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Coffee At Steve’s Country #32.
Hello everyone! Happy Monday as well! Time for coffee and a little relaxation for the day, even though it’s half over already. Sometimes days start off rather, um, odd, or strange, or just not quite normal. Such is today. So I am way behind in everything. I didn’t get much sleep last night due to a very painful toothache. So first thing is to call my dentist. I figured I would likely have to wait a day or two. Actually it’s 8 days.
Unless there is a cancellation, and I’m certainly hoping there is one. Rather soon. Otherwise I’m going to lose a lot of sleep. And likely some weight as well. I don’t need to lose either. Oh well, on to shopping instead. Amazingly everything went rather normal while shopping today, and that’s not normal for me.
Usually something happens. Like I went to get my frozen veggies, so I open the door and 6 large packages fell out onto the floor. I looked at the shelf, there’s no way to fit 6 packages on that shelf, so I just put them in the freezer, took the ones I wanted, which were a different type, and left. One thing happened this morning, I was headed to the till to pay for my 6 items.
About equal distant away, but on the other side, a lady was coming along with a cart full of groceries. I mean, it was stacked high in that cart. She spotted me and ran for that open till and so got there before me. Hard to believe really. I took the line beside hers. In front of me was a lady with a cart even more full than the other lady. How do people stack it up so high without dropping something? She had to leave one thing behind though because she didn’t have enough on her credit card to pay for everything.
Amazing how many times lately I have seen people with cards that are maxxed out like that. But that’s beside the point. Anyway, even with her larger purchase of groceries, I still made it through faster than the lady that ran ahead of me. Hmm, interesting. Her rushing didn’t help her after all. Well, as is typical of Monday, we have our comparison pics for different times of the year. This time from part of our lake with an island on the left in each pic. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Coffee At Steve’s Country #31.
Good morning everyone and Happy Sunday! It is another beautiful morning here, so grab a coffee and join us for a few minutes to relax here today. It is cloudy but mild, with a temp of -6C (21F) and we have some fresh snow again this morning. Yesterday we got about 2 inches (5cm) of new snow and this morning it was just over an inch (3cm) of snow. Slowly it begins to add up and there has now been about 8 or 9 inches (20 to 22cm) of new snow since my last walk to the river. And no one has been walking down there lately, of course it was kind of cold there for a while. It will be a bit harder walking now, especially those hills, but hopefully I can give it a try either Monday or Tuesday, before that cold weather returns on Thursday.
We have some wildflowers to share today, the one above is the “pale corydalis”, it’s a very common wildflower and loves to grow on rocky areas with little soil. And even when that soil dried out, these flowers continue to bloom.
And this wildflower above is the “spreading dogbane”, a terrible name for a beautiful flower. They are not large, about a third of an inch (8mm) across and they have a nice mild scent as well. They prefer a bit more soil, but it doesn’t seem to matter what kind of soil.
The first bird at the feeder this morning was a blue jay, which is very odd, they are never first. But that one was here nearly 10 minutes before the chickadees showed up. The birds are active at the feeders this morning, but the evening grosbeaks are absent, which is certainly odd. Yesterday Jasper brought his new mate over to the feeder, her name is Sylvie. They certainly are having a good time together, always playing around in the branches of the trees. I wonder if Jasper will leave his territory to her in the spring or if Sylvie will go somewhere else to have her babies? Have to wait and see. I hope you enjoy today’s wildflowers, have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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