Big gardening!

This morning, after checking the weather forcast and rain radar after waking up, I went out to open the nets as it seemed there was no rain planned and the wind was ok. 

After being all done with opening, I started making breakfast and within 3min of my return at the station, it started pouring rain.

I then had to rush back outside and close all the nets again, as there now was multiple rain clouds in a row coming on the radar, and the amount of rain pouring was very intense even if for sort of short periods of time. Luckily no birds had had the time to get caught and wet in this span of time.

I tried to wait it out, seeing if I could open the nets later as I was up and ready anyways, but it never looked good. It was periods of beautiful summer weather with blue sky and the next minute thunder and pouring rain. 

Around 8 Henrik arrived and with some big packages along! It was some new gardening equipment he recently purchased for the station, as the gardens have now grown to be very tall trees and big bushes. 

After a little while putting the equipment together, Henrik was excited to try some of them out, and we thought 'we can try it on a couple of rose bushes, just to see!'. 

Long story short, we erradicated MULTIPLE square meters of the invasive sand rose bushes, and the equipment performed even better than we thought. 

Henrik was cutting, I was raking and cleaning up the branches and leaves, we were really efficient! 

When we were done with that, Henrik took off with some cardboard to bring to the recycling station and I had some lunch and some rest. 

I hope to be able to open some nets tomorrow, it seems like there will be little to no wind, and so far no rain - but I am not sure I trust the weather app anymore after this morning's betrayal!