Magic Mushrooms

Sorry, I've been such a lazy blogger recently :( I'll make it up to you now! Another post from the last weekend coming right up!

So we spent 2 lovely days in the cottage again. It was fun to pack our kids and the cat and all the stuff to our really small car (Suzuki Swift) :) We used all the space there is. It was the very first car trip for Vera. We didn't dare to let her outside. Because she's not afraid of outer space, street cat as she is. But she enjoyed staying indoors catching flies (there are no flies in the city) very much.

Our summer neighbour ordered some cow "leftovers" form a local farmer as an organic boost for her flowers and vegetables. But he brought them obviously too much! So now I'm helping her to get rid of it as much as I can. So I went to get some for my phloxes and I saw these weird mushrooms inside this huge poo mountain. Next I accidently hit one with my shovel. And a baby snake came out of it! Luckily it was a grass snake (not poisonous) again. Most of the eggs shells were empty already. So as I kept digging, I collected 12 little ones all together to a bucket. Plus 3 eggs. One of the eggs was a bit opened and a baby was ready to be born, so Noora got to be a snake doula :D She loved it! Tuudur was a bit jealous saying he'd like a snake of his own :) I didn't realise before my kids are such a hippies! I'm so happy they take care of smaller creatures and are not afraid of the nature we have here.

P.S. I'm sorry if you find these pics disturbing. I bet I would too if I didn't have a live experience :)

Vera

We have a cat! Another cat was really not in my plans, but a friend of mine called me one night, saying that there are kittens running wild near her house and nobody seems to take care of them. And that there is this one grey female that is just so "my cat", that she's now carrying her to her place and I should go and have a look :) I was really worried about my allergy, so I made a deal with her saying I'll give it a try, but if my condition gets unbearable I'll have to return the cat. She was willing to have the cat as her 5th! :)

But I'm ok! During the 1st week I was taking some homoeopathic drug, but I haven't needed it for the last couple of weeks. Little Vera came to our house in August 8th. She loves our kids and we love her!

Since Barsik HERE wasn't willing to accept our kids, we found him a nice new home in February. Big house, no kids, silence, paradise! We are planning to visit him in autumn.

Yesterday...

...I was a busy bee. Lots of digging and planting. Today my whole body hurts (maybe these stones were a bit too heavy for me to lift from one place to another. To another) :D

So what did I plant this time?

Acinos Alpinus

Alcea Rosea

Achillea Millefolium "Cerise Queen"

Thymus Citriodorus "Silver Posy"

Salvia Nemorosa "Rosenwein"

Salvia Nemorosa "Schneehügel"

These I planted last year. I wish you could smell them!

And the water is running again! Thanks to my father and Kalle - men with golden hands!

Mr. Bass

One day Kalle's friend (a bass player) called and said that he has a gig booked for his band (in Estonia), but he appears to be on a vacation with his family at the same time (in Denmark). Kalle hasn't played bass for a long time, but he wanted to help them out.

Tanel Padar and The Sun is a rock band, but this time they had a special thing planned with an orchestra and everything :) All the songs (14-15 all together) were new to Kalle and he only got to go to 1 rehearsal. Yay! So he was pretty nervous on stage. But I think he did really well!

Here are some photos I took and HERE'S the full gallery.

Family

On Midsummer's Day we had a traditional (we usually do it over 5 years or so) reunion with the relatives (from my fathers side of the family). If I remember correctly 116 people were at this party! Most of them were from Estonia of course, but there was also a big nice family from Australia. And they had their 90 year old poppy with them! Here are some pictures I took there with my fathers Blackbird, Fly camera...