We’ve had such a nice day, cool and semi sunny morning and the rest of the day sunny, warm and very windy. The few flies that did try to annoy us blew away and the morning was cool enough to keep the moose flies at a distance as well, they are really bad flyers so if it is cool or chilly in the morning they’ll stay where they are.

Next time I’ll bring something so I can collect some Angelica seeds, I want it in my garden πŸ™‚

I am now ready for a five day long period with rain, I drove to the supermarket this morning so now I don’t have to do it when the weather gets more boring. I mowed the lawn as well. The rain we’ve had made the grass grow but not as much as I feared but enough to let me know that after five days with rain it’ll be so long and wet that it will only become a green mess in the mower. It didn’t take long after I started the mower until my neighbour did it as well πŸ™‚ Later on I could hear two or more villagers starting theirs too. Better do it now even if it isn’t necessary than doing it later when it is too long and wet.

I’ve heard that there are fewer and fewer Red Toadstools in the world but here we can find them everywhere. My favourite mushroom because it’s so beautiful. Also we have small paper mache toadstools in our advent candlesticks and some even in their Christmas trees πŸ™‚

I’ve found a small hard plastic pond I once had in the garden, before I dug the big one. There’s a thin crack in it so water flows out pretty quickly but I started to wonder if I can fix it with a bicycle tire repair set? Β The reason I started to think about it is because this year I’ve seen unusually many frogs and toads in my garden so why not have a little pond again?I really would like to have a big one but building a big pond is anything but cheap. Then again the question comes to any gardener, where should I have it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β One really wants to be able to see it when walking out into the garden, otherwise I actually have a few places since it is so small. Well I have winter to think about it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Besides that I’ve done very little today. I’ll soon have my last cup of tea for the day and I’ll see if there’s anything worth watching on tv but I doubt that. The sky is slowly being cowered with a grey clod cover, the sun shines through every now and again but they’re saying that when we wake up tomorrow the sky will be evenly grey and drops will start falling. I think tomorrow will be a perfect day for napping, long time since I did that so it’s about time πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

One more nice day tomorrow, after that the rain comes.

Sunshine again this morning but it didn’t last for long, a meh fog arrived and after that it stayed cloudy for quite some time. It wasn’t really until late afternoon we had sunshine again but it was at least warm and nice.

So the kitchen door has stayed open most of the day and if I’ve said that we haven’t had especially many wasps (Yellowjackets) here I changed my view about that today. This is the time of year the new queens have left the nest and the workers therefore has nothing to do. That makes them confused and pretty angry and it doesn’t get better when they’ve eaten fermented apples on the ground. They can be pretty nasty and attack without any reason at all. This is the only time in the year I kill them if they start to be nasty towards me. They do so much good all summer but now they have no purpose since the queens are gone.

Since I hadn’t planned to do anything special today I finally used the chain saw. As I’ve mentioned earlier grape elder wood aren’t good for much after they’ve been cut down, not even in life the wood is especially tough, so even though they were quite thick it just too 15 seconds to cut those stumps off. I did go out on the net to see if it can be used to anything and it did say one could use it as fire wood but it wasn’t recommended since the wood (the entire plant actually) is poisonous.

The bog is yellow now, autumn is here.

Besides that I really haven’t done much today. I’ve planted one of the quince seedlings, there was sort of a space vacant when I had cut down the grape elder. Well I cut down two grape elders to be honest and should therefore be able to plant one more but the other one grew beside the huge rose I still am cutting down and also there grows an English walnut not far fro it so in the long run, if the walnut keeps on surviving it will be too much shade there. My black walnut on the other side of the garden is now higher than the cottage and grows way too close to it. I never thought it would survive here but oh how wrong I was πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I will have to cut off the branches that soon will be long enough to slam hard on the roof when it is windy.

It will be nice weather tomorrow again but after that they say it will go downhill, lots of rain and lower temperatures. I really don’t need to go to the supermarket yet but if I go on Saturday as I’ve planned it will be a bit nasty weather to drive in. On the other side I’m waiting for a parcel with a LED light bar that I need to have down in the cool cellar and it might arrive tomorrow but on the opposite way to the supermarket πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Well the lighter can wait until the weather gets a bit nicer again πŸ™‚ I’m sitting here with my last cup of tea for the day and today I’ll watch Elsbeth on tv πŸ™‚

My little meadow is still full of flowers.

