Finally! My nectarine is in bloom! Let us now hope the frost will stay away in the future!

It has been cloudy almost all day today, but still it has been really warm. Inside in the factory it felt like I worked in hell :-) There was some wrong with the ventilation system in my departement so all the heat from the owen and washing mashine stayed in the big room. We really suffered in there, but the rest of the factory were cool and nice but who had the time to go in there :-)

I have an old plum tree in my garden. It´s dying slowly and I think it would be better if I took it down. Just beside it grows what I think is a shoot, but it might be a seed plant too. Now that one has started to bloom. A sign that it´s time for the old one to be taken away? But it does give delicious plums :-)

We never got any thunderstorm yesterday. Suddenly the sun came back and the evening became really nice. But soon cooler weather will come and then the thunder probably will come like a lettre in the mail. So now I´m going to unplug everything when I drive to work in the morning.

This is a Blackthorn, a plum relative. It gives small blue berries in autumn and they taste utterly bitter. But if one pick them after two nights of frost one can make the most delicious lemonade or liqueur. This is thought to be one of the parents to european plums. The american plums has other parents though.

This is the flower of the Blackthorn.

For a couple of years now people have looked on birds as the ones that will give us a deadly influenza. But then suddenly it´s the pigs that gives us that instead. Wonder why scientist never thought of that? Pigs are actully so close to us that we might use their inner organs when our own fails. So now when this influenza comes it shouldn´t be a surprise really, we can get other diseases from them. But that is ofcourse very easy to say now when this is happening.

This tulip, Tulipa tarda, is a tulip You should have if You want a tulip that spreads by it self. It´s rather low, under twenty centimeters, and gives several flowers on every bulb.

And now for something really surprising news! There is actully a bank in Sweden that made a profit this first quarter of the year!! It´s not surprising that it´s that bank, it has always had a good reputation. It´s about time I change to that bank now I think. Why stay at a bank that is lead by nutt heads? Next time I get into town I´ll talk with them.

This is how it looks fully open.

Well, now it´s time for a cup of tea I think and then prepare mentally to work in hell tomorrow too. I don´t think that they´ll have fixed the ventilation problems by then. As usual there wount be a blog from me tomorrow, so see You Thursday!
take care!