That monstrous storm known as Fern is raging all over the country, and it has just started to hit our area too, though we are only getting snow, maybe 4-6 inches...through tonight and some more on Monday. So we will just endure it, cause we are glad that we are not going to have freezing rain, it's way too cold for rain. Friday night around 8 pm when petcretary got home from errands, it was -13F...when she got up in the middle of the night it was -16F, and when pawppy got up it was -19F. Talk about BRRRRR! Saturday's high was 8F...and with no wind it almost seemed warmish, BOL! We are just going out to do business and then we hurry back into the warm house.
Petcretary has shovelled snow every day this past week, except Friday!, each day it seemed there was more than what she's cleaned up the day before...does that mean that today, (Sunday) there'll be an even deeper load? Sheesh. Of course today, Sunday, is the day she's scheduled to work...hasn't been there in the last ten days, so of course Murphy's law is finding the perfect day to mess things up! At least she won't have to be back there till Feb 5...who knows what that day will bring weather wise!
The birds are devouring the feeder offerings very quickly, *she* has never seen bird food disappear this fast ever since she started feeding them so many years ago. So she got two more suet feeders so the various species of birds that love that stuff can all have a better chance at getting some. We commonly have three kinds of woodpeckers, chickadees, titmouse, wrens, nuthatches that like suet. Sometimes there are the huge pileated woodpeckers and rarely a redheaded one. Of course we have all kinds of sparrows, finches, cardinals, juncos, bluejays, and great flocks of mourning doves. We'll leave all the suet up until the starlings come back...they'll shove other birds out of the way and eat a whole suet cake in a matter of hours, same with mealworms. Even the cowbirds don't gobble the food as fast as the starlings.
We sure hope and pray that all our blogging friends stay safe and warm during this nasty and scary storm.
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| Around 8pm, Jan 23rd (It looks like -8, but if you enlarge it you can see -13... |
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| Around 4am, Jan 24th; Baby It's Cold Outside! |
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| Will someone play ball with me, I'm so bored when I can't be outside to patrol the yard and bark at everything... |
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| All this staying indoor stuff, is enough to drive a pup to drinking... |
We had to sadly say goodby to a dear blogging friend's cat, Sienna. She was part of the
Dash Kitten's Crew. What is doubly sad is that she lost Thomas not that long ago. Petcretary made this memento to honor her memory.
Please visit there and leave your message of comfort if you have not already don so.
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