Crumbly Acres

They are cold mornings! 

A real frost!

I'm having trouble with upgrades to my video host Vimeo. Bear with me!

I enjoy mulching leaves.

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Mice friends – watch for their eyes!

Leaves, Sunrise, Barry

Soooooo many leaves! No sooner do I mulch with the lawn tractor, then more fall. 

 

These cup lichen plants are on top of a bed of moss. 

These are getting bigger. Aster says the one looks like a 4-leaf clover, and it'll make me lucky! 

Non-mental note: get up on the wood shed roof and clear off the leaves!

I noticed Barry working on this tree. It hung on for a few days. It is a small Aspen. 

Can you see it leaning? It is parallel to the red line. 

 

I looked out a few days after that, and it was on the ground, along with some birch trees. A walkabout was called for.

Evening's entertainment includes watching Nutmeg. Nutmeg sleeps like a turtle!

When chores are done, I've put my feet up and watched Ride or Die. It's a nice escape from reality. 

At bedtime, I have devoured Hollow Bones, which is a tale that incorporates COVID, disasters, and an amazing story. Picoult writes spellbinders. 

Climbing, embroidery, baking

I've been enjoying the placement of the trailcam here in Barry Beaver's yard. Between him and the wind lots of trees are down.  

I love this pattern with the light. When I researched trailcam placement, you are supposed  to have them face south. This is facing southeast! Sometimes it's fun to be creative.

 Of course Cinnamon enjoys tree climbing. Cats like to be up high. 

I moved a camera to focus on Barry's latest work, the oak tree. They aren't known for going after oaks, so I don't know what is up with that. I have to be careful with the trailcam placement. When that tree comes down... I hope I put it to the side.

I read. A lot. I try to use the library. Thing is, there is a mad editor. She reads a lot of the mysteries that I do. This is what it looks like. She's often wrong, or thinks this is how an author should write dialogue. I read in bed at night and keep an eraser beside me. I vent with the librarians. Such a pain. They thanked me for erasing it! 

Cold mornings, but Sunday was a warm day!

 

I was sitting outside, working on a Christmas present.

Busy working people are encouraged to batch cook on Sundays, in preparation for the work week. Joe brought home some 'fish' AKA chicken, pork chops and broccoli. I'd bought the squash from the farm down the road. No decisions about dinners for a few days.

Mushroom murder!

 Fun story: this is a group of wee, grey toadstools. A nice little line. They like the PH levels under the pine tree. Every single mushroom is knocked over. It's happened before. I called it Mushroom Murder! 

I know who I blame! They left another deposit on the deck! 

Here is proof!

This was 2012. Aster inspecting the fungus on the dead roots. Aster is in gr. 11 and taller than me!

Here is a gnarly tree I found on my forest walk. 

Funny what AI 'hears!' We asked the TV thing to find us a TV show:  "Border Interceptors," a reality show from Ireland, like Border Security. Instead, it brought up an ad for 'bed bug interceptors.' One really has to enunciate!

 

The driveway in all its glory...

Autumn chores, I sprayed painted the purple pencil! It looks so much better. Also, I scraped and repainted my bell.

Last two roses for this year... the frost is on the glass outside. Farewell summer, sleep well gardens. See you on the other side!

Canada Forces Base Wainwright

 Saturday, Oct. 17

There was a horrible fire during a training exercise at Canada Forces Base Wainwright, Alberta's military centre. I wanted to track it.

Four soldiers are dead, 39 were injured by this fast-spreading fire. Not to belabour it, but to celebrate the heroes. The victims are in our hearts. The fire was spread by a fast wind, on a grenade launch site. Firefighters had issues getting close to it. After a few days, 36 remained in hospital, and as of Friday, Oct. 23rd, 27 are still in hospital. Others have been released.

Canada has 46 burn patient beds, as the graphic shows. The provinces (B.C., Ontario, and Saskatchwan) are helping Alberta. US Ambassador Hoekstra, after dissing us for weeks, and a week after the incident, has offered help from the US. A day late and a dollar short!

Ontario has sent a couple dozen specialized burn nurses from Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, with a robust burn unit. It can take 2 hours to change bandages for patients, and nurses are working hard. 

After the fire, air ambulance helicopters took victims to Edmonton,  and Calgary, to get treatment. 

Hamilton has an excellent burn centre, as well. 

This is a device that is like a printer that makes fake skin for burn victims.

Wainwright Airport, near the fire spread in that dark image in the centre of the photo, between the airport and the green water of Jamieson Lake. Saskatchewan sent emergency vehicles, the distances are amazing, and they were so efficient. 

Thank goodness for those who run towards danger and do their part.

"A 23-year-old Canadian Armed Forces medic remains in critical condition after his mother says he repeatedly ran into the deadly fire at CFB Wainwright to save his fellow soldiers, continuing until his own injuries overtook him."