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I woke up real early this morning and since I wasn´t especially tired I might as well get up. After a while I and my dogs took our morning walk and I made a little video for You. Unfortunally the cranes were silent when I made it, otherwise they have started to shout here again. Autumn is slowly comming and so is the cranes.

I´ve started to try to fit the peat blocks around the pond edge. But there is still a lot to do. I have to get rid of a lot more of the lawn, fill up with more soil and put the pump and dig down the filter beside. But I´m on my way anyway.

It was rather cool yesterday morning, only 9,5c (48F) and the morning dew soaked tha whole area. We always has a lot of dew in the mornings when summer slowly comes to an end. It drips from roofs and tree branches everywhere. I hoped that it would dry up later that day, so I could finish the lawn mowing. It didn´t but I finished the mowing anyway. It´s not fun when one has a lawnmower without engine, It sort of slides over the wet grass just folding it nicly. So now when the engine lawn mowers comes on sale I´ll probably buy one. Just to have summers like this one when we set new records in rain.

This is a less thorny relative to the thorny one I showed a couple of days ago. The name on this one is Eleutherococcus sessiflorus. The thorny one is called Eleutherococcus setchuenensis (the swedish name for that is Sichuan thorn aralia). These names is nothing one says fast :-) :-) :-)


Lathyrus latifolius, Perennial pea. Once You´ve got this one to thrive You never have to be afraid it will dissapere. It doesn´t spread much but it survives most everything, even cows eating it :-)

Todays morning walk was rather nice. Even if it was much warmer outside the flies didn´t bother me at all. Every now and again I could hear cranes shouting to each other or small birds making a last singing session for this summer. In the distanse a car passed on the big road to Skara, many of us still have vacation but not all. Otherwise it was totally quiet. One or two drops of rain fell, but that was all the motion I could notice in the air.

Iberis umbellata, an annual that self sows nicly. I sowed this almost nine years ago and still I have some each year. Can come in many colors.

I think I´ve sown this :-) I´ve never seen anything like it here in Sweden. I think it might be something called Leather wood.

The poppys are still flowering.

And they are still rather beautiful after when the seed pods comes.

But all is soon to change. A lowpressure is comming in with all the rain it can carry. The winds are going to be strong and becuse of that there will be more motion in the air than most of us wants :-) I was thinking of going to an auktion this afternoon, but the wether isn´t inviting to that. Through my window I can see that the wind is stiring in the trees, so I better put the cettle on and make some tea.

Have a great day now, I will!

My first toamtoe! It´s a cheryy tomatoe and it should be striped when ripe. The seeds comes from some tomatoes I bought last winter and the tomatoes had a great taste.