A few days on my own in the Log Cabin mid September 2024

 

At the cabin September 2024

Sept. 19th through 23rd I was on my own in the cabin. The weather was fine, though quite fresh, in the evening it was mostly 8 degrees Celsius. This is no problem, I have plenty of wood, ready to heat the oven.
Since I recently had to have a piece of skin and flesh cut out on my upper left back (black skin cancer), I had to take it steady. This means no woodwork and no (or only very little) grass cutting.
This means, it were really relaxing days. I took a book with me, which was a present of our friend Dave from Cornwal. The book is about the story of laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable: "The Cable That Changed The World".
Of course I cooked nice meals and enjoyed the days.

Here some impressions:

 

Since I drove up by Public Transport, I passed the famous "Grand Canyon of Switzerland", the Rheinschlucht

 

Just arrived!
From the final stop of the "Postauto", it is about a 30 minutes walk. Carrying the necessary luggage, it was quite a job.  

One of the first things to check after arrival is, if the watersupply from our little spring works.
IT DID NOT WORK!
This means, I had to take some tools and stagger up to the water catchment. The water intake was in order. After some further investigation I found the "corpus delicti": A hose-coupling had opened!

After putting the peaces together,  everything worked fine.

                                                

A couple of days later, I went up again and fitted two hose clamps to make sure this does not happen again.

Here the main meal I cooked on the outdoor stove:

 

Kind of Irish stew with lamb cubes and red cabbage.

 

It was delicious!

And here some of the  flowers still blossoming:

Chicory  lat.: Cichorium intybus (Wegwarte)

A favorite of mine (actually a spring and summer-flower):
The Oxeye Daisy (Magerwiesen-Margerithe)

 

Globeflower (Trollblume or Ankebälli) actually a flower that blossoms normally in spring. 
One of my favurites.

 

Mullein (Königskerze) with viper´s bugloss = Echium in German Natternkopf

 

Autumn crocus

This time of the year I usually go looking for mushrooms. But presently there are quite a lot of hunters around and I don´t want to be mistaken as a deer... And also, the August was very dry so that there are not many mushrooms about.

Lat.: Coprinus comatus (Schopftintiling).
They were just beside a path that I walked. They are edible and taste good, but only when very young. Later, they turn "inky" as can be seen in the upper part of the photo.

Here to finish of, the "Cable-book" that I read: