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So nice day!

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I really can’t complain about anything today to be honest. 23C (73,4F), sunshine, a weak but cool wind blowing and Alma has behaved all day! There was this one deer that refused to move out in a field but Alma didn’t see it and only pulled the leash forward. It’s when she suddenly make quick turns that my shoulder gets worse.

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The first horse flies have arrived, still they aren’t too bad, just annoying by circling around showing they are here. Well I think one bit Alma because most of the day she has been chasing everyone of them that has been close to her. These look like wasps so I’m a bit worried she will try and catch one of those, a sting in the mouth isn’t a good thing. I can also tell already now that it’s a wasp year, long time since I saw these many as I do now.

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I’ve finally done the potato patch πŸ™‚ I haven’t placed the last pieces of lawn over the stinging nettles yet, I was so tired and my body hurt so much when I was done that I decided to do that tomorrow. It was so fun because every time I went away for a short while small birds landed in the patch and took any maggot, larvae and worm they could find. Some were even so brave that they came down while I still was working there. I’ll rake the place tomorrow before I put down the potatoes so they’ll have another chance to find food. There is this larvae (who eventually will become some kind of beetle) that feeds on grass roots, when the grass roots no longer is there they will go for the potatoes so any of these the birds will take is a good thing.

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Tomorrow I’ll start with the vegetable patch and do the exact same thing there. I’ll have some very well fed baby birds this summer πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I think there are lots of birds nests in the garden this summer because I could hear when they fed their younglings. It’s amazing how loud they are, especially since there are so many who would love to have them as a snack. I don’t have any cats now but the neighbors have plenty but they are of course not in my garden if I and my dogs are there.

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Tomorrow is our national day and that’s a day very few actually celebrates here. Most of us didn’t want it to become a holiday because we knew they would remove another holiday we had if it did become a holiday. The one they removed was Whit Monday. No one did celebrate that one either since no one actually knew why we had it as a holiday πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The thing was however that it always was on a Monday so we all knew we would get a long weekend.Our national day can come any day since it is a fixed date. So since no one actually wanted it both the employers and the union agreed on us getting eight hours of compensation time every year it happened on a Saturday or Sunday so that we actually could take a long weekend anyway πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I can feel I have drunk way too little water after working in the sun all day so now I’ll have something to drink and I will also open a tin of canned peaches because I feel I deserve it πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

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Tiny little spiders who are all ready to start to eat each other πŸ™‚
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Finally I’ve mowed my lawn.
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The potato patch. I’ve planted three hardy kiwi along the fence. It looks like one might be dead or on its way to so I’ve ordered a new one.
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I’ve made a path for the dogs with the cut out pieces of lawn.
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This is a male plant of the hardy kiwi. It’ll get small beautiful white flowers. None of my female plants will give any flowers this year so I’ll have to wait for a chance to eat the berries.

That was a day I’ll never get back.

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The photos are from the last three days.

So the company I work for started a sort of club for us working more than eleven years in the company, to “strengthen the community feeling”Β  (and do fun things together) as I remember them saying. We even got a golden pin with the company logo on. Nothing much happened after that until yesterday when we all were going on a trip together.

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Sounds fun doesn’t it? I did try to get out of it but had no such luck πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So we were going to the coast and so far so good. We had a really nice breakfast at a small hotel and that was quite nice too, we had the view over the ocean just outside the windows. It was after that it sort of went downhill. I can’t for my life understand how they thought us going to a company that makes similar things to what we do and then listening to how they met certain regulations during at least two hours in any way would “strengthen the community feeling”???

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They’ve started to cut down all the trees in this place. It has been one of my favorite places to walk. The bark beetle will most likely kill all trees anyway.

I was so bored that I for a while thought of just pretending to go to the bathroom and run away to the train station to go back home without them knowing πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ When that meeting finally was over we went to a factory one of the Owners of the company I work for owns. First however we had lunch and the food was actually worse than the one we used to have before we changed to another restaurant and we finally got food that was cooked and actually spiced too πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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By then I thought it would have been better just to die there and when but we went to the factory, after all it could be fun to see what and how they were doing things there. Well Friday afternoon is perhaps not the best time to visit any other company since they are preparing for going home and nothing much happens? So the best I can say about yesterday is that it is a day I’ll never get back and that I now know I’ll refuse to go on another. I still can’t understand how they thought this in any way would do any good in any way. If anything it just showed us that those higher up in the hierarki really live in another world and most likely have no life outside work. I actually feel really sorry for them.

