I’ve had a 24 hour flu. I don’t know if You have that on the other side of the ocean but that means Your stomach will give up completely for about 24 hours.
It’s normally a summer thing but apparently it’s going around like wild fire over here. It started after I got home from work yesterday and now it’s more or less over. I have done very little besides sleeping today but I managed to take a few photos in between long naps 🙂
I’ll see You all tomorrow again.
Have a great day!
Nothing much has happened since last time. Up in the morning, going to work, home again and then it feels like it’s time to go to bed again 🙂 Today the sun is shining and even though it is a bit cooler today it still feels warmer than previous days.
Alma is still in heat and she leaks like mountain spring, my cottage doesn’t smell nice at all. She has also started to pee at the same spot just before we get up in the morning (that doesn’t help with the smell at all), I do hope she stops with that as soon as this is over.
I think we actually can say that we’re in a drought now, it hasn’t rained (or snowed) in weeks now. Can’t say that the ground is especially dry though so I’m not sure if it can be called a drought then. For once we didn’t have frost this morning, it felt kind of odd not having to scrape ice from the car 🙂
We’ll have the Road association meeting next week, three years since we had that the last time. I think that was the only good thing about the virus 🙂 🙂 🙂 To be honest it usually doesn’t take that long, it all depends on who will be there and if they can behave 🙂 🙂 So many times people start to discuss other things than the road. If everything goes as we hope the meeting will be over in ten minutes and after that we’ll have coffee and cookies, buns or something similar for well over half an hour 🙂
Have a great day!
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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.
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 🙂 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), something 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 🙂 🙂
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?
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 🙂 🙂 🙂 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 🙂 🙂 🙂
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 🙂
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Alma is in heat and is pretty annoying towards all of us 🙂 🙂 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 🙂 🙂
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 🙂 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.
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 🙂 🙂 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.
Besides that very little has happened here. I’ve had plenty of tea but still managed to doze off in front of the tv 🙂 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 🙂
Have a great day!
We’re having the same nice weather today, almost 20C (68F) but with a slightly stronger wind. The wind was perfect at work because I could have the door open when ever I didn’t paint anything 🙂 Too bad that cooler, less sunny and perhaps slightly rainy weather is on its way, I’ve really enjoyed these spring days.
Two days ago we passed a filed where the farmer was harrowing a field. He wasn’t even close to us but Alma and Albin decided that he probably was evil and would attack us any minute so they began screaming like insane. Today the farmer is doing the exact same thing in the cow pasture just outside my cottage and none of them gives a s it about it 🙂 🙂 🙂 They didn’t even look towards the tractor 🙂 🙂
I did get extra tired of them yesterday though, not Nova because she really knows how to behave because she is the queen of course. We walked down the road and I thought that we would walk down to the creek. Suddenly a woman with two very well behaved dogs walked around some spruces. We both stopped and then she called and said she would take the forest road instead and I managed to shout back than You before Alma and Albin started.
Albin started with that strange sound many pitbulls have, something between a growl and a scream. Sounds a bit charming when You see and hear it in a video, not charming at all when You stand beside him 🙂 🙂 Alma then let go of her sound that sounds much like I’m tearing her legs off. It actually sounds like she’s in bad pain and that dog has huge lungs and sounds a lot. I do wonder what the woman was thinking when she passed us behind the trees around twenty meters (much the same in yards) away from us.
Then suddenly they both decided to howl like wolves!!! Alma started and Albin thought it sounded great so he started also and all I could say was Oh god why can’t You two behave like normal dogs 🙂 🙂 🙂 Of course they then behaved like they were on amphetamine the entire walk and I was so tired when we came back home that I fell asleep as soon as I sat down. I really should have stayed in the recliner because I slept really well there 🙂 🙂 🙂
Tomorrow I’ll go to the physiotherapist again. My shoulder is better in some way but actually worse in others. I have no idea what that means but I guess it’s not a good thing, it usually isn’t. A wheel bearing, I think, is slowly giving up in my car so I’ll go to the garage next Tuesday. I have heard a sound for a while now but haven’t been able to figure out what it could be. Wheel bearings usually takes their time, even if they can sound really bad, before they give up so I’m not especially worried.
Have a great day!
So easter is over and it was so fun, allergies and a cold really gave that golden lining we all love at long holiday 🙂 🙂 🙂 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.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 