Who shook the snow globe? Stop it!
It happens so quickly, one day the ground is soft, covered with leaves, a week later it’s frozen solid…NOOO! It’s not even Winter yet a huddled up dove seemed to be implying it was. I’m with you there! We’ve had two plows, actually three, the first driver did such a bad job the company owner came out to apologize and replowed it, new driver it seems…good customer service though…I don’t think I have to pay for the replow? We’ll see:)
It is, this white stuff, when there isn’t a breath of wind…pretty. Ask me again in March?! Ha!
I feel that my paddling days are over for the year, barring a total thaw…you never know. More snow happening right now, then freezing rain…oh joy…not. It’s been a long week. Our 24 year old mare Maya had a slip, or a fall or something neurological to do with her Lyme/anaplasmosis happened. It was touch and go this week, vet visited, wasn’t overly optimistic but today she was crabby, good sign for an old mare, eating carrots and I even managed to get one hoof cleaned out. We will give her some time to see if we can get her walking in a straight line soon, if not, she can’t spend the entire Winter in a stall. One day at a time. I was pleased with her demeanor this morning, I may sleep better tonight! I’m trying to not let it consume me, this is my girl. We’ve been to Mexico and back, 24 years together. This aging thing sucks!
On a happier noter, the otters had a frat party on Wednesday night while it was snowing! Fish scales and heads, fish poop and blood, man it looked like they had a good time! Ha! One even sat on the red bench! So much for pristine snow and the little red canoe, there went my photo op! I was up early Thursday to get a shot…of their chaos;) ha! I don’t mind. I shoveled off their poop and fish remains! I wandered down to the dock last night to watch them fishing on the ice’s edge, then later they had a visitor! A Bald eagle came swooping in, trying to steal their fish! That was quite the sight!
I counted three otters in total, coming up, going down, sitting and eating their supper…then they had their visitor!
I’d come back up to the house as it had started to snow when I turned and looked out the door half an hour later to the flash of large wings and white head and tail. I grabbed the camera a got the Bald Eagle after he had dive bombed the otter. He/she circled around and did another pass before landing on the large white pine across the lake. It was only when I looked at the photo I saw a juvenile eagle maybe, in the top right! Too big to be a red tailed hawk! Someone was showing baby how to steal from otters! The otters dove and did not reappear…can’t blame them!
My normal speed is tormenting the blue jays with different props. I found a plastic martini, or maybe margarita glass at the dump for free, better than the actual glass ones the squirrels broke! I was having trouble keeping it upright…until the snow:) Problem solved! Ha! Meet “Blue Jay Bond”:)
Those tail feathers get me every time!
Even the chickadee’s are getting in on the martini action!
A smile a secound these guys! I’ve needed it this week:) The Common Mergansers have left now that the ice is forming in the bay as well as the flocks of ducks. Time to head South guys!
Our yard is like a local pub. There is a group of regulars, the locals. The Blue Jays, Nuthatches, American Goldfinches, Chickadees and Hairy, Downy and Red Bellied woodpeckers, then during the Summer and Winter, we get a few tourists;) The Dark-eyed Juncos and American Tree Sparrows have arrived now! Flocks of Snow Buntings are congregating in the corn fields, will try for a photo this week. Still waiting for the Northern Redpolls and Pine Grosbeaks! I surprised a Great Blue Heron in the swamp as I walked out, to not check the mail…Ha!
Hard to believe a week ago we had no snow…it could still go with both freezing rain and rain in the forecast for tomorrow. Our salt/sand buckets are filled, we are ready! I can hear the wind howling!
I ambled down to the dock late yesterday, the snow, ice and slush had melted, mostly, in the canoe, so I got it bailed out and hauled up on the dock, took a picture before I did…sigh…maybe, just maybe I can get back in for a quick trip across the bay to snow covered pine trees and reflections…maybe. Not going to hold my breath though! Stay tuned tomorrow for the Mewberries antics now that the red squirrels are back in the hood, and the snow, apparently they thought they were going South this year, the cats, not the squirrels…surprise! Ha! The look on their faces at that first snow…priceless!:) Saludos amigos! Please send some positive vibes!
Hello Winter! I love those cracks in the ice!