Perhaps I did fill my comming pond with a bit to much water. It woun´t be long until it´s flowing over the edges now.

It still rains here and it rains a lot. My pond is slowly getting filled with more water than it can take, but that´s no problem. The soil around it is so dry that it´ll soak it all up. Even if no one of us wanted to take a walk in the rain, I forced us to do so anyway. Yesterday the rain didn´t stop until late afternoon and then just for a couple of minutes.

There are actully three plants in this bucket. But it´s hard to see the smallest one. They will move in to the pond as soon as the rubber carpet has been dug down.

My dogs are like magnets to sand, so after a walk in this weather their fur is filled with it. Even if I dry them really good, sand will fall out of their fur for days after :-) But I´ve found out a way that helps a lot to get rid of most of the sand before going in. We have big fields here, mostly of grass that they make silage of later. If the grass is high I just let my dogs out there, throwing a stick or so. When they run like crasy after the stick, the wet grass sort of cleans most of the sand out of their fur :-) Okey, they become more wet than they were before, but it´s worth it. Orvar and Erna smells like dogs :-) when they come in wet, but with Hector it´s a different thing. He actully smells nice?! His grandmother was just the same. He smells like something close to musk! I have no idea why, but it´s nice for a change to be honest :-)

The deep hole in the ditch is once again filled with water. I think that this is one of the places where many of the horse flies and other similar flies grow up.

The only thing I´m a bit worried about with this rain is the possibility of getting loads of mosquitos and other blood drinking flies. Perhaps most of the water will sink down in to the dry soil, but there will still be a lot of small ponds and puddles that is enough for them to grow in. My pond is a new place for them to thrive in also. I didn´t think I would have any fishes in the pond this year, but I think I might have to buy some anyway. Outherwise my little pond will be a paradise for all those terrible insekts. I know there´s a little japanese fish that we usually have in aquariums here in Sweden. It can take rather cold winters so I think they can survive in my pond if winter this year is like the once before. They are big enough to eat a lot of mosquito larvae, but small enough not to eat eventual tadpoles.

In one of the small sandpits we have here one can clearly see that the rain hasn´t really helped much. Even if it has rained for almost three days, You can see on the sand that it´s very light. The darker sand below is where the rain has hit from the side. We really needs a lot more rain, even if I really don´t want any more :-)

So with rain all day today it´ll probably be a day of reeding books and drinking tea (and a lot of running to the bathroom after all that tea :-) ). I´ll probably listen to the radio program "Summer talker" too, if I can get the station on my radio that is. I live sort of in a bowl when it comes to radio wawes, they have trouble to reach my cottage. But it usually works quite well on rainy days.

I read another of those small articles in my morning newspaper. A swedish thief broke in to a home and when he was there he couldn´t resist a slice of two weeks old pizza. He also left his chewing gum in the pizza carton. He then broke in to another home. The first thing he does is to throw up the pizza he had eaten. On his way home the police stopped him, he was so drunk they took him directly. Since he had left so many traces of him self during the brake ins they cold arrest him for that too :-) :-)

Have a great day now!

Christer.