Fred and cats

Fred Groundhog appeared twice. She is anxious for spring. 1) Thursday, March 19, and 2) Sunday, March 22nd. The two of them have been asleep since 

I decided, after my PA suggested it, to put several carrots down for her on Monday. They were still there Tuesday.

Groundhog tracks in snow

She is a vegetarian, and there isn't anything green out there!  I keep telling her to hang on.

May 1st vs. July 4th

 

I've been growing sprouts. Too bad I can't give these to Fred!

Sadly, I am failing. I put the filter and the seeds into the bottom layer. The clear top level is supposed to drain into the opaque one. Whoopsie. I couldn't figure out why the water wasn't draining. 

 

Nutmeg went walkies to the daffodil garden. She was playing in the mud.

My bottle tree...

Cinnamon, much more cautious than his sister. He was watching from the deck. He checked her out carefully. 

A rest in the heated cat house. It's not actually plugged in. That is Cinnamon's ear, his head is upside down. The cats are happy to hunker down in the evenings. 

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📺 We are watching Season 6 of Astrid & Raphaelle. It is charming, and fairly non-gory! I am enjoying it.

Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory she excels at analyzing files of ongoing ...

📚 I am often in bed by 8:30 or 9, reading. More mysteries. There are 7 books in the Rockton series. Armstrong takes the main two characters, Casey and Eric, and moves them to a new camp in the Haven's Rock series. I quite like them. Casey's sister has autism. She works in the camp and is a doctor. 

This is the last published. Another, the final book in the series, is to be published in 2027. 

 

 

Flying and critters

We are shocked by the tragic airport incident at La Guardia. When the helicopter and jet plane collided (Jan., 2025), NTSB did an amazing presentation about who does what, the issues they will examine. If you are interested in the process. People, and media are jumping into the fray, with speculation. We have to wait. 900 flights a day...

The problem with investigating the incident is getting the experts there. The protocols include having many agencies with standing in the investigation. Canada is involved as they were a Canadian plane, Canadian crew, had Canadians on board, and it is a Canadian-built plane. It is a joint effort. With Newark having had an issue, and slow lines in airports, and the administration firing 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head, and 3,000 air traffic controllers in Jan., 2025, policy choices have consequences.

Back to your regularly scheduled topic. Let the professionals do their jobs. 

Lots of critters out and about.

Butch was back. I finally cleaned up and brought it indoors! Twice bitten, once shy! They are hungry. They do like to explore! Butch on the deck📹, June, 2021. 

 

Yes, I still have my lights. They'll be Easter lights now!

This pair are a hoot. Momma has snow on her head. The fawn has antler nubs, it must be a male.

We've had 6 hanging around.

The birds have been back, out singing in the snow and cold. Complaining, methinks. I wrote a story about Eddie and Eva, geese who seemed to have flown north too early!

 

 I told many stories about Eddie and Eva (e.g., SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2009 "It's your fault", a story about a snowy day!) This was a pair who returned all 4 years we lived there year-round. (April 2006 - September 2010). They returned with offspring and had happy times. 

Some bird nabbed lunch, March 2025. I've been throwing peanuts out for #75. 

The frog pond was frozen. Now it is frozen again. March 20, 2025: 

Good Bunny Labbit is hopping about!

   

 Butch is on clean up duty! In a snowstorm...

 

Another week begins...

ICE Detention

The bad news is another Canadian 4 months in ICE detention, along with a number of other foreigners to US soil. (Give me your tired...) 

#39. 🇨🇦 Canadian man living and working 25 years in the oil industry in Texas. Four months in an ICE facility. Mar., 2026. A true Canadian, he's been getting GoFundMe money, and helping others from several countries in the facility.

The weather has been fooling the critters! They are twitterpated. 

This shows the Otter tracks in the snow. They glide on their bellies, and give a shove with one back paw. This was the first time I hadn't taken a camera!

More snow, more deer. 

 

 Good old Butch raccoon! One was curious about the camera. You can see my Christmas lights are still up.

   

 The crow has been hungry. They are cleaning up deer food!

   

 He is a beautiful animal. This is the frog pond camera.

   

 Here he is on the trailcam beside the pond. The house is up the hill to the right.

 

I hope you have a good one!

These things are sent to test us!

Joe Brian had a Bone Mineral Density test (BMD #9) on Thursday. His first one was in 2013. This one was in Smiths Falls. They test his BMD since the Lupron he takes robs his bones of calcium. He takes calcium supplements to counteract this. I keep track of these things in order to review them.

• PART IV: Bone Density Scan #1 (Oct. 31, 2013) 
• PART XXV: Bone Scan #2 (Sept. 19, 2014)
• PART XXXVIII: Bone Density Scan #3 (Jul. 17, 2015)
• PART LVIII:  Bone Scan #4, 2017
• PART LXVIII: Bone  Mineral Density Scan #5, 2018
• PART LXVIII: Bone Mineral Density Scan #6, 2019
• PART CIV – Last minute Bone Density Scan #7 Wed., Dec. 7th. (#104, 2022). 
• PART  CXI – Bone mineral density scan #8, 2023.
• PART CXXIV – Bone Mineral Density test #9, Mar. 19, 2026.

 Good Bunny Labbit is coming out just before dusk. As Joe Brian says, "if you see a rock with ears, it's probably our bunny!"

The critters are quite hungry, for the most part. The birds are doing well. During that warm spell, he was singing his spring mating song. 

Eileen used to post photos of her birds out the window where she works out. I didn't spot a bird, but our mother/fawn duo. Can you see the fawn?

I ended up going upstairs and getting the zoom lens!

They are scratching away at the dead grass. Skunk ambled on by.

 

Skunk wandered over to check out Good Bunny Labbit's lair! 

After we lost a fawn last week, and the warmer spell, the deer were quieter for a few days. Saturday morning, there were 9 deer feeding. Joe Brian was watching them from the kitchen window and a coyote  roared on by, down in and across the meadow, heading toward the frog pond. Fortunately, they avoid the house in the day time. They cannot get the big deer. 

Saturday's Critters

  It's been  a whirlwind, literally, of rain, snow, graupel and wind. Poor critters! There was 5 cm snow Friday. 

Butch is awake 

 

And this one is missing a paw. Another has a weird-looking tail!  

Early Sunday, the robins were singing two different songs.  

Good Bunny Labbit is still doing well. She likes the deer food.  

After the coyotes took down a fawn, the crows were around helping clean up.  

We had a red-headed woodpecker! 

Saturday's Critters # 640