Out our Window, Today

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

Some highlights of the activity out our living room window today – at least the ones I was there to take pictures of. :-)

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Whenever I get photos of the male pine grosbeaks, my goal is to capture the incredible red as much as possible. This one is very close!

Mother white tail deer with her twins.

Mama and the twins came by today, and I quickly grabbed a group shot with my phone’s camera, since I would have to change the lens on the DSLR to get all three in one shot.

I was going through some of my older deer photos with my daughter, and saw some of the very first ones we took of Mama and her babies. Seeing them, it struck me how much the twins have grown in the past couple of months!

Young white tail deer.

The group was very active today, and very nervous about the cats hanging around. It was cute watching them staring down whichever cat was there, stomping their hooves at them. Which, for the most part, the cats ignored!

The above picture is one of the twins, after it had shied away from the feed because of a cat.

Bleh!

“MooOOOoomm! He’s sticking his tongue out at me again!”

I can’t help it. I love these shots!

The Re-Farmer

Playing with Macro

February 19, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

This morning I realized I’d forgotten to put the battery for my daughter’s Nikon D80 to charge last night. Since our other D80 is broken, however, we have a spare, so I went digging through the camera bag to find it.

You’d think it would have been an easy find, but it took a while. :-D

In the process, I was noticing some of our other lenses, including one of my old favourites, a Tamron macro lens. It’s been a long time since I’ve used it. My younger daughter’s orchids happen to both be blooming right now, so I figured I’d give it a shot! (pun fully intended)

I moved the plants to a well lit location in the kitchen, which meant no tripod space. I promptly was reminded of just how vital a tripod is for me these days. My hands shake so much! Normally, it’s not an issue, but as soon as I start using them in certain ways that involve even minor strain to my hands, I just can’t keep them still. It’s why I don’t draw anymore, because I can’t hold pencil to paper to do the detailed work I used to.

Of the various shots I took, here are two of them. These images are resized to 30% only; I have done no adjusting for lighting or anything like that. To they’re pretty much raw from the camera.

This tiny orchid was harder to shoot than the bigger one. I’m happy with how this photo turned out, and one or two others, but none of the photos are anywhere near as crisp as the lens is capably of, simply because of the shake.

Love that depth of field, though!

The pink orchid has only two open flowers right now, with many buds, so I look forward to trying again as more of them open.

This larger orchid is in full bloom; I think there’s 10 flowers in it, alternated on the stem.

Again, I got several good photos, but the the focal points are still not as crisp as I know the equipment can do.

Which is not always a bad thing. There was one photo where nothing was in focus – but the soft focus that resulted was so attractive, I ended up setting it as my background image.

I know I can make up for some of it with my Paint Shop Pro, but I wanted to post these without any adjustments, just as an example.

We used to do so much photography, back when we were all able bodied and youthful! :-D We used to go hiking for hours in the ravine near where we lived and take hundreds of photos. It was a rare day that went by that didn’t involve at least a few photos. My husband was especially keen on photography, and quite good at it.

I think, now that we have moved out here, I will be able to take it up again. I even have a monopod I can take with me, to help with the shake. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get some more pain control for my husband and he’ll be able to get back into it more, too.

The Re-Farmer

Critter Pictures

February 18, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

I hope you have been able to take time out this first Sunday of Lent for focus and reflection.

With all the crud that accompanies a major move, I find it’s always a good thing to pause and look at WHY certain choices were made.

Unfortunately, in our case, the why of things is more a matter of “getting away from” rather than “going to.” Such is life, of course, and we take the good with the bad and focus on the important things, rather than the things that threaten to drag us down.

At least, that’s the theory. LOL Reality is much messier.

However, among the things I do appreciate with this move is our daily critter visits outside the window. As the stresses of the day begin to add up, there is something very healing about looking out our window and finding a deer looking back.

Or a cat. Whatever. :-D

With that calming influence in mind, I will first share with you an image from yesterday.

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Hungry Girl, checking out… something. I can never quite see what it is that they’re looking at when they stare down the length of the house. There usually isn’t anything but birds.

Especially these guys…

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I love getting accidental pictures! This redpoll was flitting around among the twigs so much, I’m fortunate to have gotten any shots at all, but getting one in a fun position like this is always rewarding.

