Coffee At Steve’s Country #18.

Hi everyone on this cool Monday morning! I’m a bit late due to early shopping today, always happens once a week. But the coffee is ready, so just help yourselves and relax with Muffin and I. Muffin is already in relaxing mode, curled up sleeping on my reading bench. It’s still cloudy and much cooler than it has been, the temp right now is 0F (-18C), and it’s windy which makes it feel like -13F (-25C). A cool day for walking down to the river, so I might skip it today. However, it’s supposed to be even colder tomorrow, and all week for that matter. Oh well.

Spring.

Theodore was the first bird here this morning, it was barely getting light when he flew onto the feeder. I had just put out seeds so he must have been watching me. He was taking turns warming his long bare legs and feet in his feathers while balancing on the other foot and eating. What is he going to do if it gets really cold? The chickadees came while he was still here, followed my the redpolls and nuthatches. The blue jays and woodpeckers were in last place arriving for breakfast.

Summer.

But, good news, all 10 of my blue jays are back now, have been for a couple days in a row now. Of course, that does mean more peanuts. Poor Jasper, that other squirrel was back and the chase was on and on and on. And they were really moving fast among those branches out there. They kept that up for about 20 minutes without a break, finally the ‘other’ squirrel gave up and left.

Winter.

Jasper was the victor again, but…just shortly afterward one of those big, mean and nasty ravens showed up and landed in a tree out back. Then he went after Jasper! Normally ravens are scavengers, but if they get hungry enough they will go hunting something small, like squirrels. I have seen them do that before. They disappeared back behind the trees, so I don’t know how it turned out. They were too far away for me to do anything about it. I haven’t seen Jasper since then, but hopefully he is okay. Well, that’s all for today, the pics today show my path as I just get to the river, starting with spring, then summer and then winter. Have a wonderful day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2021 Steve McLeod.

Muffin’s Mewsings #2.

Hi everyone,😺 Muffin here! I finally back with my second “weekly” Mewsings. This should be third Mewsings, but somehow missed last Sunday because my human did something else instead. He do part 2 of his snowshoeing adventure. I must say though, it was funny, had me rolling with laughter at thought of him hanging almost upside down in deep snow. He always do such funny things! However, taking my weekly spot, that not so funny. I wonder if all humans like that? Like my human in his story I mean. Very strange behavior anyway. Why he want to do such things, very hard to understand. Then he go out playing with bears! Sometimes I think he hit his head too many times, not think right anymore.😹

Every night it same thing. I wake up and want to do things and what my human do? He go to bed! At night! That best time to be awake, that when all exciting things happen. All those animals outside he not see because he want to sleep. We actually get some sunshine one day last week, that not happen very often this winter. Clouds, clouds every day, how I wish they go away. But they don’t. Anyway, we get sunny day so I go up to my favorite spot on TV cabinet and sleep in sun. My human like to keep some plants up there too, so they get sunshine. But there lots of room to curl up for me.

But sometimes I like to stretch a bit, when sleeping in sun especially. So I stretch. Not my fault that plants move so easily. My human sitting at his box thingy and he look at me, oh my, should have seen look on his face!🙀 He got up quick as he could, which not very fast, but that different story. Down go plant onto floor and wow, look at dirt fly all over the place. Too bad he just water it so dirt wet, all over carpet. He just stand there looking. He think dirt going to jump back in pot if he stare long enough?😸

Then he notice second plant on other side that almost slipping off cabinet too. He run over to catch it but guess he forget about wet dirt, which he step in, which make him jump a bit, which make him push plant off cabinet on other side. Now wet dirt behind cabinet too. Can’t blame me for that one, he knock it off. That mean one for each of us!😹 He just stand there with head down doing human purring again. So sweet! Oh well, he not need all those plants anyway. He have lots more.

Then he take off dirty sock so he not drag dirt all over apartment. He stand on one foot while doing this, not good idea. He start losing balance and hop all around in dirt, make big mess. And he worried about me making mess, he worse. But he kept on with human purring a long time so I know he happy even after making mess. My human good that way. Still not sure why he call it groaning, human purring nicer name, and it sound nice too. But it such good day with all that sunshine. Well, that all for today, thank you for reading my Mewsings! Please come back again and have great day!

Muffin (as meowed to her human).

©2021 Steve McLeod.