Daily Pics #263. Yay, It’s Today!

Posted on October 1, 2020 by

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Good morning everyone! It’s here! Happy International Coffee Day!! Muffin and I have begun celebrations already with a rousing game of fuzzball! And of course, COFFEE! Lots of coffee! Until we’re bouncing off the walls, that kind of lots of coffee! Okay, Muffin doesn’t like coffee, but she does like coffee cupcakes, so maybe I will try making those today. Most people around here have never heard of this amazing holiday before. Hard to believe really. Coffee shops around the world celebrate this holiday, except here. Mention it here and they go, “seriously?” Um, yeah, I’m serious. Oh well. So we will have another coffee post today to help celebrate the day. It’s a bit on the chilly side today, but the pictures will be from a warmer day earlier in September.

I went out to feed the birds this morning, and clean up my deck of the big mess, and nearly went flying. It rained overnight, and froze, so the deck was solid ice, though it didn’t look slippery. But it was kind of early and not fully daylight. Almost broke one of my bird feeders. I didn’t. Wish I could say the same for me. As I slid, I also twisted myself which finished my back for the day. As you know, I have serious back problems, so twisting like that, or falling, can have bad consequences for my back. The joys of living in a cold climate. Speaking of the mess on my deck. At 3:10am, Muffin is not the only one that likes to be up early for breakfast, I was awakened by some loud noises on the deck. Must be the raccoons again, I thought. Except Muffin wouldn’t go up to the window. Hmm, not raccoons, Muffin isn’t afraid of raccoons. On goes the light and there it is…a bear!

The nerve of him coming on the deck and making so much noise and waking me up this early! Open door, yell at bear, bear runs away. It was a different bear than the one the other night, not quite as big, maybe 250 to 300 pounds. But what a mess he made out there. Even knocked over my flower pots and dug out the dirt, probably looking for grubs or other insects. It’s a cold morning, but sunny, so it looks beautiful out there. We even had some flurries this morning, real snowflakes, a reminder that winter is not far away. The forecast for October is for milder than normal temps, I hope they are right. There is a second forecast for October, colder than normal temps and an early winter. We’ll see which one is right.

The featured image at the top is more fall color out on our big lake. The pic just above is one of our late summer and fall wildflowers, the arrow-leaved aster. We have a number of different asters around here, they are definitely a nice end of season flower. Happy October everyone and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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50 Comments on “Daily Pics #263. Yay, It’s Today!”

  2. Woohoo! Coffee Day! Cheers! 🥳☕️🧁
    Will you be posting the coffee cupcake recipe? Sounds yummy.
    Beautiful fall colors. We’ve noticed a strange thing here. The oaks which are usually bright gold—went brown half way up the trees. The bottom part of the tree turned gold, but then middle ways up all went dull brown. I wonder if that was because of the smoke. It must be hard on the plants lungs too. No rain in the forecast until next week. Flurries would be nice here…
    Be careful doing the “twist and shout”, Steve! See ya later! 🙂🖐😺

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    • I would like to post the coffee cupcake recipe,😀 unfortunately I didn’t think of this being coffee day until last night.🤔 The recipe is in one of my old “Country Living” magazines from the 80s. I like those old magazines, the new “Country Living” just isn’t the same. I doubt I could find it easily enough for today,🙄 but I might try later.😋
      Yes, the smoke might do that, so can dryness, it always hurts the tree tops first. Putting on a light layer of ash can be a problem, leaves can’t breathe properly then, and it would hurt the tree tops first as well.
      Too late for that one, my back is complaining still.😕
      Have a great day Nina!😀🖐😺🌞☕☕COFFEE time!

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  3. Happy International Coffee Day, Steve!!! My kind of day! ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
    I see you had snow flurries! 😃
    Great pics! Need to get the bear spray out though! 🙀😹🐻

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  4. That is new to me…coffee day…a very welcome day !…BEWARE OF THE BEARS STEVE ! ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🙀😮🐻‼️

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    • Yep, Coffee Day is a great holiday, Muffin and I had a fantastic time!🤪☕☕☕😸 It’s that time of year for the bears to come into town.😳🙀🐻

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  7. Well… one good thing is that when Winter shows up the BEARS 🐻 will disappear!😁 How’s that positive?? Huh?? Not Bad! I thought that up all by myself!!😁

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    • Very good, except for the winter part. That word always makes me want to jump up and down, pull my hair, bang my head on the wall and fall flat on the floor! What else would you expect after banging my head on the wall? Time for bed, it’s good for my head!😁🙄😴

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  8. Happy October Steve 😻😍 and international coffee day 🎉😁 Cheers!! the beauty of the fall is simply amazing 😍 to watch… bears 😱 run….. dont even stand there 🧐 or play freeze 😁 oh such a mess 😳 who cleared all that then 😒 be careful while doing things around 😉 Have a peaceful night and a beautiful Friday 😍yay!!!! month end is over 😻😍😻😍

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    • Happy October Simon!🙋‍♂️🍁🍂 And I hope it really is a happy one, our winter can start in October,🥶 that’s a terrible thought.😳😬 You know me, I’m always careful doing things.🙄🙄😁 Have a great evening!!😀😺🌙

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      • I knew it 😂😂😂 and that’s why I am asking you to be careful 😄🤪. October starts what 🥶🥶 scary thought ofcourse, comeon Steve time to light some woods 🤪 oops! 😳 to turn on the heater 😁

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      • oh my god that was fast or was if the right time 😳 how long it suppose to last 🤔 then when the summer begin 😎 so eagerly waiting to see your sweat in the sun ☺️

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      • A short winter for us would be 5 months,😁 normal is 6 months,😳 long is 7 months or more.😭 It will be a long time before I do any sweating in the sun,🌞😎 maybe late May?🤔

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      • Can we not sweat inside house with the heater on 😁🤔 im just thinking why can’t we stay too hot inside home 🤪. That’s long 😳🙄 5 let’s wish it’s just 5 not a day beyond that 😿. It’s 🥶 cold 🥶

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      • I can’t turn the heater on that high,😳 my landlord won’t allow it.🙄 But still, it’s warm enough inside and if I get cold there is lots of blankets!😁😸🤪Yes, a short winter would be nice, but so far 2 out of 3 forecasts are calling for a long and cold winter.🥶 Oh well, these things happen, it can change.😁🌞

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      • that’s bad 😵 you should ask your landlord for some offer 😳 a warm offer, 😁 oh these forecasts 🥺 sometimes it’s better not to know the future ☺️😉 let’s hope some warm days ahead,😍

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