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I finally had a chickadee stay still long enough to get a decent shot! :-D

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Once again, something alongside the house has their full attention!

The physical differences between Hungry Girl in the foreground, and Barbecue in the back, are still quite striking.

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I’m thinking that this time, there must have been a cat walking along the house that they were watching, because later on I saw…

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… Trüllbus the Crime Eater.

He was in the bushes when I first spotted him. Then he spotted me in the window, taking his picture. He was accommodating enough to move out of the bushes and pose for me in the feeding area.

I love that intent gaze!

The Re-Farmer

I have floor space!

February 17, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

After much procrastinating, I had a chance to work on unpacking stuff in the office today.

With one large bin, I unpacked a only few things, but the rest of the items in it are van stuff, so that went out to join the growing stack of boxes along the wall in the dining room that need to be either put into storage or otherwise dealt with elsewhere.

I unpacked another medium bin, two small boxes of books and office stuff (I found my notebook with my passwords! Yay!), and a medium box of crafting materials. My crafting table is chaos, but at least the stuff is out and accessible. (Beads! Findings! Glue guns! Yarn! Office supplies! … … … Stuff!) Another small box of books got moved to another room for later unpacking there. I was able to re-arrange things in the process, having cleared out some space on my storage shelf, giving me room for bins of inventory and supplies.

I’m nowhere near done, but the end result is…

More floor space!

I can actually back up my office chair and not bash into the bins that were behind me before. It’s amazing how much bigger this tiny room feels now!

Also…

Bin Cat.

This happened.

After I removed the last items from the bin and took them to the room they belonged in, I came back to find DaBoy had hopped in. He loves to go into boxes and bins and hard sided reusable grocery bags, and just sit there.

I wanted to move the bin out, so I popped the flap lids over him and carried him out with it. I put it on top of the bin of van stuff and let the girls know that the bin was now available for any use it might be wanted for, as I opened the flaps. Of course, they got a giggle out of my special delivery, as this furry head popped out.

I figured he’d leave after that, but nope. He ended up sitting there, just as he is in the photo above, for probably an hour.

He’s such a chill dude.

The Re-Farmer

Noooo!!!

February 17, 2018February 17, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

Well, crap.

Yesterday, a few more photos were taken, so this morning I uploaded the last of the pictures on the camera. As typical, I removed the old photos from the card completely, so that it would go back into the camera with maximum space on it.

As I was transferring the files, I got a pop up. Did I want to replace files?

Sure, I thought. This typically means I’ve already uploaded some photos and didn’t want duplicates, so I usually just let it override the old files, so there are no duplicates.

I forgot two things.

One, I was uploading files from the camera card, not my phone, which I copy from, not remove completely. So it’s not unusual for me to accidentally overlap and grab images I’d already uploaded.

Two, my daughter had her camera set to restart files from 001 on an empty card.

Normally, it wouldn’t have been an issue, because I organize my photos in folders by date, but these were photos from yesterday, and they went into yesterday’s folder.

I didn’t realize it until I went to review the photos, but I overwrote the first dozen or so images I’d uploaded previously.

Crud.

Now, most of those first photos were the ones where I was using the 18-55mm lens, then switching the settings around, so they weren’t good photos to begin with. The “ghost bird” photo was the very first one I took, so I do have the modified version of that one (cropped and resized for the blog). But the rest are gone.

The settings have now been changed. It won’t happen again!

*sigh*

Meanwhile…

Here are some photos from yesterday.

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My daughter got this one for me. The downy woodpecker decided to check out the seeds. :-)

White Tail Deer

You see this? THIS is why I asked to borrow my daughter’s camera. There is no way I could have gotten this shot of Hungry Girl without that 70-300mm lens! No amount of zooming in with my phone camera could have gotten this photo, even though she was so close to the house.

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Barbecue, meanwhile, was even farther away, but I could still get a wonderful shot of him eating.

Even resized to 30% (my usual resizing on the DSLR photos; my phone camera photos get resized to 25%), you can see those little lips and that tongue, picking up seeds.

Details like that are why I love taking so many photos. Once they are on the computer, I can see so much more than I could, looking out the window. Those little details, frozen in time.

I love technology.

