Steve`s Country
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Steve’s Country Cabin Journal #12.
Hello everyone and welcome back to another look at my journal! It has been a long time since the last post from my journal so I decided to get back at it today. I hope you are all doing well today and ready to see what we have for us. Please sit back and relax and we will open the journal to take a look…
Here we are, almost the end of another year and it’s cold. Very cold. Too cold. I’m already looking forward to spring, and it’s not even January yet. It’s still a long way to spring. About 4 months actually, unless we have an early spring which would be nice. Each year I usually get “cabin fever” in January. It’s actually a medically recognized illness. Now they usually call it SAD, “Seasonal Affective Disorder”. Basically it has to do with our short days and long nights and spending too much time indoors. Of course this year a lot of people have been spending a lot of time indoors. Good practice for “cabin fever” perhaps. To be honest, it really doesn’t bother me much, except by mid January I get “itchy feet”. Not itchy, but “itchy”. There’s a difference.
“Itchy” means I want to make something, because I enjoy making things. But that is usually reserved for summer since I normally want to make something with wood. That’s a bit difficult to do indoors in a small apartment. Makes a big mess. So this winter I plan to try something else, but for now that’s a secret. Muffin was at the window looking outside. Then she looked over at me. I knew what she was thinking. So we had a brief conversation. Meow,meow=I want window open. “It’s too cold to have the window open, I want to turn the heat up,” I said. Meow,meow=No, not want heat, want window open. “No, it’s too cold, no open window until spring,” I continued.
Meow,meow=Put on more clothes and open window, fresh air is good. “It’s still too cold for fresh air, and I have an extra sweater on now,” I said. Meow,meow=You have more clothes, put them on and open window for fresh air. “I’m not putting on more clothes, I won’t be able to move,” I told her. Meow,meow=Don’t need to move, just sit and play with box thing. “It’s called a laptop and it’s too uncomfortable to wear that many clothes,” I said again. She looked at my feet. I put on my slippers. She wrapped herself around my leg. “Just remember, if you bite I might fall and break all my arms and I won’t be able to feed you,” I reminded her. Meow,meow=What you waiting for? Turn up heat and bring out food!
I wonder if it’s possible that I spend too much time indoors with Muffin? One look provides an entire conversation that doesn’t even happen. Quite amazing really. Still, it can be fun. Next time things will be different, I promise, but sometimes I like to go a little crazy. It can be fun. But next time…I can bear-ly wait for it! Have a wonderful day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #28.
Good morning to everyone on this very chilly day! There is lots of nice hot coffee waiting for you this morning, so just help yourself and relax with Muffin (😺that me!) and I for a few minutes. We always enjoy having all of you come to visit us each day. Muffin is bouncing around and keeping an eye on that door waiting for the first person to come this morning. It’s cold out there again with a temp of -28F (-33C), but it feels much colder, that bone chilling cold that just eats it’s way right through a person. Hmm, I see the blue jays are chasing that shrike again right now while the little birds are sitting perfectly still in the bushes. The only one moving around is the female hairy woodpecker.
Doubtful that a shrike would go after her, they’re the same size, but if the shrike was hungry enough it probably would give it a try. Might have quite a fight to deal with however. That’s why they like to stay with the small birds that can’t fight back. The blue jays are back already, having chased that shrike quite a distance. All the other birds are back at the feeders getting their much needed breakfast on this cold morning. It’s nice having those blue jays around in winter. They are the police force at the feeders keeping the little birds safe from harm. Yesterday the feeders were very busy, the evening grosbeaks were here 4 times, cleaning up every sunflower seed on the feeder each time. The pine grosbeaks were here a lot too, feeding alongside the evening grosbeaks. Having the red and yellow together was a beautiful sight. I tried for a pic but it didn’t work and taking a pic through the window doesn’t work good. These are old windows and the pics are never clear.
Jasper is here this morning nice and early, playing on the branches. He seems to like looking for branches that still have snow on them, then he “pretends” to be a snowplow running as fast as he can along that branch and making that snow fly! That other squirrel showed up yesterday too but Jasper just had to do some chattering and that other squirrel kept his distance. I haven’t actually seen that other squirrel on the deck recently, so maybe he’s learning. Thank you so much for enduring the cold and stopping in for coffee this morning. We hope that you have a wonderful Monday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
