Wednesday Wanderings. #10

Hi everyone and welcome back! It is a rather cool, cloudy and windy day here, with a temperature of 36F (2C). It was so nice and warm on the weekend, but has been getting steadily colder since then. And it will keep getting colder, at least until Sunday. Plus, we may even get a slight bit of snow on Friday. Not supposed to be much though, so it will likely melt again.

Speaking of plants. Mine are doing well, no thrips are visible anymore, and its now been a month or more. I did lose several plants but I did manage to save three out of four of my Hoya plants, even though all had been attacked. I have picked up a few more plants to replace the ones I lost. Now, the winter season is here and that means it is dry in here already. That’s a problem since many of my plants need a more humid environment.

The highway through our town.

However, there are easy ways to fix that. I could buy a humidifier, but figuring out where to put it is a big problem. Pebble trays work good though, or just putting containers of water among the plants to raise the humidity around the plants. And now that it is getting drier it means that spider mites will be coming out soon. So I will have to watch carefully for them as they can kill a plant rather quickly.

I always wonder where these pests come from. I didn’t bring in my geraniums this year, so that might eliminate some problems. Bringing plants indoors for the winter can mean bringing in pests too. Besides, I don’t have anywhere to put them this year.

One of the outlets into our river on the right.

Speaking of cleaning. I have begun my fall cleaning again. I did start before, but then stopped when I got the flu, now I’m starting again. Amazing how dusty this place gets. I have probably mentioned that before. I will probably mention it again. Just the way I am. Kind of like when I mention that I like warm places. And I live in a cold place. Which really doesn’t make much sense. Yet, that’s the way it works. I do like warm places though. I enjoy being warm. Cold weather leaves me cold. Which is why I don’t like it too much.

A bay of our lake.

Speaking of time. We changed our time recently, last weekend actually. Now we are on Standard Time. A lot of people would like to stay on that time all the time. Except here in the north. We would prefer to stay on Daylight Savings Time year round. Why? Glad you asked. In the summer it’s daylight at 4am.

If we stayed on Standard Time year round it would be daylight at 3am. Who wants it to get daylight at 3am? What’s the point in that? It just wastes daylight. Plus, our evenings would be much shorter. In summer it’s daylight until 10:30pm, if it was Standard Time, it would only be daylight until 9:30pm. We would lose an hour of daylight in the evening.

Another view of that bay.

Who wants that? It’s nice to have those longer evenings in the summer, to enjoy the outdoors longer. People like their long summer evenings. But I digress. How did I get on this topic anyway. Oh well, I’m just talking, not complaining. Whatever happens, happens. I hope you all have a great week and God bless!

Steve and Muffin. ©2025 Steve McLeod.