Category: Spiderwebs.

August 20, 2025 · 4 Comments ·

We had a rather chilly night and morning here as som of You know, 0 C (32 F) as coldest but no frost, they day itself was rather nice and warm though. if we don’t have clouds covering the sky tonight we’ll most likely have frost. That’s a bit early even for us, normally the first frost night happen around September 6 here.

This one didn’t look as if it would live much longer so I decided to check if there were any potatoes in the bucket.

I poured it out and immediately found a couple potatoes.

and the more I diggged the more I found.

So from just two small sprouts I got enough potatoes for three dinners 🙂 I have two more much bigger pots waiting to be emptied.

We had a really nice morning walk though, not a single fly but the dogs got caught by a few ticks, easily removed though since they were walking around on them to find a nice and cosy spot to bite them at. Alma had that annoying whine again and Malkolm decided he had to pull the leash almost all the way so I was a bit annoyed to be honest. I did see a Roe deer though but the dogs missed it thankfully 🙂

I brought out the two electric chain saws I own, both have been outside all the time but covered so no water has been able to reach them. I wanted to see if they still were working and they do but I did have to remove a lot of rust so the chain could move. So I went online to order new chains and that wasn’t easy 🙂 I can find both models without any problems but no places tells me what kind of chain I should buy. They’re giving lots of examples but only say that this chain works on most models 🙂 even on those that are too short or two long. I did find one that I think will fit on one of my saws and hope it does because I’ve ordered it 🙂 🙂

There she was and we looked at each other for a short while before the dogs and I started to walk back home again.

My neighbours 5 year old daughter wanted to give me fresh eggs today, they had forgotten to check last afternoon so she wanted me to have two warm eggs and two cold ones since the older ones were cold today 🙂 🙂 So today the dogs and I had pancakes for dinner 🙂 Besides this I’ve done very little today. I did water all plants I want to be sure to have next year and I’ve moved a lots of potted plants close to the cottage south heading wall so that if it is a light frost it won’t hit them. Also I have covered that five small Pawpaw seedlings, the big dahlia and all the big citrus plants (and tea bush). Also I have now placed all the Lemonquats inside the cottage until next spring.

Last year when I brought in the orchids I, after a while, realised that small red ants (piss ants as we call them, the sting is truly nasty) had a little nest in one of them. One really doesn’t want those in the house so I had to put pesticides in the pot. I thought it might also kill the plant but it is still alive and well and I think the dead ants must have worked as fertiliser 🙂 I won’t have a last cup of anything this evening, I’ve been drinking so much coffee today that anything more caffein related will keep me up all night 🙂 🙂 🙂

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A tad chilly in the morning.

August 17, 2025 · 4 Comments ·

I always have the bedroom window open during summer, day and night unless it’s hot as h..l outside. I woke up during the night feeling rather cold but didn’t think more about it than pulling the blanket over me and having a dog sleeping closer to me 🙂 I checked the thermometer when we went down to the kitchen and it had been a tad chilly outside. It was 4,9 C (40,82 F) outside and as coldest it had been 3 C (37,4 F).

The sun has been shining all day though and the northern winds we’ve had went from chilly to rather nice during the day. Besides watering plants I really can’t remember what I’ve been doing 🙂 🙂 🙂 Yesterday I did start reading a book again and actually enjoyed it so much that I had to force myself to put it away. That hasn’t happened in a very long time, not since I was hit by covid and the brain refused to work as it should. I have been reading on and off anyway but sort of not enjoyed it.

Sometimes it’s hard to chose between keeping the orange sky but see the fog a bit less good or see the fog but losing the orange sky 🙂

Well I did dig up some potatoes and raw fried them in the oven and it was just as tasty as I remembered it 🙂 With them I had a few meatballs and sausages 🙂 Nothing fancy but really tasty 🙂 I’ve also been locking for a place for my last pear tree seedling but so far no luck. I have started to cut down the grape elder and the huge rose (it has a couple of English names so I chose Beach rose) living side by side. The wild form is seen as invasive and should be removed and that’s a tough job since those thorns are nasty. This one has been left alone for well over twenty years so it’s really tough to cut down. I’m pretty sure that job will take a year or so but otherwise that would have been a good spot.

