Category: Walks.

Slow tv.

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We’ve had a rather wonderful day today. Sunny with the occasional cloud until the afternoon when more clouds arrived but it is still pretty nice and warm outside. Also the night was frost free, which is a bit odd since the sky was clear and usually clear nights this early in the year means nightly frost.

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I wish the doe could have just stayed there but of course not. I did however manage to distract Alma so that she didn’t see it run away.

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We went out on our morning walk a bit later than normal, I did wake up by myself but that didn’t mean I wasn’t really tired all morning πŸ™‚ They have started to show the great moose migration now so I watched that for a while (for those of You who don’t know what this is, it’s cameras stationed at the same place every year showing how moose migrate north when winter is over. We also see a lot of other animals of course and this is called slow tv), somethingΒ  they do every year and the fun thing is that I can hear the same kind of birds singing through the tv as I can if I open the door πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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After that I’ve sown some more seeds, annuals outdoors because they’ll germinate when they feel it is the right time and some berry plant seeds that still need to stay indoors until we know the risk of night frost is over. I also dug up a Wisteria. I thought it died three winters ago but it resurrected last summer and grew terrible fast and slid up beneath the tiles on the roof. I really can’t have that so today I cut it down. I managed to get two big pieces of roots with a climbing stalk on each and thought why not plant them where they’ll do no harm?

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I planted one beside the crabapple tree with the big magpie nest. We call wisteria here for Blue Rain so I planted it beside the tree we call Gold Rain, The Laburnum. I could work all by myself without the dogs because my neighbors little daughter has her birthday today and lots of people would come. Since Albin and Alma really can’t behave, Albin would run up and down beside the fence huffing and puffing while Alma would start barking and then jump over the fence so she can bark a bit more before jumping back to star all over again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I said that I’ll bring in the dogs while people will be arriving, my neighbors thought it was unnecessary because they all love dogs but I said that today none of us on this side of the fence would be the center of attention after all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I think I’ll make myself a cup of tea and have some of my home made ice cream. First however I’ll give the dogs their food, they are standing beside me demanding it right now πŸ™‚

Have a great day!!Β 

So nice to have my car back.

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The magpie nest is really big now but it doesn’t look as if they’ll use it this year. I rarely see magpies in the garden now days.

It’s so nice to have my own car back again and it is for the first time since at least before christmas very quiet again πŸ™‚ So now I’ll be able to hear all those new strange sounds I haven’t been able to hear since then either πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It didn’t feel that cold this morning, 3:30 am (well perhaps late night is a better word for it πŸ™‚ )when I opened the door to let the dogs outside but it was actually -5C (23F). I could see that the sun was on it’s way up, not exactly on the way up but I could see where it would go up a bit later on. The birds were singing and there was no wind at all and I guess it was the absence of wind that made it feel so nice.Β  I hadn’t become warm enough for me to not scrape ice from the when I drove to work at 4:40 am but the ice was so soft that it didn’t take more than a couple of seconds to get rid of it.

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I think we have four species of Yellow star of Bethlehem in our nature but they are also very popular in our gardens.
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Lesser celandine, is siad to be a weed but it never survives in my garden πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The wild gooseberry bushes are in bloom, the garden varieties in my garden isn’t even close yet.

The other week I bought a new kind of food for Nova and Alma because they had been a bit wobbly in their stomachs, the new food fixed it but then Nova decided that she wouldn’t eat it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So now I had to buy a new small bag with the old food again so that she would eat again. Treats were no problem though and I think she even considered to eat Albins food, just as long as she didn’t have to eat the new one πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’ll see if I can find another kind that her stomach tolerates and she will eat as well.

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The Yellow wood anemone has started to open up in my garden.
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Another species of Yellow star of Bethlehem in my garden.
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The root zone is getting green. Irises, Marsh marigold and Bog arum have started to grow πŸ™‚
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I think this is a Cherry plum tree and it has started to flower way too early, the flowers are destroyed when we have frost at night so no plums if all opens up too early.

Besides our walk I’ve done very little the rest of the day. I stopped by the grocery store on my way home and bought, besides food, three lavender. The ones I had died this winter. I also noticed that they now sell berry bushes! They didn’t have a lot but I think it is a step in the right direction. I might even buy some next week just to encourage them πŸ™‚ I’ve also napped for quite some time after we had eaten πŸ™‚ I’m still nasty tired though so I’ll have at least one cup of tea after writing here because I doubt that cup will have any chance what so ever to keep me up this coming night, if it will I have a good book that I’m reading to keep me company πŸ™‚

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More in my garden right now. Chiodonoxa.
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White wood anemone and Scilla sibirica.
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Checkered lily.
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Lung wort.

