Hmm, just stopping by the library once again to let unknown people around the globe infrequently visiting my ATM not very updated website know that I'm still alive and thriving. A lot's been happening now at the center of August while colder winds are blowing in from the north trying to chase the summer away and my aim in posting this verbularly spectacular post here today is to inform you on the progressions with at least one of them.

We just recently received a not so very big greenhouse (6x2m) that the whole family threw in some larger than usual donations for as a present for my moms 66th birthday less than a month ago. She's been wanting one for a long time and at the moment (for a few years now) we have had three old glass windows slanted against a temporary wind shield made of wood instead where we've been trying to grow tomatoes with both failed and successful attempts. Even in the successful cases not all tomatoes have been red and ripe before the frost ravages the land at the start of autumn and now that we have a greenhouse things will hopefully be different in the future.

In a greenhouse there is no floor, not included, so I've been looking around the net trying to look at what other people use to shield the house from earthly coldness. Seems like some people use stone, some use sand, and some just grow things straight out the earth with a few stepable pieces of rock or wood in the middle. My work for the next two or three days will thus probably be to dig up a rectangular patch of open earth around which the greenhouse will be placed and which future years will fill with tomatoes and cucumbers and gigantic watermelons striving to reach the sky! Well I don't know about watermelons up here in the north of Sweden, but at least the previous two green things will without doubt grow in our house the coming year.

No manual was included with the package, which weighed 216 kilos and came in a big yellow truck that had a hard time getting back up to the main road after driving down to our summer place, so putting the big thing together will be ... interesting! Time is running out on my one hour long free hour so, later.