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The walk this morning went fairly well until we met a deer. I really tried to make the deer move before Albin and Alma noticed it but that stupid animal just stood there and watched us. I shouted, jumped around and insulted its intelligence for not running away but it just stood there watching us until Albin and Alma started to scream like insane. The walk was not fun after that and I’ve decided I will notΒ have another walk with those two today. The shoulder pain is enough reason for not taking any more walks today.

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Stupid, stupid deer.
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If one finds lilacs in the forest one can know with certainty that there once was a house built there.

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It is time to start mowing, perhaps I’ll just do half the lawn today and the rest tomorrow. I’ll also continue with removing the lawn in the potato patch and later on theΒ  vegetable patch too. Before anything else though I’ll have a cup of coffee πŸ™‚

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I will cut this one down if I don’t get grapes this year. I got some two summers ago and they hid behind big leafs so the sun never reached them and they were quite sour πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

The first potatoes are in the ground now.

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I can barely see my gate during summer πŸ™‚ I like it any day as long as it hasn’t rained. The slightest touch and all rainwater on those leafs will fall down on me πŸ™‚ :-)

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We’ve had such a nice day here, sunshine for half the day and it reached almost 18C (64,4F). Very little wind and the wind we had was lukewarm πŸ™‚ Quite chilly in the morning (almost frost) though but with the sun shining it didn’t feel that bad anyway.

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I have continued to remove the lawn in my new potato patch and it does take much more time than one might think, especially since I want to remove as much soil from it as possible. I now have removed half the surface from grass and I’ve also put down the first potatoes. I know it’s good for my body to do things like this because moving my body is the only thing that actually keeps my rheumatism in place but I can tell You that it won’t feel that way for a couple of days from now πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ If the weather permits I will continue to remove the rest of the surface the coming days. After that I’ll have to do the same with the vegetable patch I’m planning πŸ™‚

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Clouds are now covering the sky and every now and again I can hear some drizzle fall from the sky, not enough to actually call it a rain fall but I do like the sound it makes when hitting the leafs in the lilac hedge. Also so little that having an open window doesn’t even making it wet πŸ™‚

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I’ve picked up the last plants from my cool cellar and turned off the lights until next autumn when I’ll move those plants back again. I’ve realized that I’ve sown loads of clementine kernels last autumn and most of those tiny plants have survived, both those who stayed in the kitchen during winter and those living in the cellar. Can’t say I can see any bigger difference in size between them but I guess that if it matters how they stay over winter I’ll most likely see the difference after this summer.

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It is time for a last cup of tea for the day. I’ve tried not tro fall asleep in front of the tv all day so I’m so tired now that I doubt that any ammount of tea or coffee would be able to keep me awake during the night πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Lots of rain and looong naps :-)

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Through my kitchen window early in the morning.

It rained half the day and now we have sunshine but also a really strong wind blowing. I must say I do prefer the sunshine and wind because it’ll dry up lots of the water that fell from the sky the last day. Also the humidity is finally going down again. We’ll get plenty of more rain the coming days if they’re guessing the weather right.

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The Cuckoo bird is rather shy and hard to see but I just had one siting in my lilac hedge so I guess now some of the smaller birds nesting in my garden will have an egg added to the ones they already have and that one will hatch much earlier and then toss out the other eggs so that it will get all the attention and food. Nature is really only nice and relaxing for us humans since we are top predators, for the rest of the animals and plants it’s really a battle ground.

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We managed to take a walk in between showers today. It stopped just before we went out and we even got some sunshine. It started again as soon as we had come home πŸ™‚ I really didn’t want to do anything today so except for walking the dogs I’ve napped and napped for hours πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I do hope I can fall asleep tonight because I’ll get up at 3:30 tomorrow morning πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Not a lot of people will work tomorrow since today is a holiday and who wants to work on a Friday? So I’ll stay for a couple of hours just to check te huge washing machine after they’ve poured in new water and chemicals. I’ll do some testings to see that it doesn’t change too much before I go back home.

