Snow and rain.

Just a short one today, the weather is not nice and hasn’t been all day. Very windy with both rain and snow. It hasn’t at all been as warm as they Β guessed yesterday so most snow is still on the ground and it’s impossible to walk outside without getting soaking wet. WE. have been in the garden though but the dogs have just done what they need and then wanted to go back indoors again πŸ™‚

In any photo editor I know of in a PC the original photos that one has placed in a file they stay there no matter what one does with the copies we make to put in social media, that’s not the case in a Mac πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ If I reduce size in the copy the size will also be reduced on the original and if I delete that copy so will the original be deleted as well πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So today I learned that I need to make a special file for the originals and place that file outside photos, a bit complicated to be honest πŸ™‚ I’m learning more and more every day now πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

Everything tasted bacon :-)

I tried to aim on the mouse wearing a head lamp at the same time I took the photo, more tricky than one can think πŸ™‚

No snowfall today but we’ll get rain later tonight instead and it will continue all day tomorrow and it will be mixed with a lot of snow as well, but according to the weather sites and the tv forecast it’ll stay above 0C (32F) so I guess it’ll all melt away quickly, at least I hope so. This is a cold hole so one never knows πŸ™‚

We walked the same way today but in the opposite direction, Yesterday I noticed how much of those small fields were worked on by wild hogs and they had been busy last night as well. I do hope they’ll keep their distance because meeting wild hogs in the garden the first thing in the morning is not on my top ten things to do πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I think however it will be easier for them to walk in to my neighbours garden since they Β only have a thin hedge beside the electric fence that goes around the entire pasture and that fence hasn’t stopped them so far.

I think this is one of those stones they used way back in the days to grind flour. I wonder how old it is, after all people have lived around here since the Stone Age.

Writing about electric fences, today Malcolm learned how it feels to get stung by one and unlike all other dogs he didn’t blame me for it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ He did keep his distance to the fence after that though πŸ™‚ I was later thinking of the hogs when I was frying some pork for dinner, when I did that I came to think of my mother. She has never been a good cook, quite the contrary and that’s why I learned to make my own food already as eleven years old. She’s amazing making sauces and for some reason she has always been good at making mashed turnips and pork knuckle, well it is her favourite food πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Her meatballs however were either hard as a bullet and used like one a moose wouldn’t stand a chance, or they could just disintegrate in to a powder πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Anyhow she became a bit more interested later in life. She and her then fiancΓ© were quite often out fishing and always caught a lot of Cottidae, a small and rather ugly little fish but that tastes really good, so she learned how to fry that. They also were out picking mushrooms in autumn and always found a lot of Puffballs, they are edible and quite nice as small and she learned how to like those too. One day I asked her what the fish tasted like and she said: It’s the oddest thing but it tastes like bacon. I asked her if that really was true and she said it was. Well why not but then I asked her if she liked the puffballs as well and yes she did, oddly enough those tasted like bacon as well. I eat that mushroom a lot and they sure doesn’t taste like bacon πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

This is the old well to the cottage the Beekeeper lived, clear and nice water but the well dried out almost every summer.
This was their spare well, never dried out but so much rust in the water that it was almost un drinkable.

My mother belongs to the old kind that if You fry something and there’s fat still in the frying pan she saves it for next time πŸ™‚ Well I think You’ve guessed it, they tended to eat a lot of bacon so every time they fried something they did so in bacon grease πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ everything from broccoli to any kind of fish tasted like bacon πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I might have a banana too but I’m really not hungry after my dinner. It will at least stay above 0C (32F) the coming week but oh how I long for spring!

Have a great day!