My Black walnut. I wish that I had planted it just a meter (much the same as a yard) to the right but I guess in the long run that wouldn’t have helped anyway πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

We had a beautiful morning mist when I looked out the window when we got up this morning, so I hurried to get dressed so we could have our morning walk in it. By the time we came out it had turned to fog instead πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Well that’s not so bad to be honest but I would have liked to have that sunshine for a while before it changed.

It was almost totally quiet, only my neighbours roosters could be heard. No other birds could be heard and for some reason fog does this to birds, they quiet down but I have no idea why. Then again fog quiets down everything, even the forest machines and tractors are harder to hear. Actually even Alma was more silent when we passed the new neighbours than she usually is πŸ™‚

It has been warm with a high humidity today but almost no sunshine. I went to a grocery store in FalkΓΆping in the early morning and stopped by the grocery store in Gudhem to pick up my parcel. It’s the paper shredder I’ve bought and it is still standing where I placed it right after I came home, I haven’t unpacked it yet πŸ™‚ Instead I did some laundry and now in the afternoon I baked a bread. It is a bit irritating to have to bake Β so often because the loafs are small, so today I doubled it all and I’ve just tried a few lines and with blue cheese on it tastes amazing πŸ™‚

So many small spiderwebs.

We’ll have two more days with rather pleasant weather but from Thursday and the coming seven days we’ll have lower temperatures and lots of rain. I don’t mind the rain but the temperatures could stay I think πŸ™‚ Β So I guess I better start cutting down those rather high tree stumps that’s left of the grape elders, they are electric and with a cord, not too fun to use in rain and wet grass πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

My closest neighbours rooster. I think he’s really beautiful.

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and perhaps I should make myself a blue cheese sandwich again πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

I’ve been working hard today :-)

A rather grumpy little monster πŸ™‚ She wanted to go outside but we weren’t at home. I don’t know how she does it but she managed to pass the mosquito net that is put up on the inside without breaking it πŸ™‚

Another really nice day here. It started grey and dull though but still rather warm and no wind. I didn’t feel like doing much at the beginning but then the clouds left and the sun reached us so I thought that I really couldn’t sit indoors all day doing nothing, so instead I went outside and started to prune the last apple tree, the one I once sowed and that gives delicious apples. The problem is that most of the apples get bad already on the tree.

To keep potted plants low they tend to use hormones that stop them growing and this fuchsia is an example of that. It hasn’t grown all summer and almost no new growth of the roots either. These plants usually die after a short while unless one wash out all soil and replace them with new. Sometimes that’s not enough either.

It is the same with this coneflower but this one is also quite often run over by the dogs and that doesn’t help πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Already from the beginning I shaped it as a fan, You know those we hold in our hands and not the electric ones πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The reason I did this was because it is planted just beside the fence so half of it would be growing out in the cow pasture and most likely be eaten on by the cows. The problem is that I had done very little with it for a few years now so it was so dense that no air really could reach the apples growing behind the leafs and therefore were much easier hit by fungus.

My fan shaped apple tree. This should help a lot with fungus attacks.
Before I started to cut down the grape elder so now it’s much brighter under the big apple tree.
Lots of air and light will have a chance to get down to the ground under the summer apple tree.
and I hope that will benefit my Pawpaw trees.

I went against all the recommendations I have when it comes to pruning apple trees (or any trees for that matter). Normally I say that when pruning apple trees only cut of a third of what You really want to cut and do it in autumn, preferable when the tree is about to lose its leafs. I The tree is then preparing to slow down and really doesn’t care about losing the leafs because it would anyway. By doing this it will not grow as many new branches as it would if You prune it in spring. The next year take half of what is left for the same reason and the third year the rest. After that there’s really not much to cut away. Today however it felt like I cut away half the tree πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I realised that some branches now were so big that I would get a much harder job next year if I only took a third of what I wanted but I did at least do the job now when it is autumn πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

The Kankakee mallow is really high now πŸ™‚ Taller than I am as well πŸ™‚ I still have a few potted ones that needs to be planted before it gets too cold.