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I’ll do some more sowing of flower seeds later today. I’ll sow the seeds where I’ve put all the lawn I removed. I hope that when these seeds germinate and grow they’ll make it much harder for any of the stinging nettles to grow back up. Futile I know but one can still hope. Perhaps I at least will get lots of flowers in between the nettles πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I found to my big surprise that my honey suckle had died, I didn’t know they could πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Quite often when someone wants to get rid of honeysuckles they still grow back every year, so it was quite surprising to see that mine was totally gone!

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Tomorrow after work I’m planning on going to the pet store to buy some fish to have in my water barrels. I don’t think I’ll have goldfish this time because they grow so big but there are alternatives. Water barrels without fish in them are mosquito paradise and even though I don’t mind mosquitoes that much I still don’t want them to have that while they still are alive πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It is time to go out and sow those seeds and after that I think I’ll check for other seeds from flowers who like dry conditions, I only have sand beneath my lawn and that dries up quickly no matter how much it rains here.

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In my garden right now. Lilacs and lots of them unfortunately.

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Strawberries.

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Sand cherries.

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Japanese quince.

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We call these Troll grapes. These ones will get deeply red berries later on.

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Have a great day!

I’ve started to remove the lawn.

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Do You remember that big old crabapple tree that grew outside the dog yard but fell down in a storm a couple of years ago? Root shoots from it have now grown so big that they’ve started to flower.

I woke up pretty early this morning, let the dogs outside and saw that everything still was pretty wet after yesterdays rain. So as soon as they had come back in I went up to bed and slept for an hour and a half more πŸ™‚ Really nice and the dogs didn’t seem to mind either πŸ™‚

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The day has mostly been cloudy, sometimes there’s been a gap between clouds so that the sun has reach us down on the ground. No rain really but the occasional drop has fallen every now and again. I did hang out the laundry to dry because an occasional drop doesn’t make much difference. The humidity has been rather high though, 88%.

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I’ve started to remove the lawn where the potato patch will be, so far I’ve removed perhaps a quarter of it and I’ve also planted three mini kiwi vines (I think they also are called hardy kiwi vines). I’ve done enough for the day I feel so I’ll continue to remove lawn tomorrow. The parts I’ve removed I’ve started to cover lots of stinging nettles. It won’t stop them from growing but it will at least slow them down a bit. Stinging nettles are an indicator plant, they only grow where there’s lot of nutrients, especially nitrogen, in the ground. I hate stinging nettles no matter how useful they are but I refuse to get rid of my dogs who are the source of all that nitrogen just to get rid of the nettles πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It looked like the frost took those tiny peaches that grow on my new peach tree but that might not be after all. The peaches are still there and they aren’t soft as they would be if the frost had damaged them. The color however is towards brown but perhaps that is what is supposed to as they grow? I do hope they hang on so I at least once can have a taste of my own peaches πŸ™‚ I’ve also ordered another apricot tree. Unfortunately I had to order from the same place so lets hope they’ll do it right this time, there’s only place for so many trees in my garden and one peach tree is enough, especially since I never wanted one in the first place  πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I think I’ll have a last cup of tea for the day. I didn’t win the big winning in any of the lotteries this week,  so I’ll have to go to work tomorrow. Well I would have stayed that month we have after telling them one will quit working anyway but I think I would have felt much happier about it if I had won πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

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We didn’t get much but more will fall.

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The showers never passed above us here so we didn’t get that much rain but then again it’ll rain all weekend, perhaps no showers but I’m pretty sure we’ll get enough to fill up my water barrels. Today has been pretty nice though, just below 20C (68F), a little windy with cool air blowing and mostly cloudy with rather thin clouds.