Have a great day!

The rest of the walk.

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The Daffodils (we call them easter lilies) had started to flower in FalkΓΆping. 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.

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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.
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So I start walking at 11:30 to catch the bus that goes to FalkΓΆping 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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I open the door and they guy sitting there says we didn’t get that spare part this morning πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ 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.

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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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I stopped by the lake to see if there were any Cranes there.
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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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ 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.

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Back in the days there was a lively little village beside the castle, almost all of it is gone now.
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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.

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Have a great day!

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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 πŸ™‚

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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.
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Home sweet home.

A stroll in FalkΓΆping.

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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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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This is a part of a sports center. Anything from soccer field to swimming and handball.

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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 FalkΓΆping πŸ™‚ 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.

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I would most likely felt more sure they know what they do if those hand written signs weren’t there πŸ™‚ They dress furnitures and fill upp the old stuffing as well. Is it called stuffing? well You know what I mean πŸ™‚

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We call this pigeon Turkish dove. It looks very much like a Turtledove but is bigger.

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I also passed a second hand shop.

The garage is at the top of a mountain called Γ…lleberg and the bus/ train station is at the bottom of it so it was an easy walk πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I like this old set. It costs around $ 55 US and I could easily repaint it at work.

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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??!! πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Well I guess they’ll need to pour in new oil as well but the seal itself is very cheap πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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They have a rather new miniature golf lane in the middle of the town.

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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 aroundΒ  $10,78 US gallon. Personally I think there are lot of other things I rather use my money on πŸ™‚

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The Daffodils flower in FalkΓΆping, here where I live they barely have buds. More photos of FalkΓΆping and my walk home in my next post.

Have a great day!

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Biting wind.

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The sun is shining, the sky is mostly blue and there’s an ice freezing wind there to destroy it all. At first it hit from south east so it was impossible to stay in the garden for more than a minute or two but now it has moved to blow from north so we can finally stay on the south side of the cottage without freezing.

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We stayed mostly in the forest on our morning walk today but we had to pass a couple of fields and of course we then met eight roe deer. I managed to stop Alma from seeing them but that didn’t stop her from shouting like crazy πŸ™‚ It passed fairly quickly though and the rest of the walk she behaved reasonable well.Too bad I had to occupie her because I therefore couldn’t take any photos of the deer

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I sowed twenty kernels of corn in a small container about a month ago and they have all grown together, so today was the day I needed to do something about it. They are quite big now and that helped. I filled a bucket with water and after that I just put the entire lump with corn plants and soil in it. It took around an hour but finally the soil was so wet that I could separate them from each other so now I’ll just plant each and everyone of them in separate pots. Have no idea where I’ll place them because even though the pots are small they will need a lot of space πŸ™‚

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Also it looks like Alme believes this is grass for her to eat, she tried to chew one of them but I managed to stop her πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Perhaps I’ll place them in my cool cellar with the plant light. The cooler temperatures will slow down the growing but no dog will be able to chew them down πŸ™‚ My brother’s cherry plum tree is in full bloom now, he lives by the coast. So I took a look at mine and it turns out that a few of its flowers also are open now. I wish it would calm down because frost and flowers aren’t a great thing if one want fruit and we can after all have frost at nights until at least June sixth.

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I better replant those corn plants and after that I think I’ll sow some cabbage and Broccolo. It looks like a green cauliflower but the taste is more like common broccoli. I’ve grown it before I moved from my old home town and I remember liking it a lot. Well I better get started or I’ll forget to do any of it πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

I’m a bit lopsided.

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Alma is in heat and is pretty annoying towards all of us πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So now I’ll have to keep an eye on her again every time she’s outdoors. She had stopped jumping over the fence all the time so I had finally relaxed from that but I really don’t want her to run over to the dogs on the other side of the village and I really don’t want her to have puppies πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I went to the physiotherapist today and I will continue with more exercises. She still hasn’t ruled out that Alma actually did tear something in my shoulder because it seems that the nerv(s) isn’t that pinched any longer but I still have the pain in my shoulder. I have also over compensated for the pain so now I’m a bit lopsided πŸ™‚ My left shoulder is placed way higher than my right and I also have a pain in my neck and behind the shoulder blade. These new exercises should help with that and I’ll continue with those I’ve already have done for two weeks. I’ll see her again in three weeks.

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We went out to the bog today, Nova didn’t want that at all so she sort of dragged behind all the time we were out there, Albin and Alma behaved just the opposite. It turned the other way when we went homewards again, Albin and Alma dragged behind and Nova did what she could to hurry us up πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I have no idea why Nova didn’t want to walk out there because it was really pleasant and none of the other dogs seemed to smell anything that could be unpleasant for them, like pigs or moose or wolf because there are at least one roaming around in the county and we now have a pack in a neighboring county as well.

