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Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #6.
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone! The coffee is on, so help yourself, sit back and relax with us once again. It’s another cloudy day with a rather thick fog, ice fog actually, with the possibility of freezing drizzle or flurries later. Nothing to really bother us though and it is fairly mild this morning, 25F (-4C), which is nice. Muffin is certainly full of life this morning playing especially with her toy mouse. So I decided to join in the fun for a bit too, good way to get some exercise. Sort of.
Okay, Muffin gets the exercise and I get some fun. She was really jumping high after that mouse this morning as I tossed it for her! And she caught it every time too. I was quite surprised at how long she kept it up as well. She was even playing by herself earlier. Lots of energy I guess. That happens sometimes. Poor Muffin yesterday, I brought out my drill for a project I’m working on. Normally the drill doesn’t bother her, but she was sleeping soundly when I turned it on and…she suddenly disappeared. I didn’t do much, and afterward I went and found her to let her know the noise was all finished. She gave me this “look” and then went walking back to the chair to continue her nap.
At least she didn’t bite my foot, that was nice. Well, the number of birds is about the same as yesterday, and speaking of yesterday, the evening grosbeaks showed up later in the morning for awhile. And not so surprising those rock doves showed up at nearly the same time. However, the grosbeaks did get about 10 minutes without any disturbance. I’m sure those rock doves must follow the grosbeaks wherever they go. And now my neighbor has started feeding the rock doves. But not the neighbor that doesn’t like me feeding birds. Well, I hope you enjoyed your coffee this morning, have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod
Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #5.
Good morning to all of you, and Happy Saturday! The coffee is hot and fresh, so please help yourself and relax with us for a few minutes. There are heavy clouds out there again today with a little very light snow falling at the moment. Occasionally there are some larger snowflakes gently falling to the ground as well. Certainly makes it dark inside though, so it’s necessary to have lights on. Providing I want to see properly and not trip over something. Of course I shouldn’t have so much ‘stuff’ all over the floor, but where else can I put it while I’m sorting things? Oh well. I’m almost at the end of that part. It’s been rather slow going I must admit.
There were 6 blue jays this morning, plus 4 redpolls, 6 chickadees and a downy woodpecker. Plus Jasper is playing out in the trees. He did come and get a couple peanuts for his breakfast, then off to play! He is really having fun running through the trees, jumping from branch to branch. Jasper loves jumping and can easily make an 8 foot jump. I measured before. That’s a straight across jump. And considering his small size 8 feet is quite a jump! Then he will run from the bottom of a tree straight to the top without stopping, then he jumps to another tree and runs straight down! And he just keeps doing this. There is a couple trees that he really likes more than the others, he will spend a lot of time running and jumping in those two trees. One is a black ash, about 80 feet tall, the other is a Manitoba maple, not as tall but it does have some very long branches.
Hmm, I don’t see him now, maybe he’s here getting another peanut. Actually, right now I don’t see anything out there. Even the branches are still, no movement at all. The only thing moving are the snowflakes that are falling a bit faster now, and a bit more numerous too. There is only supposed to be a few flurries today though. I remember one time they said that, a couple years ago, and we got 10 inches (25cm) of snow. That’s a lot of flurries. Today I thought I would share a couple summer pics from along the river. It’s so nice to remember the beauty of summer. Help yourself to another cup of coffee before you go. I hope you all have a most wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
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