I love sunrises, but there´s nothing wrong with the moon either.

It was a lovely morning today, the night had been warm and the sun shined like a summer morning. Now the winds are quite strong and it has started to rain. A rain they say we will have for a couple of days at least. Well we need it so I wount complain even if I like to :-) As You know they aren´t to grate with planning at my work place, so even if we really have loads to do, we had nothing to paint today :-) So I took the chanse to clean the big filters we have after the paintbox. Every now and again we have to get rid of all powder paint and it takes a couple of hours to clean it all.

We still have some strawberries in the forest and unlike the rasp berries these are still delicious.

Now the grounds are so dry that mushrooms gives up.

I filled seven big barrels with the powder and when I was going to take it away I sort of hit my paintbox with the forklift I used. Not especially hard, but more a slight touch :-) Well the paintbox stands on two rails and I managed to push this heavy thing of the rails. It just took a couple of hours to get it back on the rails again :-) and we only destroyed one electric cable while moving the paintbox:-)

We call this mushroom for "smoke mushroom". When it´s still white it´s a rather good mushroom, but when black like this it´s unedible. Kick on it and spores will fly out from it looking like smoke :-)

My tomatoes are getting more and more colors now, but it takes so long time!

They are going to close the petrolstation in the village Kvänum the last of September. Not because it doesn´t make a profit, no just because it has a low turnover. That makes me a bit annoyed. I could have understood it if the station didn´t give a profit, who can have a buisness without doing a profit? But it doesn´t make a profit big enough!! I´ve always thought that any profit was good enough, but I was wrong I guess. It has been perfect being able to put petrol in my car on my way to or from work when I needed to, but after the last of September I´ll have to drive an extra long way just to fill it up. That annoyes me even more!

A Marsh mallow.

The perennial sunflower "Maximilians sunflower.

The common annual sunflower grows just beside Maximilian. The seed came from the tallow balls I hang out as food to the birds at wintertime.

I can now tell You that the swelling and itching is gone :-) It almost drove me mad yesterday evening and this morning it was gone. I have no idea what it was that stung me, some say that my pants are too thick for a deer fly to reach. So most people think it was a European Hornet (Vespa crabro) , they can be almost black in color. They are a rarity here so perhaps I should be proud? :-) But they usually don´t sting people without a very good reason, compared with other wasps /yellowjackets they are friendly gigants. So I guess I´ll never know what it was. Anyway, it´s over for this time and I hope it never happens again :-)

Have a great day now!

This and the comming two pictures is from comming home from a walk with my dogs.