Even I thought the weather was nice :-)

So the hunters were supposed to be here at something we call FΓΆrmiddag (pree dinner, which is the same as pre noon which means around 9:30-10:00) but they all arrived just after 11 am πŸ™‚ I couldn’t really walk out in to the forest just in case they would come but I still wanted to have a walk with the dogs because we had a rather nice snowfall, I guess You all now became a bit surprised by me saying that since I really don’t like snow πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β but it was 0C (32F) and no wind to talk about so even I fell for the charm of a light snowfall πŸ™‚

But instead of walking in to the forest we walked down on the road we usually comes home on when we’ve been down to the creek, so today Malcolm had the chance of running leash free at the start of our walk πŸ™‚ Β We did however not follow the road down to the creek but instead turned left, a road we used to walk a lot until two dogs just as bad as Alma πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ moved in to a tiny cottage at the end of the road. Too much struggle to go through every time we would have passed. Now days there’s only one dog left there and so much easier to pass, especially since there now is a huge pile of dirt blocking the view for both the dog in the garden there and my two πŸ™‚

The rest of the day has mostly been spent eating dinner, watching the British Antiques Roadshow and looking for a job on the online employment agency. Unfortunately they are now looking for people to work during the summer months, perhaps jobs lasting two to four months but I did find several interesting of those but also a couple of long lasting jobs as well. The ads will be up for at least two more weeks which is good because when I was about to apply for them I realised that my CV, is it called that in English, where You write down something about Yourself and Your work experience? is in my old computer that I so conveniently picked down today πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So either Β I’ll have to start up the old computer again or write a new one πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I’ll see what program there is in this computer, must be something like word I guess πŸ™‚

Only ten more days and then we’ll enter February, the next Β to most boring month in the year πŸ™‚ It is at least short and that’s when we finally starts to see the change in daylight here. I have a problem in my cool cellar, yesterday when I walked down there I met a foul metal smell on my way down, one of my plant light had died so now I only have one left. Well there is another I can use but it eat electricity lie an elephant drinks water. It is an older quicksilver lamp that also becomes so warm that anything closer than 50 cm (20 inches) will be burned πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I remember one winter when it was really cold outside and the cellar suddenly had a few degrees lower temperature than 0C (32F) (not a good thing since my water pipes does there) I just turned on that lamp and suddenly it was well over instead πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Probably good for the cellar but that was back when electricity was cheap.

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and after that I don’t know, I’ll see if there’s anything worth watching on tv, probably not πŸ™‚

Tiny snowflakes on the Cypress.

Have a great day!

So this is the pasture the wild hogs now walk around in at night.

We did see the sun shine for a few minutes just as it was setting, otherwise the day has been rather depressing πŸ™‚ A meh fog in the morning, later on just grey and dull.

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Today I’ve been a bit busy though. First I ordered and downloaded an antivirus program, the easiest thing I’ve ever done. I paid the bill, pressed the link and voila finished πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The Macworld said it was the best and it wasn’t especially expensive either, I also got a discount for being a new customer and that didn’t hurt πŸ™‚ If all things computer was that easy! I never remember my passwords to anything so I rarely log out from anything but I need to get a new password now when I change computer, since I don’t remember them πŸ™‚ So I tried Facebook. I could just as well hit myself in the head with a hammer! I thought I would get a link via my mail but no not any more. I tried to change it several times but no such luck I’m afraid, now I have no idea if the old one still is there so I can come in to Fb on my old computer πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

The last snow for this time πŸ™‚

When the first wave of hate towards Fb had calmed down I finally found the old way but it sure wasn’t easy to find it πŸ™‚ What angered me the most was when I tried to change the password their new way it didn’t work so a new page turned up so that I could change the password, the only problem was that I had to log in to be able to do it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Then I needed to do the same for my blog and it took four seconds to let me in again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ To be honest I’m not sure I want to stay on Fb anyway but I want to have a chance to say bye if I do decide to log out totally. Now all I need to do is to slowly but steadily add my favourites so things can go back to normal again.

But I have done other things as well, like baking bread, well very flat French rolls πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ and to dinner I made a shrimp and vegetable pie, not bad at all πŸ™‚ I had a bit too much though so now I’m burping shrimps and Broccoli πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I think it is time for that last cup of tea for the day. I had too much too late yesterday so I’ll have this cup early so I don’t have to get up in the middle of night again πŸ™‚ The hunters will be here tomorrow morning again, they have noticed that the wild hogs now walk around in the pasture just outside my gate. Wild hogs are good for nature but not gardens πŸ™‚

My hardy Rosemary, survived -18 C (-0,4 F) beside it some Oregano but they survive everything πŸ™‚
The Himalayan Cypress also looks good but the most dangerous time for plants here is when spring starts and those late frosts suddenly kill them.

