Can I get you some coffee? Or tea? If we were enjoying our coffee and conversation outside I’d say that ice coffee or ice tea would be a good choice. Or if you’d rather I have a fresh batch of lemon-rhubarb lemonade in the fridge, perhaps you’d like to try some?
This is the second week of my vacation, I have two more to go. I am spending this week in the best possible way (if you ask me) with lots of time in the garden, many miles on my bike (I am keeping a bike journal for my vacation, with a goal of riding 50-80km/week approximately 30-50miles/week) and in the company of good books (I’ll get back to the books later.)
The best thing this week was a surprise visit from my dad. He lives in another town and on top of that he travels a lot, but he called in the middle of the day on Thursday wanting to see my garden! It was a wonderful surprise to spend some time with him in the garden. We enjoyed coffee and cinnamon rolls in the shade. I don’t think he would like it if I shared a photo of him, so I won’t do that. I did however take a photo of him in the garden that I am going to frame.
Some other wonderful things this week is all the vegetables and berries that was harvested. It started with red currants, then the black currants got ready for picking, after that three garden beds with garlic was ready for harvest, and today I started to pick the raspberries.
The majority of the garlic is not ready to be harvested yet. I have more than 100 “Therador” left to harvest, and some “Cledor”. The size of the garlic harvested so far this year is OK, but not quite as big as it was last year. This year has been weird when it comes to the weather, that considered it has to be OK (hoping for larger garlic heads next year.) Harvesting garlic is very full-filling, almost meditative. I spent several hours yesterday morning carefully harvesting each garlic, brushing the soil of with my hands, cutting the roots (but leaving the stems) and after that hanging them to cure in my shed.
It’s been a warm summer week with temperatures in the upper 80’s/27-30C. I spent the mornings working in the garden every day and most afternoons reading in the shade (or inside.) One of the books I read was Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Satoshi Yagisawa. I read the book in Swedish but the books is translated to many languages and is available in English. It was different, in a good way, mostly due to the cultural differences between European and Japanese cultures. It is about genuine people, with real challenges, finding themselves in the most unexpected ways, in a caring neighbourhood of old book stores, where the people (a twenty something girl and her uncle) at the Morisaki bookshop is the center of attention. I really, really liked the book and I am going to read more books of this author.
I also spent some time this week watching The Longines FEI Jumping European Championship 2025 from Spain, the individual finals are tomorrow and it is most exciting! As some of you know I am a horse girl at heart, event though I do not have any horse at the moment.
While watching the championship I wanted to have something to dow with my hands, so I started to crochet a light scarf. I was planning on crocheting the scarf this fall, but decided that it was OK to start. My daughter wants to learn how to make her own Amigurumi, she is getting the material needed to get started for her birthday next week, I figure that I needed to have a crochet project of my own. If I have my own project we can share the activity but I won’t risk taking over her project..LOL.
Thank you Natalie for hosting the Weekend Coffee Share. Did you harvest anything in your garden this week? Or experienced a place that you felt was inspiring? Please tell me in a comment!
Maria
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