Fight against beetles

We were celebrating JD's birthday in the city with all the kids and some friends in the new Boulevard Social Restaurant (very tasty but also tight and noisy for our group of 17 people..), and therefore had only Saturday evening and Sunday to spend on Kemiö island. In 6 days all these new flowers had popped up!

To my big surprise, also the scarlet lily beetles (liljakukko), whom I learned to know last summer, had already started to eat lilies, most of them had wholes on the leaves.
And the little red beetles were all mating - that means that next week there would be no lilies left! I found from Google that the only way to get rid of them is to boil them. So I headed to the flower bed with a kettle of boiling water and picked these little creatures two at a time with rubber gloves and dropped in the boiling water. I went back a couple of times, and found more.
I guess this has to be renewed next week.

For dinner, we cooked virgin potatoes grown in Perniö and sold by the road (the seller was drunk again as he did last summer almost every time we passed by). With butter, dill and baltic herring it was delicious. For desert, I made a compote of rhubarbe growing in the garden, seasoned with cinnamon and vanilla, which needed then vanilla ice cream to balance the acidity of rhubarbe. So, this weekend I said Goodbye to my low-carb diet.