It has been above 0C (32F) all day and will most likely stay there even though it’s just barely. With warmer weather it always looks like strong wind will follow. I can hear it roar outside but it is still coming from a direction that doesn’t hit the cottage. We’ll have a few days that slowly will go colder but then warmer weather will arrive again. How warm it’ll be is hard to guess since the different weather sites says different temperatures. I do hope it’s the Norwegian one because it shows the highest temperatures 🙂
The day has been quite nice since the wind arrived fairly late in the day. We walked down to the creek and no problem getting grip in the snow now when it slowly melts away (we’ll probably still have plenty left when the colder weather starts again though. Lots of the more shy forest birds have now returned there when the sno falls off the vegetation, so no more Bullfinches for a while I guess. The pheasant however comes for a visit every day and I’m starting to think it might be a juvenile rooster because of its size. If it is I do hope it returns for visits when it gets the new darker feathers. I’ve seen photos of melanistic pheasant roosters and they are truly magnificent when the sun hits the feathers.
I’ve put up the two lamps in and outside the dog yard. I tried them yesterday and they worked fine but today they didn’t start to shine when my neighbor drove by. No matter what I did it just stayed dark. Then I remembered that they had a switch on the attachment at the back and voila suddenly they weer glowing like the sun 🙂 🙂 There are three modes to chose from. Number one is that the light continues to shine 100% for twenty seconds after the last movement it can detect but as long as there’s movement it shines. The second mode is that it continues to shine all the time but only 60% of what it can. The third one is the same but 90% all through the night.
So I guess I’ll have the one shining outside the yard on mode three while I have mode one for the one shining in the dog yard. I’ve also started to read the first of the Harry Potter books for the dogs. So far I’ve read two chapters and that took around 48 minutes, great now I’ll only have to read for eight more hours to make sure they can hear my voice all the time after I’ve gone to work 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ll continue to record my voice for several days so I do hope these lamps will help a lot!
Only twelve more days before it starts to turn towards longer days again and I do long after that day! Also only twelve more days before Christmas vacation starts and I long for that even more to be honest 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I’m doing catchup with your blog. I agree about Apple being unhelpful. I have a mac laptop so I also have iCloud and Apple tunes or whatever it’s called. I can’t get into either of them. Whenever I had problems, I’d log into Ravelry (which is a knitting social website) and ask my question in the Mac users group. I’d get a correct answer right away.
What is a filled amaryllis? Double flowered? Mine is growing lovely leaves. I didn’t make it go dormant.
The motion lights are weirdly sensitive. My neighbors’ back deck light goes on a lot and shines in my kitchen window. Took some observation before I realized the wind was blowing the tops of their arbor vitae across the motion detector eye.
How are you going to feed your recording into the dog yard?
Heavy blowing rain here.
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Hi Caryn!
One of my brothers who’s a fanatic apple fan can’t see any problems with Apple 🙂 🙂 🙂 I guess only true devoters to apple never have any problems with it 🙂 🙂 🙂
Well filled means when there are so many petals that You can’t see the middle of a flower, a double means instead of one row with petals it has two. So the one I have that is totally filled with petals is called filled.
These motion sensors are strictly just in front reacting, so the one in the dog yard is pointing almost straight down but there are three more lights in it which I can put in almost any direction so it works pretty well.
Well I was thinking of putting up a shelf on the outside of the dog house (still indoors since it’s built inside the wood shed), make a hole in the wall so that the sound can come in to the dog house.
Going towards nasty cold for a day or two and then all the weather sites are guessing we’ll get up to 50F again, if that’s right I won’t complain at all even though it also means strong winds.
Have a great day!
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