Good morning to everyone! It is a chilly, cloudy and very foggy day. That fog is hanging low and thick, and does not seem to want to leave us anytime soon. We have had a lot of fog lately. Fall can give some foggy mornings though, but it seems to be more than normal lately. Oh well. It is not quite so bad as it was earlier so perhaps it will be gone soon.

I have seen ravens, ring-billed gulls and pigeons flying around this morning. When my friend and I were out driving around on Monday, at one place where we stopped by that small lake shown in the pics today, there were at least 2 pine grosbeaks. I did not see them, but I heard them calling to each other.

This is the same small lake as yesterday, a little mist on the lake to the left of the trees.

They are winter visitors from the far north and normally show up here right at the end of October or the first half of November. So this is very early for them to be here. That usually means a hard winter, lots of snow and cold weather. Minor things like that. Sigh.

I will hope that they are wrong with their bird forecasting this year. They are wrong sometimes. Not often. But sometimes. Sigh. I have been living here for 6 weeks now. The elevators are not working. For the second time. The first time was our power outage, this time is routine maintenance which does not take long.

Some ruins of a building on the hill on the right, by the yellow trees.

The elevators were not working yesterday, and are still not working this morning. I am not sure what they mean by “it does not take long”. Guess I will find out. However, I am stuck up here until those elevators are working again. I cannot walk up and down 6 flights of stairs. Or maybe I should say, down and up. Sigh. Minor details. If the elevators are not working tomorrow morning, then I will miss my laundry time. Sigh.

Oh well, things could be much worse. I am not complaining, by the way, just mentioning something that is happening here. Muffin and I had a good playtime this morning and now she is having her morning nap. I baked some coffee cupcakes yesterday. I wanted to see how this oven worked.

Looking at the far shore of the lake.

Takes a bit longer to bake than my last stove, so that is good to know. They turned out nicely too, so I had a couple with my coffee this morning. Plus one. Two always needs three it seems. At least for me. They are just too good. Well, I hope you all have a great day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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