I do hope the frost will wait a long time because if it does I might have ripe tomatillos πŸ™‚

After that I collected all of what I had cut off from all the trees and started up the compost grinder. This took almost half a day to do but it was well worth it. Now there’s lot of open space in and under the trees so air (well wind) can dry up the air as much as possible and funguses get harder to destroy so much fruit. I also cut down the grape elder bush that are the fence just under the biggest apple tree. There’s still much of the trunk left but I’ll take that with the chain saw later on. It has been fighting for space with a Japanese climbing rose and none of them would give up, The rose has also been prunes by the cows in the pasture outside for a long time πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β I’ll cut it dow as well and then let it grow back up again. I’ll try to keep it low though because it isn’t called climbing rose for nothing πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It has one advantage though, it has almost no thorns πŸ™‚

They are guessing we’ll have the same kind of weather for a few more days and then it will be cooler and I guess autumn will get a grip on us. Not looking forward to it but then again back in the days today had most likely been the day when we had our first frost. It always happened around September sixth. Normally I liked that because that killed off the last annoying flies but since we almost have none of those (still lots of other flies but they really don’t care about annoying either humans nor animals) I think frost can wait for a month or so to arrive πŸ™‚ On another note, today they had the annual dachshund parade in our capital and 900 had said they would be there πŸ™‚ Also the heavy rains we were supposed to have happened further north. Roads have been flushed away, a train derailed and people were warned no to drive anywhere. So I guess I really shouldn’t be annoyed over the fact it didn’t fall here πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

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Morning mist again this morning but we came out a bit late so it wasn’t much left when we had our morning walk. Still the one still left was rather nice.Β 

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The rain prediction they first guessed should fall today were changed to showers and then changed to just cloudy so I wasn’t surprised that we mostly have had sunshine today with the occasional cloud passing in front of the sun. It has been rather warm as well so I did some sawing in the old apple trees. I bought one of those on a long stick so I could cut off dead branches higher up in the trees, Now I realise that I should have bought one of those telescope sticks because there’s lot of dead branches pretty high up in the trees.Β 

I also by mistake cut of a big branch that still was alive but to be honest it opened up the tree a lot so now air will flow more easily through the tree and hopefully it will keep apples from rotting and perhaps it will help to keep the different fungi infections the trees can get since they’ll dry up faster after rain and high humidity. There are still lots I can cut off and I do have the time to do it without feeling stressed about it, I’ll have lots of tea and coffee breaks that is πŸ™‚Β 

The paper shredder has arrived at the grocery store in Gudhem but I’m waiting for another parcel coming via another shipping company to the same grocery store. I don’t know when it arrives though otherwise I would get it at the same time, I really don’t like to drive around unnecessarily even though it just a ten minute drive away. So I guess I’ll pick it up on Monday when I’m going to a bigger grocery store anyway and pick it up on my way home. You might think that I should buy my groceries in the smaller one but they don’t have especially much to be honest, I will however buy more ice cream there to make sure it doesn’t melt on the way home πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and I think I’ll have the last of the ice cream I bought the other day. Also it is time to give the dogs their dinner as well. My headlamp is now charged so if we need to get up in the middle of night to do our businesses I’ll go outside first to check so there isn’t any badger walking around there again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

The Jerusalem artichoke, a perennial sunflower, already flowers, almost a month early.

Have a great day!

Another perennial sunflower, they are quite popular amongst pollinators.
They needed to have a long rest after my hard work with the apple trees πŸ™‚

Finally lots of rain (but still not enough :-) ).

They finally got it right, we have rain. Most of the time it’s nice summer rain but every now and again heavy showers and we’ve even had thunder passing to the west of us. I’m so annoyed that I haven’t found the jigsaw because if I had I now would have had three full water barrels, all containing around 300 litres (79,3 gallon US) each. They’re guessing we’ll have rain all weekend so if I just find it I’ll be able to open up the third barrel that’s just waiting to be opened up.

From the window beside the computer upstairs.

The morning walk was quite different though, slightly cloudy but with huge gaps between the cloud masses and enough cool top have morning mist, something I really like to see. t was more or less vanishing by the time we went out but there were places it still lingered. Jays were arguing loudly but besides them it was quite quiet. Alma and Malkolm behaved so well and it was cool enough to keep even the moose flies calm. So far I haven’t seen many of the moose flies and I do hope the drought has killed most of them.

