Looks like my wifiy is dead, power goes in but the green light doesn’t glow. I guess it’ll take some time to get another one so until then have a good life.
Much better and two surprises.
I can’t pretend I feel especially well at all but I do still feel much better than I did just a couple of days ago. The fever is gone and most pain as well, the pain I do have is mostly because I haven’t been moving around especially much. As soon as I do move around it stops. I guess that’s because the fonts always are in pain anyway so all this lying and sitting doesn’t help.
We had a warm summer day here yesterday, a bit too warm for my liking but still rather nice. Today will be even warmer they say but also more cloudy. So the kitchen door was open for quite some time until a surprise shower passed by, after that it also became very humid so the door had to be closed. Then suddenly another one passed by and it became even worse 🙂 🙂
Yesterday the dogs decided they should pay my closest neighbours a visit and they are allowed to do so but only when they are at home and outside. Suddenly I heard a ruckus of cackling chickens and called back the dogs as fast as I could. I wasn’t aware that they had chickens at all so I was a bit confused 🙂 🙂 🙂 Turns out that it was the newest neighbours down the road, well not the neighbours but their chickens 🙂 🙂 They had decided to make a visit to my neighbours as well 🙂 🙂 Nothing bad happened though and I was later told that the owner had come and scolded the chickens and they haven’t been here since 🙂 🙂 🙂
I have been hydrating a bit too well lately, what goes in must come out, so I’ve been up around every third hour during nights 🙂 🙂 🙂 I let the dogs out at the same time and I must say that being outside at night is really nice. Much cooler and fresher air and since I live this far north on this little globe of ours not especially dark either. The best thing though is that we so far have very few mosquitoes, the ground has been too dry this year, so not being attacked by them has been really nice. I haven’t even had problems falling asleep when we’ve come in again and that made it even better 🙂
It is time for a cup of tea and then open the kitchen for again so the dogs can go outside, Malkolm was so sad when he could’t go in and out as he pleased that he fetched his favourite toy, a big octopus and brought it to the sofa to sleep some more 🙂
Have a great day!
I think it is finally letting go.
So it felt better on Wednesday, still with fever and tiredness but still better. Yesterday it hit bad again and I started to wonder what I really was having. The thing is that usually when having high fever one boils and freeze with heavy sweating but I never had that sweating, until this morning and everything felt so much better when it started. Haven’t been freezing all day though .
Also I haven’t had any problems falling asleep at any time during this cold, I just sat down and fell asleep. Today I haven’t been able to take a nap at all so I think this might be the beginning of the end of this cold 🙂 Another strange thing is that in the beginning I had pain in al joints but now the pain has settles around my elbows and wrists, nowhere else 🙂 🙂 🙂 I can’t pretend to have been active at all today but I have managed to take a couple of tors in the garden and that’s more than I’ve managed before. I even found a nest in one of the trees with doves in it :-)We have two forest doves here and it looks like it is the bigger one of them nesting in one of my Ginnala maples 🙂
I’m even a bit hungry today so now I need to find something in the freezer, I feel that another bowl with corn flakes won’t do it today 🙂 It is almost quiet in the village, just one of the farmers driving around with a tractor. The first warm day in quite some time as well, so I’ve been sitting on the kitchen stairs with Alma a lot today, IU can’t understand how she can like it because she’s becoming really hot, heaving a lot but still won’t walk in to the shadows. Malkolm is more reasonable with that 🙂 I need to go to the supermarket tomorrow to fill up the fridge, freezer and larder. The coming week is an evening week at work and it sort of feels wrong to go on an early morning when I’ll be working until midnight.
It is time to take a look in that freezer for something to eat and I’ll also make more rose-hip soup 🙂
Have a great day!
A little update.
Just a short one today. The fever goes up and down all the time but it looks like it goes down slightly more that it goes up 🙂 🙂 :-)Feel like sh.t but sleep away most of the day.
The dogs behaves amazingly well, before when I was in the sofa normally only one would stay with me and the other would jump to the other sofa. Now they both agree how to squeeze down just beside me, it Geta a bit warm I. can tell You 🙂 🙂 🙂
A rainy afternoon and a cloudy day before that but sometimes the sun managed to shine through the clouds when they were a bit thinner, So I sat on the kitchen stairs for a while so the dogs could play in the garden. They do need to get rid of their energy some way and playing is the best I think.