I found some rust coloured mums the other day and realised that it’s now days the only colour I like on them 🙂 I’ve planted them in a new flowerbed because they might survive the winter here. They’ll look very different next year though because they’ll grow rather high and if they get the chance to flower it’ll be late in autumn I’ve heard.

I’ve already had my last cup of tea for the day so now I don’t know what to do 🙂 🙂 Well I can always have a bowl with cornflakes, I like to slice a banana in it and dust it with cinnamon plus the dogs will get a piece off banana each 🙂

I have the same problem with my Giant Sequoia seedling as the Pawpaws, mice seems to like eating them so I can’t have them in the cool cellar. This one should have been twice as big if it hadn’t been for the mice. So I’ll try and cover it during winter and hope for the best and I’ll have to do the same with the Pawpaws.

Have a great day!

Hot and dry.

August 13, 2025 · 6 Comments ·

So I got my new mattress pad yesterday and really looked forward to test it for the first time. So this was the first night I wasn’t tired 🙂 🙂 🙂 I did sleep really good when I finally managed to go to sleep though 🙂 🙂 I’ll know better after tonight I hope 🙂

We went up to the mailbox before going out to the bog.

We went out on our morning walk around 6:30 today but it was already enough warm for the flies to be active. To be honest it wasn’t that bad compared to how it use to be but one annoying file is way too many for me 🙂 When we reached the bog mosquitoes took over instead and they usually never tries to land in my face or ears so they didn’t bother me that much. I do have a few mosquito bites on my right ankle though but those I got yesterday while watering the plants I really want to survive the summer.

It has been so warm that the dogs ran outside to play but never did because of the heat, instead they just laid down and ate some apples, the farting will be horrible tonight so the bedroom window will be open all night 🙂 🙂 So many apples are falling down now that it is impossible to get rid of them before the dogs starts eating them, I guess it’s because of the drought stressing the trees.

So we haven’t done much outside today besides the watering, I have however done some more laundering and baked a bread in the machine. I’ve learned that different kinds of flour acts really different with water and some doesn’t seem to swell at all in water while others do that a lot, so Teff for instance (a cereal originally from Ethiopia) doesn’t swell at all so it’s just like a light flowing porridge and therefore must have a lot of more time in the heat. I do like it but it sure complicates baking in the machine for me 🙂 🙂 In the end it did turn out really good.

It is time for that last cup of tea and a sandwich from that loaf of bread. I think there was something I wanted to see on tv but I can’t remember what 🙂

My tea bush is actually hardy enough to survive our now milder winters but not especially tough if one brings them out of the cool cellar and frost hits. It survived and is finally coming back.

The same with my citrus trees but they do actually look much healthier this year.

If You want to sow Your own citrus tree and hopes for flowers it usually take something like 10 to 15 years before that happens. However if You sow Kumquat (or any kumquat hybrid like Lemonquats) kernels they usually flower much earlier and can also stand in a sunny window indoors all winter, just remember to shower them often otherwise pests will hit them. These come from Lemonquat kernels and eventual fruit will be anything from kumquats to lemonquats since it is a hybrid, also all fruits will be edible.

Have a great day!

A storm will pay us a visit tomorrow.

August 4, 2025 · Leave a comment ·

I saved this photo yesterday so I could show it today 🙂

Grey and dull most of the day and just enough warm so it has been a rather nice day. It had rained during the night, not much just enough to make the vegetation wet so the dogs were rather wet when they came in from the garden just after we had woken up. we did get a couple of showers during the day as well but they looked worse than they were to be honest, the water barrels didn’t get any bigger addition of water.

My Easter cactus loves it outside and it has been in bloom for quite some time.

