Well, Christmas is finally here. We will definitely have a white Christmas tomorrow as there is still plenty of snow on the ground. It looks like the temps are going to warm up so they seem to think we will have rain rather than snow tomorrow.
Went out shopping for groceries this morning and we missed all the crowds which was good. So last minute grocery shopping turned out to be fairly painless.
Here is a photo of our back garden at the moment – plenty of snow about.
And here is our resident Hairy Woodpecker
The next time I write Christmas will be over.
So, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL.
We are well into November now and still no sign of snow. Last year the first snow to settle fell on November 20th and then we had a bigger dump on November 26th – see my post from this date last year. So far, so good for this year. November has been lovely with lots of sun, hardly any rain and pretty warm, many days into the low to mid teens which cannot be grumpbled at.
The forecast for the coming week is wetter, colder and the possibility of mixed precipitation at the weekend, but we will wait and see. Often they cannot predict the next day, let alone a week ahead.
The deer are still coming into the garden, but we have to keep looking for them as now it is getting dark so early we don’t see them wander in. We have loads of dark eyed junkos (snowbirds) around as well as both the downy and hairy woodpeckers making frequent visits to the feeders. The squirrels are very funny collecting nuts and then hiding them under leaves or a tuft of grass and as soon as their backs are turned the blue jays just take the nuts. The jays are very clever and watch the nuthatches, woodpeckers and squirrels to see where they put the nuts snd then steal them.