The Re-Farmer

Got a Camera

February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 2 Comments

Hungry Girl and Barbecue visited again this morning. I didn’t even try and take photos with my phone. Instead, I just enjoyed watching them.

After they left, the birds came back in full force, including a total of 5 blue jays! Usually, it’s just two or three. There were also the massive numbers of redpolls (which I’d mistakenly identified as chipping sparrows, previously), lots of pine grosbeaks, chickadees and nuthatches. Squirrels made their appearance, too.

After a while, I broke down and finally asked my daughter if I could borrow her Nikon D80.

After a bit of maintenance (lens cleaning, battery checking, etc), I set it up and tested it, using the 18-55mm lens she had on already.

Ghost bird!

Then I took it off the manual setting. :-D

Though ghost birds are rather neat photo subjects.

I then switched from her 18-55 lens to the Nikkor 70-300mm lens we were using on the old camera.

Blue jay

Blue jays are one of my favourite birds. I love their incredible colour! It’s interesting to see how they try to pack so many seeds into their beaks at once. I didn’t realize they did that until I started taking photos of them with the zoom lens.

Pine grosbeak, male

It’s a real challenge to get photos of the birds when they are in the bush nearby. Usually, in the time it takes for me to notice them, then swing the camera around on the tripod, they are either gone, of have moved to another branch. One of these days, I’m going to get a picture of a nuthatch perched upside down on a twig.

The grosbeaks tend to hang around on the branches a bit longer than the chickadees, nuthatches and redpolls – they’re too big to hop around the way the little guys do. So I was able to get a pretty decent shot of a male grosbeak in the trees.

Pine grosbeak with redpoll

There tend to be a LOT more females than males among they seeds, but even they are usually outnumbered by the redpolls.

Downy woodpecker

Getting any images of this downy woodpecker was a challenge, too! It kept moving around, then went behind the branch in the foreground.

My daughter just swung by to let me know she got pictures of the woodpecker while I was posting this. I’m glad I made sure the camera still had a memory card in it when I took out the one with the above photos to upload!

The Re-Farmer

My Non-traditional Slow Cooker Chili

February 15, 2018February 21, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

I do love my slow cookers! I’ve got two 8 quart sized cookers, and have found they are the perfect size for us. Especially for making something like chili; it’s enough to feed us for a couple of days, making life much simpler!

The chili I make is not at all traditional. In fact, I’m sure it would horrify true chili aficionados! :-D I’ve looked through various recipes and they either use ingredients I never tend to have – or ones I can’t use. My chili has no heat to it. At all. You see, for some reason, I have these massive crevasses in my tongue. It seems to be a hereditary thing, as my father had them, as does one of my daughters. The oils that cause that spicy heat gets into them, and once there, there’s nothing I can do to alleviate the pain of it. So as much as I love the taste of spicy food, I can’t actually eat it.

Which makes me sad. Because I love Indian food.

Ah, well.

So here is my non-traditional, totally mild (though you can make it spicy, if you want), slow cooker chili.

Remember; this is for a big slow cooker, so feel free to cut the recipe in half. I’m pretty loosey-goosey with the quantities, too.

First up, start browning the ground meat.

I like to use lean or extra lean ground beef, but I’ve also made it with combination of beef and pork, or beef and turkey, since those three ground meats are all pretty inexpensive at Costco. I used a family size pack of lean ground beef, which was about 5 pounds, and browned it in batches and transferred it to the slow cooker liner using a slotted spoon, so what little fat there was in the pan, stayed in the pan.

While the beef was browning, I chopped up a large yellow onion. I like leaving the chunks a bit on the large side. Just because.

I added the onion to the last batch of browning beef.

Next on the chopping block; 4 or 5 small carrots.

I usually use about 5, but used only 4 this time. I finished off one bag and didn’t feel like starting another. I like to chop carrots smaller, too. This made just under a cup of chopped carrots.

Then I chopped up 2 small sweet potatoes.

Yes, sweet potatoes.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a chili recipe with them in there, but it was something I decided to try some years ago, and it’s been a permanent addition, since. I like to chop these even smaller than the carrot. The idea is for them to be so soft that they disintegrate into the chili when you mix it at the end. There’s something about the creamy smoothness of it that really appeals to me.