We woke up rather early, even for me, at 4 am so I opened the door for the dogs so they could do their business. Well that didn’t happen because Alma found some animal in the garden and started to bark like insane. It was so dark that I couldn’t see anything but I’m pretty sure it was the badger again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It has now dug a hole beneath the fence to my neighbours, I found it yesterday. She (I think it’s a she because of the size) hadn’t been able to get in to my garden for a while, instead she has dug her small holes in the ground around my garden just beside the fence. It does seem I have lots of things she likes to eat here, frogs, slugs and snails (and fallen apples on the ground) so she decided it is worth the risk of meeting fierce Alma πŸ™‚ Malkolm was smart enough to stay by my side instead of joining her πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

So I think it might be time to put up that wildlife camera again. I hope the batteries still work because I really don’t want to have to drive away just to get batteries. If it catches any nightly visitors I’ll of course show them here. I know the fox tends to visit us as well and lots of cats of course πŸ™‚

It is time to have that last cup of tea for the day, after that I don’t know what to do. I actually have lots of things I can do but for some reason I don’t want to do them and I don’t mean chores but old hobbies I used to have. I guess I still have those hobbies but at the moment I just can’t get myself to start with any of them πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

I just can’t find it, or the hammer.

The rain we had lasted two days, now the trees look just as sad as they did before the rain, not even the grass started to grow especially much. They once again say we’ll get bucketloads of rain, if the showers come our way Β πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ There will be, from what I understand, a steady rain falling though so lets hope both the steady rain and the showers comes our way.

It has been really nice today, no rain but rather windy with mixed clouds and sunshine. Ok it dried out the ground and vegetation even more but it was really nice to be outdoors :-)I did almost everything I had planned to do except the cutting down the elder trees. I’ll do that tomorrow before the rain arrives, if it does. I still can’t find my jigsaw, I even went through the old garage and the wood shed and even went down and checked the cool cellar. Β I can’t for my life understand where I’ve placed it πŸ™‚ I can’t find my hammer either?!

I wanted to hang up the orchids I have had outside all summer and was only going to put up a hook (unfortunately I couldn’t find any hook at home that is supposed to be screwed in, only ones one need to hammer in). I have however found my (Have no idea what they are called in English) exchangeable bits I put in the Β screw driver, I don’t need them at the moment but I’ll put them where they are supposed to be so I can find them again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ also all my drills and a few cameras I’ve wondered where they were πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I’ve just had my last cup of tea for the day and tonight they show Death in Paradise again so I have that to look forward to. Tomorrow I’ll continue to search for that jigsaw and now also the hammer πŸ™‚ Both must be somewhere and perhaps they’re on the same place. Sometimes it feels like I get blind when looking for something, it can be just in front of me but I still don’t see it, happens all the time when I place my mobile where it shouldn’t be πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

By the way, I remembered to buy ice cream today so I’ll have some of it while watching tv πŸ™‚

It did rain all night.

We never had those heavy showers here and I haven’t heard any news about them either so I guess they never happened. We did however have a nice summer rain all night so that’s at least something. The rain water barrels are perhaps filled to a third but I had hoped they would be more than half full. Well we can’t get everything I guess.

Still we had a cool and nice morning just as the last fog vanished. Both Alma and Malkolm behaved really well, even when we passed the soon to be former neighbours cottage. We scared a Jay that was walking on the gravel road and I could hear ravens nearby and cranes from a distance. I also noticed that there were plenty of tiny toads walking across the Β gravel road, from one ditch to the other. I’ve had unusually many in my garden this year and unusually many frogs as well. They’ve been hiding in the higher vegetation close to where I’ve watered all summer. I do hope none of the dogs see the toads because they are poisonous and if a dog chew or eat one they can die.

