Category: Windy.

A stroll in Falköping.

April 26, 2022 · 2 Comments ·

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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 🙂 🙂 🙂

DSC_0016 (10) — 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 Falköping 🙂 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.

DSC_0020 (11) — I would most likely felt more sure they know what they do if those hand written signs weren’t there 🙂 They dress furnitures and fill upp the old stuffing as well. Is it called stuffing? well You know what I mean 🙂

DSC_0021 (9) — We call this pigeon Turkish dove. It looks very much like a Turtledove but is bigger.

DSC_0023 (10) — I also passed a second hand shop.

The garage is at the top of a mountain called Ålleberg and the bus/ train station is at the bottom of it so it was an easy walk 🙂 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 🙂 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 🙂 🙂 🙂

DSC_0025 (10) — 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??!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well I guess they’ll need to pour in new oil as well but the seal itself is very cheap 🙂 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 🙂 🙂 🙂

DSC_0030 (10) — 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 around $10,78 US gallon. Personally I think there are lot of other things I rather use my money on 🙂

DSC_0037 (6) — The Daffodils flower in Falköping, here where I live they barely have buds. More photos of Falköping and my walk home in my next post.

Have a great day!

Biting wind.

April 23, 2022 · Leave a comment ·

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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 🙂 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 🙂

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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 🙂 🙂 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 🙂 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 🙂

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Have a great day!

I’m a bit lopsided.

April 22, 2022 · 2 Comments ·

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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 🙂 🙂

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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 🙂 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 🙂 🙂 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 🙂 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 🙂

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Have a great day!

I remember when I had normal dogs :-)

April 21, 2022 · 2 Comments ·

DSC_0006 (8) — These photos are a couple of days old now.

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.

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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 🙂 🙂

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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.

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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.

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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 🙂 🙂 🙂

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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.

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Have a great day!

I had to apologize to Alma.

April 7, 2022 · 2 Comments ·

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The snow started to fall yesterday and I think it stopped some time before I went up this morning, that would be around 4:40 am. They had siad that we would have below 0C (32F) temperatures during the night but I think it stayed at that temperature all night. (Most photos today are from yesterday when we took a walk after work)

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All roads were ice free but the smaller ones were covered in a thick layer of snow. They have been warning us for more snow today and strong winds but it looks as if that nasty weather has passed further north of here. The winds are sort of reasonable strong and the rain is pouring down. Everything is wet and muddy now and every time the dogs have been outside, just to quickly do what is necessary, I need to scrub the floors again. They are still guessing that we’ll get more snow later tonight and that the temperature will drop for a short while so that we’ll have a snow white world again at least for a short while.

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I went to the physiotherapist today and she checked how well or not my arms worked. We talked about my rheumatism but she didn’t think it would make any difference on this and we talked about Alma as well 🙂 🙂 Well I had to apologize to Alma when I came home today because she’s not guilty for this, she may have hastened the symptoms but she isn’t responsible for this. I have what she called an inpintchement ( I hope I heard that right, she’s Danish but spoke Swedish really well) in both my shoulders but the right one is much worse than the left.

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It means that my nerves are getting squeesed and therefore gives me pain. I got some exercises I should do and was told to stay at home for at least five working days. I’ll meet her in two weeks and if these exercises doesn’t help she will hand me over to a doctor. If I get better I’ll get more exercises to do and we’ll continue like that until I’m back to much better. This is a rather common thing to get when working with the hands above the head for way too many times and for too long periods without any chance to rest the arm and shoulder. Painters are especially common amongst those who get it.

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They are very helpful at work and now they started to discuss other people who risk getting this too. Nothing bad that doesn’t bring some good with it! I stopped by the lake on my way home and there are some cranes but I could see at least as many in the fields just outside my village. The last counting said 17200 and that was two days ago, it snowed way too much for them to be able to count any yesterday 🙂

Have a great day!

There’s lesson to learn here but I don’t know what.

April 3, 2022 · 4 Comments ·

DSC_0003 (2) — Not as cold last night as previous nights but still frost everywhere.

We’ve had another rather wonderful day here, a bit chilly in the wind but otherwise mostly sunny. I got a text message yesterday from my neighbors, they asked me if I wanted an armchair, You know the kind that one can lean back and then get a sort of foot step to rest the legs on and also a bit of a rocking chair?