After the meat and onions were browned, I added the chopped carrots and sweet potato, then 1 can of mixed beans and 1 can of white kidney beans (both 19 oz cans, drained and rinsed).

I like to change up the can with one type of beans, but I always include 1 can of mixed beans.

Next up is a large tin of crushed tomatoes, a small tin of tomato paste, seasonings and water.

The seasonings are typically whatever I have handy; usually a steak spice mix and garlic. Slow cookers are where dried foods are in their element, so I used dehydrated garlic pieces that I’ve been able to find. Strangely, I hardly ever saw them before our move, but our local grocery store carries it! In refill packages, too, so it’s really cheap. :-)

The 4 of us have very different preferences when it comes to seasoning, so I tend to use a light hand with it, then everyone can add their own later on.

Then mix it all together! Not an easy task, with the crock so full!

Add more water, if needed.

The water is another one of those loosey-goosey measurements. Food in slow cookers release their own moisture, so they need less added to begin with. How much to add is a judgement call. I find it’s safer to add less at the start, then check after it’s been cooking a while. If it seems to need more, I’ll add boiling water, so it won’t cool the slow cooker down too much.

I then set the slow cooker on low for 5 hours. I did end up adding more water part way through. In the time it took to finish adding the water and stirring everything, I increased the time a bit to compensate for lost heat.

This is what it looked like when we got back from town. There was a bit over half an hour on the timer at this point.

This would be the time to give it a taste and adjust the seasonings, then give it a good stir.

I then stirred in my final ingredient.

Whipping cream. About 3/4 cup.

That was another one of those “Hmm… I should try this” experiments I’d made some years ago that stuck around.

At this point, I like to stir it very thoroughly to break up the sweet potato pieces. I then returned the cover and left it for the last few minutes to make sure the cream was warmed through.

Between the sweet potatoes and the cream, we have ourselves a wonderfully rich and saucy chili.

Top your bowl with some shredded cheese, sour cream or some yogurt cheese (which, sadly, we are now out of), and enjoy!

Here’s the recipe:

Non-traditional Slow Cooker Chili
for: 8 quart slow cooker
cook on low for 5 hours

Lean or extra lean ground beef (family pack; about 5 pounds)
1 large onion, chopped
4-5 small carrots, chopped
2 small sweet potatoes, chopped small
1 tin mixed beans (19oz), drained and rinsed
1 tin white kidney beans (19oz), drained and rinsed
1 tin crushed tomatoes (796ml – 26oz)
1 tin tomato paste (170gm – 6oz)
4 cups water (to start)
Seasonings to taste (steak spice mix, dehydrated garlic or garlic granules, salt, pepper, etc.)
hot water, as needed during cooking
3/4 cup whipping cream, or to taste
shredded cheese for topping (or sour cream, or yogurt cheese)

Brown beef and onions. Drain and transfer to slow cooker liner.
Add chopped vegetables, beans, crushed tomato, tomato paste, 3 or 4 cups of water and seasonings. Mix. Cover.
Set slow cooker to low for 5 hours.
Check after a couple hours to see if hot water is needed. Add if necessary and stir.
Shortly before done, taste and adjust seasonings as desired.
Stir in whipping cream. Cover and let warm through for final cooking time.
Serve topped with shredded cheese, sour cream or other toppings of choice.

This time, I saw them

February 15, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

As expected this morning, we could see signs that the deer had visited the feeding station during the night, and dug through the snow to find food. There might still have been some left, under the snow, but my daughter still topped it up. With the various running around today, inside and outside, I’m happy to have been able to spot Hungry Girl and Barbecue.

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You can see that Hungry Girl was nuzzling through the snow to get at the feed. :-) She seems more comfortable coming closer to the house than Barbecue, and the snow is a bit deeper there, because of the bushes in my mother’s flower garden.

Today was a day of doctor’s appointments – with a quick pause on the way out to get the old gas cap tether off so I can finally use the new one (the “check gas cap” notice continues…). My husband and I now officially both have the same general practitioner. My appointment was immediately after my husband’s, and we’ll both be seeing him, one after the other again, in a month. I forgot to start the paperwork to transfer my medical files from my old clinic, though. It requires signing a form, so I’m going to have to go back.

Hopefully, by the next appointment, our new medical cards will be in.