Have a great day!

Just as sad weather today as yesterday but since hunters have been out all day we haven’t been able to have a walk anyway. Good thing IΒ  took some photos yesterday and that I have loads in the file “For a rainy day”Β  πŸ™‚

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I went to the supermarket in the morning so now I won’t need to go there for at least five days πŸ™‚ Good thing because my neighbor hasn’t gotten her car back from the garage yet so she’ll be having my car instead πŸ™‚Β  I haven’t done much more today to be honest, I did however make pancakes but with oatmeal instead of the corn based I usually do. They did taste a bit different , not much but still noticeable. They’ll be a good substitute if I can’t use the normal one again.

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I’ve also started to learn more with the photo editing program in my Mac. I normally never do anything else than reduce the size on my photos so they don’t use too many Bites when downloading them to my blog but it is fun to see what else there is. So I tried the sharped the photo thing and I must say I’m impressed. I tried that in my old computer and that photo came out just as blurry as it was before but in another way πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β This time I used a photo that I thought was pretty sharp but realized after sharpening it in the new computer that it wasn’t especially sharp at all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The “new” photo didn’t show any signs that it had been tampered with at all. So now I understand why professional photographers only want Mac computers πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and after that I’ll probably read a book. I’m so tired now that I most likely will have problems staying awake πŸ™‚

Can You see that little dark spot on the road almost all the way to the old stable? I thought that was a barn cat but it didn’t run away in panic like they usually do.
So we caught up with her, yes it’s a her because it’s my neighbors cat πŸ™‚ She was so concentrated on catching a mouse he didn’t realize how close we were.
When she did she hunkered down and took a look at us.
The dogs couldn’t see her but knew she was there somewhere πŸ™‚ She really didn’t care about us since she knows my dogs so well πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

So I picked up the new antenna cable yesterday and after connecting it to the antenna and tv I had better picture than before. I hadn’t seen Malkolm chew on it but since he quickly ran away when I saw what had been done it wasn’t that hard to understand πŸ™‚ So this morning when we were supposed to go out on our morning walk I was putting on my shoes when I looks at him happily chewing on the new cable!!!

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Two Ravens playing in the strong winds we had yesterday.

I have never really had the need to scold him for doing something he isn’t supposed to do here in the cottage, he has never really done anything wrong or dangerous but chewing on cables, even if the antenna cable is sort of harmless next time it could be an electric cable I really had to do something drastic. I have big lungs so I screamed at him at the same time i picked him up so I could look directly in to his eyes. I feel so sorry for him but that scared the s.t out of him, well pee actually. He is still a bit skittish when he must pass that place. I really hope this helped because I never want to scare him like that again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Yesterday morning was quite nice, it had been cold during the night with a clear sky and the sky stayed mostly clear all through the walk. There was a thin cloud layer that the sun had to shine through but that didn’t do much to stop the sunlight, Today it was warm all through the night and has stayed that way but the clouds were pretty thick. I can’t really complain about it since it is warm but it would have been nice to see the sunlight again. It’ll be like this for at least ten days, or so they guess at least. Then again I still get daylight and I haven’t had this much daylight at this time of year so that’s a good thing.

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It’s time for that last cup of tea for the day, I’ve just had dinner so I won’t have anything else today, I have no bananas so I’ll buy more tomorrow πŸ™‚ The roads will be good though, almost no ice left either now, just in a few places where the sun never reach this time of year.

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Have a great day!

