5C's Que Pasa

No those are not diamonds glistening on the roof of the car but frost. Two mornings in a row.

A pause for a cuteness break.

The past two mornings the cold air -6C/25F has created some neat looking mist over the lake.

This is my favourite photo thus far.

Meanwhile the snow appears to have arrived up top. It looks like it will be staying till the spring.

The girls don’t mind being outside in the cold but not for too long. Their feet get very cold and take a long while to warm up. Colin spent a good part of the weekend putting what needed to be stored for the winter away. Not much left to be done.

Yesterday after the first unexpected frost we went to the garden to salvage what we could. That is our zucchini plant, the one that Colin had fully cut down early September. It actually grew back, you can see the flowers. The dark grey leaves are from the frost.

In the bottom right hand corner you can see the tiny new zucchini growing. There are two of them. Why didn’t they grow during the summer so that we could have enjoyed them?

The large white bag is full of Swiss chard, the smaller bag is almost half of the second sowing of carrots  ( more to come ) and  next to them is the last of the cucumbers. The bowl holds the last of the tomatoes, we also have more tomatoes in the house in various stages of ripening. We still have parsnips, beets and carrots to harvest within the next few weeks.

Mazatlan and the Isla are about to be hit by a Hurricane, category 1 ( downgraded from a 2 to 3 ) but it could still intensify. The red area shows where Pamela will make landfall.

In this more recent projection you can see the the hurricane took a sharp veer to the left which makes landfill just a tiny tiny bit further away from Mazatlan.

To the right of the word Mazatlan in the grey section under the red line ( which marks the landfall area ) you can see the opening of the shipping channel and how it flows upward and then into the estuary.  The Isla starts at the lighter grey area ( across from the shipping channel ) opposite the letter ‘n’. Most everyone lives along the red line and between it and the estuary. All we can do is hope and pray.

Thanks to Joyce and Ken who live on the Isla for this image of the fishermen working to get all the launchas and pangas out of the water and tied down.

We all have something to be thankful for. I appreciate each and everyone of my readers.

Not sure he has something to be thankful for.

I have no idea why Carlie tends to chew her toes every now and then.

How cold was it? This morning it was -1.6C/34F and the day before even colder. Enough that ice formed on top of the outside water dish.

After one night of frost the Mountain Ash has started to change colour. The Honey Locust usually is yellow by now but not this year.  Nothing about this year has been normal.

Now these truly are long dogs.

There sun is lower in the sky so they get a good deal of sunshine inside. Yet they have no problem running outside in the cooler weather to chase each other, a favourite past time. Colin said today that it was too cold to walk them. I told him that he couldn’t say that until there was a foot of snow on the ground.

It had been raining heavily the two days before we got back from Edmonton. You can see how much the lake has risen. Those plants under the water were on our beach when we left.

Those rocks used to be part of the beach.

Instead the loaf pooped! The poop tastes like batter. Perhaps he should go back to our oven.

Such long dogs, this is Ciela. Her rear is higher up over my legs under the white blanket then her head is.

Lots of things getting crossed off the to do list. Colin setting up his new inversion table. I told him that he had to do it before the return date had passed. Somehow I never got a shot of the finished product. It looks pretty neat and it is a keeper. Photos another day. Can you spot his helper?

I always love finding a surprise photo in my camera. I am enjoying a late lunch of camembert with a lovely glass of white. My book has been pushed to the side while I use the laptop to catch up on my emails – only 106 behind to date. Ciela is on the left and Carlie at my feet. They both want to be sitting on my lap. They are starting to listen to a firm no, but of course they always get extra special snugs after dinner ( and often thru the day ) so don’t think they are hard done by. I love having my afternoon hour to my myself and it does not happen often.

We rented an empty lot to put the RV in to get the carpets and upholstered furniture cleaned. They were last done in the spring of 2019 and were due March of 2020 but Covid intervened. Two years wait was one year too long. It all was done yesterday morning but today everything is still damp. The owner allowed us to stay another day. Hope it is all dry tomorrow as we need to close the slides and put it back into storage.

Looks like fall around here.

I guess I should have picked up a larger wreath last month but I had to stay within my budget. Colin surprised me with the display.

The night before we left for Edmonton, on the 22nd of September, I spotted a dog crate on FB marketplace. It was directly across the main road from us. Colin went and checked it out first thing in the morning and purchased it. Finally Colin has had time to clean it thoroughly as it belonged to cats. We are airing it out as well. It is slightly larger ( 30 x 19 x 22 ) than what the girls now have so will give them more room to stretch out and it is a nice piece of furniture made by, Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. It originally was $168.00 and we paid $50.00.

So very true, I am a bottom line person. I am who I am.

February 2nd, just two days shy of being 4 weeks old.

March 24th, 11 weeks old.

September 24th, 8 3/4 months old.