I drove to the super market rather early in the morning so I didn’t have to deal with lots of people who never knows what they want to have and no long lines at the cashier. I had written a long list of what I most possibly needed and put question marks after those I just wanted 🙂 Well the list is still on the living room table so I didn’t get some things I possibly wanted but I did get one or two things I never thought Wanted 🙂 Like a branch cutter, looks like a big secateur and this one also had telescope arms so I could reach higher up in the trees. I’ve already tried it and removed dead branches on one of my apple trees and several on the Hungarian lilac.

I dug out an area in from of the big box to plants my rhubarb seedlings. Not too smart I think since I now will have problems reaching in to the box 🙂 🙂 🙂

Finally the beans are showing 🙂 Only four plants have survived but I’ll at least have some this autumn 🙂

I’ll have more peas than I can eat in a year I think 🙂 🙂 🙂

I do like most of my trees and bushes (except for the common lilac) but sometimes they grow so dense that neither light nor rain can reach the ground and that’s why I bought this cutter. It’ll also come in handy when I need to cut down my wild roses because trying a secateur on those is most likely the closest I’ll ever come to try and kill myself, those thorns are big and horrible 🙂 🙂 🙂 The wind outside is getting stronger and tomorrow we will be hit by a storm. Thankfully the worst of it will hit Norway but some will come here too. I do hope we also get some of the rain but one never knows.

It is time for that last cup of tea and today I was baking French rolls but they flattened out instead and became really good teacakes instead 🙂

The Kankakee mallow is now much higher than I am 🙂 🙂 🙂

The Jerusalem artichokes are even higher and shows buds, that usually doesn’t happen until late August.

Have a great day!

Misty morning and spider webs.

August 3, 2025 · 8 Comments ·

We had a wonderful morning here, just below 10C (50F), morning mist and a sun slowly rising. If I hadn’t just woken up I would have taken our morning walk there and then. however newly awake, quite tired and both I and the animals needed some food before we went out. So by the time we were ready the mist was gone but it was still sunny and cool.

We walked the same way we’ve done lately since the grass is way too high in the forest since it’s only us walking there and we haven’t been there for a while now. Plus the grass was really wet after the rain we had during the night so it would also most likely be full of ticks. Only two flies were out to pester us but as soon as we walked in to shadow it was a bit too cool for them to follow 🙂 🙂 We did however see two Roe deer on our walk and we haven’t seen any when we’ve been out walking in all summer I think.

We actually had several showers today, not heavy and not long lived but if we’ll get more as they are guessing we will the ground is now a bit softer so that the water has a chance on sinking down into the ground instead of just running down through the garden and down to the bog that starts more or less behind the old garage and dog yard.

No need to mow the lawn yet so instead I dug out some space to plant the rhubarb seedlings I sowed in spring. The sand beneath the grass was so dry that one c an find more water in a desert 🙂 🙂 I also mixed in some compost from my smallest compost, a black one that stands n legs and can be rotated and should be rotated once a day I think. The fun thing is that since one is rotating it the compost becomes sort of round and to be honest all those round pieces looked like dog poo 🙂 🙂 🙂 I need to empty at least two of the three other composts I have, the third one I think still has a family of mice living in it 🙂 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I’ve already eaten so I won’t have anything with it. The summer apples are now falling of the tree so tomorrow I’ll buy things I need to make an apple pie 🙂

I have two small Ginkgo trees growing in my garden, this one has huge leafs and the other one quite small.

Have a great day!

This time it worked.

July 19, 2025 · Leave a comment ·

It was much cooler this morning when we woke up, so we had our breakfast and at 6 am we went out for our morning walk. I wore a hoodie again because flies usually fly around even in the early morning if it isn’t 10C (50F) or cooler and it wasn’t that cool unfortunately.

We walked down to the creek since the grass now is too high and still wet after the thunderstorm that it has become a tick paradise. I did rub Yarrow all over the dogs, it is said that ticks dislike the smell of yarrow, just to at least improve the odds 🙂 To my very big surprise we had almost no flies flying around us even though we walked down to their favourite spots at the creek?! I’m not sure where they were but I doubt they will be gone for long, I’m not lucky enough that they’ve all died away 🙂 🙂 plus the birds need them still.