The night crew were still working when we woke up in the morning πŸ™‚

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A warm day, well a warm winter day and most of the snow is almost gone now. I found some in the forest and places where the sun can’t reach yet but mostly what’s left is ice. We had a meh fog all morning, wasn’t useful for anything to be honest and to be even more honest that fog was mostly misty rain so small water droplets covered the glasses after a short while.Β 

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We walked out to the bog and today I praised both Alma and Malkolm so many times and giving them treats that I think giving them dinner later in the day was just like over feeding them both πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I doubt this behaviour won’t last for long but I’m happy for the days I get πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β 

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I have finally figured out how to reduce the size on my photos in the new computer, only took around half an hour and only twenty more to figure out how to save the changes as well, one can say what one wants about PC programs but they are actually quite obvious when it comes to those things. When I do resize the photo I can see how many KB or MB they have become after the change but if I go in to check it in the album the size is right but it still says the original MB the photo was?? Well I’ll figure it out in time πŸ™‚ :-)It is fun to figure it out but it is mostly so annoying πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β 

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Besides that I’ve had a nice calm day. My neighbors car didn’t pass the annual vehicle inspectionΒ  so I picked up her in a village called Floby some distance away so she could come home again, there aren’t any communication that comes even close to here unless one wants to have a day trip looking at the environment πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Wouldn’t have worked today though because it went almost dark before we arrived to the village πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I love living here but when our cars misbehave it can be a bit of a struggle to be honest.

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My antenna cable has arrived at the grocery store in Gudhem today, so I’ll go there to pick it up tomorrow morning. I’ll check if I need anything since I’m there, otherwise I had planned to go on either Sunday morning or Monday. I normally just shave off the hair on my head three times a year and since it is as warm as it is and it’ll stay like this, they’re guessing, for a week I did it yesterday. Now I don’t need to think of doing that for three to four months πŸ™‚ I started to do that when I powder painted at my old job, as soon as the hair becomes longer tan two to three centimeters (slightly less or slightly more than inch)the powder sort of became like concrete and wouldn’t move no matter how thorough one wash the hair. Having that paint there gave all kinds of problems and dandruff is the least of them πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β 

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It is time to have that last cup of tea for the day, I’m not really hungry but sort of wants something, I think I’ll have a banana πŸ™‚

Have a great day!Β 

I put up the wildlife camera for two weeks when we had the snowstorm and the only thing the camera got was this hare, it had found the deer food I had tossed out πŸ™‚

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It has been a rather nice day with lots of sunshine and below freezing temperatures until noon, after that it has been grey and dull.. Most of the snow is now gone, instead we have ice πŸ™‚ except for where the sun has reached, the snow is still there but was so hard that even I could walk on it!

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We walked down to the creek and thankfully, even though I do like having horses working in the forest, the horse guy and his horses were elsewhere today. So much easier to walk with Alma, especially on slippery ice πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ We managed to have our walk despite ice and lots of pulling the leash from them both. It will stay above 0 C (32 F) both night and day for seven days they’re guessing so that ice will probably melt away in the shadowy parts as well.

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After that I’ve tried to understand the new computer πŸ™‚ I wanted to see something on tv today so I had to do it via the computer. So I installed SVT (Swedish television) play, easy done but since I don’t have any speaker I then logged in to SVT Radio to get some sound via my phone, It was ski Biathlon I wanted to watch and it is a so popular sport here that they have it on both radio and tv at the same time. What I didn’t know was that the tv was around 10 minutes after the radio so when they said what was happening on the radio it still hadn’t happened on tv, very odd πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I had to download SVT play on my phone so that I could get the sound and picture right πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I also downloaded my photos to the new computer, I can see why professional photographer wants that program, the photos are so clear that it is amazing! However the program is anything but user friendly πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Downloading the photos was easy but then trying to create an album took around twenty minutes before I figured it out, the problem was that it seemed impossible to get those photos in to the new album πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β  Took ten minutes to figure that out as well πŸ™‚ I only down size my photos and that should be easy enough but oh no. I had to check how many MB it was after I tried it because I’m used to PC πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I still don’t know if I have saved it because no such question popped up πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I’ve stopped trying for the day so now I’ll go downstairs and have one of my newly baked rolls and then I’ll read a book πŸ™‚ No tea now, I drank some too late yesterday and didn’t sleep much last night πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

Low flying mist here and there on our walk.

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Sometimes I wonder about Internet companies.

