Steve`s Country
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Morning Coffee In The Afternoon At Steve’s Country #20.
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to a later edition of my morning coffee post! The coffee is on, fresh and hot, just help yourself and relax! Sometimes things happen that toss everything around so some changes have to be made. That was me yesterday, which not only affected things yesterday, but also today. So I wasn’t able to do my post this morning, but we’re back now and happy to have you visit with us again. Muffin is sitting at the door eagerly waiting for our first friends to show up!
The birds have been busy at the feeders this morning. All of our normal birds were here, plus we had a nice visit with a flock of around 30 evening grosbeaks, nearly all males with about a half dozen females. Due to reasons already mentioned, I was unable to go out and get any pics. But it looked so beautiful with all those bright yellow birds sitting on the feeder. There were 20 males on that feeder at one time which was just an amazing sight. I like those evening grosbeaks, they really brighten up the winter. As do the pine grosbeaks with their nice rosy red. We had some of those pine grosbeaks earlier this winter, but there are none around now which is kind of odd. Jasper had to once again defend his territory, most likely that same squirrel from yesterday who likely won’t give up easily. But Jasper managed to chase him off again. There was no actual fighting this time, but lots of chasing and chattering.
So I gave Jasper some extra big peanuts when he came over afterwards. “That other squirrel seems to be persistent.” Loud Chip. “Yes, this is your territory, it’s important to protect it otherwise squirrels will come and chase you away.” Chip. “He has his own territory?” Chip. “Oh, he likes the peanuts here.” Chip. “Why do I feed him? I don’t really, I just toss out the peanuts for the blue jays and sometimes he comes and gets some of them.” Chip. “I’ll try to watch, but it’s not easy, he’s almost the same color as you.” Chip. “Yes, I’m definitely on your side. But it’s your responsibility to chase away other squirrels.” Chip. “Yes, I know it’s tough, but you can do it, and there’s all these big peanuts you get afterwards.” I give him an even bigger peanut which he takes and runs off back home. Oh my, it’s cold out here still. It was 12F (-11C) this morning and it’s still that way. Getting cloudy now, we’re supposed to get some snow overnight, and even more snow coming on Tuesday and Wednesday. I hope you enjoyed your afternoon cup of coffee, have a beautiful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod
Steve`s Country 
Loved the chatter between Jasper and you ! Lovely pics ! ☕️☕️🤔😺🎄
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Thanks Sharon!😁😸🌙
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hopefully Jasper got your message… 🙂
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Yes, I hope so too.
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Nice coffee cup 😋 what happened? Why have you not able to go out 🤔 Hope everything is fine.😳 30 grosbeak’s 😍 that’s a lot of beauty at one place , I’m sure Muffins must been having a fun time watching the birds 😁 Jasper is getting busy, busy one fighting for its territory… True barbarian Jasper 😉😁🤓
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Yes, it’s so nice to see that many grosbeaks all at once like that, so bright and beautiful! Muffin really doesn’t get excited about them, Jasper gets her excited though! Yep, Jasper is doing great fighting off the competition!
Have a great day Simon!😁🌙🌞🌨🌨
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☺️😆 Jasper is definitely entertaining with its little territory fight it seems 😂. Thank you Steve ✨💐🤗
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Yes, that new squirrel doesn’t want to give up easily, he knows there is peanuts here!🥜🥜 And Jasper is determined to keep him away!😂😹
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Ha ha 😂😂 Poor them, both wants peanut’s 😋😂 and they both knew it was you, the supplier 😆😆. have fun watching the little territory war 😁😁
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Yep, I do enjoy them chasing each other, good exercise for them!😂😹 I just don’t want Jasper to lose his territory, that would be terrible!😳😬
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No that won’t happen 😋 Jasper is there, like the legend…😉
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Yes, I have to keep Jasper well fed so he can chase that other squirrel away!😁😸🥜🥜
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That’s a nice idea 😍 keep feeding him 😋😎 and keep him strong ☺️
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As long as he doesn’t get fat too! But fortunately he runs a lot so he should be okay.😁🥜🥜
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😂😂 coming to that, i lost a lot of fat, and I have reduce 5kg😁 which is good, and my pants are getting loose, feels like live got very skinny 😂
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Wow, that’s a lot of weight to lose!😳 I need to lose about 2 or 3kg, that would be perfect for me.😛🤪😁
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😁you too😉 I got lot of fat covered in chest area and that’s a key reason for this fat reducing mission, now I look lot better, i think 😂😂
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Yep, that’s what I say too, fat in the chest area, that’s what I have.🙄🙄 But my chest might be a bit lower than yours.😂😹
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Wherever it is, it is still called chest 😁😜and it is quiet hard to get rid of it 😷 I managed to reduce a bit so far ☺️
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Yes, I agree, it is hard to get rid of it! But I’ll do it!😁
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Yes, let’s keep trying to get rid of that unwanted fat 😁
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