It looks like the deer had a party at our place last night!
We weren’t invited, though. :-D
Critters
A new path, and comparisons
What a lovely day today!
Okay, according to The Weather Network, it’s -17C/1F with a wind chill of -27C/-16F, but I’ve been outside for the past while, in full sun and sheltered from the wind, and it was feeling downright tropical out there! Unlike yesterday, this morning I had all sorts of cats to greet me while I did my rounds.
On the down side, when I got to the van to head into town, I discovered a frozen present on the roof, all down the side door of my van, and even on the ground, from a cat in the rafters. I saw Nicky the Nose in there earlier, when I double checked to make sure the van was plugged in. Nasty bugger shat all over our van!
Ah, well. I meant to get a car wash before taking it in to get the brakes done, anyhow. :-/
Heading to town today, we were glad to find the roads had been plowed of drifts – though my daughter did have to fight one to open the gate! The high winds we’ve been having have really hard packed the snow. It was still blowing a lot on the roads, coming almost directly from the north, but here at home, we have trees, and the house itself, blocking most of the north winds. There’s just that one gap between the maple and spruce groves that acts as quite the funnel!
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New Addition?
It was my turn to do the evening cat routine last night. This includes going into the sun room to top up the food and water for the outside cats, as well as cleaning out the two litter pans we have out there.
As usual, once they heard me in there, cats started streaming in. Two-Face was already there, and I was soon joined by Keith. Then Big Jim and Keith came in and…
… wait
…what?
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Compilation video
Part of my daily routine is to switch out the memory cards on the trail cams, then see what’s on them.
I was quite surprised to see a large number of files on the new camera, a couple of nights ago.
It turned out we had a lot of traffic going past it that night!
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Bitter cold, and sad news
The cold snap that has been working its way across the prairies has hit us.
It was -31C/-23F, with a wind chill of -39C/-38F this morning. At the time I write this, we have warmed up to -29C/-20F with a wind chill of -31C/-23F. The weather alert on my app is still saying wind chills may reach between -40C/F to -50C/-58F. !!!
Hard to believe that, tomorrow, we’re supposed to warm up to -9C/15F!
Heading out to feed the critters meant layering up. Two pairs of socks in my new, rated to -40C, winter boots. Two pairs of pants. A t-shirt under my sweatshirt. A hoodie – hood up – under my down filled park – also hood up! and double layered insulated gloves.
I was rather impressed when I saw this under the door.
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Can you tell?
Yesterday morning, when I went outside to feed the critters and do my rounds, it had already been snowing for quite some time. I had to brush several inches of snow off the platform bird feeder, but the deer feed just got put on the ground in the usual places.
Of course, it got completely buried.
By this morning, when I went to put more feed out, I found this.
Can you tell the deer were here? :-D
That is all deer tracks, except for my foot path closer to the house, and you can see where they dug into the snow to reach the feed (where you can see I’ve placed more feed).
There were a lot of fresh tracks under the overhanging branches of the spruces, as well as by the apple trees, and paths from where they jump the fences to get into our yard.
It looks like we got a lot more visitors than our usual group of 3, plus the loan buck! Either that, or they just came back more often.
The Re-Farmer
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One down, more to go!
Well, the deed is done.
Little Susan had an appointment with the vet, yesterday, and she is now recovering from surgery!
Since we had to make sure to 1) have her available to take to the vet in the first place and 2) make sure she didn’t eat anything after 8pm the night before, we brought her into the house as quickly as we could catch her, the day before.
It’s not that she was actively trying to escape us. She just wasn’t interested in being picked up or anything.
Once inside, it was… interesting.
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Life goes on
I want to thank those who reached out to me after my post about the various situations we’re having to deal with on the property. Your kind words and encouragement are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
The night I wrote about all that, one more thing got added to the list.
My husband broke a tooth!
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This and That
Of course, things have been busy for the past while, even though we try to keep Christmas and New Year’s very low key. I finally have some time to settle in at the computer, so I’m going to take advantage of that and catch up in things.
I’ll be going backwards in time, for the most part. :-D
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