I now have a new tea cup or perhaps I should call it tea mug. They had two different colors on this specific mug, one leaning towards blue and one towards grey. I have a really good sense of color, I have after all been working with colors for well over 25 years and I could for my life not see any difference at all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚Β  I’ll see if I can find the receipt because for some reason the blue costed less πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I do like it what ever color it has though πŸ™‚

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It’s easier to walk on the roads now πŸ™‚

It has been rather warm today so the snow has melted away pretty much now and I doubt we’ll have much left tomorrow except for in the forest where there’s lots left. I have one pair of winter shoes that doesn’t let any water in if walking in puddles or like here where all roads now are covered in water but they are dangerous to walk where it is slippery, even though it said they were slip safe πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I also have the dubbed shoes which are perfect to walk on ice but they tend to let water in, so I used those and we had our walk in the forest instead than to the creek, despite all snow which makes it hard to walk. Alma sort of behaved well today again so lots of treats to her and Malkolm of course whos only problem is that when he follows a track he doesn’t stop. He is fairly low and rather strong so if he turns in between trees somewhere I tend to follow if I’m not prepared πŸ™‚

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It went much smoother to install the computer than I thought it would so when we had come home after our walk I just had one thing to do, install the anti virus program. I gave up after an hour and unsubscribe to it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I can have up to six computers on the same subscription but there are no links to download it!!! I called my phone/ internet company but they couldn’t find any link either, the only thing they did was to send me a link, via text message that told me I just had to follow the link they had put in a mail to me, the problem is that only a new subscriber get that mail!!!! So I wonder why they can’t send me that mail? So when they asked for a review about how I think they handled the problem I answered, well lets say I don’t think they’ll ask me again to be a subscriber πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I have till the end of this month left of the old subscription and it’s on this old computer. I have found the best for Mac’s (according to Mac’s own paper/club? So I’ll check it out, it is also much cheaper than the one I have now πŸ™‚

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I also became pretty annoyed on Malkolm this morning. I still have an ordinary tv-antenna here and when I sat down to watch the morning news, someone had chewed off the cable not in one place but in two!!! For some reason Malkolm rushed upstairs as soon as I picked the pieces up from the floor πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ He has never done anything like this before so I was quite surprised.Β  No bigger problem I though I’ll just watch tv on the computer. Well now, turns out there isn’t any speaker in the Mac πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ so now I’ve ordered a new antenna cable because that was much cheaper to buy than any speakers πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It’ll be here in a few days. Good thing I have a very weak one in the old computer πŸ™‚ but that’s also the only luxury there is, no microphone and no camera but I do have a weak speaker πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The swamp behind my garage is now the lake again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I don’t watch much on tv, I look at any history-, Science-, biathlon-and garden program and those are rare so I really don’t miss much until that cable arrives πŸ™‚ I’ve already had that last cup of tea for the day so now I don’t know what to do πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

The “new” computer i installed.

It is getting warmer by the minute now and strong warm winds helps to melt away the snow. The only thing I’ll miss from this is how clean the floors have been πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I’m never in a hurry when coming to put up or install new things in my home, in fact people who knows me are more stressed than I ever can become πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ My brother has been nagging me to put up and install my “new” computer lately but I haven’t really found and place where it can stand safely from being tossed down by a monster kitten. Today I did however decided that it most likely will stand pretty safe beside the old computer. So there wasn’t much to do to be honest, plug in the power cord, the mouse and new keyboard. Then I started to look for the power button and I looked for quite some time and did press my finger toward something that could be it but nothing happened πŸ™‚ so I had to go out on the net on my old computer to find how to start an iMac πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It was that one I had pressed on but not hard enough πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It started to install itself but why do they need answers to all these questions? I mean it is even worse when it comes to PC but still!Β  Fortunately one can skip until later but sooner or later those questions will pop up again, on my old one they tend to pop up every second week, shouldn’t they have understood by now that I won’t answer them? Now after a lot of skipping questions I can use it. First however I’ll drive my brother nuts by not using it until I’ve figured out how to install an antivirus program I have from my internet delivery/ phone company and since I won’t stress anything I’ll most likely take few days to do that πŸ™‚ To be honest I’ll just log in to the phone company and down load it and that’s it but it’s a bit fun to stress my brother. I don’t know much about computers but my brother knows even less and he’s thinking of a Mac as well and hope I’ll help him later on πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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We had a rather nice morning walk but the weather was a bit sad, the sky was so grey that it managed to depress us all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Today however Alma managed to stay quiet almost the entire walk but then again the pulling was really bad but I’m happy with struggling with one thing at a time πŸ™‚ It is time for that last cup of tea and then some tv watching. First I’ll watch a science program and after that I’ll most likely start watching our Oscars’ Guldbaggegalan or in English The Golden Beetle Gala.

