With the bitter cold coming in, we’ve made a couple of changes to the set up in the sun room, for the outside cats.
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Critter of the Day: Big Jim watches
Settled in
This is an odd time of the month.
It’s one of the things about having an income that comes in once a month. It may make budgeting easier, but by the end of the month, things start running out. Then we’re left with the question of, is it worth driving to town to pick up a day or two’s worth of stuff, or do we wait the few days until we can do the big monthly shop? It’s more of a thing in January, too, as December gets all mixed up because of Christmas, and we end up not doing the big monthly shop, since the days we normally would do it fall on New Year’s. Instead of a Costco trip, we buy locally, and the prices are so much higher, we end up not as well stocked for the month.
Which is a long way of saying that, despite the cold, one of my daughters and I ended up going into town to pick up a few things.
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Critter of the Day: Deer Ferdinand
Critter of the Day: want some company?
Beep Beep really likes that platform feeder.
Definitely the one we see up there the most often (the next photo is taken on a different day).
One day, she had company!
Rolando Moon decided to join her. Which was a bit of a surprise, since Rolando Moon is usually doesn’t like being that close with the other cats.
Beep Beep is judging me. And you. And the world!
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My new view, and warmed up – for a bit
Since switching up rooms, I have come to appreciate the view in my new office space. I’ve got my desk against the north wall, which means I can see out the window with my peripheral vision.
Turns out, it’s pretty active out there!
Every now and then, some motion catches my eye, and I look up to see a cat – or several of them – making their way through the trees, to and from the roof, or just… sitting there.
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Critter of the Day: coming closer
It’s always funny to see the deer and cats interacting.
There is also a cat on the bird feeder that the deer is looking at.
Meanwhile, Slick is keeping his paws warm by sitting on a pile of feed.
Eventually, the deer wanted the feed he was sitting on, which was a bit more than he would tolerate! :-D
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Critter of the Day: taking a nap
I’m pretty sure the cats go up on the platform feeder as much to keep their paws warm, as to go after the birds.
Beep Beep stayed up there for probably and hour or two, the day these were taken.
Snoozy girl.
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In the moonlight – and silly cats
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.
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…
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
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.
When I first got there, Beep Beep was sitting with her front paws in the bowl, on the ice.
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
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 