A few birds are still singing here, normally most of them would have stopped by now because it shouldn’t be enough time left to get more babies. Things have changed though and now it’s rather warm way in to November and perhaps some birds have noticed that and try for it one more time. By the way I only found two ticks on Alma after the walk so perhaps the Yarrow really works? It had become pretty warm by the time we arrived at home and it got worse the longer the day passed. We reached 30C (86F) before it finally slowly turned towards cooler. Call it cooler feels like a joke it has only dropped down 1 degree centigrade yet 🙂 🙂 🙂

This is unfortunately one of the few Bluebells that isn’t invasive 🙂

The bread I baked yesterday should have stayed in the machine a bit longer, I guess the cheese in it was a bit too much for the machine, it tasted really good though. So to check if it was the cheese I’ve now baked a loaf again today, the loafs are rather small so I’m not drowning in bread 🙂 🙂 and this time it worked perfect! So if I want cheese in the bread from now on I’ll use a bit less and also let the loaf stay in the machine a bit longer since it takes its time to cool down.

Even though we’ve had a long nap, well all the animals have had several long naps, I feel too tired to do anything so I think I’ll make myself a cup of tea. I doubt it will keep me awake since I’m pretty sure the heat will instead 🙂 🙂 🙂

Have a great day!

Summer weather for once.

July 9, 2024 · 6 Comments ·

Yesterday evening after all the rain finally had blown away. Is the pot of gold still there after the rainbow is gone? I could see exactly where the rainbow hit the ground but the pasture is full of curious cattle and I would never have the chance of reaching it before they all had surrounded me 🙂 🙂 🙂

We have actually had summer weather here today! Sunny and 20C (68F) in thew shadow and just a slight wind blowing every now and again. 20C perhaps doesn’t sound much but after having below 15C (59F) for such a long time it feels like the tropics 🙂 It was way warmer in the sun though, I noticed on our walk how the dogs suddenly started to pant as soon as we didn’t walk in the shadow.

We woke up at three fifteen this morning, don’t know why but I guess there was something outside making some noise. I let the dogs outside and when they had done what they needed we went to bed again and slept until just after five. I must say I didn’t feel especially awake after that so we skipped the morning walk for once. Instead, when I felt awake enough I drove to the supermarket in Skara. I had my note with what to buy, bought everything on it and didn’t realize that I had forgotten to write everything down so I’ll go to a big grocery store in Falköping on Thursday. Not especially much but I can’t bake bread if I don’t have everything I need 🙂

I had unfortunately the wrong lens on the camera when I photographed this dragonfly (the Swedish name for it would be Troll spindle in English). I think this is the next biggest dragonfly we have here.

So we had our morning walk when I came home again and since I couldn’t see any cattle in the fields I hoped they had removed the electric wires so that we could walk along the creek again. The employees that work for the cattle owner is most likely good at what they are doing but they are also extremely lazy! They rarely remove those wires and if the do they only remove the ones closest to their four wheelers, they just refuse to move more than five feet away from them. So naturally the wires were still there and at the other place we need to pass they had removed two of them, the other two were still attached and for some reason they still are electrified. This time we managed to pass without getting stung and the two left at the other place is now detached lying on the ground with no electricity in them. If the first ones still are attached tomorrow I’ll detach those as well.

I wish I could have taken a photo of the three male Damselflies when they were all flying.

I was watching a video on Fb this morning where a well educated young man dressed in what I could see expensive clothes was asking people if they thought money was important in life. The people he asked, in Miami, all said that of course not, money wasn’t important at all. I could both see and hear that they all had expensive clothes and by the way they spoke and their answers of course they were all very well off. Some had sold their companies, others had worked their way up in their work places and of course made a lot of money so they were all retired even though some looked younger than most retired people. I kept thinking the entire time why don’t he ask people who has low paying jobs, people who don’t have a business to sell? Of course those people wouldn’t have given him the answers he wanted 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’m not saying that money in itself gives happiness but if You have enough money You don’t have to worry about the bills that will come and if You don’t have to worry about that You’ll feel much calmer and most likely more happy 🙂

For once the dogs sat still while I removed the wires, if they are there tomorrow I’ll detach them (and of course put up the wires that stop the cattle from going out of the pasture). I’m rather tired of those workers by now!

