This is the closest we´ll come to the sun today. Hevy rains and thunder is closing in now.

The whole country will get sunny and warm today, the whole country but that little part where I live :-) We will get rain and thunder. But they say that it´ll come to us on wednesday instead. More and more of us nowdays don´t belive what the swedish weather forcast is saying any more, they did promise sun and warmth already this saturday and that was really wrong :-) So now we all go on the net to see what the norwegian weather forcast say, they are usually right.

As You can see I really need the pump and filter to be going in my pond if I want clean water :-) I had to fill up with some soil because I had plants that weren´t to happy to stay in their pots. But the area around the pond will become much bigger when finished.

Now I´ll have to find bigger stones and perhaps buy some mangrove roots to cover the rubber carpet.

My dog Erna is doing fine! The swelling is slowly, slowy getting smaller. I don´t think that she got to much poison in her when the snake bit her and her back medicine probably helps with keeping the swelling down. But I do have troubles forcing her to stay at home when we´re taking our morning walk. She doesn´t understand why she can´t follow us.

This is one of those flies that I hate so much, we call it forest fly. They don´t bite though, just irritate as much as they can :-) I´ve never realised how hairy they actully are.

The Cinnamon rose still gives me a flower or two.

Scientist says the a big chunk of an glacier on Greenland will get loose and drift away into the ocean. If I understand things correct this part already is in the ocean and wount effect the water level when melting. But they say that they have found new cirkulations with warmer water benieth it and that these are melting the ice faster than usual. Wasn´t it the scientists that told us that the Gulf stream would dissapere,when all the cold melt water from Greenland started comming when the glaciers started melting faster?? Looks as though they weren´t that right then :-) and I that thought scientists always new what they were talking about :-) :-) :-)

And so does the Japanese rose (Rosa rugosa). This one will later give big and red fruits.

Sorbaria sorbifolia, False spirea. Don´t plant this if You don´t want it to spread everywhere. My neighbour has it and because of that so do I :-)

Now I only have four days left of my vacation, including today. After that we wount have any holidays until Christmas. The few holidays that there is are placed on sturdays and sundays, so if I still am working on weekends I´ll be one of the few that will be able to enjoy them. Next time we´ll celebrate anything will be at December thirteenth, Saint Lucias day. She is the only catholic saint we celebrate here in Sweden, since we mostly are Lutheran protestants here. But we have a growing population with catholics and muslims nowdays, so perhaps we can borrow some of their holidays? :-) We really need a holiday during our long, dark and cold autumn.

Colutea arborescens, Bladder senna. It has had big troubles surviving here, but the three last winters has been mild so now it´s really big.

I wount do anything special today, even if Erna is getting better I want to keepeye on her today too. But tomorrow I´ll x-ray my hips and my left knee again. Lets hope that they are bad enough to do something about them now. Well the kne can wait i think, I don´t know how long it´ll take for it too heal if they operate on that at the same time as my hip. After the x-ray I´ll go and check if they have any engine powered lawn mowers on sale yet, I´m going to need one later this autumn. Perhaps I´ll remeber to buy hoses for the pond pump and pond filters too :-)

Have a great day now, I will!

Astrantia major, Master wort.