It was a miserable day, but a busy one. Let’s step back a day or two… The animals are fed before we eat breakfast. We are greatly entertained in exchange by the birds. Here is a pileated woodpecker series of pictures. Laura brought us a little live Christmas tree, and Rebecca sent us a silver […]
Catching Up – December 30, 2020 Read More »
The first stage was disbelief. Harry mentioned at lunch that the internet was not available. I hoped it would not affect my blog, but that would be several hours away, and it couldn’t be out that long. I called Centurylink and they informed me that they were aware there was an outage in our area.
Internet Outage – December 29, 2020 Read More »
At last! On to better days, longer days ahead… This was such a nice day, I dressed in my riding breeches, confident that we would ride. The birds provided morning entertainment, as always. We had a visit from a pair of Carolina wrens, who tend to be camera shy. It was a pleasant day for
Solstice – December 21, 2020 Read More »
Fun date! 12/20/2020 I won’t live to see another like it, and should have done something memorable, but I’m afraid I didn’t. The goldfinches were here in force this morning, another cold start. Marianne came by to do barn work and I managed to get a couple of pictures. The horses came up for a
Sunday – December 20, 2020 Read More »
No more ice sculptures this morning – it was a beautiful day! The birds were still hungry, though. The feeder filled with goldfinches (and one interloping siskin) as soon as food was put out. A pileated wood pecker stopped by, announcing its arrival with the characteristic loud, rattling cackle. Then, we had another Christmas surprise
Saturday – December 19, 2020 Read More »