Hooray for the time change. 😣 I woke up at 4:30! Gonna be a long day.
I'd washed the bathroom floor, and put the mop out to dry. It froze overnight. That morning it was -6 ℃., no wonder it froze solid. Today it is only 1 ℃.!
I put up our Remembrance Day flag.
We decided to take a walk along the highway to see the condition of the deer carcass.
A porcupette also met its demise on the highway. The vultures have migrated.
There is nothing left except fur. There was a path trod, running up the hill towards our house.
This is why we thought we'd go look. Joe was doing his regular walkies around the yard, now that his back is slowly improving. Look what he found, the spine and a hip bone.
It turns out that the coyote yips I heard at bedtime, WERE in the backyard! The bones were found right out the back, behind the large white pine!
That means they dragged their food selection about 100m to the back yard, away from the highway.
Out and about <= in my first post about this, I didn't realize they were so close.
Two piles of coyote poop! You can tell it is coyote from the fur embedded in it.
And I finish with a funny story. After mom died and we moved into her house, Joe would smell the smells of cleaning products in the air. I am sure it was a message from mom to clean up more! She was fastidious in the era of Cometizing one's house. Germs were feared. A real 50s and 60s woman who kept her home very, very clean.
Joe and I were sitting with morning coffee, and he told me he could smell cabbage. Then, he said he could smell burned cabbage. (I don't like cabbage much, so it wasn't me!) He left the room, and I could smell it. It was the dead mouse smell. Pulling out my chair, there it was. They are trying to move into the house for winter, and the cats are snapping them up!
I must put on my big girl pants and raincoat, as soon as it is light, and take the garbage out. Joe is some better and collected it for us this week.
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I am not sure if we have had a frost yet, We have been cold in the morning. We find deer carcass around the fire roads, the hunters are leaving them behind. They do not follow the hunting rules.
Take care, have a great day and a happy week ahead.
In the winter, I often find coyote and bobcat tracks not too far from our house and sheds.
Well, the carcass provided them with food and they are cleaning it up. Nature's recyclers!
Dead mouse smell. I've had that one -- and it's awful when you can't find the darned thing! I love your remembrance day flag. We don't have these here. I wish we did.
Not only mice trying to get inside, but stink bugs this year seem to be in greater numbers than normal.
Keep dry! I now feel so much closer to folks that have these natural disasters interrupt their lives...like the tornados yesterday in OK. From now on I guess I'll belong to this new group. Your coyotes were bold to bring their dinner so close to your home. Kind of creepy. Poor old mouse, smelling like burnt cabbage!
I had a crazy night, but I think it was just me being me. After three and a half decent nights, I guess the other shoe had to drop.
Glad that Joe is getting better.
And still blown away by how fast your temperatures change...
Ugh daylight savings.. why are we still doing this?
That is cold. Our weather is still quite mild and I don't mind it at all.
Poor animal that ended up as coyote dinner. Circle of life I guess.
It is a bit scary that the coyotes were dining so close to the house. Good the cats come in at night.
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