We met the fox again, too bad I was too slow with the camera. I’ll have the bigger lens on tomorrow, just in case 🙂

It is time to go downstairs to the kitchen and make myself something to eat. The dogs have already eaten. Malkolm is much better now but Nova is still very wobbly, so from now on I’ll continue to give Nova chicken and rice (which she loves) and start giving Malkolm more of the normal food he eats. Tomorrow will start fairly nice but it will become pretty hot and then rain and thunder will arrive yet again. Good thing I’ve decided to have a long nap every day during my vacation 🙂

Have a great day!

The morning was really nice anyway :-)

July 8, 2024 · 11 Comments ·

The weather has been really mixed today. The morning was cool and nice with the sun warming up the air rather quickly, later on the clouds arrived and with it heavy showers but lots of sunshine in between. Now we have sunshine and rain at the same time 🙂 Thunder was heading towards us but went north on the other side of the mountain.

The cattle have now moved on to the pasture beside the one behind the beekeepers cottage and that means the road still is blocked with electric wires so therefore much more difficult to walk along the creek.

We saw this deer buck on our way to the bog. Well I can see that it is more or less impossible to see it in this photos 🙂 🙂 🙂

Besides the morning walk I’ve spent most of my first day of vacation with having a long nap 🙂 I’ve had a cold for quite some time now, it has spread all over the country it seems, so I’ve been unusually tired this summer. I’m hit much less hard than most who have had it but instead had it for a longer time. I didn’t miss much while I, well we, were asleep. Every time it stops raining I’ve had the kitchen door open but the dogs have refused to go outside, they were caught in a shower early in the morning that not even Malkolm liked 🙂 🙂 and they wouldn’t do that mistake again 🙂 🙂 🙂

Both the big weather sites are guessing we’ll have a rain free day tomorrow but loads of rain on Wednesday. I’ll have to go to a grocery store as well, I should have done that today but I looked in the fridge and decided I have enough at home to last until tomorrow 🙂 My neighbors did the same but decided to go today so they don’t need to go for the rest of the week instead 🙂 We all started our vacation today and none of us want to do anything unnecessary during these weeks.

I already have three composts but I ordered a new one today, a kind of tumbler. It is black and is supposed to stand in sunshine so it becomes a hot compost. One puts in the material, could be grass or what ever comes from the garden or kitchen, turns it around a couple of times and leave it until next time. This will make compost much faster than the other warm/ hot composts. I bought it mostly because I have a family of mice in one of the old ones and lots of ants in the second old one. I’ve tried to make them move by pouring lots of water through it but they refuse, plus it is hard to open up so I can use what’s in it 🙂 🙂 🙂

This is most likely not a Creeping bluebell because the flower grow out from the stalk n several sides of it.

This is a Creeping bluebell because the flowers all grow out from the same side of the stalk. Almost impossible to see the difference otherwise but my guess is that they both spread just as happily 🙂

I better start writing a list of what I need to buy tomorrow and put it in my wallet already today so I won’t leave it at home as I so often do 🙂 It is so much more expensive to forget that list because I keep guessing what I might need and come home with so much more and most of it is something I really don’t need 🙂 🙂

The peas are in bloom and have started to grow over to their neighbors 🙂 🙂

Malkolm is now almost as high as Nova is 🙂

Have a great day!

Only one more day :-)

July 4, 2024 · 2 Comments ·

I always save photos for days when I can’t take any and put them in a folder called “For a rainy day”. All photos today comes from that folder. They can be taken earlier this year or some time during last year. The only important thing is that it doesn’t show snow 🙂

The weather is what I would call rather unstable right now, heavy showers coming and going. Pretty chilly here as well and it’ll be like this over the weekend they guess. No use in looking at what they are guessing for the coming week they change those predictions more or less every hour. Everything from sunny and warm all week to quite the opposite 🙂 🙂 🙂

Lots of things to do at work and due to bad planning they asked if people wanted to work overtime, they never come to me even if they are desperate since they know I’ll just laugh at them 🙂 To be honest only three people wanted to work, most of us will after all start our vacation now.

