Month: January 2019

In the moonlight – and silly cats

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I just had to share this picture, that I took out my bedroom window, just before 2am.

This photo has only been resized, and was taken with my phone on the auto setting.

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I could not believe how bright it was out there! There was a partial lunar eclipse last night, though this was taken well past that, with a full moon and mostly clear skies. It was so gorgeous outside!

Then there’s this, taken from our bathroom window…

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There is Nikki the Nose, on my dad’s walker, and Ferdinand, under the transfer chair.

We’ll have a bit of a mess to clean up in the spring, but it’s worth it to give them some shelter from the cold – and for the entertainment value!

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Frozen

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My older daughter took care of feeding the critters this morning, so it was an hour or so before I headed out myself.

By then, the outside water bowl was already mostly frozen.

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When I first got there, Beep Beep was sitting with her front paws in the bowl, on the ice.

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My phone distracted her. :-D

Then I used the ice scraper to break up the surface of the ice in the water bowl. Next thing I knew, there were three cats drinking out of it!

One of my usual morning rounds had been to pick up all the twigs and branches in the yard that had fallen overnight. Once the snow got deep, I left the smaller stuff for spring. After yesterday’s winds, however, I went around and picked up some of the larger branches that had come down.

Trudging through unbroken snow is much more difficult than it looks. :-D

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It’s a bit breezy out there

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I took this screen shot at about noon. That was two hours ago.

It is currently -17C, with a “RealFeel” of -31C.

I’m glad I thought to check the temperatures before I headed out this morning, as the beautiful sunny day made it seem deceptively pleasant out there. And it was – on the south side of the house. As soon as I came around the corner to put out deer and bird feed, I got blasted with the wind from the north. It was blowing the deer feed away, as I poured it out of my bucket! At that time, it was -16C with a wind chill of -30C.

Which kind of changes my plans for the day.

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