Not much to write about today, we did get some snow but just a dusting. Strong northern winds blowing though and freezing temperatures. I woke up having pain in every single muscle so since every walk with Alma is a struggle I decided to not have a walk today. The cold winds seems to have been why the dogs didn’t want to stay outdoors especially much either.
There are few directions from where the wind can reach the garden and today we had one of those. I have been pretty tired today because Alma had an extremely rare accident in the living room last night. She must have a really bad stomach for that to happen. I’ve always wondered why she never alerts me but realized this morning that she does but in a very quiet way. She stands quietly beside my bed staring at me until she can’t hold it any longer. Well it is good that she tries but if I’m asleep I really need a lot of more sound than that 🙂 🙂 🙂 She stood beside me again this morning, I tried to fake sleep because I had no wish what so ever to go up when I realized what she wanted.
We were in a hurry down and made it all the way out without any accident 🙂 I should have been more aware that this could happen since they are changing their food. They’ve had an insect based food for a while now and started to scratch themselves around the neck and ears. I’ve had allergic dogs here before so I realized that the only thing that had changed lately was the food. It’s too early to know for sure that it was the food but they haven’t scratched themselves since the new food arrived. It’s a good sign anyway.
It is time for that last cup of tea and then watch some tv. My favorite show is on tonight, it’s called (På spåret) On the tracks and is a quiz show where two teams is going to guess what city (all over the world) they will end up at. In the beginning we watched views by seeing a film filmed on trains and get lots of really difficult clues, now days we also go by car. when they’ve reached the end of the trip follow questions comes. Plus now days even we viewers can guess on all questions via an app on our phones. There’s also two question about music where we hear an artist make their version of old songs and that’s the hardest ones in my opinion 🙂 🙂 🙂 I never remember what artist have done what even though I can the entire lyrics 🙂 🙂 🙂
One with old Nova 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
A nice mix of summer and fall photos. Monty tells me he needs to go out by hopping around and flapping his ears. The ear flapping always wakes me up!
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Hi carolannie!
🙂 🙂 Like the flapping his ears 🙂
I wish my dogs did something like that, staring at me without making a sound really doesn’t help them or me that much 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Poor Alma — you know she didn’t want to have an accident in the house.
My dog Sweet Pea bangs on the door like she has a hammer. I don’t know how she does it, but it certainly wakes me up.
Love the photos. You do seem to have a personal style, and I’ve come to the point where I think I’d recognize your photos in any lineup. Very cool.
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Hi Goodport!
Yes I know but I wish she could make some kind of noise, I have a poochie bell on the door and no matter how I try to make the dogs understand what happens when they hit it they never touch it 🙂 🙂
Sweet Pea is a smart dog!
I’m glad You like the photos 😊 I do have a certain style but it varies on and off, it can last for a couple of months or ever years. I guess it depends on seasons or mood 🙂 I do like to use the light in different ways most times though.
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We did get more snow in Virginia last night. It started 2 hours later than predicted, and I would say maybe 3-4 inches fell, but it’s light and dry. This morning my “watch cats” heard noise outside, growled, and headed for under my bed so I knew someone was really in the yard. It was my next-door neighbor, and she’d already shoveled paths to my mailbox and car and was clearing the front steps. She’s never done that before, but she said she woke up early and wanted to get outside. She’s decades younger than me, so it was very nice of her.
It’s sunny today and temperature is supposed to get into the low 40s F, so probably a lot will melt.
I have a woodpecker (specifically a yellow-bellied sapsucker) who has been pecking holes in my house for two years. I got him a birdhouse and put it on a nearby tree, but I don’t think he’s touched it. I was working with a guy who has a business helping people with wildlife problems, and after this bird, he told me he’s not doing woodpeckers anymore because he tried everything here (he recommended the birdhouse as a last resort) but nothing has worked.
Now there’s an even bigger woodpecker fixated on my chimney and he sounds like he’s using a hammer. It’s always something.
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Hi catsworking!
Neighbors like that are worth gold 🙂
Lucky You with those temperatures, it was nasty cold here but since there was no wind what so ever I actually thought it was rather warm 🙂 🙂 🙂
Woodpeckers an be a huge problem when they start to get interested in a house. I’ve read that they think they can hear an insect or caterpillar moving in the walls even though it could be a metal or concrete wall. Woodpeckers are unfortunately very persistent birds and will continue no matter what. I wonder if one of those noise things that scares away mice in the homes could be used, so sort of disguise the sound they believe is a caterpillar? All our woodpeckers are protected by law so there isn’t much one can do except for trying unusual things like sounds 🙂 I do hope You’ll figure out something that helps and then sell the idea and become rich 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Woodpeckers are protected here, too. The wildlife guy hung these silver dangly things on my eaves and at corners of the roof (so my house looks like it’s wearing earrings). Reflections off the sun startle the woodpecker away for a while until he realizes these things are not going to hurt him and ignores them. In fact, he’s pecking a hole within 2-3 feet of one right now.
The wildlife guy said months ago the woodpecker caused enough damage here that he had permission to “relocate” it, so I said OK. Well, what he really meant was kill it. He built what looks like a giant mousetrap with a spring and nailed it to the front of the house at the woodpecker’s latest hole, so when the pecker went back to work on the hole, he’d spring the trap and be maimed or killed.
When I heard that, I said I didn’t want a dead or suffering bird hanging off the front of my house. Wildlife guy said he’d come right away to remove it, but that wasn’t good enough. (Side story: The woodpecker had just earlier sat in a holly tree outside my kitchen window, where I got a good photo of it for the first time and IDed it as a sapsucker, so now it was like we knew each other.)
I couldn’t reach the trap myself, so I asked a neighbor (boyfriend of woman who shoveled my yard) to come over on a ladder and throw rocks at it to spring it before the woodpecker came back. He did, and now the trap’s still up there and the woodpecker sits on it like a scaffold to peck at the hole he’s working on. The wildlife guy is supposed to come remove the trap, but I think he forgot me over the holidays.
And just in the past month, I seem to have a new, bigger woodpecker working on the chimney. He flies away when I go outside to shoo him and stays gone for days, but the sapsucker isn’t afraid of me at all and I’ll shoo him 30X a day.
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That’s a positive problem in my view, that’s why I ended up having a European Jackdaw as a pet 🙂 It was already injured when I found it but during those few seconds I tried to figure out what to do we sort of bonded. The most funny and evil bird I’ve ever met but boy do they smell bad. So it lived in a room of its own with a window open all year round, he couldn’t fly. He terrorized all other pets, stripped off the wallpaper, and lots of other destructive things but he became tame, spoke like a parrot and was hilarious with doing tricks he made up himself to get treats 🙂 🙂
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