Here it is Thanksgiving Weekend in Ontario. We will be on our own, as Josephine is nearly better, but still taking it easy with COVID. She is mending!
Thank goodness for our acreage on which to wander.
The day began with a sighting. JB was looking out the bathroom window and spotted a grouse! You can sort of see it through the screen...sort of!
They are beautiful birds. This one (below) hit the front window Nov. 2014. I think it was being chased by the hawk. It hit with a loud thud, moving quickly. I felt so badly. The colours are lovely to see.
I was booked to have my Spikevax last Thursday, the one that has both COVID and OMICRON fighting capabilities. JB had his two weeks prior. I was booked, but I was throwing up (anxiety?) and wisely cancelled until this week! Off we went to Smiths Falls.
I was asked if I ate the horse chestnuts I gathered, but I do not. Thing is, not even the raccoons like them – and they will eat anything! (Except chestnuts!) There was a chestnut explosion:
I love the colour and texture of them. The raccoons did the same thing in October, 2021.
Somebody went out and bought himself a new fall jacket! The weird thing – there was a cigarette butt in the pocket.
lady beetles from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
22 comments:
Hi Jenn :=) Interesting post, with lots to see. The colours of the trees are glorious, and your photos are lovely. I like your hubby's new jacket, but a cigarette but in the pocket is really strange. My hubby had a jacket just like it, with a fur lining and he wore it all winter long. Cute bug find, but I still can't fathom how your gadget sucks them up.
I'm so glad you did not have a nasty reaction to the jab, and it's good to know your daughter is recovering from having Covid.
All the best.
Beautiful fall leaves! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
It's always sad when a bird strikes a window. Often it is fatal for the bird for even those that are able to fly off often have a broken bill or internal injuries. I was leading a walk yesterday, and passing by a restaurant with glass partitions on their patio, a Myrtle Warbler flew headlong into the glass.
Sorry to hear your lady beetles bite. Our lady bugs don't, and are welcome to kill other pests (aphids I'm told) in gardens. They do look like cousins. Don't let any of yours get south of the border!
Hari OM
Happy and blessed thanksgiving my friends! All those glorious colours sure life the spirit. YAM xx
Bird strikes are sad :( We get the occasional sparrow or morning dove fly into our patio door, but we don't have enough room for them to build up enough steam to be seriously hurt. We still rush to the door to make sure...
I didn't realize that ladybugs could bite! Yikes! I haven't seen one in a while.
I love all your fall color (colour?).
I got my fourth shot in the middle of June and got covid on July 1!! I'll probably be getting the new vax in a week or so when I get my flu shot. The more covid vax's I'm getting the worse I feel afterwards. Everybody is different!!
Glad you survived the shot and Josephine is getting better. Love JBs new jacket except for the cig butt. Your fall colors are fantastic.
You are getting beautiful colours. We are being over run by boxelder beetles. They are on every sunny surface so you can't sit out without them landing on you.
aww... very beautiful views...
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving. Love that new jacket - but a cigarette butt in the pocket is awful.
Glad that your vaccine had no ill effects - and thanks for the autumnal glory.
Gorgeous fall colours.
I keep forgetting that you have Thanksgiving before us. I hope you've had a wonderful celebration.
How sad for the grouse. I thought at first that it was a hawk. That looks like a big bird.
That's a wonderful looking fall jacket and he looks great in it.
Happy Thanksgiving Jennifer! Lots of fall colour here too, bird feeder went up the other day.
lots of brilliant red and orange.
Soon the locks and the Rideau Canal will close for the season. Tourists will go home, boats will get on their coats. I traveled from Ottawa to Montreal, one magical summer on a small boat along the canal. Thanks for evoking that memory, and for sharing these beautiful flaming trees that I don't get to see here in the tropics. A beautiful autumn in your wonderful home acreage
Happy Thanksgiving, Jenn! Beautiful colour in your neck of the woods. Have a good weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving Jenn. We have much to be grateful for. We are waiting for the Pfizer spike booster to be available, but first we need to get our flu jab.
every Canadian man should have a black & red jacket. 😀
Good to hear your vaccine side affects were more mild this time around.
Happy Thanksgiving.
We have lots of lovely native ladybugs and a nasty invasive one (the Harlequin, which looks as though it might be the same as your rpoblematic ladybug).
Belated Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
All the best Jan
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