While the appointment was a “meet and greet” sort of thing (with the usual admonitions that I’m going to have to get a pap smear done, since I haven’t had one in years. I hate those), I did request a referral for mental health. My husband is, of course, going through that process already (you can’t live with the sort of constant pain he’s in and not need help!), but I’ve never gone though this myself before. I realized I needed to get this done based on my response to the BS from the co-op that managed to reach out and grab me by the throat.

We’ll see how that works out. The referral has been made and I’ll be getting a phone call, likely next week.

I also got a requisition for blood work, which I was overdue for. The lab is right there, so I was able to get it done right away. Then it was a few quick stops on the way home, during which my husband just stayed in the vehicle – it wasn’t worth dragging his walker in and out for such brief errands – and we were done.

On a more pleasant note, I got a chili started in the slow cooker this morning, which meant we came home to a delicious smelling house and hot food almost ready to go.

Even my older daughter had some, and she doesn’t like chili.

The recipe will be in my next post. :-)

The Re-Farmer

Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2018 / Re-Farmer / 2 Comments

Hello, all, and Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope those of you who take part in it had a wonderful day. :-)

This year, today also happens to be the first day of Lent, which we each observe in different ways. My “fast” will be the same as the last couple of years; I am giving up Facebook for Lent. I spend way too much time on there! I’ve already caught myself almost going onto it when I sat at the computer (I removed the shortcut on my phone), just out of habit. I only went on this morning to post my usual note letting people know that if they wanted to reach me, they’d have to use something other than Facebook for the next while. And wish people Happy Valentine’s day at the same time.

We’ve never been big on Valentine’s Day. I suppose I could always be cheesy and say that we don’t need to, because every day is Valentine’s day, but the truth is, we’re just not particularly romantic. :-D Very early in our relationship, I told my (future) husband that, while I enjoy things like flowers, I’m more of a kitchen appliance kind of woman. :-D Since then, it’s expended to things like yarn and tools. Nothing like a sweet, sweet skein of gorgeous yarn, or a set of calipers, to make my heart go pitter patter! Still, we basically just wish each other Happy Valentine’s day, then get on with our day. After almost 30 years of marriage, we’re pretty laid back about such things. :-D

Unfortunately, yesterday was hard on my husband, so he had to deal with the fallout from that, today. :-(

My morning still started out with some aggressive cuddles, though.

“You weren’t planning to get up, where you?”

Our mama cat was all over me this morning, draping herself over whatever limb she could get at, and trapping me!

Her boy does the same to my daughters.

I honestly don’t know why she likes me so much. Even when she isn’t cuddling hard, she still tries to be near me all the time.

Not that I mind, except that we haven’t been able to trim her claws for quite a long time.

It was a warm day today – about -7C when I went to feed the outside cats. Which made it a relatively rare day when all 7 of them were out at the same time.

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My daughters were kind enough to lay out a new piece of cardboard for me yesterday, while we were gone for so long. The first time I laid the cardboard out, the cats weren’t sure about going on it for a while, but this time, I think they were quite happy to have something a bit warmer on their toes!

It was warm enough that I stayed out after putting the deer feed and bird seed out and dug out the ice chipper. The packed snow was starting to encroach in spots. One of the areas I cleared was a side section of the concrete steps. Strangely, the cats loved it. After I moved on to the sidewalk, I looked back to see Rolando Moon rolling ecstatically on the freshly cleared concrete. Then Beep Beep and Nasty Crime Boy took turns, all in that same section of step! I have no idea what was attracting them to that one spot.

“You may touch the royal paw.”

Rolando even let me pet her a bit.

A bit.

Meanwhile, my husband was able to call in some prescription refills today. Being warmer today than it will be for a while, I was going to take advantage of it and install those new headlight bulbs before my daughter and I headed into town.

Now, I’ve changed automotive light bulbs before, but not on this vehicle. We’ve had it for less than a year. Our previous van was pretty straightforward. You could just look at it and figure out how to open things up.

Not so much, this one. After looking around and not seeing how to open up the casing, we decided to do it later.

I did get out the new gas cap and put it on, leaving the tethered old gas cap in place while I turned on the engine to see if the “check gas cap” alert still came on.

It did.

*sigh*

So it’s likely a faulty sensor.