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Besides that very little has happened here. I’ve had plenty of tea but still managed to doze off in front of the tv πŸ™‚ To be honest they don’t show much quality tv in the middle of the day so that could be the one of the reasons I managed to fall asleep so fast πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Pretty good for being a Tuesday.

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So easter is over and it was so fun, allergies and a cold really gave that golden lining we all love at long holiday πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I did go to work today but went home an hour early just because I could and was really tired. Turns out that lots of people at work had gotten this cold as well so many were at home.

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The weather has been really nice and I could enjoy it quite a lot because now when I paint with normal paint I can open the big door and let the sunshine in while the things I’ve painted are drying. The place I paint in now is more or less looking like a garage where a bus easily can fit and there would still be space for a small car πŸ™‚

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I really can’t say that my shoulder is much better but some movements hurts less while others hurt more, I’ll go to the physiotherapist on Friday again and then she’ll decided if I’ll continue with other exercises or if a doctor needs to take a look at my shoulder. I do hope she thinks that more exercises will help because one way or the other a doctors appointment will hurt, sooner or later.

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A good news however is that my work friend who has been on paternity leave for almost six months will start working next week so I will not have to take care of the huge washing machine any more. It takes at least two hours to check it and change filters and so on every day and I’m really tired of it now. It also makes it a bit difficult to manage to paint all the things I need to paint at my new job.

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Alma has actually behaved pretty well these last three days. Now when she understands that I’m getting a bit annoyed (pretty angry to be honest) with her pulling and running around everywhere at the same time she starts to walk behind me for a short while. That was how it started with Albin and the end of him pulling the leash. The screaming as soon as she see something move is still there though but one thing at a time and we’ll might solve that too πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Perfect easter weather.

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I’ve survived the cold so far and the honey helps me to keep the cough away, well I wake up coughing but then I have some honey and the cough will be gone in half an hour. At least my brain think it is the honey helping and they’ve realized that the placebo effects are actually just as good as the real thing πŸ™‚

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We’re having a perfect weather this easter, sunny and between 10C-15C (50F and 59F). Also no wind that I can feel and that makes it even better πŸ™‚ We didn’t have any frost last night so it was quite pleasant to let the dogs outside early this morning. I stood on the entrance stairs and listened to all the birds singing and some cranes trumpeting. I know that I’m very privileged to be able to live like I do and this morning I fully enjoyed it πŸ™‚ I’m not that happy about it those times the car breaks down though but that’s a totally different thing πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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We walked down to the bog early this morning. We couldn’t walk out on the peninsula because yesterday when we did we suddenly stood around 50 meters (much the same in yards) away from a nesting crane couple. They didn’t seem to mind too much but they did keep an eye on us the whole time we happened to be that close to them. I had unfortunately only an old camera with me and the phone but the phone photos didn’t turn out especially well. Still we went down to the island instead but the ground is still way to wet so we had to turn back homewards again.

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The kitchen door is open and the radiators are turned off, at least during the day. I’ve made another batch with ice cream and this time I had bought a small tin with preserved peaches. It’ll be ready to eat tomorrow I think and it will fit perfect with another sunny and warm day (at least that’s what they’re guessing we’ll have tomorrow and on Tuesday as well). I’ve gotten tired of having my camellias in the cool cellar so today I’ve placed them on the north side of the cottage. I’ll soon make me some lunch and after that we’ll take another walk. Alme behaved really well this morning (yesterday she was awful though) so I hope she can do that again later today πŸ™‚

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I also took a couple of black and white photos.
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Have a great day!

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A cold and allergy.

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I now have the joy of having a cold at the same time some pollen gives me an allergy. The nose is running, my throat is hurting and in between sneezes I cough a lot. It’s really fun

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I fell asleep in the recliner as soon as I came home yesterday, woke up for a short while and went to bed and fell asleep. I have to say though that having a generous beekeeper as a neighbor has given me enough honey to keep the worst away.

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Every time my throat hurts too much or I’m about to start coughing I take half a teaspoon of honey and most of the problems go away for a couple of hours, so I can actually sleep rather well. I also drink a lot of tea with ginger but besides it tasting really nice I’m not sure if it is helping me or not πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So if I don’t write anything the coming days You now know that it’s just a common cold and allergies that drain me from all energy I have in my body πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Nights will get warmer, finally.

