Bertil and Teodor is waiting for food, but a tractor is more interesting to look at thinks Teodor.

The factorys big air compressor had broken down this Thursday, so I had to use the old one instead. The problem with that one is that it easily gets over heated and shuts down, espesially warm and sunny days like today. It´s not a huge problem really, I just have to shut it down, wait five minutes and restart it. But everything takes so much longer time. On the other hand I and my dogs got more time together :-) There is an old garden (two actully, one on each side of the factory) where we sat during the time we waited. In one of the gardens there´s an old orchard with some old apple trees no one cares about any more and today I noticed that there grew rhubarbs in the other one. The original rhubarb is quite big, but there were a lot of seedlings around it. So now I have two small rhubarb plants here at home :-)

I took the following pictures on my way home from work. The quality isn´t especially good but look at them, do You notice anything special?

Most houses/cottages and barns are red with white corners here on the country side in southern Sweden. Most of them has also the exact same kind of paint. They made a survey some time ago and that showed that one thing sweeds want in life is a red cottage with white corners on the country side. I live in one :-)

There´s to much noice in the parks in Stockholm, the traffic is to loud. So now they have hit their heads together (swedish saying) and come up with an idea. They will create even more noice but with nature sounds. Think they hit their heads together a bit to hard this time :-) If one doesn´t get death by traffic one will surly be death by the nature sounds instead :-) :-) They sure knows how to solve problems in our capital :-) :-)

This magpie is not afraid of me, my dogs or cats. It can sit still in a bush just a meter away just looking at us :-)

Nowdays we can see the moon most of the day.

Did You know that the oldest living tree lives in Sweden? I´ve always thought that the oldest one lived in California to be honest. But how wrong I was. There is a small, rather shabby spruce up on a mountin called Fulufjället up in the county Dalarna. It looks likes it has been dying for the last couples years but it has always looked like that they think, because the climate has been so hard there (but now when the climate has become warmer it grows more and more). They took samples of spruce coones, geneticly identical to the living spruce and sent the samples to a laboratory in the USA. They found out that the samples were 375, 5 660, 9 000 and 9 550 years old! They have found twenty or more trees over eight thousand years old too. They started to grow just when the big ice melted away.

We call this Pentecost lilly. Smells wonderful!

Thats all for today my friends. Now it´s time for some tea and a couple of sandwiches :-)
Have a great day now!

This kind of Bleeding heart is called "Second Lieutenants heart" in Sweden.

And this one that is on its way now is called "Lieutenats heart" here. It will take some weeks until it´s as its best.