Steve`s Country
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Solitude For Saturday. #6
Good morning everyone on this beautiful Saturday! I do hope you are having a good day. There is not as many birds around this morning. Especially the number of grosbeaks is way down from normal. The other birds seem to be about the same though I think there are fewer chickadees as well, and not even one blue jay this morning. Must be the cold weather. We fell back down to the bitter cold again, down to -40 overnight. At that temperature it is the same for degrees F and C. It is just plain cold again.
My deck, which is made of wood, was booming and banging so loud last night it kept waking me up. And tonight will be another cold one, then it levels out to more normal winter temps again. At least we will not be getting as much snow as originally forecast for tomorrow, so that is nice. Maybe this week I will make it down to the river again. I certainly do not want to fall off the path now, that snow is getting deep, too deep for me to get around. But the path will be okay now I am sure.
I noticed that people have been using it and the guy with the snowmobile has gone down there as well. It is just that last part where I have to break away from the main path. But I can check on it at least. Just being down there, walking on that quiet path is so nice and relaxing. And I am sure that Scramble is waiting for more peanuts. I will have to bring a larger bunch for him on my next walk, I did not have many with me the last time. It is nice to sit in his dark area of the forest and listen to the quietness. So often there is not a sound of any kind.
Even Scramble barely makes a sound when he runs around through the snow or even when he is in the trees. There were fresh rabbit tracks all over the last time I was down there, snowshoe hare really. I kept looking around whenever I saw tracks, hoping to see this little hare and hopefully get a photo of it too. That would be fantastic. A white hare against the white snow. It would be a great pic!
The trees are thick down there, that means there are lots of them. Black spruce, balsam fir, with tall red pine and white pine towering over them. In one area though, there are white spruce that are just as tall, with some taller, than the pines. They are the biggest spruce trees I have come across. Scramble finishes eating and starts to carry away the remaining peanuts. Time to move on again and enjoy some time by the river.
It is a lovely winter day, but still rather cold by the river, a bit of wind can be felt here making it somewhat uncomfortable. I move a little further down the path to get out of the wind, but still see the river. But, no place to sit here. I stay for a little while anyway to enjoy the quiet. It is calm here. And so very quiet. That is solitude. Time to return home and enjoy some hot coffee. Thank you for reading today. Have a most wonderful weekend everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin. (top featured image is at the river where I usually sit)
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Steve`s Country 
That is quite an extraordinary thing – complete quiet. I wonder how far from home I would have to travel to “hear” it! Blessings, Steve and Muffin and stay warm!
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It is an amazing thing for sure and so wonderful that silence is at times. Everyone should experience it from time to time, but it would be hard in some places.
Yes, trying to stay with with Muffin! Have a great weekend Cindy and God bless you!😀😺
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Stay warm! Hope you have the hand warmers fir when you put more seeds in the feeders! Enjoy your weekend! Blessings!
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Yes, working good too! Thanks so much! God bless!😀😺🌞☕☕
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Great! There is nothing like warm hands to make the putting seeds in the bird feeders more pleasant. You ere welcome! God is blessing you! 😊😻
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Yes, much better than freezing my hands!😁😺
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Keep warm!😁😊
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Trying to for sure!🥶🙀 Hi Dusty,😁 where have you been hiding today? Get everything done?🤔
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I did get all but one thing done. That wad a haircut. But tomorrow will work for that. How about you?
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No, I don’t need my hair cut. What do they charge down that way?🤔 I didn’t get everything done either, but then, a couple extra things got in the way of that. Sigh.🙄🙄
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I don’t know what they to cut all of them…. why would I only have one cut?🙄🤔🤔
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Maybe only one is long enough to cut?🤔😂😂
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Maybe?? Is that what you do??🤭🤭
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I’m not paying $25 to cut my hair. I get this older guy to cut my hair. He goes around cutting hair for older people who can’t get out easily.
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If it’s only one hair why don’t you cut it?🙄🙄 I know the prices are terrible for a haircut now.
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Yeah, might even be more now, that price was 3 years ago. But we don’t have any real barbers anymore, only hair stylists. I don’t need my hair styled, just cut.😂😂
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Yep me too… trim the ends is all. What happened that kept you from doing everything?
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Computer. The troubleshooter finally worked and said that drive C needed repairing. So it did that for about 1.5 hours. Then all was good to go, except then it said an update was needed, so figured I would do that and get it out of the way. Another half hour goes by. By that time I didn’t want to do anything because I had other things that needed to be done too. Glad I got my post out this morning anyway. I wanted to do one this afternoon too, but after all that waiting…
Not that I sat and watched, I was doing other things, but I had to keep checking back, sometimes I have to do things too along the way it seems. It is faster now, but still freezes a bit, though not as bad.
