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There’s a wolf in the garden

We can now add another animal to our garden critter count – a Coyote. Yesterday I just happened to be looking out the window when I saw a coyote walk along the back of the garden. I couldn’t believe my eyes at first and ran to hubby who was in the garage. I shouted “There’s a wolf in the garden”.

He came to the window but unfortunately the wolf had vanished. After calming down I looked it up in our animal book and know that it was a coyote not a wolf. We knew there were lots around as we hear them howling at night, but to actually see one during the day was really amazing.

On the subject of dogs, this week we heard from the family who took our puppy from us. They say she is doing great and has grown lots. They sent us some photos, which was really nice. We are really happy to know that she is living a good life and obviously enjoying it.

She is getting big now!

According to the weather we are in for a huge storm tonight and 20cm of snow, so we have battened down the hatches and tested the generator and are prepared. It is ironic that before we had the generator, through the summer and autumn months we had half a dozen power outages. Since we had the generator installed, we haven’t had one! Not that I am complaining, I prefer not to have outages, but can you believe it?

Oh, I nearly forgot. We have been watching one of our squirrels frantically collect nuts and bury them all over the garden. But the other day we were watching him and he kept disappearing under our upper deck. We went downstairs to look out the window, which is under the deck and saw what he was up to.

There is an old discarded bird next under the beams and he has literally filled it with peanuts until it is overflowing. It was very funny watching him. See pic below for the result.

Bye to Widget

Last night the people came to visit the dog to see if they wanted her. They travelled from near Barrie, so were very committed. The woman came with her daughter and it was love at first sight.

They simply adored her, which is very understandable as she is lovely and cute. Widget also seemed to like them and lapped up all the attention she was getting.

After spending about an hour with us going through everything we had done with her so far regarding vets, training, feeding etc they left with her.

We were very sad to see her go, however we are extremely confident that she has gone to a loving home and that she will continue to thrive there. They have promised to keep in touch and send the odd photo over as she grows. We are glad we turned the other people down, even though they were actually prepared to pay more for her.

Our house was very quiet once she had gone and it will take us a while to get used to her not being around anymore. We had got used to one or other of us being followed around the house by our little red shadow.

Anyway, the basement is progressing. Most of the structure for the walls is now in place, as is one set of French doors. Hubby spent most of yesterday working away and is doing an excellent job.

He is however; constantly bemused by the standard of electrical work he comes across. In a past life he was a qualified electrician, so knows his way around the subject, but stares in utter amazement at some of the ways the work is carried out in Canada. It has not been done wrong by Canadian standards, but apparently some of the techniques used were phased out in the UK fifteen years ago!

Today he aims to do some more to the basement, whilst I will do some baking, which I haven’t really done since being here. I also have to force myself to do some ironing – boring!