I put the old gas cap back for now, since I want to make sure I can remove the tether without having to cut it. I’m sure I can, but just haven’t had the time to fiddle with it.

While we drove to town, my daughter dug out the instruction manual and found the section for replacing the bulbs. Turns out there was a pin somewhere in there that needs to be pulled out, first. I never noticed a pin anywhere when I was looking.

She also looked up the “check gas cap” alert. It says that when it comes on, it means that gas cap is off, so go put it back on. (*duh!)

The gas cap is on just fine, so that’s not the problem, but it confirmed what I already thought. I was just hoping for a bit more information for, say, why the alert would continue after ensuring the cap was on.

Once we were back from town, I started working on the headlights while my daughter took our stuff in, then shoveled her way back. It had started to snow by then, so she shoveled the path to the burn barrel, too. It was finally a warm, wind free enough day for a burn to be done. It’s been quite a while since we’ve been able to do one!

While she got her workout in outside, I was able to hang up a light and see what I was doing under the hood, thanks to the 200ft of extension cords from the house to the garage. (That was so sweet of my brother to buy those for us!) I found the pin, which was nowhere near where I expected to be, and managed to get it out. Then I had to loosen a bolt.

To do that, I needed a wrench.

I found a couple of very old tools hanging about, but it turns out there are pretty much no tools left in the garage at all. There’s lot of other weird stuff, but no tools.

I’m told there used to be lots of tools, not only in the garage, but in the basement of the house, too.

Not sure what happened to them all.

Thankfully, we have our own tool kits.

After much fin-angling, I finally got the casing off and the burnt out bulb out. That thing did NOT want to come out! But I got it done. The second one went much smoother! Only partly because I knew what I was doing this time. :-D

So we now have new, brighter headlight bulbs.

I’m kinda looking forward to our next night drive after dark, now. :-)

One more thing to tick off the “to do” list.

Later on, after I got supper in the oven and the girls were outside doing the burn, I heard a loud bang. It seemed like something hit the house! I even felt the floor shake. I popped my head outside to look and asked the girls about it, but they heard and saw nothing.

I still don’t know what caused the noise. Perhaps something in the basement fell? I don’t know.

Looking out the dining room window, though, I saw this…

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A grouse, under the bushes.

Looking at the tracks, I kinda wondered if maybe the grouse flew into the house, fell into the snow, then tucked itself under the bush to recover.

Or it’s just sitting there, taking shelter from the snow.

I’m pretty sure a grouse isn’t big enough to have made that noise, though. I’m still wondering what it could have been.

Also, my phone camera takes terrible zoomed in shots. At least I had one decent shot I could drop down.

Interestingly, for all the animals I saw today, including the usual birds and squirrels at the feeding station, I haven’t see a single deer. It’s possible I just missed them, but my husband said he hadn’t seen any, either.

I won’t be surprised to find the now-buried-in-snow feed is all dug up and eaten by morning, though.

It was good to get a break from the cold, today. We had a high of -2C by this evening. By midnight, we’re supposed to his -21C, with a windchill of -32C.

Tomorrow, by 8am, it is supposed to be -25C, with a windchill of -39C.

Talk about a severe drop!

Tomorrow’s high of the day is supposed to be -19C, with a windchill of -28C. We need to go into town again for doctor’s appointments in that. :-( That’s the coldest it’s supposed to be over the next few days, at least, but we won’t see temperatures in the single digits again for another week.

I think we’re going to be staying home as much as possible for the next while!

The Re-Farmer

Watching Each Other

February 13, 2018 / Re-Farmer / Leave a comment

We got visited by Hungry Girl and Barbecue today. Having been out all day, I was glad I got to see them at least a little bit.

The cats and Hungry Girl were very interested in each other for a while!

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Thankfully, mama cat has stopped growling at the deer through the window. Instead, she joins her boy at the window, and watches them. They get watched right back!

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They are so pretty!

The Re-Famer

The Re-Farmer

Sometimes, you need to go back, to go forward.

Month: February 2018

Out our Window, Today

Playing with Macro

Critter Pictures

I have floor space!

Noooo!!!

Got a Camera

My Non-traditional Slow Cooker Chili

This time, I saw them

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Watching Each Other

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