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Monday, 23 January 2023

TV shows, critters, grandies

The days have been a tad chilly.  In the evenings we snuggle in. Clever people go out at night and photograph the moon, but I'd rather not!  Sunday morning it was spitting rain. Sunday night, several cm snow. I have to go out soon, shovel the walk and take the garbage down the driveway. 

📺 Karen Pirie is a 3-part series we watched last week. It is a heart-warming and excellent story about a cold case (2022). It is a good tale.

The show is written based on the novel The Distant Echo of the Inspector Karen Pirie series by Val McDermid.[1] [2]

📺  We found The Long Call, a 4-episode British series (2021). There are rumours of a season 2, as well.

The Long Call is a British crime drama television series developed by Kelly Jones and Silverprint Pictures based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Ann Cleeves. Set in Devon.

The critters have been busy. Primarily in the dark of the night. 

I set up the trailcam to capture mice friends. Every morning the cats go out on the deck to check them out. Then they come in for breakfast.

cats on deck from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

One black squirrel, tree sparrows, a red squirrel. I figured out if I put the trailcam on the deck, I could film some friends. I did!

front deck action from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

It is the Year of the Rabbit, and I am doing my part. 

Poor thing, in the snow. She saw me and froze. Figured out I wasn't a threat. You can see her chewing on a lilac branch. Hubby headed out for errands, and she fled to under the tree. They are crepuscular, appearing dusk and dawn, although she is getting out earlier in the evening and staying out later in the morning. Jan. 19.

Labbit from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

I spotted a hawk in a tree off the driveway. See it? No, you cannot. I went outside to film it and it disappeared. 

Then it landed on Labbit's lilac tree. I was so excited!

kestrel from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

The hawks like the bird feeder. We've had a sharp-shinned hawk, as well. These are from 2015.

I like to multitask, and while we were watching taped tennis games, I sorted through the camera footage. It is our barred owl! She is looking for mice friends under the bird feeders.

midnight owl from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Finally, I leave you with our grandies. The first photo, below, was from a week ago when we celebrated Christmas.


Where does the time go?! They are gr. 7 & 10 now. They both had haircuts! They've had long hair for years, but they are changing it up.

This stool we had made when Josephine was small, 2009. 'Two-cut Kent' made it for us in Bala. She still fits! 
Josephine's haircut is called a Wolf Cut! 

Monday, 6 January 2020

World Hockey Junior Championships 2020

We seldom watch hockey, except in certain circumstances. The Olympics, or major world championships. It was great excitement to win. What truly ticks me off, and a lot of others, is that our women won silver and it wasn't televised.

Anyway, our juniors won gold.



The fans are the best part...


Then there are the sniffers.



I asked what this was about on Facebook, not being a hockey nerd. My trailcam mentor knew, smelling salts. He says it clears out the respiratory system. Sure.
The cats have liked hockey. Daisy, mostly.


When I was a kid, Fluffy, see him on top of the TV, used to try to catch the hockey puck from up there! 


Hooper liked curling. So did Daisy.

Hooper and Daisy liked tennis, too.

Now, lest you think I am still a couch potato. I got outside yesterday, and did some clean-up. It felt good. First job, cleaning out the bird bath. A sunflower seed had sprouted! 


I cleaned up most of these fallen branches. Some were frozen into the thawed/melted/frozen snow. I gave up at that point.



This is one of the dozen pumpkin we left out for the critters. It has rained a lot, as well as the snow melt. They keep on munching away at it!

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Hunkering down for winter

I was upstairs watching taped movies, downstairs, JB and the three girls were watching football beside the fire.



The deer were hovering in the yard.


Tuesday afternoon, the snow began to fall. Annabelle wasn't impressed! It's rained all night on top of this and it is now ice. The bird feeders are indoors thawing on a towel.



In the meantime, in Ottawa, a double decker bus caught fire. I'm happy to have boring days!

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Daisy is a busy girl playing tennis!

We've been enjoying tennis, at all angles.
 
She's pretty good with curling, too!