Rolleicord. – The Cottage by the crane lake.

a (4) — My fly eating bucket will soon be complete. It will be as soon as the Venus flytraps grew up again 🙂

I almost forgot to write something here today. I can’t say that I’ve been very busy but I’ve been doing things all day but in a slow but steady pace. We’ve been out on our walks so now we all have plenty more mosquito bites but it looks like the dogs don’t feel the itching either any more. Now the mosquitoes are mostly just annoying. The ticks however are everywhere right now. I pick the occasional one from Nova and Albin but I pick at least ten from Alma after each walk. I miss very few though so it feels like I’m in control 🙂 🙂

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I’ve done the laundry like always and also dinner for next week at work plus I baked some Sorghum (and Teff) scones. They actually taste pretty close to normal ones. If I don’t have any Teff flour at home I’ll use either corn or rice flour. They are a bit dry no matter what flour I use but the taste is good. I’ve also had a whole chicken in the slow cooker, not for me but the dogs. It looks like Albin now is allergic to Tuna. Every time he gets some in his food the eczema blows up again. He has been able to eat chicken before so I’ll give them all some tomorrow and see what happens.

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I’ve watered the vegetable and potato patches and also the trees I’ve planted and the pots I have with different citrus trees and the potato sprouts I planted. It looks like nothing will happen in one of those pots with potato sprouts so now I can plant something else in it 🙂 I bought more soil on Friday, turns out they had plenty at the grocery store in the village where I work, I’ve just not been able to see it. I usually park at the side of the store, no doors and windows there. This time however I parked the car in front of the entrance and they had a couple of pallets with soil on the other side of the doors 🙂 🙂

So that’s what I’ve been doing, not much but sort of continuously. I’ve also tried to photograph the Hornets that now comes to a Cotoneaster I have in the garden. They love the flowers on it. To be honest the entire bush is sort of ugly and the flowers are tiny but the Hornets just can’t resist them 🙂 🙂 I’ve read that they mostly drink sap from trees and very rarely nectar from flowers so that ugly little bush will stay 🙂 Hornets eats lots of flies (and unfortunately also some of the Beekeepers bees) and anything that eat flies are best friends of mine 🙂

A15660_001 — Two from the Rolleicord. I had forgotten how to let go of the shutter and here is when I found how to do it 🙂

A15660_002 — Can’t remember taking this one 🙂

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Have a great day!

I bought three Sarracena plants the previous weekend. This one had a too small pot so I planted it yesterday, the other two will be planted tomorrow. They are almost hardy enough to survive a winter here but these will be wintering in my cool cellar.

So yesterday when I came to work I noticed something fluffy and white lying in the middle of the road without moving. It didn’t take long before I saw that it was a cat. For some reason no one stopped to check on it and at that time there’s a lot of traffic. I parked my car, went out and stopped the traffic because I thought that it at least should be moved to the grass beside the road. I realized that it still was alive when I picked it up.

Yellow flowers towards a light green background doesn’t work in cameras 🙂

Rosa glauca, Red leafed rose, too. Pink flowers towards red leafs doesn’t work either 🙂 🙂

The poor little cat started to purr as soon as I held it, not because it liked it but because it was scared and injured. It didn’t have any visible injuries and was so clean it looked like it just had been washed. It did feel pain when I held my hand towards its ribs and the gum was totally white, so even if it hadn’t been run over the risk of really bad injuries inside it was most likely. I sat down on a park bench we have outside the entrance door and was just about to leave to go to the vet with the cat when the owner came out from their house (my work friend recognized the cat and knew it came from the rather big house beside the factory).

Nova decided that we should go the shorter walk today, so we went down to the bog. The gravel road was lined with Chamomiles.

I don’t know if the cat survived but I hope I’ll meet the owner again. I really can’t walk up and knock on the door and ask if the cat still lives, especially since their children love that cat. Today the summer vacation starts so it would be a terrible start of it if the cat didn’t survive. What I can’t understand is how all those cars just passed it. The one hitting it might not have noticed that they hit a cat since it wasn’t run over but everyone else that just passed it? The least one can do is to move it to the grass because lorries and tractors drive often on that road and they might not see it before it’s too late and no one want to find what’s left of their cat in the middle of the road just outside their home.

Otherwise it’s been a nice week with lots of sunshine and a bit too warm. My garden is usually the last place that dries out when we’re having a drought and now my garden is drying out. The grass doesn’t grow any more, which I don’t mind at all 🙂 So I water my vegetable and potato patches every day now and I also support watering all the trees I’ve planted this year. The rest must manage to survive anyway. It’s only three meters down to the ground water though so if we’ll get some rain in the coming ten days most plants will survive. 2018 was so bad that even bigger trees died and I do hope it won’t be that bad this year. I will however pack what I call a panic bag. Clothes and what ever I want to save if we would have a forest fire. I started doing that after we had a fire in the bog after a thunder storm.

z (8) — These are two examples of the same kind of cameras, Twin Lens Reflex cameras. Many using TWL cameras wanted to be able to use 135 film (the one we had in almost all cameras back then) so Agfa decided they would do a SLR sized one. One look down through the view finder in both cameras so the angle of the photo is a bit different from the SLR’s. The problem was that it is almost impossible to focus with the little Agfa Flexilette 🙂 🙂 🙂

A15660_010 — This was taken with the Rolleicord. I rarely use this camera since I prefer my Flexarets.

A15659_032A — This was taken with the Agfa Flexilette. The lens and camera is pretty good but the camera never became any hit and not many were made.

It is time for a cold drink of some kind and then see if there’s anything good on tv.

Have a great day!

The Cottage by the crane lake.

Category: Rolleicord.

Almost forgot :-)

Poor little cat.