Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Daily Pics #218.
Good morning everyone! It’s a nice cool morning, partly cloudy and seems to be some smoke in the air. I can’t smell it, but it’s noticeable when the sun shines, it gets to be an odd glowing color outside. As of yesterday afternoon there were two fires close to our town, one is 32 km (20 miles) east of us and another is 15 km (9miles) west of us. Both are small and out of control. There have been 465 forest fires in our province so far this year and conditions are getting drier in the forest every day. None of the current fires are very large though, with the biggest at around 3,000 acres and in the far north. Poor Jasper, he likes to sit on the one hanging bird feeder and eat the sunflower seeds. He seems to like them more than peanuts.
Anyway, he was having problems yesterday. He would jump over to the feeder like normal, the first time was a perfect jump and he held on, but needed to position himself to eat, so he tried to move but the feeder was swinging quite a lot and…down he went…plop! He came back up and tried again. This time he missed and…down he went…flump, belly flop! Up he comes and jumps again, made it! Oops, he slipped…down he went…flomp! I could just imagine the look on his face as he went down that time. But up he came and jumped once more and…he missed…down he went with a louder plop this time. Each drop is 8 feet, poor Jasper. Must be getting a sore stomach by now. Up he came. By the way, squirrels can fall like this without getting hurt, their light weight and practice helps them.
This time I managed to coax him over for a peanut instead. He ended up eating 6 peanuts. All that activity made him hungry. I wonder if he will give up now? The featured image at the top is Jasper, I just had to include a picture of him after all he went through.
And in the photo above is a petunia, they are a very popular annual garden flower and provide wonderful color all summer long. I hope you all have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Daily Pics #217.
Good morning everyone! Fortunately it is still morning here. Yes, I’m very late today. It’s almost time for my coffee post, so I will keep this one shorter today. Well, it has been confirmed that both Runner and the new squirrel did not survive crossing the street. That is just such a busy street, especially in summer, it’s one of the main streets coming into town off the highway. And it’s a very narrow, winding street where people like to drive very fast. Squirrels are no match for vehicles. I have lost several over the last 4 years, plus 4 chipmunks. Fortunately none of the present chipmunks need to cross the street. And now Jasper is my lone squirrel. He doesn’t need to cross the street either, so that’s good. He likes being the lone squirrel. He’s small, even for a red squirrel, not much bigger than my two biggest chipmunks, who usually chase Jasper. And Jasper will sometimes kind of chase the chipmunks, but usually he is quite content to sit and eat peanuts while the chipmunks gather around him filling up with peanuts as usual. I would like to get a picture of that, but when I go out Jasper runs off. Sigh. Yet I can go out without my camera and he’s fine. Oh well.
My featured image at the top is the “creeping bellflower”, which personally I think is quite a beautiful flower. My landlord doesn’t agree so they are all gone now.
In the photo above is some geraniums on my deck, bursting with such nice bright color right now. I hope you have a most wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
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