Saturday's Critters

 There was great excitement up above the earth through NASA.

Here on earth, life carries on, the circle of life unfolds in the new season. The deer have scattered, except for our regular pair of mother and fawn. They are fawns for a year. Then they are yearlings. We'll see if we get any fawns. They are born around May. We didn't see any with spots last year. It was unusual.

I do have archives!

An altercation may have done this, or a meeting with a fence.

 

 

 Good Bunny Labbit hasn't been out too much. I caught it on the driveway. I think it has given up on Fred Groundhog's burrows. 

The birds have been amazing. Many winter migrators have returned.

 

Saturday's Critters # 643 <= visit more critters at Eileen's blog.

Walkabout

The frog pond is going through a freeze-thaw. 

OK, the snow has mostly melted. Can you see what I found on the ground? My missing SD Card I'd dropped in the snow a week ago in the snow.

The point has had visitors. Lots of scat about. I like my forest walks.

The wetland is filled. It looks like a creek running through. The water is high with spring melt.

We've rain on the way, so much will melt soon. 

In the meantime, I leave you with indoor play. I videotaped Cinnamon on this side, but Nutmeg is now in the game. With the number of times a day we visit the bathroom, it makes for some silly fun. 

Yard chores

 I took the kids to see Barry Beaver's habitat on the weekend. The tree that was dripping sap has now fallen over. 

I suspect Barry worked on it. He has been busy.

The flag pole has been here for ages. We moved here in 2010, and I think it predates the previous owners. 

The flags tend to get wrapped around the fake bird house topper. 

I haven't had a bird in the blue bird nest box in a couple of years. The house wren had taken it over two years in a row. 

When the kids were here on the weekend, I had some helpers. We took down the flag pole. It is very heavy, and tricky to work on it. It has three bolts through the support. I take out two and it will swivel down for cleaning, painting, or repairs. 

The base needs replacing. 

I'll have to figure this out. It needs repainting. It is purely decorative. It isn't suitable as a nest I think.

Birds like to land here: Broad-shouldered hawk.

Brown-crested flycatcher 📹

With astronauts around the moon, this is as close as I get. Hooray for social media. Their Flickr stream is amazing!

We had snow on Tuesday, as well as a skiff on Monday night. It was a bit of a shock. I shovelled the deck, but nothing else. It will melt.

Ironically, Joe Brian set off to have our snow tires removed, just after the last of the snow fell! 

Dinner with Jordan, our hotel in Kingston

We'd taken Jordan back to uni on Sunday, then we went to check out our hotel room. I wanted to check out the amenities. Jordan was washing up at his residence, and we unpacked. I checked out the room service menu! 

It was awfully chilly. 

It isn't tourist season, yet. The rates were lower than they will be. The staff were lovely. We checked in at 3 p.m., while they were working on cleaning the other rooms. Staff were busy and were cheery in the hallway, and wished us a good evening. 

I had to turn the clock face against the wall. I could almost read by the light! It was a nice bathroom.

We could see Wolfe Island from our room window, and it's windmill farm.

We'd planned dinner for 5 p.m. at AquaTerra in our hotel. We'd reserved a table, thankfully. It was quite busy. Our server was a Queen's Law student (i.e., in year 7 of her studies) and she was a delight. She and Jordan talked about their respective studies and about exams beginning shortly. 

We declined an hors d'oeuvre, but the chef sent an amuse-bouche, and it was the best tuna, with an amazing depth of flavour. All I had eaten was two mini muffins for breakfast. I don't travel well. Somebody helped himself to an ice cream when he returned to put the parking pass in the car, just to tide himself over! 

Jordan and I both had the squash tortellini. Mine had shrimp, Jordan's had chicken. 

Grampa had Grilled Ahi Tuna. 

The sun was still up, as the ferry returned from Wolfe Island.

We had trouble finding the camouflaged elevator doors. It was a bit busy with ads on the door. 

We drove Jordan back to his residence and wished him well. He has a busy time ahead with exams, packing, finding a job, and moving in to his apartment in May. It is very exciting. 

Monday breakfast, another cold cloudy day! 

Eggs Benedict:

Belgian waffles:

I overdid it with the cat food. Cinnamon grazed on his kibble, Nutmeg ate her wet food, but not much! 

We were happy to unpack, and settle back in. We never sleep well on the road.

It was wonderful having one-on-one time with Jordan. We hope to go back in summer.