Evening/morning!. Hope it's a good week for all. Check the previous blog for the latest adventures of Emma Peel and Steed plus recent posts from the usual suspects. :-)
Emma - what a whirl! Hope daughter's new boyfriend isn't headed back to Afghanistan any time soon.
EDIT: Oh this is interesting, in the following sentence, I typed the name of Germany's controlling political party during the late 30s/early 40s and it was replaced by asterisks! Just watched a great Netflix DVD - The Rape of Europa - about the pillaging of art by the *** and the subsequent repatriation of (most of) it after the war. Really interesting with footage I'd never seen before. After that, even more leftover Txgiving pie and rerun of Bridget Joans's Diary on telly while perusing latest Xmas catalogs. Have a good Sunday!
I saw just one, too. Alan: thought of you this morning as I was in John Lewis, & they had a very large upside down Christmas Tree on display- it was black, too, so not really very festive, I thought.
Annette: thanks for cheerful photo of a lovely flower. They are so pretty, arn't they?
auntie: Enjoy your day of 'doing nothing': we all need one of those once in a while!
Afternoon everybody just catching up on the blog as I have been away since Friday got back on Monday evening but have had various chores to catch up on. This morning I sat down and wrote all my Christmas cards so I will have to make a trip to the post office for stamps.
My weekend away did not work out as I had hoped as the weather was rather wet and cold so the wild life I saw was limited as it was seen either looking out the window of a car or train. The snow on the top of the mountains was spectacular and when coming home on Monday the snow had got down to the side of the rail track and made it fairy tale like. There was a lot of geese feeding in the fields that weren't under water and the rivers were the highest I have seen them in the six years I have been traveling up to Forres
Caerann how did they get that owl to come as close and Auntie I have bookmarked your site to have a look at later. Hope everyone is keeping well and keeping their Christmas chores up to date.
george g
Auntie : Thanks again for that link. There were 3 eagles at one time on screen. I see that there are 30 to 50 individual eagles that visit the feeder. Mostly Golden Eagles and White Tailed Eagles.
FAB
Caerann, just watched the owl clip. Incredible. Seems like he was almost going for the camera. Thanks very much
Hummers must be close to fledging. Frantic preening and wing exercising at the moment.
Morning/evening all: Whizzing about a bit here today.
Auntie: Thanks for the other link.. Did check it out, but no action. Still, it's nice to see other parts of the world, even when there's nothing happening.
Caerann: Glad you had a good time; feathers and a lovely drive - what more could you want? Oh my, the look on that owl's face! Wouldn't want him/her after me!!
George: Sorry the weather put a pall on your trip! :-(
The hummingbirds are almost comical to watch in terms of all the wriggling and jockeying that goes on; would be nice to see them fledge.
Back later to catch up. Hi and bye to everyone else. Have a good rest of the day! :-)
Good Day/Night All
Yes Gary, it does seem like the Owl in the vid is going for either a piece of prey or to perch. I was sad to see it's a captive bird but perhaps it needs to be that, just can't stand the thought of people trapping wild birds for their own amusement or profit. BTW, what are "American Hard Gums?"
Lindybird: Do you live on Lindybird Lane or Lindybird Boulevard?
Terry M: Thanks much for the hummingbird video and link.
Auntie: Thanks to you for the Swedish Web Cam.
Annette: What a beautiful Camellia! I found an interesting article on Bob Anderson of the Raptor Resource Project. Would you want me to link you to that? Also, I looked for but didn't see either of the Peregrine pair while near the plant as my sis lives near to the next town over from there.
On our way home we stopped briefly at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha Minnesota but since it takes about 2 hours to tour, decided we'd do that on another trip. As I said, we had plenty of Bald Eagles to watch in the wild as they flew among the ancient mountain range in that part of country. I was wishing to have a movie cam to recall some of the interesting rock formations as one looked so like a stone house we had to really look at it to be sure it was rock. Another looked like a stone fort with a tall parapet, there were some with caves also and one mountain had about half of the peak missing but the second half had many pine trees growing on it. I know most people think of the midwest as being flat, at least I did until John started to look at buying property near LaCrosse Wisconsin which is in the mountain range of which the name presently escapes me.
Anyway, I'm off now to run some errands. Have a good day/night everyone.
George, sorry the weather on the trip wasn''t the best, to put it mildly!
Caerann, here is a link for american hard gums.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/american-hard-gums-p-199.html
They are a candy that we had in the UK growing up and I loved them. Somehow the black ones were always harder than the rest.
Busy day here doing yard work before the rain tomorrow.
Hope everyone has had a good Wednesday.
Oh Gary, you mean Gum Drops. I could not for the life of me figure out what you were saying.
Okay here's a question then for everyone:
Q. What do you take your purchases home from the store in?
A. In Chicago we call them bags (pronounced like lag as in jet lag) or shopping bags if they have handles.
What do you all call them? =O)
Caerann, I think they are bigger than the gum drops over here. Very tasty though
I would call them bags, the same as you. I would say a bag is a bag whether or not it has handles:)
Looks wet your way tonight.