Steve`s Country
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The Blogmas Tag!
Hello everyone and welcome back! Just before Christmas I was tagged by Ribana for this Blogmas Tag and I usual I’m a bit late. However, we are still in the holiday period so I’m still sort of on time with this one. Kind of. A little bit. Maybe. Oh well. Anyway, thank you so much for thinking of Muffin and I for this tag Ribana!! If you haven’t been to Ribana’s site before then now is your chance and you will find some fantastic recipes, lots of history about our different foods (and believe me, Ribana digs into that history and comes out with so much wonderful information), plus all of her travel posts which are even better than her food posts, if that’s possible. And there is much more besides.
Here are the rules for the Blogmas Tag:
- Thank the person who tagged you and link to their post.
- Put the rules at the beginning of introduction.
- Answer the 12 questions.
- Tag 12 people to do the tag.
- Create all new questions of your own to ask the people you tag.
Ribana’s Questions:
- What Christmas means to you? “And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2: 10,11. KJV.
- Do you feel Christmas’ magic? With the definition of the word “magic”= wonder, joy, peace, then yes, I certainly do! Meow,meow!=Me too, me too!😁😸
- Favourite Christmas movies? A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim. You may disagree, but I think he plays Scrooge better than anyone!😳🙀
- What do you do on Christmas Day? Get up real early,🕯 open presents with Muffin,🎄 play with Muffin with all the wrapping paper (meow,meow!=The funnest part is the paper shredding time!😹 But my human needs to move faster so his feet and hands don’t get scratched so much, all that blood this year!)🙀😲
- Do you make Christmas gifts? Yes, I have made gifts. I think homemade gifts are great and special! Meow,meow!=And me help too! But my human need to be more careful, all that blood when we make things, plus those big purple spots!🙀😳😹
- What do you think about Christmas on a tropical island? A DREAM COME TRUE!!😃🌴🌴 meow?😺 YES MUFFIN, IT WOULD BE!😁 MEOW?😾 Oh, naturally I would bring you along! Our own tropical island, with a nice little cottage to stay in. meow? Yes, food too.😂😹
- Do you have a favourite dish that you only eat on Christmas Day? Oh my, I don’t eat dishes,😳 they are so hard…meow😺…just a minute Muffin, and crunchy…Meow😼…just wait Muffin, I’m almost finished, and I would lose all my favorite dishes…MEOW!😾 okay Muffin. whisper, whisper.😺 Are you sure? 🤔 Meow.😺 Oh, how embarrassing.😬 Um, yes, turkey with mashed potatoes and broccoli and cauliflower! Meow,meow.=He embarrass me a lot. Sigh.🙀
- Did you believe in Santa Clause when you were little? Meow!=Any Santa Clause break into our house he going to feel Muffin’s claws!! End of that!😾😾
Well, that’s it for this tag! Since it is kind of late I’m not going to tag anyone for this, but, if you would like to do it, then please go right ahead and use Ribana’s questions and have some fun! Thank you once again Ribana for tagging us! Meow,meow!=Me thank you too, lots of fun! We hope you all have a most wonderful and Happy New Year!!
Steve and Muffin. 😸😄
Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #31.
Good morning everyone on this last day of 2020! I know that some of you are already saying hello to 2021, but we still have some time to go yet. Speaking of going, the coffee is ready, so please go help yourself and then relax with Muffin and I for a few minutes. It’s 12F (-11C) this morning and a few snowflakes falling gently to the ground. The trees are a bit frosty looking this morning due to some fog overnight. Jasper is running over here quickly to get some breakfast doing his snowplow act along one of the big branches, really making that snow fly too!
Chickadees were waiting as I went out with the food this morning. They had food already anyway since I now leave their feeders out all the time. But when I came out the door I heard Theodore’s ‘gerbil, gerbil’ and there he was scratching through the snow looking for food. Until he saw me come out, then he came running over and up he came waiting for me to put the sunflower seeds on the feeder for him. Once those seeds were out he hopped over and started eating. And talking a bit while I filled one of the chickadee feeders that was starting to get low.
All the birds were early getting here this morning, even the blue jays and evening grosbeaks. So were the redpolls and nuthatches. The woodpeckers I guess were about normal. There just seemed to be a big race for food today. Maybe they’re stocking up for the big New Year’s celebrations. There is a lot of evening grosbeaks out there right now, getting quite noisy as arguments erupt over seating arrangements, food orders, etc. It can be quite fun watching them. Pine grosbeaks are much different, very few arguments, very quiet.
But the noisy chatter of the evening grosbeaks is quite nice to hear, knowing that there is a lot of them out there enjoying their breakfast. I have chosen 3 pics of pileated woodpeckers to end the year, I hope you enjoy them. These are large woodpeckers, about the size of crows, though the look even bigger and they have quite a laughing sound that they make. I will be back later with a couple more posts to end the year, one telling of my new schedule for the new year. Muffin and I hope you all have an enjoyable day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