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Have a great day!

I went out to throw garbage in the bin and thankfully had my phone with me, the sun was setting and now it’s almost as cold as it was early this morning.

I must admit that when I let the dogs outside early this morning I really didn’t think it felt especially cold at all, I followed them and filled the bird feeders while they did their thing. So the first thing I did when we came back in was to check the thermometer, it was -14 C (6,8 F) πŸ™‚ :-)There was no wind and for once the humidity was rather low and that helped a lot to make it feel warmer of course.

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We went out for our morning walk as soon as the temperature had risen to -9 C (15,8 F) and since would be walking down to the creek the sun would warm up the air quite fast when walking between the trees on the gravel road. Alma wouldn’t make our walk especially enjoyable today and she showed that as soon as we started to walk but I couldn’t figure out why, not until we came closer to the creek and I saw that the horse guy was working today. It is something with Alma and especially horses and the cattle in the neighbor pasture.

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So she could smell them long before we even came close and no matter how fun it is to see those horses working I really would have preferred that they had stayed at home today πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I guess he worked today because the storm is closing in and better be done before it arrives. It’ll be just wind this time and later on warm weather, so they guess at least, so no more snow thankfully πŸ™‚ Perhaps one can hope for lots of snow melting as well so it will be easier to walk in the forest again. I feel however that will be too much to hope for πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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My cold is neither better nor worse, I cough sometimes but thankfully not at night, I freeze sometimes but not all the time and every now and again my nose is runny but nothing worse. Sara the monster kitten kept us awake for quite some time yesterday evening with lots of bumps in the night, except for that time when she broke my last tea cup. Lots of sharp pieces spread over the floor. She came running up and annoyed the dogs when she had done that. So now I had to find my thermos and make a big pot so I could use the small coffee cups I almost never use. I must remember to write down I need to buy a new one when I’m writing my shopping list.

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I think it is time to have that last cup of tea for the day. I can’t remember if this particular thermos keeps the heat well though. I have one I couldn’t find today that keeps it for almost 24 hours, I’ll see if I can find it so I know the tea will be warm tomorrow morning πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

I turned around after tossing the garbage in the bin and saw that it most likely is a full moon night.

She didn’t like cold snow towards her paws πŸ™‚

I’m pretty sure I have a cold again. I was pretty sure yesterday as well but today I’ve been freezing like a dog on and off. Can’t say that I feel especially sick except for the muscle pain and the occasional moments of freezing. I did get a bit warm when we were out walking but that’s mostly because I’m not especially fit πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The snow on the ground is still more like ice pebbles so not even my studded shoes get any grip in it, the dogs however have no such problems but they did at least not fall down again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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We’ve had a really nice day here otherwise, a nasty wind has been blowing but the forest took all of it and we’ve also had a lovely sunshine all day as well. There were lots of animal tracks in the snow and it looked like lots of wild hogs had been moving around and also a few Roe deer. Plus our local fox, the one that has a tendency to poop on the stirs both at my cottage and my neighbors πŸ™‚ The badgers are asleep now but they just sleep during winter, not hibernate, so we sometimes see their tracks as well in the snow.

The wind had been pretty hard, look at that bent Pine!

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Sara the cat tries every now and again to run outside when she thinks I don’t see her and she is quick but a bit obvious so I have so far had control. She was close yesterday though so I picked her up and placed her on one of my composts. I could see that she was excited but also see that cold and wet snow isn’t a favourite of hers, she hasn’t tried to run outside after that πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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It’s time for that last cup of tea and perhaps a french roll with cheese and some kind of marmalade.

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Have a great day!