Moose On The Loose

   It is a rainy, dreary day here this morning, but I was pleasantly surprised by a visit from a moose!  A fairly small one, looking for food.  She nibbled on our neighbour's crab apple tree, then wandered around our yard for a while, then back into our neighbour's yard.  When she was finished, she I assume she strolled up their driveway and out onto the street.  Poor little thing.  Didn't look all that well. 


Taken through the plant room window (click on photos to enlarge):

Taken from the front step:

Two Weeks To Go...

I have been unusually patient this year, and have held off starting all my seeds except leeks.  Two or three weeks to go until I can start everything else.  The pots, soil, coir pellets, and heat mats are out and ready.  In the meantime, I keep going through my packets and deciding what I want to grow...and then changing my mind...

London Broad Leeks

Ready to plant!

Remembering My Garden Helpers

Remembering my favourite garden helpers.  It just won't be the same this summer without them.



What greater gift than the love of a cat?  (Charles Dickens)



Karl (~5)
February 25, 2015  

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone. (Louis J. Camuti)



Saj (16)
September 24, 2014  

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.  (Leo Dworken)



Fuzzibum (14)
June 7, 2012

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. (Robert A. Heinlein)

Honour Stands

I love the idea of honour stands.  :-)

This fellow visits three honour system farm stands.

Another little honour stand, where bouquets of flowers and pottery are sold.

Pink Sky

I took this picture this morning from the front step at 8:50am.  What fantastic colours!

We are in the midst of a stretch of unusually mild (-3 to 6+ degree Celsius) weather.  It has been like this for at least a week.  A lot of snow has melted, creating large ice patches, puddles, and streams on the streets and some leaking in our basement.  I'll take these temps over what is...or perhaps what used to be?...typical for this region in January: 2 to 4 weeks of -25 to -40 degrees with ice fog and the occasional chinook blowing in for relief.  No wonder everyone seems to have "command start" installed in their vehicles here.

Winter Weather

 The snowfall advisory has ended, the snowblower works, and the sun is out again.  -15 degrees.  All is well.

Uhg.

8:00am

-36 degrees Celcius.

"Feels like" -41 degrees.

Uhg.

(Please refer to my previous post.)

Time to make some tea, curl up under a quilt, and rethink my plans to return to work...