Only Malkolm liked to be outside in the rain so we haven’t had any walk. Not good for any of us so it’s nice that vacation starts now because it is very rare that it rains all day, so in between showers we’ll be able to go out and get rid of some of all that energy that is building up in the dogs now. Normally during weekends and vacations we’re out on walks at least three times a day but the weather lately has really stopped us to do that. In winter time, before Alma, we usually had walks in the empty cow pastures and normally we walked a bit more than 9km (5,6 miles) but Alma being like she is and after tearing my shoulder twice we haven’t been able to do that last winter. I am hoping that she will have calmed down enough until next winter. They say hope is the last thing to leave us 🙂 🙂 🙂

Tomorrow is the last working day before vacation starts and at first they said we would stop working with the painting early, then a bit later than they thought and today that we most likely will continue as normal 🙂 🙂 🙂 It doesn’t really matter because I won’t be back in four weeks anyway 🙂

Have a great day!

Even nicer today :-)

May 12, 2024May 12, 2024 · Leave a comment ·

I think today has been even better than yesterday, we woke up to a blue sunny sky and fairly chilly morning, it had dropped to 0C (32F) during the night. This is not unusual for this area, the last frost usually arrives at June sixth and after that, normal summers, nights regularly have temperatures down to 3C (37,4F). Well if the days are sunny, cloudy days the temperature usually don’t sink especially much, the clouds keep the warmth from escaping upwards.

We went out as soon as we woke up and that was way too early really because I watched the Eurovision last night and I think it stopped just before 1 am and we woke up just after 5 am 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well even after napping I still think I’ll sleep very well tonight 🙂 I, Nova and Alma didn’t see any animals this morning but Malkolm did so he started to growl. That of course made Alma running around looking for what threat we might meet and after that she couldn’t relax at all 🙂 🙂 Malkolm stopped caring about it as soon as we had passed where he saw what ever it was.

I’ve started to move the citrus trees I have from the less sunny north side of the cottage out to the sunny garden, even if we would get frost now and blazing sun during the days they’ll manage it. I’ve also sown iceberg lettuce, squash, chard and some kind of Japanese cabbage today. Iceberg lettuce is hard to fail but both the chard and squash seeds were a bit old so I’ll better start to look for what I can sow in those places nothing germinates. Peas and beans will be sown later when the temperature is more reliable. I’ll sow most of the potatoes in buckets this year so as soon as I buy more soil I’ll start with them.

The rest of this day I’ve mostly just watered the trees I’ve planted and I’ve had a couple of short naps 🙂 The dogs have been rather calm since it has been so warm. The wind can’t reach us down here so when it becomes warm it’s always a couple degrees warmer here and the opposite when it comes to cold weather. It’s almost never cold weather that kills plants here during winter, it’s because we have such a long time when it is dark here. So if we have a warm and sunny summer most of the less hardy plants make it till next year, is it cool and rainy most of those will die. They need that warm and sunny weather to collect so much energy that it lasts all winter through. It’s the same with how good plants flower and how much fruit/ berries they give, it all depends on what last years summer was like.

The big dogs are sleeping beside me but by the sound Malkolm is chewing on a stick in my bed 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ve done dinner for next week at work and the laundry so for the rest of the day I’ll do as little as possible 🙂

Have a great day!

There was a tinge of peanuts.

November 10, 2023 · 2 Comments ·

It has been raining so much lately that I slid on flat ground yesterday and fell to the ground like an axed tree , it’s so wet that the grass no longer can keep the soil together. The fog arrived already yesterday afternoon, sometimes it was so foggy that I didn’t know where I was 🙂 🙂 To my big surprise we still had fog when I woke up so I hurried the dogs and myself so that we would have a chance to have at least a part of our walk in it.

