removing…

30 Tuesday Jan 2024

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went out and shovelled up some of the slushy snow/ice… it was getting very slippery beside the hot tub, so I am happy this got done…

it will be much safer when I am uncovering and covering the hot tub…

it didn’t take too long as it was warm out, so after that was done, I filled all the bird feeders…

then I uncovered the seeds in the “house” on the deck at 11:44 am and by 2:30 pm it was completely covered over again…

for a little while I kept going out and removing the grass that the squirrel was adding, but I gave up…

beefsteak…

19 Monday Jun 2023

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I am so pleased with how the garden is coming along, even with this rather changeable weather…

there are teeny little cucumbers starting to grow… at least one butternut squash has started, and there is a lovely beefsteak tomato…

the beautiful strawberry got eaten… and not by a human;-(… not sure if it was a bird or a squirrel, but I’m leaning towards squirrel, lol…

collect…

22 Saturday Oct 2022

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yesterday morning, while I was sitting in the living room, I had some fun watching this little guy collect and snack on sunflower seeds in the sunlight;-)…

they may have given me the stink eye…

slinky…

29 Friday Jul 2022

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I watched as one of the little red squirrels figured out how to climb the slinky on the pole by the garage… it made a cool sound as the squirrel climbed it like a ladder…

so, I reset the solar light that was holding it down so it is loose and hope that will keep the squirrel from getting up there again…

and look what I spotted;-)…

these pictures are a little fuzzy, but when the squirrel was flying up and down the slinky, they were moving very quickly…

watched…

15 Tuesday Mar 2022

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had a fun few minutes this morning as I watched this red squirrel…

some of the snow has melted away and the squirrels have uncovered the sunflower seeds…

every now and then this one would stick its head under the snow and bring up a snack…

I checked whenever I was in the kitchen, but missed any more sightings, lol…

snacking…

09 Wednesday Mar 2022

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enough snow has melted on the table on the deck so that the squirrels have been able to find the sunflower seeds again…

this little guy was busy snacking away…

the snow is going down very slowly… this is a picture taken February 20th…

and this photo shows the back corner of the yard last night… for the first time the solar dragonflies were lit…

encouraging to see a tiny bit of melting…

stretching…

04 Friday Mar 2022

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today I had fun watching a squirrel eat from the feeder at the front…

it was basically just stretching up from the snowbank…

I’ve been waiting to see that as the snow has gotten higher and higher…

looking forward to some melting;-)…

rough…

01 Tuesday Feb 2022

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we’ve had some rough weather over the last few days… they called it a blizzard, although not too much snow fell, but it certainly blew around…

as I was making my breakfast I looked outside and saw this squirrel, covered in snow, stuffing its face at the feeder…

it looked very cold…

a bit later, I took some pictures in the den…

the window was covered in sticky snow…

the blowing continued for most of the day, and finally stopped in the evening…

I see more snow shovelling in my future, lol…

salad…

10 Saturday Apr 2021

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made my first potato salad of the season this morning and then spent the rest of the day in the garden…

apparently snow is coming so it just makes sense to be out there while it is nice…

napped in my rocking lounger and sat in one of my repaired chairs…

watched and listened to many birds… saw what might have been a purple finch, which stood on a chair to oversee the garden, but I didn’t take any pictures;-)… the sparrows and juncos were enjoying drinks of water when they weren’t searching for food… the red squirrel hopped all over the deck for some reason… it was fun to watch…