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I had planned to dig up the potato and vegetable patches today but I felt too tired by the time I was supposed to do it so I’ll do that tomorrow instead, if it doesn’t rain too much of courseΒ  πŸ™‚ I do wake up early every day but 3:30 am is a bit early even for me but that’s when I need to get up on Fridays since I need to be first at work to go through (literally actually) the big washing machine before anyone else starts to work πŸ™‚ There’s so much to do in the powder paint department that they need to work the entire weekend and they’ll also work on Thursday when we’re having a holiday here. Guess if I’m glad I don’t work in there any more πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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We walked down to the creek after I had come home today and I must say that Almas behaviour has improved a lot. She still pulls the leash and she still shouts and whines but not even close to what she used to. Unless she see anything moving of course πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She loves t watch birds or just even listen to them and now she can hear the Cuckoo bird everywhere. I don’t think I’ve ever heard as many as this year and the first one I heard Cuckooed from north and according to old folklore that means we’ll have a dry summer. Spring and now presummer has been dry so far so who knows if that one is right πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It is time for a pot of tea and I think I still have a few digestives I can have with it. I also think I might have some blue cheese to put on them and if the rain waits to start falling I even might have it while sitting on te kitchen stairs. No sunshine now but birds are singing and it’s quite nice outside πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Yay! The mosquito season has started :-)

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I really didn’t need to paint anything today but the weather was so nice and we had summer temperatures so I did it anyway πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It was so warm in the factory but so nice where I paint so that half of the day I was there was so nice and time just ran away. It didn’t when I had to go back to the heat again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The cherry flowering is almost over and now starts the apples πŸ™‚

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The clouds arrived before I drove homewards though and now it rains but just a nice spring rain. It can change pretty fast though if the showers that can give us up to an inch of rain comes this way. We do need the rain though so I won’t complain if those showers comes here. That would also fill up my water barrels so that’s another reason not to complain.

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I need to buy more fence. I put up fences around the places where I’ll have the potato patch and the vegetable patch and even though I do feel those spaces were smaller than I expected I still spent an entire roll of fence πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I haven’t started to remove the grass yet, I’ll do that tomorrow unless it rains then too. I’ll place the removed lawn on top of stinging nettles, it won’t kill them but it will at least slow them down a little.

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The frost we had the other night killed almost all the small peaches on my new tree, they have turned brownish. I hope that at least the two that still just were withered flowers might grow in to peaches though. It also killed all my corn plants, that annoyes me a bit more actually. I do however have more seeds to sow so I’ll do that this weekend and I’ll cover the ground so that any small seedlings that show won’t freeze if we’ll get frost again.

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Yay, the mosquito season has started πŸ™‚ We were walking in the forest when they suddenly attacked us. I have a few bites on my back but the most annoying one is on the side of one of my fingers. I don’t even know how it managed to go there since I held two leashes with that hand. Just a few minutes ago a woman with a stroller and a small dog passed my cottage and went up to my neighbors. The poor woman must have been scared to death when Albin and Alma suddenly started huffing and puffing and barking just as she walked beside my fence πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Frost in the morning.

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From what I’ve been able to see we’ve had a rather wonderful day. It started with frost though and I was a bit worried that the tiny peaches would freeze and fall off but they were still hanging on this afternoon.

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I did start to paint some things this morning but when the first things were painted it turned out that I didn’t have any place to put them while continue painting other things. We have so much to do now in the factory that all places where one can place materials are occupied. So I had to stop and do other things in the factory instead. Time flew while I was painting but it sure didn’t fly when I had to do other things instead. It is amazing how boring jobs can make time stand still.

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I was planning on fence in the area where I’ll have my potato patch and also the place where I’ll have the vegetable patch today. The fence is a self standing one covered in a thin layer of plastic so it will be quite easy to put it up. On my way home however I remembered that I don’t have any cutting pliers hare at home so tomorrow I’ll borrow one from work instead. We’ll get some rain tomorrow night and quite a lot on Saturday if they’re guessing right so it would be a good thing if I could have prepared those two areas before it starts on Saturday.The potatoes would love it.

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We walked down to the creek after work and I must say that Alma has started to behave much better. Ok she still behaves insane but in a calmer way πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She even stopped screaming to a couple of cars passing by after just a few seconds πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Albin continued a bit longer and the beekeeper thought he sounded like a Tasmanian Devil πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ To be honest he does sound much like it πŸ™‚Β  πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It is time for a cup of tea, I’m pretty sure I’m tired enough so that I still can fall asleep tonight πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

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Sunny and warm.

