Forest travels

First, check out my new bow. JB came home with a CLose eyes! 

💉I had my booster shot Thursday, Dec. 16th. There was a bit of a line. No symptoms, although last time I had the shot Wednesday at the drug store, and symptoms arose on the Monday! There was a line up. JB had his last week. I'm crossing my fingers that I don't have side effects.

My arm is sore, and I went to bed at 8 p.m., up at 5:30 a.m. We shall see what happens. I was fearful all day.

Again COVID–19 numbers are rising, with Kingston being the hotbed of infections. They have the highest case rate in Canada. Ottawa has some cases linked with visits to the National Arts Centre, and such. We will just hunker down.

A piece of artistic birch tree! I do like birch trees, but they are quite fragile (see below).

The wetland freezes and thaws with above zero temperatures. Thursday was 15 C., which is bizarre. Today's high is 4 C. and it really wreaks havoc with the poor hibernating critters.

We've trees down, but it matters not in the forest. The big old pine trees are dying off. They look sweet in black and white.

As I walked, I noticed what seemed like the floating branch of a white birch tree. It was snagged on another branch, but it was a fun sighting. (Maybe you had to be there!) We've had more winds on Thursday, there are lots of branches hanging here and there. I'll do an inspection again.

This is our 3rd lot, we're own three lots in a row! Lots of trees down. There is water in the ditch, as well.

This portion of our 3rd lot was part of the old road. The county took it for the road in the past, but in the many years since it has grown over after they straightened the highway out. Now the old dead trees are falling.

This video shows how much snow we had. The trailcam captured the deer in the front yard 6 days ago.

On Thursday, bright and early, JB went to get groceries. We agreed we're going back to online ordering. He's really had a tough time managing a bad cold, and people do stare! He's going to have a chest Xray as soon as they phone with an appointment. He visited the GP for some help on the 14th. Thing is the Omicron symptoms are slightly different that Delta. 

As he left, I spotted the two deer in the front yard! They stared as he pulled the car out slowly. The camera focused on my nice white tree, but you get the picture.

They didn't bolt. I laughed as I watched them.