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Yeah vecareful with it.. After I finished grocery shopping I was going to go get a haircut but the wait time were always over an hour long. So I went and had a salad then I didn’t feel going back out in the wind and chilly air.
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Well, if this laptop dies on me, that’s it, you won’t see me for a very long time.
Wow, an hour wait, too long for sure.
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Maybe you should consider a new drive? They aren’t terribly expensive. You just copy your old drive to the new one. Cheaper than replacing the whole laptop
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I guess it would be cheaper, but with labor and tax it still comes out to more than $500. The laptop costs $800.
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You could do it yourself..🙄🙄 save bunches on the labor and the wait time. You could do it easily
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Do it myself? Me? Are you feeling okay? I wouldn’t even know what to do.😳
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You don’t give yourself enough credit… It’s a couple of screws.. You should giggle it on you tube..😉😁😊
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Hmm, I could try that, usually those videos get so complicated I’m left with my eyes going in circles!😵😵😂😂
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Worth checking out..😁😉
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I will check it out. I wonder if Amazon sells new ones?
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I am sure they do.😁
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This might seem like a silly question, but how do you put stuff from the old drive onto the new drive when only one is working at a time?🤔😳🙄
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They typically provide a jumper that has a USB one end and a plug that fits the new drive on the other.
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Oh, cool, that would make things easier for sure. Maybe even easy enough for Steve. Though I’m sure I could find a way to mess it up.😳🙄🙄
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Like I said you tube it and see if you feel comfortable doing it.
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Yep, I will do that tomorrow. Better write that down…where’s my pen…it’s way over there! Now I have to stand up to reach it and that would mean waking Muffin and…forget that, I’ll write it down later…if I remember.😳🙄🙄🙄
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Good idea!😂😂😂
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I’ll remember, unless I forget. But I’m not waking Muffin!🙄🙄😾😾
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Very smart of you.😉😁🤭
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I’m smart too!!!!🥳🥳🥳🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️
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Yes you are!!🙄🙄🤭🤭😂😂
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Whoa!! That means I must have brains too!! Now that’s a deep thought!!😲😲🤯🤯🤓🤡
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Yikes!!! A clown too??🤪🤪🤪🤪
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I needed someone that was a deep thinker!😂😂😂
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And very Scary!!😨
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We deep thinkers usually are.😎😎😎
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Now that is scary 😨 😳 😬
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Wahahahahaha!!😆😆😆
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Hey….I can’t help it you’re so smart it scares me…. it’s all you!!😂😂
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We brainy types scare people all the time.
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I can see why.🙄🙄🤔🤔😂😂😂😂
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Yeeeep, me too.🧐🤓
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Have a great weekend too, you two
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Thanks Sheree!😁😺🌞☕☕
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I think feels magical and uncomfortable at the same time! Nature and animals can give us that feeling 🥰
Stay safe there and better go inside, and enjoy a good cup of hot coffee ☕️😉
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Yes, good way to describe it Ribana! It was definitely a good day for staying inside drinking coffee and eating my coffee cupcakes! (which Muffin also likes)🥶😻🌞☕☕🧁🧁
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Hmmm…maybe I should try to make coffee cupcakes…what type of coffee do you use ? …total quietness would be great ! Have a restful sleep Muffin and Steve ! 🙂😻😴
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Hi Sharon! Just use any instant coffee, must be instant kind, one or two tablespoons mixed in with the dry ingredients. Have a nice night and sleep well!😀😻☕☕🌙
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Quiet is something I don’t get much of but when I do I embrace it. Our temps were beautiful and springlike a few days ago but they dipped again this morning. The swing in the temps during the day is amazing from 27 f to 65 f but hey, better than freezing temps all day. Give Muffin a hug from Callie and stay warm. 😽🧣 🧤 ❄️ ☃️🧥☕️☕️
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Yep, our high today was -8F, started off with -35F! Not supposed to be quite so cold tonight but not warming up tomorrow at all. Muffin meows hi to Callie and sends hug to her as well!😀😻🌙☕☕🥶🙀
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thanks for that fun fact about -40 degrees being the same for both temp scales.
I am sure Scamper is awaiting your return…
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I hope to make it down to the river tomorrow before more snow comes, we are supposed to get more snow on Tuesday and maybe more later in the week too.
Thanks Jim! Yes, a lot of people don’t know that the two meet at -40.
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we had a bit of snow today. it looked nice on the trees and lawans, but did little to the streets…
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Sounds like just the right amount of snow!!
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yes, if that is possible! 🙂
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Very true!🤔😁
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