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It has been a rather wonderful day here today, yesterday wasn’t that bad either to be honest but we did have some wind that made it feel a bit more chilly than it actually was. Today started chilly and frosty but it changed quite fast and the rest of the day has been warm, nice and sunny.

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I’ve noticed that the more blurry a photo is the better those sparkly dots show πŸ™‚

Well the sun is hiding behind clouds now but it is still rather warm. A low pressure will pass tomorrow and on Friday but the temperature won’t drop especially much, could this mean spring has come to stay now? I do hope so. The birds seems to think so anyway but then again they were singing spring songs almost as much as now when we got that last snow πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I woke up with a really sour throat today and I’ve had some neck pain/ head ache. No fever though and I wonder if it is the corona virus I’ve gotten? So ever since the early morning I’ve eaten small ammounts of honey and as soon as I’ve done that my throat has felt much better. I’ve also had a lot of tea with ginger but I would have had that anyway πŸ™‚

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One more day at home and then back to work for one day, after that we’re having a four day holiday since it is easter and then on the Friday after that back to the physiotherapist. If my shoulder is better we’ll continue with the exercises if not she’ll send me to the doctor. So far I can’t say I feel much change though, well slightly better to be honest but there’s still time for it to change.

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I planted the rose on Teodor’s resting place today. We might still have chilly nights though so I’ve placed a big clay pot over it. Both to protect it from the cold nights but also from the burning sunshine. No risk of sunshine tomorrow though so I’ll remove the pot in the morning so that the opening leaf buds can get used to daylight and later on the sun shining.I’m a bit late but I’ve also sown melon seeds and the tomato seeds will be sown tomorrow.

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I’ve also started to sow annuals, like poppies and cornflower in the old wheel barrow. Later on I’ll sow californian poppies and nasturtium so I think the wheel barrow will look just as nice this year. I also need to sow morning glories and Black-eyed Susan vines soon so they get a chance to flower at all, they are a bit slow with that I’m afraid.

Have a great day!

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Apricot and banana cobbler with home made ice cream :-)

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It was supposed to be sunny all day here and the sun did show itself in the early morning but clouds arrived and I didn’t see it again until the afternoon. I didn’t mind much though because it reached 10C (50F) anyway so I had the kitchen door open for quite some time.

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Besides me going to the store to get the rose that will be planted on Teodors grave I did almost nothing yesterday. Well I did my exercises but that was it. There was still snow left on the ground and the other spaces were mostly muddy so I mostly just looked out the window to see my garden πŸ™‚ I was also a bit worried about Nova because her stomach was really bad and she didn’t even want to have a treat.

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I boiled rice and saith and she wouldn’t even touch it even after I had put in some tune in it, tuna is probably the thing she likes the most to eat. So I kept an eye on her, especially this morning but I didn’t have to worry, today she was so hungry that she ate it all πŸ™‚ She is after all 15 years old and even if she’s in good shape anything small or big can change that quickly. She just growled towards Alma so now I know she’s ok again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I haven’t done that much today either to be honest but I did bring up my lemon tree from the cold cellar and I also made that apricot and banana cobbler. I didn’t want to open a big tin of either pears or peach and there wasn’t enough with apricots in that tin so I added a banana. I can’t say that the banana added anything to the cobbler but the ice cream i had made was perfect with the cobbler πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

The winter continues.

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It has snowed again and it looks like this snow will stay all day but melt away tomorrow. It was quite nice this morning, despite it being chilly with snow in the air because there was no wind. We actually went out quite late for being us because I had forgotten to turn off the alarm. So up we went at 3:30 in the morning (well night might be a better word for it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ ) because the dogs really wanted to go outside.

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I sat down in the sofa after that and fell asleep, I didn’t sleep well but for quite a lot of hours πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Alma behaved reasonable well but I was worried when we reached the fields because we have lots of hares here now and I really didn’t want to deal with her screaming as soon as she see some wildlife. No wildlife in sight thankfully but I could hear the cranes trumpeting all around us.

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I fell asleep again as son as I sat down in the recliner πŸ™‚ I should have had a pillow behind my neck but I must say it is really comfortable. I’ve also done the exercises I got from the physiotherapist and that is much what my day has been like. I’m still just as tired though and days like these I often wonder how on earth I manage to work all day and not fall asleep all the time πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I think I’ll do a peach cobbler tomorrow or apricot or pear one, I bought canned apricots, peaches and pears yesterday so why not make something like that, after all I have my ice cream to have with it πŸ™‚ It looks like it finally has stopped snowing and now the sun shines as well πŸ™‚

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I think it is time for a cup of tea and perhaps go outside for a while to enjoy some of the sunshine. After that I’ll most likely fall asleep in front of the tv πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!