I’ll make a pot of tea now and after that I’ll shower my head and neck with cold water and it feels so good afterwards. After that I’ll most likely fall asleep with the dogs in the sofa again 🙂
Have a great day!
Not the best of days today.
I’m feeling like sh.t today, no fever though so I hope this will be better tomorrow when I go to work. I’ve eaten lots of honey and been drinking a lot of tea but most of all I’ve been sleeping in the sofa a lot. It gets really warm when two dogs decide to share the sofa with me 🙂 🙂 🙂 No walk today but we did walk around yesterday so the photos comes from then.
The road associating meeting went smooth and quickly and after that we just sat and talked. I gave up after one and a half-hour and I think the rest stayed for half an hour more. It bis a good way to learn to know other people in the village by going to these meeting even though they’re only once a year. Especially when they go as well as it did yesterday, then again one learns a lot when there are fights as well even though that was long ago that happened 🙂
Some sunshine today, some rain as well and when the sun showed it became so warm that it felt like walking in to a steam bath 🙂 🙂 The dogs have been going in and out of the cottage all day but I had to shut the kitchen door when the clouds became too thick. I’ve done my laundry and dinner is cooking in the slow cooker and today those were the shores I had to do.
I started to cut away big chunks of the Hungarian lilac yesterday. Still thick branches left but I’ll have to use a sw to get rid of those. When I had done that I realised that I could plant the potted gingko tree there. Didn’t go especially well because there weren’t a lot of roots in the pot, the tree managed to fall down leaning heavily towards one direction but a top branch is now instead pointing upwards so I just let it be as it is. Now I think I only have one red mulberry tree left to plant, five pear trees and possibly an apricot as well. I was thinking about possibly plants the trees as trellised but seed sown trees usually grow really high and there will be a lot of pruning to keep them low enough so I’m not sure but I will have that in mind when it is time.
It is time to check the dinner in the slow cooker and after that I’ll make a pot of tea 🙂
Have a great day!
I have a cold again.
I always complain about not being able to remember my dreams, I think I’ve done that at 5 times as maximum. However I do remember the dream I had last night and I was so annoyed that I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t fall asleep again 🙂 I dreamed that there was a tiny black and walking all over my back and when ever I tried to get rid of it it rushed out of reach 🙂 🙂 I even tried to squash it by lying down and rub my back towards the bed 🙂 🙂 🙂
When I woke up I realised that I now have a cold and a slight fever. Lots of people have it now but it seems to be short lived so my guess is that it’s over by Monday. My entire body hurts, especially my neck and head and since I can’t even eat anti inflammatory pills for children I have to rely on coffee 🙂 🙂 I’ve had too much coffee today so all I can do is to wish that it’s over by tomorrow.
I checked my lottery tickets on Wednesday evening. It is called Lotto and one has to pick to seven numbers out of 35. They’ll also draw four extra numbers that if one has six right and one of the extra numbers one win a bit more. You won’t be rich by having six right and an extra number but You would still be very happy. The big money is in seven right, then it can be millions we’re talking about. Well I got four right and then three of those extra also were my numbers. So technically I had seven right numbers but in the wrong way 🙂 🙂 🙂 So instead of millions I won what would be $ 2 US 🙂 🙂 🙂 I didn’t even get annoyed, I just laughed out loud 🙂 🙂 🙂
Rainy day today but we have actually had some sunshine as well. A bit chilly though but I’ve been outside wearing a sweater just so I could get some fresh air and feel a bit less sick 🙂 The dogs and I stayed outside for quite a while yesterday evening. My lilacs have weak branches so when ever it rains they hang down so it is impossible to walk beside them to get around the cottage. So all evening yesterday I pruned away all branches that hangs low. I also cut away those being behind the huge roses and bled quite a lot after that 🙂 🙂 plus I opened up around the Red oak so it gets more light and air. So now it’s like a tunnel behind the roses and both I and the dogs can walk there now 🙂
I think it is time for another cup of coffee but before that I’ll have some honey. I’m so tired right now that I doubt any amount of coffee will keep me awake tonight 🙂
Have a great day!
My Rosemary survived the winter :-)
My car is almost clean after all this rain we’ve had lately 🙂 and tit will stay clean for at least this week out because we’re getting more of it. It’s also still reasonable warm so the only thing that bugs me now is that mosquitoes will become many more, so far I’ve only had three of them trying to drink my blood.
