Smokey Crumbly Acres

 Life carries on. Day 2 of the roofers. I haven't heard an F-bomb once! They work hard, and efficiently. We've still got smoke from the Quebec fires. Hence the orange glow.

The Cherry Tomatoes and Amaryllis are looking good. Bright pops of colour.

This planter was ravaged by miniFreds. Half has recovered, the other half got soaked in the heavy rainfall. I am loathe to put a hole in the bottom. I am crossing my fingers.

This is a teeny, weeny biting bug. The deerflies are bad, but this bug is insidious!  Bites as bad as a blackfly.

The phoebes have fledged. This one liked landing on the trailcam. 

I had one little Fred in the backyard after the roofers left for the day. They have dispersed, as is their way.

 

Down in the forest, one wee Wood Frog. They mated in the spring, laid eggs, grew into tadpoles, grew legs, and now they hop about the woods. They are pretty frogs.

Berries and bear!

 I love our Serviceberry bushes. The birds depend upon them: Robins, Cedar Waxwings, Woodpeckers, Grouse, they make bird watching easy! 

 

One year, I bought a dozen of these small, local plants. I planted a sapling beside the old Elm tree, killed by Dutch Elm Disease. This bush has thrived ↓.  As I took out garbage Monday morning, I noticed it was rather flattened. The old Elm stump was knocked over. There is an old wagon wheel there, also knocked over.

  The old carved Bear is falling apart. I had to move him. 

I used to dress him up...

 

Now Bear sits in the garden, wearing a nice orange t-shirt, as he is deteriorating.

Speaking of bears... I know who sat on the Serviceberry! I went Walkies in the forest. Obvious sign of a bear!

On the other side of the driveway are more serviceberry bushes, as well as milkweed, and a couple of evergreens.

Tuesday morning we could see the orange from the Northern Quebec forest fires.

I've been asked what I was chewing when my cracked tooth chipped off. Wild salmon bowl! Corn, beans, soft stuff. I am taking my antibiotics, and pain relief until I get my root canal. One has side effects of constipation. The other has the opposite effect. Sigh. 

Our roofers arrive today. Gonna be a day! We had 21mm rain yesterday. We'll see how we do.

Heat, trailcam tails

We're in a heat wave, as many are. These photos sum it all up.

🦷 I have an appointment for a root canal. My first. Great fun. Antibiotics and Codeine, too. Joe drove me to Carleton Place for the consult Monday as I was a bit perturbed! We passed this restaurant, again. It is quite a hoot. It was a gas station.

Thank goodness for Walkies, and trailcams to distract me.

Cinnamon inspected the wind fall. He was impressed. Our clean up day is scheduled for Aug. 6th, thanks for asking, Granny Sue. It's still out there, we'll be patient.  I've been in too much pain to fret over it.

 

 I noticed that the trailcam was covered in mites. I knew where they came from: phoebe. She sits on the top of the camera.

   

 It has happened when they re-use the same nest. 

   

 The fox has been an irregular visitor! 

   

 And, my big announcement, we've twin fawns! I caught one on the driveway camera. I didn't know there were twins. One has the Zoomies... 

 

Crumbly Acres

 Cinnamon and I went walkies. He hasn't wanted to go for awhile. He knew there was stuff he had to inspect, i.e., the latest tree fall. [Storm damage from July 1st & 2nd]

The frog pond is flooded, I can hear a bull frog in it.

He just sat, looked up at the trees, looked into the wetland. 

Barry's canals in the wetland are covered in frog bit. 

He's been active, though. He has a bit of clean up to do.

We've had coyotes, Fred, and a red fox go by.

Nutmeg is taking it easy.

Crumbly Acres Fruits and Critters

 Aw, cherry tomatoes! 

The zucchini is coming along. I tried to figure out what the insect was, but it was too fast for me.

As far as I can tell,  we've 3 or 4 Freds out and about. Auntie Fred is tolerating a kit near her burrow. There were two on the lower deck burrow.

🦷 Trust Joe Brian to make me laugh. Apparently, I'm not too old for a visit from the tooth fairy. I've an appointment Monday. We shall see. I chipped my cracked tooth eating salmon and salsa salad. Seriously. We knew it was cracked. The options were a crown, root canal, or pulling it. 

This helps me drink water. Tis painful when cold hits it.

Everyone watching for danger!

Cinnamon watching the Freds.

This is Barry's trailcam, #75 was here.

And Barry himself gnawing on the branch! I don't know when it switched to photos. I do like watching their behaviour.

We've had a Butch Raccoon with a blond colouring. Here she is. Cinnamon was in the grass, and leapt out with speed and vigour!

   

 Fred is ticking off the Phoebe family!