I avoided washing the kitchen floor for a couple of days. I did so, then realized that the grout needed its own scrub. I managed to do about half the floor, crumpled on a step stool, using a scouring brush. I will get to it another day.
I am much happier in the forest.
Some days... you know how it goes, you wonder what you'll write about. Then I check the cameras. It is far more interesting than housework. Here is a screen grab from the frog pond trailcam, down in the forest.
I moved the oldest trailcam to the driveway. It doesn't work all that well. I captured coyotes and deer trotting along the drive, however. Proof of life, I guess. The deer amble there, as well.
two coyotes from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
The snow has since fallen, but Pickles, the young buck with pickle stabber antlers, has been cleaning up. This was a big pumpkin, reduced to nothing.deer from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
I let Nutmeg out for her morning run, and she looked to one side. I noticed a buck going at my last large pumpkin!
buck from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
The buck was going at a pumpkin, just off camera. I moved the pumpkin, in the rain. I included that in the video as proof. He came back shortly thereafter. Hubby coming home in the car in the dusk sent him away. It took Charles all that day and night, the pumpkin was gone the next day!
King Charles IV buck from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
This is me, in Bala, Muskoka, Dec., 2009. We had 60 cm snow, but other places a bit more north, had 120 cm.
teenaged buck from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
