Recovery at Snowy Crumbly Acres – Part 1!

 Crumbly Acres!

I had this post all ready to go, then we had more snow all day Friday, after snow Thursday night. 

My lines are a bit wobbly. I can explain that! The trees look amazing, and I was distracted!

I cleaned out the bird bath, water fountain, I suppose, and popped some fresh snow on top to melt.

The trees looked so sad on Friday. I went around and shook off the snow.

Laden branches everywhere.

Friday, I watched the power outage map. It got worse over the day as it warmed up a degree or two. 

Saturday morning... that's a whole other story. 

Haircuts and pollen!

 Friday we had a mission. We met Caitlin at the Hostage Exchange site at 8:30, where we used to pick up or drop off the girls during COVID and the 35 weeks of Gramma Camp. They'd left some stuff at our place from sheltering with us from the power outage. It was nostalgic! 

✄ Caitlin took Isabelle for a haircut Friday afternoon! What a difference! She has an undercut, and had a ton taken off. She is growing up, our lovely young lady

Josephine had her hair shortened last month. It is a trend! Although, Isabelle loves and respects her older sister, and often emulates her. They have a close bond, after COVID.

📺 Doing my workout in the basement, I had trouble finding something to watch on TV. Three Ontario news shows were going to feature our newly elected premier's speech, and it seemed to me he was smirking. I couldn't watch it. US news was featuring issues around guns, which is heartbreaking. 

Ukraine citizens are in dire straights. FORTE11 is based near them. The 🛫Air Traffic is busy. They came out of Turkey Sunday morning.

I turned to Vancouver morning news, and they were dealing with a couple of stabbings, and a car fire. Crikey! I wasn't feeling 100% so I called it a day after 15 minutes. I went outside to play.

I puttered outside, and tried to get some yard work done, but the bugs drove me indoors.The weeding will get done another day. Or not! I shall have to use proper bug spray, and shower afterwards. 

🎾 Roland Garros Tennis – The French Open

Then, we were watching tennis from Paris and poor Alexander Zverev (Germany) rolled his ankle during the match against Nadal (Spain). That looked painful. I know. I did it on the ice outside my portable in the early 90s.  

JB turned on the men's tennis semifinal, and the Ruud (Sweden) and Čilić (Croatia) match was stopped during the third set. A young woman wrapped a cable around the net, and the necklace she was wearing, tying up the game. She was protesting climate change, "We have 1028 days left." They hustled the players off the court while they dealt with it. The broadcaster didn't show any more of the incident, which is their policy.

In more tennis news, the French Open's 1st female director says women's tennis holds less 'appeal' than men's, which is why she schedules the men during peak night time hours. In 2016 in LA, a male tennis director stepped down when he revealed his gender bias. Djokovic echoed the sentiment at the time, but didn't face any blowback. Sadly, the Paris transportation system was shut down when one men's game ended at 1 a.m., as the men play 5 sets, the women 3. People, it is 2022. 

Our travels to Franktown and back 

The crops are growing. Unlike Ukraine. 

 🏤Lanark Lifestyles <= see all my drive-by photos.  

Lanark Lifestyles is coming along.

Unlike my header, the rhododendron aren't blooming as much as when I first bought it. The spongy moth caterpillars ate it up last year. We shall see how it comes along. I'm not sure what to do about it. Mulch, maybe? I wrapped it in burlap over winter, as the deer like it.

This is the plant that the Spongy Moth caterpillars tore into last year. Thankfully, the caterpillars have died off and moved on. 

The allium

The pine trees are generating a lot of pollen.

pine tree pollen from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

After the storm: Happy New Year!

I hope 2020 brings you many blessings; 

good health, joy, peace, prosperity. 

I am grateful for my e-friends,

and their moral support! 

Let's see what 2020 brings us all.

Monday morning, Dec. 30th

If you've ever wondered what it is like taking a cat to the vet. This is the video for you! She was quite vocal. On slushy roads, she was a hoot.

Tuesday, Dec. 31st

Dec. 31st, more power outages as the snow continued all day, second day in a row. The numbers crept up all day as snow kept falling on top of the ice. Our hydro was fine, but I kept a fire going just in case.

The poor trees! Their branches were touching the ground. Great shelter for Jake, though. Can you see him?



Tuesday afternoon, I went out and shook the snow off. I was warm with Jean's lovely muff, except where the snow fell on my head. My coat was drenched, but the trees look much better. I have to clean them off, as it'll freeze and the branches will freeze in the snow. I learned that lesson one year.

On my way in for deer food, Tuesday, this dippy family stopped in the middle of Gore St. (a main street of Perth)! I was watching for the truck to pull around them, as people often do. Watching the truck behind them, then the teenager rushed across the road in front of me. No coat, no boots.



Our driveway is 100 m long. We were slowly getting rid of the ice from last week. We're back to ice pellets topped by snow. It's still snowing today, Wednesday.
Winter, bring it on!

My observation totals for the end of the year:
⛈DECEMBER 2019⛄
❄️WEATHER DATA☔
🚓ONTARIO ROADS 2019 🚗
🚓LOCAL COLLISIONS

The day before the storm

It was a beautiful day. The sun shone, the snow had melted beneath the trees, the deer were hanging out and about. Daisy and I went walkies, too. The same four turkeys seem to be coming back for more!
Amazing how, cold but with sunshine, it's glorious out there!


Between photo 1 and photo 2, the one in the lead took off flying.