I’ve ordered a paper shredder today. back in the days when one had paper bills here in Sweden they always wrote our social security numbers on the bills or any kind of paper to be honest. It seems that back then identity theft wasn’t a thing. When we had paid the bill we just tossed it in the trash. Things are different now days I’m afraid. So I have loads of old bills that I should have thrown away (recycled) years ago but then I would have to tear away that part where my number is printed and to be honest there are funnier things to do during the day πŸ™‚

The recommendation here is to save those papers for ten years so I have loads to destroy now. I belong to those who are happy we don’t have it that way any more, instead I just save my bills in the computer Β until they are old enough to delete. Thankfully they don’t write our numbers down in bills any more. Envelopes are another thing, we can’t recycle them because of the glue and I don’t think the shredder likes that either but then again they’re easy to just throw in the garbage bin πŸ™‚

I’ve also managed to put the new chain saw chain on the chainsaw and even managed to stretch it enough so it won’t loosen its grip while working with it. We’ll have a rather nice weather tomorrow so after our morning walk and the grocery store trip I’ll have to do I’ll start cutting down the grape elder trees I’ve started to cut down. Grape elder tree is so bad that I don’t think it even works as fire wood when it is dry and I think it’s the same with our common Elder. Β I would like to get that wild plum tree cut down as well but I think it’s best to cut off the branches one by one because those thorns are terrible.

It is time for that last cup of tea and I think there actually is something I want to watch on tv before it is time for bed.

Have a great day!

We are supposed to have loads of rain today, bucket fulls of rain. We did have rain during the night, a soft and gentle summer rain but after that mostly drizzle as best. I’m sort of disappointed to be homes πŸ™‚ Ok the day isn’t over yet and the Swedish weather site says lots of rain or very little in the evening while the Norwegian says sort of what we had during last night, not enough at all. I’m afraid the Norwegian site use to be the one one can trust.

I haven’t been just idling around waiting for the rain though, I’ve made a pasta sauce in the slow cooker and I’ve baked bread as well. Also I decided that I would start the filter in the aquarium again. It is filled with a quarter to what it can take because Β I thought the plants in it should survive just in case I would buy some fish again. I emptied since I had to work evening shift a couple of times and didn’t know how wild the dogs would be when I wasn’t at home. I would have liked to have them in the dog yard while I worked but since they bark at anything moving when it is dark outside they would wake up my neighbours and they are just too good to do something like that to.

It took me one hour to get the filter to actually work and not just sound as if it was working again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I did fill it with water as much as possible and it still refused to work. It turned out that even though it was filled it still had som much air inside that it couldn’t work. I’ve watered my tomato plants and tomatillo plants with the water that was inside the filter before I cleaned it. Aquarium water is an amazingly good fertiliser so I hope they will enjoy it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I was going to cut off the top on this barrel so I could have one more rainwater barrel. Didn’t happen because I can’t for my life find my jigsaw πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I looked at it just a few days ago and can’t remember where it is πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I have in fact the cup beside me πŸ™‚ The reason I made the pasta sauce is because I want to try and bake pierogies, something I’ve never done before. So I’ll put it in a lunch box and in the freezer until it is time to do it. For a while, long ago pierogies were the street food to eat but then the kebab came and now days very few actually seems to know what a real pierogi is. It’s actually raining outside again, still just a gentle summer rain though.

Have a great day!

They say it’ll finally rain a lot tomorrow.

It has been warm all day, 25 C (77 F) most of the day before noon was sunny and most of the day after has been cloudy. Still warm though and we’ve also had a rather strong warm wind. I slept for much longer last night than I’ve done in years, a cold is spreading here and it might be that it has made me so much more tired, a bit stuffed in the nose but nothing worse for me. My neighbours had it much worse.

The leafs are going yellow but it’s because of the drought and not so much because we’re closing in on autumn.

So since we went up much later we had our morning walk before we had breakfast. I could hear some ravens and small birds were tweeting but besides those it was rather quiet. We walked down to the creek and back because I didn’t want to walk in the high grass in the forest now when it is dry enough for the ticks to stay there. Β We walked in the high grass yesterday and I had to pick plants of ticks from the dogs after we had come home, nasty animals!

I’ve also been to a big grocery store in FalkΓΆping this morning, a nice change to the supermarket I usually go to. I was going to stop on the way home at the small grocery shop in Gudhem on my way home to buy ice cream, it gives me enough time to come home without the ice cream melting. I of course forgot that so still no ice cream in my home πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I do have a can with peach halves and one smaller with pear halves so I might have one of those instead.

I would like to tear up all these vibes with small yellow flowers now. They are annuals and has already spread so many seeds that there’s no risk of them not coming back. However we have loads of bumblebees here and these small flowers are perfect when they need nectar sonce they will continue to flower until the frost kills them.

