Crumbly Acres in winter

First, the bad news.

🎯 Former Gun Range

Monday, the owner of the property beside us is back at it. A friend emailed, notifying us of the court docket. He has more money than sense. He is appealing the denial of his property rezoning to the Ontario Supreme Court! Court appearance: Monday, Feb. 10th.  

'WHYTE V TOWNSHIP OF DRUMMOND/NORTH ELMSLEY, CV-23-00000114-0000, family court room'

🐣🐤🐥I was asked if there is bird flu about. We are sitting on 16 acres, the neighbour has 120 acres, and the next neighbour, 600 acres. That said, they've found bird flu in Toronto. These are scary times for such. Neither our premier, nor the US are happy to track such things. The new US Department of Health has RFK Jr., who doesn't believe in tracking diseases, vaccines, or COVID!

🔥 💨 I was up at 3 am with the smoke detector chirping. The battery is getting low. I removed the battery, in order to get some sleep. I'll put batteries on the shopping list! 

🌤 It's not all bad news. The sun rose, as it tends to do, and my friends showed up. This was 8 a.m., Feb. 6th. It's fun playing around with settings. 

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There are storms coming. I suggested that we need to 'get more gas for the snowmobile.' I am losing it! We don't have a snowmobile. The wetland isn't suitable for such travel, with plants sticking up all over the place!

wetland walkies, March 4, 2012

I do need to refill the gas can for snowblower. 

Saturday morning:

🌳 The oak tree leaves are finally falling. Our oak trees drop their leaves mid winter!

"Many deciduous species are marcescent (Wiki), not dropping dead leaves until spring."

I was following the deer tracks, and found the leaves blown into a line in the groove.

We have two young oak trees. They are about the same ages, I think. Not yet old enough to produce acorns.

They are lovely trees with beautiful leaves..

We had 6 cm snow last night. I'll have some work to do today, but first coffee! 

Welcome to Monday

 We've had bad news regarding our local media. The Star, who owns Metroland Media, is shutting down our local papers. The Toronto Star is keeping on. We have wonderful, responsive local journalists who both celebrate and mourn local stories. Our local editor, Laurie Weir, will be out of a job at year's end, as well as many others. Meta & Twitter X, aren't able to share revenue with Canadian news agencies. 

🍁Autumn

The milkweed moths must be morphing into a new stage. They have been clustered on the plant for a couple of days. Unfortunately, a couple of assassin bugs dragged one away to kill it. Circle of life...

🌳We have a youngish oak tree beside the driveway. I had my iPhone with me, "Hey, Siri, how long does it take for an oak tree to produce acorns?"  Apparently, 20 years! I'm not sure how old this tree is. back to square one! 

Joe is trying with a walking stick. He had a couple of falls, and is being cautious!

🚁We've been inundated with helicopters: ornge helicopter Sept. 10,  whisking someone to hospital. 

Then, civilians: Helicopter Sept. 12, at 330 p.m; Helicopter Sept 13, at 4:00; Sept. 15; Sept. 17 at 10:30 a.m. I have fun trying to video them, and find their registration. This one is FSUE, Coywolf Aviation.

Helicopter Sept 13, 4:00 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

helicopter Sept. 17, 10:30 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Off I go. Time to put out the garbage! It's a tad chilly, 12 C., so I'll have to put on pants.