Frost, coyotes and cheap gas!
In my last post I said that I thought temps would not get into the +20′s again, but it looks like I might be wrong. The weather men are predicting temps of 23C over the holiday weekend which will be great. For once I will be willing to be proved wrong!
Talking of weather, on Tuesday we had our first overnight frost. Only a light frost, but a frost none the less. So we are in the month of anything goes! When I look back on this blog to this time lat year we had temps in the high 20′s!
Gas prices are falling at last and we only paid 97c per litre yesterday, the lowest we can remember for a long time. Whilst the girls were visiting us in September the gas prices were fluctuating so much that we paid anything from $1.18 to $1.40 per litre just in the two weeks they were here. It has been going down since then to now being around $1.05 in Belleville, but the Mohawk gas stations are always cheaper and this is where we managed to get it at 97c.
Since we arrived in Canada in July 2006, we have seen prices range from 72c to $1.40!
On a completely different note we had a coyote in the garden this morning. Unfortunately he did not stop around long enough to get a photo. This is the second time we have seen one in our garden, although we have seen them along the sides of roads (both dead and alive) and can hear them most nights howling away.
A sign that winter is indeed on the way is the arrival of the snowbirds in the garden. Their real name is dark eyed junkos but are known as snowbirds. I spotted a single bird the other day and since then many more have arrived.
Here are some snowbirds with a sparrow and a chickadee.
