Lily and Hope taking a break from digging a winter den. Lily's back is covered with dirt, making her look brownish. MY how this little cub has grown and flourished in her 8 months of age! It will be interesting to see what will happen if Lily is pregnant again and Hope is in the den with her when the baby(ies) are born.
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!
When I stepped out of the trailer this morning, warm, humid air hit me! It's like summer out there today, with an early morning temperature of 65 degreees! Today is the day the alarm system guy comes to give me an official quote on how much it will cost me to install one for this house.
Yesterday I released a mouse, ate some breakfast/lunch, then tackled the cellar floor with the Shop Vac. ACK! I found a heavy-duty container with teeny, tiny little holes in the handles into which, over the years, many mice had found their way in and were unable to get back out. It was a very smelly mouse graveyard! As I was dumping the poor little bodies out in the back yard, I was startled to hear a noise behind me....looked around into the eyes of a whitetail fawn, close enough for me to touch, who was hoping that my red container might have something for him/her to eat, I guess! I jumped a bit when I realized just how close we had become, which scared the fawn off about 25 yards. I then came in here and got some of the wild apples I had picked to make more apple crumb pudding, but the fawn was NOT about to eat any of those. I am so afraid someone has been feeding this little creature and it is no longer afraid of humans. This is not a good thing, particularly as hunting season will soon be upon us. But it made for an interesting interlude in my cellar chores!
I then installed those little drip-rain-protector thingies that go over the tops of your windows in your vehicle so you can keep your windows cracked for ventilation in the rain. It was so easy to do, I couldn't believe I hadn't done this sooner. They come with gorilla-glue-like stuff on the tops of them, making it a piece of cake to install them yourself to the paint on your truck over the windows, after wiping down the area with an included alcohol wipe. I will get pics of them another time.
Then I tackled the curtain-making for my truck camper-top windows. I am fashioning some dollar store bright red baby blankets into curtains, using velcro to fasten them to the places along the windows. This quickly petered out (thankfully!) as my friend, Laura, and her soon-to-be-wed son showed up for some evening trout fishing at my pond. I closed everything up, and followed them down there for some chat time. No fish were caught, but 5 very large beavers were busy hauling trees and branches across the road along the pond into the brook on the other side, where thye have a dam and a lodge somewhere deep in the swamp area down there.
Now I will wait for the alarm guy to show, and who-knows-what after that. I forgot to call Mema yesterday to see how she is doing in the hospital, so I need to remember to call her today. I suppose I could bail out the paddleboat later, as it is probably as warm as it will be again until next summer. It is full of rain water at this point. I need to look up a good tarp to cover it with for the winter, too.
Happy Friday to you all-----OH DANG!-----I forgot this is Fosamax day, and have already had one cup of coffee! Oh well, tomorrow will have to be the day this week! Oh yes----I need to go pick up a prescription renewal at Kinneys Drugs, too.
Off I go to get dressed and await the alarm guy.
the next few days will be my perfect weather... I turned off the air and will have fresh air for a while...
I'll let you know if I'll be coming your way. I appreciate the offer. So many good people on here. Hey, you could come with me if you want!