Another week folks. Just in case you missed it, AQ posted the following at 12:41 a.m. Sunday morning:
Good morning. 10.10 am. Yawn. Couldn’t get to sleep last night plus we lost an hour as daylight saving started. Tiring but such an exciting day yesterday watching Daughter#2 look at 100s and try on dozens of wedding dresses. Funny (strange funny), that she wants me involved. For my wedding I was busy fending off my mother as, being the last of the flock to marry, she had developed a set of traditions/customs that were essential. Hm, I won some, lost some. As Dau#2 has been living away from home for several years, I am quite happy to sit back and let her decide her day.
Annette. Until you learn the new appliances are you eating out of a can beside a campfire in the backyard? Or on a diet of salads? LOL
Diane. Later I shall post some photos of Pacific black ducks on the Backyard gallery. Loved the Kakapo video – thanks for the link.
Strange Weather in U.S. Continues.......
Imagine my surprise upon looking to see if a falcon was home in Lincoln Nebraska and finding they have their first snow already! What makes this odder still is the temps there a few days ago were in the 70s or call it 23c and now it's 27f or -2c! Talk about the winds sweeping down the plains! (If I may quote Rodgers and Hammerstein.) Things okay here in Chicago with some mixed clouds and temps at 45f or 7.2222c.
Glad things are improving over your way, Diane! =O)
Morning all.
Caerann: Snow in Nebraska already? Huh - that is early. We have the first storm of the season forecast for Tuesday/Wednesday with 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain expected.
lesser spotted woodpecker back, good luck
dibnlib: Just saw a woodpecker - no red patch - but it looked more like the Great spotted woodpecker - assume both are at the feeder?
wonderful day again here in the highlands. we took a trip down to loch an eilein (just a few miles from LG) we took dillon - our golden retriever - and stopped off at tomatin to ask a friend to come with us. it took a bit of arm twisting as her puppy is a gangly 8 month old scandinavian hound who can run like the clappers and she was scared of losing him. it was a fantastic walk, the dogs got on well and mungo came whenever our friend called. hopefully it will be the first of many walks together my friend - by the way -has 7 other dogs. they are huskies and they race in the winter months.
Unknown said: dibnlib: Just saw a woodpecker - no red patch - but it looked more like the Great spotted woodpecker - assume both are at the feeder?
thanks annette
mine was an uneducated guess. i am sure you are much more likely to be correct with great spotted and that is the only one on the feeder.
off now to make a phone call then settle down to watch "strictly come dancing" think you call it dancing with the stars
dibnlib: Sounds like a wonderful outing with dogs. Maybe take the other 7 next time? :-)
Patricia Routledge is very talented; very funny. I love porridge; like horses and fools (are we talking people or rhubarb or gooseberry type of fools - fouls? - that my mother used to make. I am the former type....(fool, not rhubarb). Not making sense; must be time to go on shopping mission. (You probably changed the font by inadvertenly hitting Control+i (that's i for italic.)
DIANE: Just love 'As Time Goes By', however often they have repeats on TV.
ANNETTE: When I say four hours, I mean 4 hours in the plane, after a half hour journey, 2 hours in airport, half hour delay, then flight, -followed by three quarter of an hour wait this year for our luggage to appear on the carousel, nearly an hour to our hotel - phew! Half a day away really by the time you've done all that, but having said that we do count ourselves lucky that we have so many & varied places to visit in Europe when we have the money & the time.... We go to the Canaries every February, & usually somewhere else in Europe or even in Britain every autumn but this year wanted to just go somewhere we knew we would relax immediately on arrival as we were whacked, as we say here. So we just walked around every morning, & lazed on the beach with a good book every afternoon, with nothing to discuss except what kind of fish they were likely to serve for dinner. Husband is the quiet type so if I go quiet (which is not very often) , there is not much said, really! but that doesn't matter when you've been married so long. Must add that although all those places on the European map look very near to each other, plane tickets are ridiculously expensive for some journeys, & I gather not as cheap as in USA.
Lindybird: February sounds like a good time to make that not-so-short trip to the sunshine. My sister says the months after New Year's are grim in the UK - such a long time to the light and warmth, so they try to take off for the sun too. It's a 11-hour flight to Los Angeles from Heathrow, so you really need more than a few days - just to get over the jet lag. I was talking to an Australian rancher in Cambria and he said the flight from Sydney to San Francisco was 14 hours nonstop. It's nice to just sit and read - my husband is quiet too (but I make enough noise for both of us).
I just started a new Weekly Chat for Sunday, October 11