It continues to stay warmish :-)

I can’t for my life remember the name on this little bird but they are adorable when flying around looking for insects on the trees. Quite small but with long tail feathers. They only sit still for a second or two so I’m glad I managed to get this photo. Now I remember πŸ™‚ It is a Long-tailed bushtit.

The days have been warmish now with a bit of sunshine yesterday but with mostly drizzle today. Not cold enough to feel that it’s ok staying indoors all day but not warm enough to actually wanting to do anything outdoors πŸ™‚ We’ve been out on our walks but nothing more really.

We were on our way out and the monster wanted to go indoors and she showed really well what she thought of me when I continued with our walk πŸ™‚

I’ve put together the table for the aquarium I bought, looking at the descriptions on how to do it it looked complicated but to be honest it wasn’t. It was like putting together something from IKEA but for some reason nothing was missing and for once they had put some extra screws and other things in the package and that was a good thing because I did need them. They had also put in lots of other screws, nuts and rubber things I think should be around some of the screws but not to this table πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Here’s a raven gulping down something. This and the next photo were taken yesterday and since Alma is the dog she is these were the only ones I managed to take πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

This and the next one was taken today. Ravens are very aware of what is happening around them so if they see a camera they fly away.

Then I had to find somewhere to place it. I have had an old fridge in the kitchen that stopped working long ago but that I for some reason never moved out, I’ve used it as a storage unit more or less πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The thing is that after a while it just collects dust and dog hair so I decided to move it out to the garage, (nowadays an indoor dog yard for the dogs since they dug their way in so I couldn’t have the car there any more πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ ). I tied and taped together the door because if dogs are determined to get inside they will and the risk of them getting in and the door gets closed so they suffocate isn’t something I would like to experience. One day I’ll move it to the scrap yard πŸ™‚

A Magpie in flight.

It isn’t a big one but get it outside and in to the old garage wasn’t easy, especially when I dragged across the gravel road πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Well it is done and I was surprised over how much dust and things had managed to get in under it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So now I’ve put it all ups and now It’ll stay empty for quite some time since I really don’t need it until next autumn when the goldfish I’m planning to have in the little pond and three water barrels need to go inside during winter. I can of course fill up with sand and plants and have some kind of fish in it until then it all depends on when I can drive to the pet store that still sell aquarium fish. The rules to sell aquarium fish are so hard now days and the licenses they need are so expensive that fewer pet stores sell fish now days. Cats and dogs have never been allowed to sell in pet stores here.

Either we have hunters here during nights or the lynx or the wolves hunt here at night because we came really close to ravens yesterday, They were clearly eating either leftovers after a hunt or what’s left after something a predator has killed. Yesterday they were sitting in the middle of a field and today they flew up from the ground in the forest. A raven would never be on the ground in the forest unless they had something to eat. The dogs were a bit stressed when we followed the creek up-stream but not like they usually are when we have wolves around so if it is an animal my guess is on the lynx.

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I haven’t really eaten anything since noon so I guess a couple of sandwiches would be great to have at the same time. Nothing interesting on tv to watch as usual so perhaps I’ll watch a dvd or read a book

I wish You all a nice first of advent!

4 thoughts on “It continues to stay warmish :-)

  1. My sister got locked in a refrigerator once, in the basement, just a few steps down from where my father was watching a football game in the family room. I think she was about 5 years old.

    She cut her leg when the glass shelf she was sitting in the bottom broke. She said when she kicked the door, she could see daylight, so some air must have been coming in. My father must have had the TV loud because he didn’t hear her.

    I don’t know what made my father realize she was missing and to look for her, but when he found her, she was soaked with sweat, so the air must have been getting scarce. She’s in her mid-60s now and still remembers it as one of the most traumatic things that ever happened to her.

    I can’t even imagine how horrible it would be for an animal to get trapped in a fridge.

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    1. Hi catsworking!

      It must have been horrible!
      These things happen so I made sure they won’t be able to open the door for as long it stands in the old garage. Those things are after all made to not let any air from the outside in as long as we don’t open the door and those magnets keeping the door closed are much stronger than one might think. I also have a vague memory of some fridges that actually was locked and the way to open them was by pressing a button on the handle so they would have been even more dangerous.

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