually something very cheap??!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well I guess they’ll need to pour in new oil as well but the seal itself is very cheap 🙂 So now we’ve decided that I’ll get my car after their lunch hour, at 1pm. I’ll drive to work after that, it takes around 45 minutes so I won’t be there for long before my working day is over 🙂 🙂 🙂
They have a rather new miniature golf lane in the middle of the town. . .
I’m so lucky to have that understanding employers! To be honest, living at the outskirts of the world as I do is tricky when the car needs to go to the garage, I actually would have to have two cars to make it work smoothly but with our prices on everything that would be more or less impossible. The last time I filled up my car with petrol it costed something around $10,78 US gallon. Personally I think there are lot of other things I rather use my money on 🙂
. . . The Daffodils flower in Falköping, here where I live they barely have buds. More photos of Falköping and my walk home in my next post.
The Cottage by the crane lake. 