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We’ve had a rather lovely day, sunshine almost all the time, some occasional clouds have passed by but I didn’t mind. The wind is weaker than before and today it was just cool enough when I mowed the lawn. Not that much of the wind reach the garden but the little that did was really nice.

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We walked down to the creek this morning and then followed it up-streams and walked through the forest on our way back home again. I think we scared away some wild hogs but I could still feel the smell of them when we passed that place. It’s a good thing they rather run away than stay to see what’s walking up the road πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I’ve also done the laundry and mowed the lawn so I feel that I’ve done more than enough for the day πŸ™‚ When one plant a tree like I did the other day one must water at least ten liters of water every day for around ten days, even if it rains so that’s the only other thing I’ve done today. I was thinking for a while that I should bake a sponge cake or something like that but I didn’t have any baking powder and I didn’t have the energy to do anything else so instead I’ve longed for something sweet all day long πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I watched the eurovision last night but I went to bed before the voting started. It was around 11:30pm by the time they had stopped singing and I have no idea for how long that program continued. Ukraine won as expected, United Kingdom came second, Spain third and our song fourth, not bad at all. The Italian song ended further down and I have to say that if one insists on singing big parts in falsetto like the Italian guys did one really should be able to do that without getting out of tune, it just sounds horrible πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Well I didn’t win the lottery this weekend either so I’ll go to work as usual tomorrow morning. The coming week will be rather warm, some days well over 20C (68F) but they are also guessing that there will be more clouds hanging around. I’m so glad I don’t work in the powder painting department any longer, it’ll be nasty hot in there already on Tuesday. I’ll be able to have an open gate when I paint so I’ll just enjoy the warmer days πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

I went out and took a look at the label :-)

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So just before I was going to bed yesterday evening I suddenly started to think about the label on my new apricot tree. I thought it looked a bit odd but also thought it must be a standardized thing they put on and then the text would say what it was. Well I went out to look at it a second time.

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Cherry trees are in bloom everywhere now.

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Grape elder.

Turns out it wasn’t a standardized label, I haven’t gotten an apricot tree πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Instead I got one of those flat peaches πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So the last thing i did before going to bed was to email the company. It costs the same and has the same hardiness so I wondered if they wanted me to send it back to them or if I could take this tree instead since I really didn’t want to find a new box, since I had cut it down πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The sort of fun thing about this is that they don’t even sell that peach yet so someone must have made a big mistake.

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Grape elder again.

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Bird-cherry buds.

They answered that I could keep it if I wanted so now I have a peach tree instead πŸ™‚ I do like them a lot those flat peaches but peach trees have huge problems with a fungus that kills them after a few years so I wasn’t sure at first but then I found out that they now have a good pesticide that kills the fungus (it contains sulfur which kills off the fungus and one need so small ammounts that it isn’t dangerous for anything else). One need to spray the tree with it after the leafs have fallen in autumn and one more time before the new leafs grow out.After doing that the problems will go away. I do like apricots though so I might order one anyway but most likely from another business πŸ™‚

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We have a few Elm trees that still look really healthy so I hope that the Dutch Elm tree disease stays away.

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I’ve been a bit worried about Nova for a couple of days again because she really didn’t want to eat, not even treats and she is on her sixteenth year. Turns out her stomach was wobbly again so today she had no problems what so ever to gulp down her food again πŸ™‚ I’ve also bought the old food she likes better again and I’m pretty sure that helped as well. Still I need to find one she likes and keeps her stomach well so I better check out other varieties again.

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Dandelion season πŸ™‚

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It rained some when we were out walking but we also had some sunshine. It’ll rain again later tonight but after that the skies will keep the water to themselves for quite some time, at least that is what they’re guessing. It is time for something to eat and after that I’ll doze off in front of the tv, like always πŸ™‚

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In my garden right now. I hope the wheel-barrow will look good again this year.

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Marsh marigold in the root zone.

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We call these Pentecost lilies.

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Yellow wood anemone. These came with the perennial sunflowers that You can see the first leafs from around it.

Have a great day!

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I have three Serviceberry trees in my garden.

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Nanking cherry.

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Crab apple tree.

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Plum tree.

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Serviceberry tree again.

