Wildlife a bit too close.

 

So another cold night and morning. We did actually have some sunshine even though it shone through thin clouds. We managed to have the beginning of our morning walk while it was calm but the closer we came to home the more the wind started to blow.  We neither heard or saw any animals but we did see lots of places where the wild hogs had plowed up the ground.

The weather predictions are all over the place at the moment, for once the web weather sites are unusual similar, they say it will get warmer from Saturday, some say Sunday, but on tv they say we’ll get another round of cold air from the arctic. I so wish the weather sites are right this time and that perhaps we even can have that warmer air reaching us already on Friday as they guessed it would come just a day ago. I’m ready for a change towards warmer now, well since this cold weather arrived.

I put up the wildlife camera at the garage a few days ago after I saw what I thought was piglet tracks in the new snow. Nothing special showed at first, blurry cat photos and You know what cat I’m talking about 🙂 Tonight however that changed. Four wild hogs passed between my cottage and garage. Most photos were too blurry but four came out rather good. So I’ll continue to place the camera exactly at the same place for quite some time more, just imagine if I would be lucky to catch a lynx or wolf 🙂 ski to non chance of that happening but any other animal would be fun to see 🙂

 

BURREL

I used the baking machine last evening. It has a program for gluten free baking but to be honest it just doesn’t work as it should. A gluten-free bread mustn’t be touched again after it has started to rise, it can’t rise again if one should kneed it. For some reason this baking machine does that anyway so the bread dough just sinks down and becomes like a thicker semi hard hard bread 🙂 So there’s a little thingy at the bottom in the middle that works all the ingredients together and when it was done I  just removed that thingy and the bread came out really good! Takes a long time in the machine though, three and a half hour but it takes in total between one hour and twenty minutes to two hours in the oven depending on if one bakes rolls or a loaf.

It is time to make another pot of tea and perhaps have a slice or two from that bread 🙂

Have a great day!

 

 

6 responses to “Wildlife a bit too close.”

  1. ppekka24 Avatar
    ppekka24

    Those wild pigs are scary!

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    1. Christer. Avatar

      Hi ppekka!

      It is fun to see them from a long distance but I really don’t want to come close to them.

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  2. catsworking Avatar

    Those hogs look HUGE! Do they ever attack people?

    My parents had a bread machine I used to make white bread for them in, so I think I know the removable mixing blade at the bottom you’re talking about. It used to leave a big hole in the bottom of the loaf.

    How did you remove that thing after the machine did the mixing without touching the dough?

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    1. Christer. Avatar

      Hi catsworking!

      The bread dough is not as firm as normal dough so I could see the top of the mixer thingy so it was easy to remove 🙂
      Since it was gone there’s just a little hole in the loaf 🙂

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  3. Carol Avatar
    Carol

    Those are some big pigs! I surely would not want them around. I always go out with my dog at night because we have coyotes and raccoons, both of which might attack him. The coyotes have been known to eat small dogs too, but he’s big enough they might hesitate.

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    1. Christer. Avatar

      Hi Carol!

      They are but still rather small compared to what walks around there in the forest 🙂

      Now days I always follow my dogs outside when it is dark, no coyotes or raccoons here (but they do catch the eventual raccoon on wild life cameras further south) but wolves. Normally when the wolves are around my dogs refuse to leave the entrance 🙂

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