We’re having our annual road association meeting this Saturday and I’m usually chosen to be the secretary of the meeting so I needed to write the meeting protocol today. Always a good thing to give angst but to my very big surprise I had already done it 🙂 🙂 Normally it is the angst that kicks me to do it, so I think I’ll do the same this year 🙂 🙂 Now days the meetings are calm but back in the days they were feeding the rage in people and a meeting could take hours, mostly because there always were people who wanted to discuss other things than the road. All of those are gone so now days a meeting usually takes fifteen minutes and after that we drink coffee and chat 🙂 🙂
People are normally not interested in coming to these meetings, as long as things works and they don’t have to pay any money they just don’t care. Now we’re also having the meeting on a Saturday, the day after our national day so I doubt many will show up. Since we now days also only get our mail every second day most people doesn’t even check their mailbox more than once a week so my guess is that most people not even knows we’re having the meeting 🙂 🙂 🙂
Time for that last cup of tea and tomorrow is the last work day for the week. After that I’ll have one full week and the week after that a short one again because of midsummer. Midsummer eve isn’t a holiday at all but since they place it on a Friday every year and it most likely is a bigger day than Christmas Eve here and no one wants to work that day it’s treated like a holiday and we’re also getting full pay that day. I’ll write something about our folklore and traditions here that week.
Have a great day!
The thunderstorm that passed by was quite fierce and three lightnings hit about 1000 yards away from the cottage. My work friend who lives up on the mountain said that it was quite exciting to see all the lightnings hitting in and around my village 🙂
Yesterday and today however have been both rain and thunder free. The vegetation loves this so the grass is growing like crazy but I need more grass cuttings to cover my potatoes so for once I don’t wish we had a drought so I didn’t have to mow it 🙂 🙂 🙂
The Magpies younglings are still having around the garden but they’ve learned how to fly shorter distances now. So when dogs and cats comes close they just fly up to the top of the trees in my garden. Their parents are still pretty noisy when they think we come too close 🙂
We’ll have rather mixed weather here this week, we’ll get everything from sunshine to heavy rain and the temperature will stay just below 20C (68F) according to the weather sites. It might even drop down to 14C (57,2F) as lowest on Saturday. That’s how summers used to be when I was a kid but nowadays that sounds awfully cold 🙂
It is time for that last cup of tea and then. watching some tv I think.
Have a great day!
It’s a bad aphid year here.
I’ve had a really nice day, the morning was rather chilly, only 4C (39,2F) and there was a layer of clouds early showing the sun, so the first thing we did was to jump in to the car so I could deliver invitations to the road association meeting we’ll have next Saturday. We drove away at 6 am so there wasn’t a car on the roads outside the village. The castle has properties in the village so they need an invitation as well, and not a single human could be seen in the village 🙂
Alma didn’t like the drive at all even though I drove so slow that she had the time to see everything happening in the village and outside as well. It wasn’t until we came back towards home that she suddenly thought it was a good idea to take a nap in the back seat 🙂 🙂 🙂 The sun did eventually show itself and we had a really nice weather until around 5 pm when clouds arrived and rain with them. Mostly it was a nice summer rain but every now and again torrential showers passed by, I had small lakes even in my garden despite the ground mostly contains of sand.
It’s a short work week once again because we’re having our national day on June sixth. They do try to make us a bit more patriotic so that we like in so many other countries go out and celebrate it on the streets but most of us just take it easy, perhaps having a barbecue or a picnic. If we do feel like having a small celebration we’ll watch what they show on tv, there’s always some show on our PBS (the biggest network we have) where the royal family sits in the audience 🙂
I better stop here because there’s a massive thunder front coming this way, I just heard the rumble and it’s not many km or miles away now. First thunder for the year here and I do like a good thunderstorm 🙂
Have a great day!
Been gardening a lot today.
I woke up at 4:50 today despite staying up much later yesterday, still can’t say I feel especially tired today. We had a wonderful morning mist so I took a few photos before we had our breakfast. Oddly enough I can’t find them in my camera or in the computer?? I really don’t think that I used any other camera than the one I’ve used all day so I have absolutely no idea what happened to them 🙂 🙂 🙂
We had around thirty minutes of cloudy sky today and the rest totally cloud free. Even though it’s slightly cooler it still feels much warmer today than yesterday. No wind at all to talk about so I guess that’s why it feels so warm here. So I thought it safe to sow beans now, beans will rot if the ground temperature is too low but even though we’ll get loads of rain tomorrow afternoon we will still have warm weather. The rain is good and I will not complain as long as it is warm. I also planted three squash plants but two of them looked really sad so I think I’ll only have one left at the end of next week.
