See that Annette has been too busy perhaps, to start a new week, so I'm doing the honours. Rather wet in this part of the world this morning, so doing lots of tidying & Christmas preparing stuff.
Gary: Thank you, yes it's coming along ok. Chose a good day to be stuck inside - we've been completely fog-bound all day and it's beginning to thicken already.
Lindybird, well done on the shopping. Don't worry, we over here are obsessed with the weather as well. I think it is world wide
Sandy, are you doing the whole house? Fog sounds grim
Still chilly here but now bright.
Have the horses still got their coats on then, Gary??
Lindybird, they do and today have thicker coats on!! Clover has 9 to choose from..........
& I thought I had a lot!!
don't get me started........................ LOL
Unknown said: Aquilareen : Lovely pictures of the birds. Sandy : If you try this link you should be able to download for free: http://www.timeleft.info/ I have to go now as Lady P has called me on another shopping mission.
Aquilareen : Lovely pictures of the birds.
Sandy : If you try this link you should be able to download for free:
http://www.timeleft.info/
I have to go now as Lady P has called me on another shopping mission.
Thank you Alan, the timeleft link is great! I have saved it.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Morning/evening all: Gray and cloudy here; temp around 52 F (11 C). Had lots of rain pounding on the roof last evening, which makes being inside feel so cozy. The Sierra Nevada range that separates California from Nevada got 3 feet of snow last storm - SoCal's water comes from up north (and from anywhere else we can "grab" it - and I'm not kidding) so it's good to have our own supply building up.
Lindybird: Oddly enough, we're sort of obsessed with weather too; think it must be in the genes. Did hunter/gatherers sit around the cave whinging on about the rain and fog? More than likely. :-) I was looking at bags of Niger seed in the store the other day and it's pretty expensive here, especially when compared to the giant bags of Western Wild Bird Seed I get at Costco, and which disappear fast enough. Auntie: Lovely reindeer pix - but oh dear, just Googled "Reindeer" to clarify definition vs. plain vanilla term and got lost on multiple sites where I found that in North America, reindeer (Arctic deer) are called caribou; then multiple other sites on elk vs. moose vs. caribou. The following link, a fascinating one for former editors like me, mentions "roe" and quotes Robbie Burns. http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002437.phps So we Google at our own risk! :-) Gary: Clover sounds like a real live clothes horse! As my mother would say: One for every day of the week and two - or three in Clover's case - for Sunday!
OK. Off to sort out Christmas tree, where light bulb seems to have failed. Will probably find out I can't disassemble it, which will provoke crisis in holiday decorating department. Hallo to everyone else who blogged - take care all.
P.S. Welcome Chloe!
Chloe : yw
Annette : I cant get that link to work for some reason.
Sandy : Go easy on the decorating. Its hard to get paint to dry in this weather.
Lindybird : Have you really got less than nine coats?