Hi all:
Lindybird: I responded to your post at the end of the last Weekly Chat.
I have just managed to get upto date as from yesterday morning as when I went on to my laptop there were 13 updates from windows before I could do anything and by the time they uploaded and downloaded I had other things to do. I read with interest everyones talk about funerals and as I lost my wife 5 years ago after 43 years of marriage it brought a lot of memories back but the ones you remember are not the ones when you were disagreeing about things but it is always the happy times you had together. Today I decided I would like my fence to be the same colour as my shed so I happily started thinking it would take me couple of hours but that was wishful thinking as it has taken me 6hours but the weather was like a july day. Yesterday I took a trip round about and the amount of pink footed geese within this area is awesome. On the scottish news tonight there was a short bit about a pod of killer whales totalling about 50 seen north of Shetland. Did anyone see the programme Wild Islands on STV last night it showed along with other things a bit about Perigrine faalcons from the laying of the eggs to the fledgling of the chicks, it is on the STV web site now. Sorry for going on but its the first chance I have had to chat for a while.
george g
Thanks a lot Annette.
Margobird
Annette & Gary: Thanks to you both for links explaining 'lake effect snow' which is a new thing to me- very interesting. On the Wikipedia page it mentions the British Isles and then the Cheshire Gap! which is where I live! - this is a flat area of the country, where the weather often rushes off to do something somewhere else, which explains why we always get fairly settled weather here. We don't get big rolling storms as they do in the Midlands, and we don't get excessive rainfall as it all gets blown away, to somewhere else.
George: Glad you got the fence finished, what colour is it? These jobs are a bore to do, but quite satisfying once the thing's done, and you can sit back & admire it.
Tried to photograph local farmer busy ploughing the field at the back of our property, as the seagulls following the plough looked very pretty in the afternoon sunshine. As soon as I appeared with my camera, they all flew away, as if frightened of identification! Ended up taking lots of pics of dog-on-a-diet, frolicking in the garden - we need more pictures of him, I don't think, as we have hundreds already.
Auntie: Have a vision of you in your car, great name. (Diane, I love the song 'Mustang Sally')
Glad you got the fence finished George? Are you happy with the colour because if not you now need to change the shed and fence at the same time! LOL I know what you mean about jobs taking much longer than you think. Sorry about your wife..
Off to check the blog.
O. Goldfinch: You were right about Simon King and the 'Autumnwatch' programme- just saw it and they showed the most amazing number of Barnacle Geese just arrived from the North. (Svalbard?). Together with my great sightings this morning, from my own garden, I have just had the most WONDERFUL Goosey day!
Off to test the whisky now, to make sure its not gone off in the bottle since three days ago....
Have a good weekend, all.
Lindybird said: O. Goldfinch: You were right about Simon King and the 'Autumnwatch' programme- just saw it and they showed the most amazing number of Barnacle Geese just arrived from the North. (Svalbard?). Together with my great sightings this morning, from my own garden, I have just had the most WONDERFUL Goosey day! Off to test the whisky now, to make sure its not gone off in the bottle since three days ago.... Have a good weekend, all.
Been out to a music event, so need to catch up with viewing and see the geese myself.
Had a quite eventful "Birdie Day" around our feeders today - all enjoying some more lovely weather and one of our special Solway Sunsets.
One of the Woodies has poorly neck: he had a possible injury a few days back, and has been missing a while; today his neck looks as if he (or a cat) caught it somewhere, and he is very thin - but has made up for it with a couple of good feeds here.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Hi all. Wonderful rain a couple of days ago; temps in the mid 80s (around 30C) today. Everyone is complaining since we all enjoyed the rain, but it's expected to cool down quickly over the next day or so.
George: I went to restart my computer the other day and there were 16 updates!! At least you had a nice day to spend painting, so what color is the fence? Sounds like you've had a nice couple of days.
Lindybird: I'll be testing the wine later - I'm now off to trim the roses in the Mission garden (in all this heat too!) then I'll pick up take-out salads for me and hubby from this wonderful little restaurant around the corner and come home and collapse in a grubby pile to watch the news.
OG. Hope you enjoyed the music - what was it? Is this a woodpecker that's been poorly? Sounds like he might be over the worst of it.
Take care all, and Margobird, if you're still around, have a lovely few days away!
Yikes!!!! Sat again. 2.15 pm Fine sunny spring day, blue sky, few fluffy clouds, 16 C. I have enjoyed the chatter the last few days, especially all the educational bits, nay, especially all the humour. I have so many things I’ve wanted to comment on as I was reading, but no time to reply. Will I remember what? Who knows!!!! I love exclamation marks and italics !!!!!!!
We have a leaf blower. It is called "The Wind". With hardly any front fences in our suburb, who knows where the leaves end up!
Hey AQ: You and Alan have the same brand of leaf blower. Do you have any plans for the weekend?
Hey Annette. Part of my last post went peculiar. Some of it was shouting. I tried to delete, ended up editing the shout. Then too scared to repost, I went and attacked some weeds. Well here goes again. Tomorrow is grandson's 12th birthday so family will gather at m-i-l's nursing home for afternoon tea cake. Apart from that, there are only the weeds waving smirkily at me. There doesn’t seem to be a collective term for the Northern Hemisphere from here. I don’t think we call it "Up Over" – that was just me being funny. I think we refer to places by name eg UK, England, Scotland, Europe, US, America (when we mean USA), Canada, etc.
Cirrus & Gary: SA is currently on so-called level 3 water restrictions. No sprinklers. Garden watering by drippers or hand-held hoses with trigger nozzle for max of 3 hours per week by odds & evens system. Us being ‘odds’ (that is house number not the occupants LOL) get Wed or Sundays 6am-9am or 6pm-9pm. Buckets can be used anytime. Buckets only to wash car. No hosing down of patios. Senior citizens can get a permit which allows them to water at any time. However there can be problems if one has neighbours or passers-by who don’t understand. We’ve had our front hose cut by some vandal. No need to water garden at present but my car needs a wash.
Aurora. When I was a child on the farm we would see the Aurora australis. Lovely. That reminds me of the sunrise I saw from a plane flying over Central Australia. Sort of like a horizontal rainbow. Glorious colours. How I wish now that I wasn’t so dull then – I should have fetched my camera from the overhead locker. . .
Few nights ago I watched a whale program. A team rescues humpback whales from fishing nets off Western Australia coast. The lobster fishermen report any problems, the team goes out, 3 men in a small inflatable, attach buoys to the tangle (to stop whale from diving), slice through the rope and away swims the whale. They also check whales that have beached themselves. Sadly many of these are too far gone to save and they put these whales out of their misery. Win some, lose some. But every one saved is worthwhile.