They say that we will have rain tomorrow. Anything from one centimetre (two fifths of an inch) to 4 cm (one inch and three fifths of an inch) falling down from the sky. I do hope we’ll get the higher amount because I would at least not have to water anything for a couple of days πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It is so dry here now that we only get very little dew in the morning and when that happens we’re really in a secure drought.

I want to remove the wild plum tree I have but I’m afraid to even go close to it with thorns like these πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The sooner I do it the better though, it’s just a young tree and if I with it’ll only get more thorns πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I was planning on baking a bread after this but it will be done so late that I better start tomorrow since we actually might get that rain πŸ™‚ Time for that last cup of tea for the day and then some tv watching.

Have a great day!

Fog again this morning and actually a bit too good πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ because the camera quite often had problems finding anything to focus on. So instead I had to do it myself like in the olden times when autofocus just was a dream πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Not a fly were out having fun despite that it actually was quite warm already at 7 am. Mixed between cold and sunny all day but since we reached 25 C (77 F) the laundry I did dried up really fast.

I haven’t done much today besides the laundry, I’ll do the last of the heavy clothes tomorrow. My bathroom is so small that I can’t have a normal washing machine in there so instead I have one made for mobile homes, works really well but can’t take heavy clothes or sheets at the same time as other clothes. So I save those heavier things and take them one by one and tomorrow I’ve catched up with those things, yay πŸ™‚

Well I did water the vegetables and the more sensitive plants and made an apple cobbler which turned out rather nice. Lots of cars have passed the cottage today, tomorrow is the last day before my newest neighbours move out totally. Too bad I really liked them but I do understand why they do it since the owner suddenly raised the price of the property and with quite at lot to be honest. So now all we can do is to hope the next tenant is just as good as these were. I doubt very much that anyone will buy the place since he wants almost twice to what the property is worth.

Thunder is passing north of us and it doesn’t look like they’ll be coming this way. We might have som rain during the night but it doesn’t look promising. The problem is that when it finally starts it tends to stay for weeks at a time, which is just as annoying as when it doesn’t fall at all πŸ™‚

It is so quiet in the village now. I can hear two dogs barking from opposite sides of the village and that’s it. No birds tweeting, no katydids or grass hoppers playing their violins. The monsterkitten is already indoors eating so not even she makes a sound. The occasional bumblebee flies by the window but it looks like even the flies have a break right now. It is time for that last cup of tea and after that I’ll try and find space for all the quince trees (Cydonia oblonga) in the garden. I’m pretty sure they’ll die here during winter if it comes close to what used to be a normal winter but then again I thought my Black walnut would too and it is already the highest tree in my garden πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

Fog.

To my surprise I woke up to a slightly foggy world, not a great fog but still foggy enough πŸ™‚ No wind, a few birds tweeting and I could hear cranes flying south west towards the coast and the ravens of course. Alma behaved so well today that it surprised me, yesterday she did anything but that πŸ™‚

Yesterday I also learned that the moose fly season has started over a month to early. I caught one of these nasty insects while it walked up my hoodie towards my neck. I truly hate them, even more than I hate ticks. So I actually texted friends I know are out in the forest a lot so they can make sure the flies can’t get in beneath the clothes in any way. No nasty one today though. Instead we didn’t even have a single annoying fly either despite it being rather warm and that sort of made me happy πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I was going to get two packages from the post office in the grocery store in Gudhem today. I had ordered a saw that one puts on a long shaft so I can saw off dead branches on my trees higher up and I have bought a “new” lens to my camera. You’ll not notice anything though because it’s the same brand as the one I have but a bigger telephoto lens. The lens works perfect but when I took a look at the saw I noticed I’ve bought one with another coupling than what I have to the rest of the garden tools I have from the same brand. It’ll take longer to ship it back than to actually buy a new shaft πŸ™‚

Anyway now days it’s almost impossible to get the package if You don’t have a mobile phone and just as I drove in to the parking lot I realised I had forgotten the phone at home πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I had to drive back home, upset my dogs since I didn’t let them out from the dog house and drive back to the store before going back home again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I felt so annoyed about it that I forgot to buy ice cream and I do long for ice cream right now. I do however have custard at home and apples in the trees so perhaps I’ll bake a pie instead πŸ™‚

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and a slice or two from my newly baked bread, it’s cooling off down in the kitchen right now πŸ™‚

Have a great day!