We're snowed in again!

It has been amazingly cold. I've brought in a couple of my trailcams as they don't work at certain temperatures. Also, moisture gets in. I'll thaw them, and put them out in a few days. 

I made Joe Brian and the cats a fire. They watched curling and football in the basement!

I went to the front door, flicked on the spotlight. I scared Labbit. I felt badly. There isn't much under the bird feeders. She sure can run!

There were 16  deer Sunday morning. They wander at all hours.

I'm keeping the feeders full. 

There are some birds who don't like the bigger green feeder. I like it since I can fill it up and leave it for a few days. The rain or snow doesn't get in. Some of the birds don't like it. Fair enough. We aim to please!

I switched out the bird feeders, knowing we are desperately cold. I put out the big feeder, which I'd cleaned. The woodpeckers prefer the bigger 'tube' feeder.

Frog pond:

It is cold, but the snow protects the land.

#75 gets the odd peanut to enjoy. 

We had a fair amount of snow last night, and it is still snowing today, Monday. The back deck is laden with snow.

I went out into the garage and peeked out there (lower right). You can see deer tracks in the far ground, and Labbit tracks in the fore ground.  The garbage isn't going out!

Deer in snow...

Alright, coffee, breakfast, and I've a driveway and sidewalk to clear! 

Storm warnings...

🥶 There were storm warnings... but it was the cold that preceded it! Saturday, -29 ℃, I kept a fire going to supplement our propane.  This morning, a balmy -23℃. It is a huge storm, with lightning. It should roll in this afternoon. We are ready.

We always say, on days like this, 'It's a good day to be retired!' Joe Brian spent years dealing with issues like this. Something like 1400 flights cancelled. 

Jordan was in Ottawa for the weekend, attending the Canadian Space Conference for the weekend. He took the Flix bus. I can't believe he is 18! 

Even more amazing, Aster being up early, during this exam period, on a Saturday morning. The family had breakfast together, although they won't see much of him! The schedule is packed.

"The Canadian Space Conference is the flagship conference of SEDS-ÉEDS Canada, a national space industry non-profit that serves students and early-career space professionals."

Just when I get it all cleaned up...  

It is a time for throwing veggies and chicken in a hot oven! I cubed sweet potatoes, added broccoli, and what I thought was canned pineapple. (It was crushed, oh well!) The chicken was wrapped in bacon. I threw it together, threw it in the oven, and put my feet up watching a new show: Newton's Law. A fun mystery, lawyer legal series from Australia. 

I found weasel tracks beside the frog pond. This is what I think. I can't find my laminated chart! 

Maybe 6" stride.

Sept. 20, 2022

A cat got it, I think. Sept. 22, 2022:

It took the cardinal eggs one year, 2020.  Also, the wood duck eggs in 2020. Circle of life...

I peered out the kitchen window. The deer had a hat! The red squirrel (DRS) has figured out the cat door nearby. It's been cleaning up spilled deer and bird seed in the garage. It is helpful, truly. 😁

This is the right idea, two cats sharing a bed. Wrapped in sunshine, in a warm bed, in a warm house.

Saturday's Critters

Yes, a polar vortex. Again. It's -29 ℃ and it is bitterly cold. 

I celebrate the ubiquitous chickadee.

   

 And the deer in a snowstorm.

 

Coyote in a snowstorm!

 

We had 16 deer Jan. 23rd. 

Cinnamon chooses from the toy basket. Hooray for indoor play! 

 

Greenland has a sense of humour!

 

We're losing ours. We responded to 9/11, as the US called for Article 5 and other countries helped all around the world. We sent 40,000 troops to Afghanistan. We lost 158 souls, including 3 solders shot by US troops in a friendly fire incident. 

 

Saturday's Critters # 632 

We're still snowy!

Winter is pretty. All that white is pretty. It does get to be too much, though.

The sidewalk needed doing, and the snow we shovel off the upper deck, falls onto the ground.

It is all so much nicer with blue sky and sunshine!

 

Jean sent me the best neck warmer a few years ago! 

I have fun figuring out who has visited the forest. I'm thinking coyote or fox! It was too quick for the video.

I messed up this video, but I thought it funny. What a hoot. I tried to type in 'doe' in the opening clip. Instead it says 'title!'

 

I love watching them!

The back yard garden and a Labbit tale

I really enjoy the lilacs. It is lovely and green in spring.

Our grandies back in the day!

But, here is the tail. Fred dug a burrow in the garden.  You can see where it is at #5, under the rhododendron.

Cinnamon inspected Fred's hole at one point!

Here is Fred in her burrow #5. We had a good relationship. She is sleeping and won't emerge until March or so.

It looks different in winter. The lilac tree sits dormant. The deer wander around.

April, 2025

Labbit is in burrow #5:

You can see some rabbit droppings!

These are Labbit's tracks. She's moved from burrow #4 to #5. It's tough leaping through the snow!

In the past, she's been eating the tender new shoots of the lilac tree. Fertilizing as she went. It's been quite a winter. I do enjoy seeing tracks in the snow. This wee furry critter is managing to get through the storms. It's something we all have to try to do. As best we can.

"We are in an era when the strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must."

                     – Greek historian Thucydides, as quoted by PM Carney