A bit higher than I thought :-)

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The photos are from the folder “For a rainy day”. This is what my Black walnut tree looked like last summer. It actually looks as if it is fighting the tree cancer with some success!

The winds are so strong today that I didn’t want to take a walk in the forest because the gusts might push some trees to the ground and I really don’t want to get one over anyone of us. Besides that it’s a really nice day, just enough warm and sunny. We did get some drops of rain and more will come tomorrow but that’s nothing compared to what we got yesterday.

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I left work a bit early yesterday because some papers would have to be signed before the road association meeting. The rain had started early and then the thunder arrived. To be honest most of it passed north of us but we did get the showers and the hail. I walked five meters from the car to the house door and was soaking wet before I arrived at the house πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’m so glad that the dog food I had ordered arrived the day before πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The meeting went very well, we were only five people there so the meeting didn’t take long and after that we had some coffee and biscuits πŸ™‚ I wasn’t away from home more than an hour including the drive there and back πŸ™‚

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Today my apricot tree finally arrived so I had to pick it up at the big package delivery center in FalkΓΆping. I did wonder why I couldn’t fetch it at my normal place in Gudhem but I had forgotten to check how high it actually was. It is just as or slightly taller than I am and I did have some problems getting it in to my car πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I had to cut off just enough of the box it arrived in to be able to shut the tailgate. Another problem was the wind.

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The package was high but not especially wide to be honest but the strong wind caught it and I’m lucky it didn’t use us as a kite πŸ™‚ The tailgate was headed just towards the wind so at first I couldn’t open it up. It was a bit tricky to hold the package at the same time πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It was almost as difficult to shut it when all wind pressed in the the car and I tried to push the tailgate down πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ We now I have it at home and it will be standing at the north side of my cottage where the wind can’t reach it until it calmes down and I can find some place to plant it.

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I’ll leave work early tomorrow as well since I’m going to the physiotherapist again. I won’t go back to work after that since there will be very little time left until I stop working for the day.Β  I’m waiting for another package as well, I’ve ordered a fence so I can make it higher so that Alma won’t jump over it (well at least I hope she won’t πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ ) and I’ll also fence in my vegetable patches since Albin would eat anything edible he could reach πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

An attempted fraud?

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The Maples are in bloom.

We’ve had a really nice weather here today, a few clouds in the morning but the rest of the day has been totally free from them. Not as warm as yesterday though and the wind was a bit chilly but since it couldn’t reach my property I really didn’t mind πŸ™‚

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We walked down to the creek and in to the forest this morning and Alma behaved really well, to my very big surprise! I so wish that this is the way (or even better of course) she’ll behave from now on. I won’t hope too much though, she has behaved well occasionally before πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I don’t know if You have the Swish app, an app that one can use for sending smaller ammounts of money to other peoples accounts? One connects ones phone number to the bank account so it’s really easy to use if someone wants to lend money or to pay in stores as well. There are of course lots of frauds done that way too and today I got a text message from someone I don’t know who claimed that he had, by accident, swished me some money.

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I really don’t know how anyone can use this to scam anyone else from money but apparently one can. I used to have this app but that was several phones ago and I’m not planning on getting it again. So I texted back that: He had to do this via his bank because I don’t have the app any longer and won’t get it again, because You know too many frauds are done that way. πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’ve also called the bank and told them about it and they said I did the exact right thing. It will take a bit longer for that person to get his money back but he will get them back as soon as they’ve talked to me and I say it’s ok.

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I’ve mowed the lawn today as well, well spots of it anyway πŸ™‚ Mostly I actually mowed stinging nettles and that always make it feel more as a fun job that mowing grass. Stinging nettles thrives when one have several dogs peeing and pooping in the garden and they also spread very easily both by seeds and roots. They are edible (they stop to sting when heated up) and are full of nutrients but I can’t say that they taste delicious even though many actually think they do.

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I didn’t win the lottery yesterday so back to work on Monday as always. Well I would actually have stayed the month we are supposed to after giving notice but I would not have to come to work until I’ve had a visit to the bank to make sure the money had found their way in to my account πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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In my garden right now.

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Have a great day!

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The first bud on my strawberries πŸ™‚