For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Hello everyone on this beautiful sunny day! I went shopping this morning so I’m late today, always happens on shopping day. Anyway, the coffee is hot, help yourself, sit back and relax! Muffin is waiting for…um, she’s waiting….she’s after money again. She can smell money a mile away I’m sure. I can’t leave any lying around or she will take it and hide it somewhere. There, that’s taken care of now. The chickadees were here bright and early, but I left shortly after so I don’t know what kind of action was taking place out here.
I put peanuts out for the blue jays before I left and there was still lots sitting there when I got back, and I didn’t put out as many as normal. Only chickadees and nuthatches are here right now, so I guess it will be a slow day. It was sure busy yesterday though. Until the rock doves showed up and scared all the grosbeaks away. Look at that, the grosbeaks are coming in right now, lots of them, how nice! I’m sure there is two different flocks of them that come around, one has mostly males and the other mostly females. Both flocks are about the same size with about 30 to 35 birds. All come in the morning.
Then the redpolls show up once they are gone and stay most of the afternoon going through all those shells getting whatever they can from them. It was so nice yesterday, got up to 2C (36F), just enough to melt a bit of snow on my deck, not enough to melt snow generally, though it did get soft in sunny places. So I decided to go for a walk down to the river. A lot of people have been walking down there recently, at least about 2/3 of the way.
Then most traffic went a different direction to follow the loop trail. But a few people went down to the river where I like to go so it wasn’t bad walking, until the way back. The sun was shining on the one hill making the snow quite soft so my feet slid on every step, which makes for hard walking. Good exercise though. Getting off the path, which I did a couple of times to measure the snow depth, got me into deeper snow. It was 15 inches (37cm) deep once off the path. Not bad really. The pics today show parts of the path that I walk. Tomorrow I will show pics from the river. I hope you all have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Easy on the trail..😬 don’t want reinjure…
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Absolutely
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Yes, I agree, I am being extra careful!😬
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I’m definitely being careful, I don’t want to go through that again!😳🚶♂️
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Good thinking!! You’re so smart!🤓🤭
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Sure, laugh at me.😳🙄
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You laughed at me yesterday…🙄
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You said something funny.
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Yep! And I did again today😁 so I was kinda laughing at myself😉
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That’s what I like to hear. Be happy. Don’t worry.
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I’m not laughing.. I truly would not want to see you get injured again
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You used laughing emoji. Sniff.
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Just a giggle emoji..🙄
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How was shopping? I left to go by groceries and promptly forgot to bring my reusable bags😒 so i stead I went and bought a burger and onion rings for supper😋 very tasty!
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Terrible leaving those bags at home isn’t it?🙄I’m finally at the point that I don’t forget, though sometimes I don’t bring enough if I’m doing a big shopping like today. But I had two extra bags, not bad. I only use the small bags since I’m not supposed to lift anything heavy. Sounds like a good supper.😁
Stores were busy which is odd for early morning. But I hit some good sales today!😃🛒🥩🧃🥛🍎🥥🥦🥔🥜🥚🥞🍪
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Yeah, I know! I’m not in the habit of bringing them with yet. I had them out and everything… just didn’t put them on the vehicle. That’s okay, I put them in now so of I do that all the time then I’ll always have them with.
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Hey, smart idea, good way to do it, perfect, good thinking, great, that’s the way! Why didn’t I think of that?🤔Oh right, I stopped thinking, gives me a headache.🤪🤣🤣
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Lol yep! No headaches that way.. oh.. you said that.. I shoukd read before I reply.. oh wait I did.. I’ll need to think that over🤔 very confusing. I’m not gonna think either. Either.
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I thought I might try not thinking a whole month, this month, and see if things are any different. By the way, if I don’t answer for a while it’s because my internet went off which it has done twice so far. Doesn’t stay off long though. Happening a lot lately. Sigh.🙄
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Okay.. thanks for telling me. I’ll wait patiently for you to come back.
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Wow! You will? It was sunny again, but a bit cooler today.
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Well I’ll try🙄😞 you know me… it was nice here also. I had the doors open yesterday and today. That fresh air was nice not to mention the sunshine.😁
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Wasn’t quite that nice here.
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Awe… that’s right I forgot.. not quite open weather there yet. Oopps
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SIGH!
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Did I donit again..?🙄
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You spelled donut wrong.
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I see that!🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for pointing that out lol 😆
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You’re welcome.😁
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😛 You….
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No, it’s me, not you.🙄
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It’s you not me! 🥴
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That’s what I didn’t say.
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Well why didn’t ya say it then? Silly 🤪
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Im sorry.. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.
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That’s okay, it’s impossible to do that.
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Did you just say you don’t
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Um, don’t….?
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Have feelings? Sorry chubby fingers hit the send button b4 I wanted to
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My fingers aren’t chubby. Really.
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Do you eat peanuts? You coukd end gaining weight like Jasper.🥴😳
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Yep, I do, but not a lot.
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I love them, but they disagree with my tummy. So I don’t eat them anymore.
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I had the same problem. But when I was diagnosed with Celiac and had to go gluten free then I was able to eat them again. But I still don’t eat a lot.
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Are they naturally gluten free? I know it sounds like a silly question but I don’t that much about Celiac 😟
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Yep, except sometimes.
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What times are they not?
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They sometimes are processed on the same machines as wheat so they get contaminated. That little bit makes a big difference.
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Huh 😲 even just a slight contamination will cause you issues? That’s beans!! 😬 That’s got to really make it tough to know what’s safe and what isn’t!😳
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Yep, doesn’t take much. Takes a lot of research at the beginning. It’s amazing how many things have gluten, things I never thought would.😬🙄
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Huh.. that’s terrible to have to do that kind of research just to eat!
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Yep, but it’s better than being sick all the time anyway.
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For sure!!
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It was really strange last night. I went to be regular time. I woke up at around 1am and was wide awake! Then it took like over an hour to get back to sleep! Ugh… I hope that doesn’t happen again!
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Maybe it was something you ate?
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I don’t know.. I had some Thai food that was spicy but it didn’t bother me. It was like it was morning and time to get up.. odd
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It was morning, just not time to get up. I have had that happen to me too. Last night I slept good, that walk made me tired.😴🚶♂️
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Hey! That’s a great idea! I should try that!🤔😁
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Good idea. What are you going to try?🤔
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Sleeping, if that don’t work I’ll try walking. Gonna need a flashlight though 🤔🙄
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Try a candle instead.
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Hard to find batteries for those though🥴🥴
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And hard to open to put them in too.🤪
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LOL🤣🤣 yep.. then there’s all the dripping wax…. ugh what a mess🥴🥴
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They drip wax?🤔🕯
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Not the batteries silly!! The candles!!
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Oh, that makes more sense.🙄
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I thought so! But that’s just me thinking again!!🥴
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As they say in the old country, “if you fall down the well you might get wet.”
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🤔🤔🙄🙄🤔🤔 hmmm who would’ve thought of that?? I suppose you’re right! lol 😁
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I know. The old country has some good ones.😃🤪
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Sure do!! lol 😁
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The path to the river “ looked “ lonely…But pretty ! Great coffee ! I needed that ! ☕️☕️☕️☕️🤔🙂
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Yes, it did have that lonely feel, and so quiet most of the way, chickadees in one spot. Glad you enjoyed the coffee!😀😺☕☕
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sounds like a wonderful walk through the woods!
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Yes indeed, it certainly was a nice day.😃
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