Today I woke up to a warm and sunny day.  It was already 30 degrees centigrade on the balcony and to my horror all plants was close to dead and very dry. A emergency water run to the kitchen was required. About 15 litres of water later and I think they will be fine for another summer day. The picture is taken about 15 minutes after I watered the plants and in such short time they are getting back on the right side of the track.

If you remember my little recap from this spring. The sad little plant. Well, one of the cats actually tried to kill that plant. Not only tried he succeed, or so he thought. I found it on the floor ripped up by the roots. However, shame for those how give up. I got it back in the earth and with a little love it got back on it’s roots so to speak. And now that little plant is the pride of the garden. Look at these peppers from a couple of weeks ago.

This is the peppers that are almost red today. (look at my previous post)

Yea, its about time to replant the small peppers. Unfortunately the pictures came out really dark as I used the camera in manual mode last time and my girlfriend didn’t check it. Anyway, they are coming along great. The early one is getting red, a nice chocolate brown colour. It’s getting late and I’ll leave you with the pictures as a gallery.

It was such a lovely weather yesterday that we thought that we should get a table for the balcony.  It’s one of those hanging over the railing, and thus needed something to keep it level. Some bamboo and string fixed that.

And while doing that I found a way to hang up a concrete picture that I got from my mother over two years ago.

It turned out quite well even thou I had to use a lot of string to get it to hang strait. It’s quite heavy. I don’t know if this qualify as creativity of the day but I hope that it does I leave you with two pictures of the balcony, it’s turned out quite cosy.

I’ll start of with what has happened during the early spring. This winter have been the coldest in a long time. We have had lots of snow and spring was about a month later than usual.

I think this picture sums it up pretty well. And only a year ago I was living in the desert,  not really desert but in Dubai city anyway.

This post should be about my growing of paprika, tamarind and some other things. I noticed that I only have some images of it all and my camera is on the loose, i.e I cant take any new pictures of it all in a couple of days. But this is how it all started.

My banana tree started to look grim and my conclusion where a lack of lights. I made this contraption of my tripod, two lampshades from IKEA and low energy lights in the correct colour spectrum. The lamps are 23W witch should be about 110W of normal bulbs.

These two images shows how I fastened the aluminium profile to the tripod using a small piece of plywood screwed on the camera shoe and then onto the aluminium. At the ends the cord for the lampshades goes through a hole and have a screw, washer and nut to hold it down.

It worked very well and I used this method for the second version, the one I cant find images of.

I will leave you with this image of a sad looking plant. I’ll come back to this one in a later post.