Buh-bye
Month: November 2018
Spruce tips
That spindly little spruce tree I was able to leave, while clearing the spruce grove, seems to be looking healthier – now that it’s getting more light after the bigger trees were removed from the fence line, and it is no longer crowded by underbrush.
I think it’s got a very good chance of surviving.
The Re-Farmer
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Wing
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Too Cute
When I was deboning the turkey and cleaning up from our family dinner the other day, I made sure to label the various containers as I put them away. Post-it Notes are quite handy for that! One was a bowl of leftovers to go to the outside cats, the next day. Feeling silly, I also drew a quick picture of a cat on it.
The next morning, it had kittens.
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A fine morning!
Such a lovely morning! Doing the morning check around the yard does have its benefits. :-D
With the chillier conditions, I’ll be taking on the feeding of the cats again. The temperature change between indoors and out is not good on my husband’s back. So I get to add putting out food and warm water to the morning routine.
I’m just not going to be doing it at first light. The cats are going to have to put up with that! :-D
The nice thing is that, while I’m putting the food out, I’m actually able to pet almost all of them. Even Rosencrantz or Guildenstern (but not both) will let me touch, for a brief moment, before moving away. I don’t want to keep the shy ones from food, though, so I leave them alone and move on to the water. Which now includes knocking the ice out, first! It was while I was doing that, when all the cats suddenly exploded in all directions!
We got another visitor this morning.
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Take-off
I was able to get some in-flight photos recently, and will be posting them over the next few days.
Here is a chickadee at our hanging feeder, just as it’s taking off!
Love that pose! :-D
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Belated Canadian Thanksgiving dinner
The Thanksgiving family dinner we had planned last month got rescheduled to today. Since moving here, we did have one large family dinner, before Christmas or so, so it’s been almost a year.
I think it turned out rather well.
I think Doom Guy agrees. Continue reading
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Bird feeder
I recently picked up some more mixed bird seed and added it to our feeder.
I find it interesting, which seeds get eaten right away, and which get left behind.
And the lengths some birds will go to, to get their preferred seed, while ignoring other seeds that are easier to get to.
Like this nuthatch.
All the birds seem to prefer the same seeds. Which is weird, as the seed blend is designed to appeal to a variety of birds. Our visiting birds don’t seem to want variety in their food!
The above photo was taken yesterday, before the snow fell. (I got some others, I will post over the next few days.) Today, they were digging through the snow to get at the seeds.
They were being watched, as they did so!
The Outsider was very interesting in what they were doing up there!
Gosh, he’s an adorable cat.
When it gets dark out, we can still see the white of the hanging bird feeder, but the rest of the platform and stand is barely visible.
Last night, while sitting in my crochet corner, I noticed the hanging feeder swinging away and thought it was getting quite windy! Then I saw some movement, as the stand itself seemed to move. We’ve had wind gusts strong enough to knock it over, so that got my attention.
Which is when I saw the black shadow, moving around on the platform feeder. A splash of white came into view, and I found Doom Guy, looking back at me though the window!
Too funny!
That makes three of the kittens that we’ve seen up on the platform feeder! Makes me wonder how often it happens, when we’re not there to see it. :-)
The Re-Farmer
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Let it snow…
Well, I’m certainly glad I finished the outside stuff, yesterday! Especially wrapping up the post pounder. Continue reading
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