DSC_0004 (2) — There was a halo around the sun this morning, it was so big that I only could photo a small part of it.

They didn’t have the space for it and I like those kinds of armchairs so I said yes. I had to remove the one I had first though, a rattan armchair that I can’t use since I doubt that I now days can get up from if I sit in it 🙂 🙂 🙂 That started a series of cleaning events. I found several more places where Teodor had had his toilet, especially beneath the rattan armchair. I also tossed away a lot of other things I really have no need for and continued out to the kitchen where I finally removed all cardboard boxes and moved them to the car so that I can put them in the recycling containers.

DSC_0012 (1) — This photo was taken two seconds before the hare crossed the field.

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I also filled two empty big dog food sacks with all kinds of rubbish and then thankfully they asked me to come over and have a cup of coffee and also see what kinds of seeds we’re having since we’ll grow our vegetables together this year. If they hadn’t only god knows how much I had cleaned before I would fall down to the floor totally exhausted 🙂 🙂 🙂

a (494) — The rest of the photos are from the folder “For a rainy day”.

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We walked down to the creek again this morning. Everything went well, ok Alma had to walk behind me so that she couldn’t rip my shoulder to pieces again. Then we saw a hare running across a field. I don’t know why but she starts to scream as if she is ripped apart by something and I really can’t calm her down. Albin is much the same but he’s relatively quiet compared to her. The walk was sort of destroyed after that even though she finally did calm down. We had just arrived to the gate here when she suddenly saw another hare cross the cow pasture outside my property. She just sat down and quietly looked at it???

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I guess I can learn something from this but I’m not sure what 🙂 🙂 🙂 She’s rather impossible when we’re out walking (some days are really good though) but the coolest dog in the world when we’re at home. She gets insane if she sees a wild animal when we’re out walking but really doesn’t care if we’re at home or at least close to it. Doesn’t she like taking walks? Can You figure out what the lesson here is since I really can’t?

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It is time to go down to my armchair and most likely fall asleep in it 🙂 I think I actually will sleep better there since no dog will be able to share it with me 🙂 🙂 🙂

Have a great day!

This is the seventh one :-)

April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 · 6 Comments ·

The farmer feeds his cattle just outside my cottage and silage doesn’t smell especially nice to be honest, a heavy sweetish stale scent that eats its way in to the brain 🙂

So a new place once again and now I have 99.98% left of space to use before I need to get a new place again 🙂 🙂 I have however actually paid for having the domain name locked to me, until now anyone actually could use the name Cottage by the Cranelake if they so had wished to. I chose this theme but that can change if I find any I like better later on 🙂

We’re having another sunny and beautiful day here, cold though and quite windy. I can hear the wind blowing but when I go outside nothing moves. the positive side of living at the bottom a slope, the negative side is that it is always a couple of degrees colder down here when it is cold. Then again it usually is hotter here as well on hot days so I guess it evens out even if it really doesn’t feel that way 🙂 🙂 🙂

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I wanted to go out on the bog again this morning but since the dogs didn’t like it yesterday we instead walked down to the creek and back up to the little peninsula by the bog but some distance away from where we walked yesterday. Both Albin and Alma were staring towards the island all the time so I guess they still felt something was out there, Nova didn’t care at all and enjoyed the sunshine instead, just like I did 🙂

Besides that I’ve done very little. Napped for a while and I’ve had loads of tea. I’ve also thawed some soil so that I can plant a mango pit. I do that every now and again and the little tree thrives until winter comes and the air in the cottage gets too dry, then it lose all its leafs and dies. This year I think of trying having a see through plastic bag around it so that the humidity around it will stay high all the time.

I have made some ice cream but haven’t tested it yet. Vanilla and a french jam with four fruits in it and to make it taste more I also added some lemon juice and I do hope I poured in enough of it. I’ll know better in an hour or so 🙂 The dogs and I have also had pancakes for dinner 🙂 Something we all enjoy 🙂

In this and the last photo I’ve tried to capture those sparkling dots from frost and sunshine but it’s tricky 🙂

Have a great day!