Shortly after I published my blog yesterday the sun broke through the fog and it became really warm outside. It was to warm to have a jacket on when I and my dogs walked our walks. More and more birds are singing in the trees and in the air. But the one I heard most was the Blackbird. It has a very beautiful, but slightly sad song and that is whay I think sweeds love them so much that we even chosed the Blackbird to our national bird.

We call this Hepatica for "Blåsippa" (roughly Blue anemone). This one isn´t blue as You can see and it´s also completely filled with petals.

I didn´t cut the grass in my garden for a long time last autumn because my lawnmower is a sort that hasn´t an engine. It looks like the ones that You push and then it makes a cutting noice. But this one is a modern sort, so it´s absolutely quiet, low friction I think it´s called. When the grass is dry it´s a perfect lawnmower, but when it´s wet it´s useless. It only slides over the wet grass. Autumns is really rainy here, so I couldn´t cut the grass at all.

This is how my lawn looked before cutting it.

This is after. Now it´s going to be so much easier to cut it when it becomes green.

But Yesterday everything was perfect, the grass was dry, the sun shined and I was in the mood for cutting grass :-) Well the grass isn´t green yet, but it will be so much easier to cut the new grass if the old brown is gone. Have to admit though that it was much harder work yhan I remembered it was from last year :-) I can already feel that my muscels are protesting :-)

Another crocus is flowering now. I love this bright yellow colour.

The red berried elderberry is one of the first bushes/trees to let out their leafs.

The stack ant has also started for the year. Click on the picture to get a better look at them.

Can You see that brown thing in the centre of the picture? That is a hare that really wants to hide from me and my dogs. I couldn´t see what it was until it flipped its ears :-) We were only a couple of meters from it :-)

Since I had my weekend yesterday and the day before that, my working week started today. It wasn´t that bad to be honest. The only thing I was concerned about was the burgeler alarm. If doing wrong while turning it of all hell brakes loose :-) I remember when I worked in a super market and forgot to turn of the alarm when I started working. The alarm bell made such a big noice that it was impossible to think. I then had to phone the security companie, give them my name ande give them a code, so they could give me a code to shut down the alarm. The problem was that the phone was just under the alarm bell :-) So I had to shout to them and with a bit of luck I could here what they said to me :-) :-) and when the alarm was quiet again, the neighbours came. I think that was worse that the alarm, especially if it was Saturday morning :-) :-)

Here Hector is comming up from a very unvolontering dip in the pond :-) He wouldn´t take a bath if so his whole life depended on it :-)

But everything went okey today. It´s kind of nice to be in the factory all by my self. It´s so quiet and calm. Today I painted beams in steel. They were about seven to ten meters ( 23-33 feet) long and weighs more than I can imagine. Painting them doesn´t take that long time, but mowing them around does. Ninety percent of the time I´m working is mowing them around. Should really be two ersons there I think. One painting and one mowing things. It would go so much faster to work then. But as times are right now I´m happy to have a job at all.

The Ring neck dove has built a nest on the ventilation pipes at work. Even if it´s a noysy place they come every year. Soon the swallows will nest here too.

Today is also the warmest day of the year so far, 17,4C (63F) in the shade. I know it´s going to be colder again, it always does in April. One day almost summer, the next day winter again. But I´m going to enjoy it for now anyway.
Be good!

Here I am, ready for work :-)