I have lots of lilacs in and around my garden and I really dislike them 🙂 🙂 When all flowers open up it’s like living in a perfume bottle and when they slowly decay the smell is so nasty that it’s hard to breathe. Too much work to remove them all though so I prefer to suffer those weeks it happens instead 🙂 🙂 I do have an Hungarian lilac though, it smell less both times but it is growing too wide now so I’ve been cutting down big chunks of it on the side towards my Pawpaw trees. I’ll do the other side when the flowering is over. It is amazing how different a garden can look just by pruning bushes and trees really hard, light reaches everywhere and new weeds finds new homes 🙂 🙂
It was so quiet over at my neighbours today so I thought they weren’t at home, then suddenly now in the afternoon they started to mow their lawn 🙂 🙂 The rooster over at the next neighbour has been quiet all day, very unusual so I do hope it’s ok. Normally it isn’t quiet at all and I realised that I missed it a lot 🙂 Roosters and countryside sort of goes hand in hand and when one suddenly is missing it doesn’t feel right at all. I had to leave the dogs alone for an hour today and since it worked so great to have them in the cottage while I was working I didn’t think it would be any problem by being away for such a short time. The first thing that met my eyes when I came back home again was one of my working shoes and the heel on the shoe was chewed away and Malkolm looking really ashamed 🙂 🙂 🙂 I have another pair so no big problem but these were so nice that I will miss them.
I’ll go out to the vegetable garden again after this because it is also time to sow peas and leek. I already have leek in a pot that I just brought outside so it can stay away from the sunshine for a week before I plant them somewhere but one can never have too much leek plus they can be harvested as long as the ground isn’t frozen. I’ll also sow pack-choi (Japanese kale) and broccolo, a sort of mix between broccoli and cauliflower if I understand it right. The broccolo seeds are old so I’m not sure anything will happen but I won’t know if I don’t sow them. There really is no place for either in the vegetable patch but I can get big pots to plant them in instead 🙂 Peas, I need to remember to bring the peas as well 🙂
It is time to go outside to sown and I think I’ll bring a cup of tea so I can take regular breaks and not overdo my working 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Tiny little thorns.
A bit fifferent for me now because I’m writing this on my phone and I’m pretty sure it’s the last time 😄
Wonderful weather today, at least after I stopped working. I haven’t really done anything but time has just flown away. The most exiting thing was to see if the monsterkitten would accept her new food, the store didn’t have the one she usually eat and she’s quite picky but it seems to have been good enogh for her.
The magpies are going nuts in the garden because the monsterkitten think she can cache the magpie younglings 😄 to be honest she is thankfully quite lousy when it comes to catching birds, mice is another thing, when it comes to mice she’s a master hunter.
I truly hate writing on the phone so this is it for today 😄
Have a great day!
The sun is shining, a few clouds flies in the sky and both windows and doors are open 🙂 It has been like this all day but a low pressure is on its way with more rain but not especially much of it. Today the temperature reached above 20C (68F) and that’s summer temperature for me.
Alma behaved really well on our morning walk today and was almost quiet when we passed the new neighbours, both of the way out and when we were going back home again. Ok no human or dog was outside but for being Alma she was really good 🙂 We didn’t see any birds but sure heard them all the walk. Cranes and geese from a distance and all the small birds close in the trees and shrubs. I think we passed lots of interesting animals on the way because both Alma and Malkolm were really interested in what was hiding behind the trees.
We always have lots of morning dew here so my shoes and socks were soaking wet when we came back home 🙂 The shoes are now standing towards the cottage wall drying up in the sunshine. I’ve also mowed the lawn and all grass cuttings were placed around the potatoes so I don’t have to hill up the soil around them. The grass clipping’s will decompose with time so I need to place more around them a few more times while mowing. I think it will be time to sow beans, peas and cabbage this weekend plus what ever I might have seeds for in the space that might be empty.
It is time for a pot of tea and then I’ll bake a bread again. I’ll add rosemary of course and some cheese as well if I have any small piece in the fridge.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 