Turns out that I hurried unnecessary, the fog stayed all day even though it became less thick just before the sun was on its way down 🙂 🙂 The cold that never breaks out really worn me down this week, so as soon as we had come home and had had something to eat I decided that I should have a nap in my recliner. Just as I had covered myself in a blanket Albin decided that he should join me in a nap, on the recliner 🙂 So for an hour and a half I had a 60-ish pound pitbull sleeping on my chest and stomach 🙂 🙂 I can tell You that I really didn’t need that blanket 🙂 🙂

I bought myself an Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) this week. I haven’t had one in over a decade if I remember right. I just picked one up without checking what color it will have on its flowers, turns out it is going to be white. That surprised me a bit because around here white flowers means death since they only have them when it’s a funeral. I have nothing against white flowers though but those labels are quite often wrong, so to be honest it can look very different to what the labels shows. I’ll put it out in the garden when spring arrives and with a bit of luck I’ll remember to bring it in again when autumn arrives, I tend to forget and that’s the reason I haven’t had an Amaryllis in over a decade 🙂 🙂 They are easy to sow though but it takes at least three years before it’ll give You a flower.

I’ve baked some french rolls today. They didn’t turn out like rolls though, they sort of flattened out instead 🙂 🙂 Instead of rice flour I used oat flour and it turns out that one need much more oat flour than rice flour, otherwise the dough gets too sticky and soft. I haven’t tried them yet but they smell really nice and I’m pretty sure they’ll taste really nice as well. Last week I hung out a net with peanuts for the birds outside my kitchen window. It tok a while before the birds found it but it became pretty popular after a while. One morning the net was gone and I knew they couldn’t have finished it so fast. At first I thought it was Magpies that had removed it but I think it was too heavy even for them. Then suddenly one of my dogs (I won’t say her name but she’s big and looks like a German shepherd) farted really loud and there was a tinge of peanut in the smell that followed 🙂 🙂

It is time to try that bread and after that I’ll most likely fall asleep in the recliner in front of the tv. I do hope this is the end of that cold, it has stayed for way too long now.

Have a great day!

She got a bit lost in the high grass.

September 17, 2023 · 4 Comments ·

We’ve had a rather nice day. They said the sun would shine from early morning but it wasn’t until around 9 hours later we actually saw it 🙂 It has been warm outside but not warm enough to have the kitchen door open for more than a few minutes at a time.

I’ve ordered a new lawn mower. It is bigger than the one I have now and it cuts wider and has a much stronger electric motor. I guess that means I’ll be able to cut even longer and wet grass than I can now. I also got the question if I wanted to buy an electric cord to go with the machine but I thought I had already spent more than I like on something I really don’t want so no thanks 🙂 🙂 The old ones I have will work a couple of years more as long as I don’t mow them with the mower 🙂 🙂

The hunters were here early today, not for hunting but to mow the lawn outside the little hunting lodge and I could also hear some hammering and the sound from a chainsaw. I’m pretty sure the chainsaw were cutting up fire wood now when the moose hunting premiere soon starts. They’ll be outside in the forest for a week and not shoot a single moose because we have very few moose in this area. The hunters will be out from now and tonight though so I guess they’re hunting wild hogs again.

Here comes some photos from earlier in the week. We’ve had fairly many mornings with fog now.

I’m baking those gluten free french rolls again, this time I have both butter and milk in the dough. I take the cold butter and cut it in small pieces and then I put that and all the different ingredients in a mixer until there are no lumps of butter left. I do it that way because then the butter won’t disturb the yeast. All gluten free bread dough is a sticky mess to be honest, I’m surprised that it doesn’t just flow out over the oven plate but instead actually manages to keep the shape even though it is rising. Well it works and I really like them.

So no more chores today, I did the laundry as soon as we came home from our walk. We walked in the pasture behind my cottage because I didn’t know if the hunters had their dogs with them and it’s a pain in the a..e to walk with Albin and Alma if there are dogs nearby 🙂 🙂 The grass is so high that Nova got lost in it for a while 🙂

Have a great day!