Life with cats, and other things…
0944/21st March 2025 . Yesterday morning was far too beautiful to come straight home, so we shot past our turn and I got some pictures that I'll share in two parts. . Let's start with the birds.... . We ended up doing a loop and met these guys going and coming. They have yard and … Continue reading Improvements
19th January 2025 . Before the storm on Sunday, we went for a supply of bird food. When the weather is cold and snowy, it's hard to keep the feeders topped up. . As we drove, the sun briefly sent its rays beneath the dark, threatening cloud, like a spotlight. . It touched the tops … Continue reading No pot of gold
0711/22nd November 2024 . After many weeks without rain, it finally arrived yesterday and is likely to return today. Not a minute too soon, either. I saw an anguished post yesterday from someone in the village whose well has run dry. Disquieting news. . Just after dawn this morning, forbidding storm clouds moved in. They … Continue reading Bodies of water
0710/14th October 2023 "Red sky in the morning" "Shepherd's warning." It may have been true, in the old days, back in England. The New England saying is: "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." . We set off to see what we would see. The provisional destination was The Salem Art Works which … Continue reading A very nice place
0840/10th January 2023 Just enough sunlight leaked through this morning to cut a stripe on the hill across the way, so of course I abandoned the washing up and went outside. Only to be accosted by: Actually, that's not quite right. In fact, I noticed him on top of the sumac bush, fishing for I … Continue reading Strengths and feathers
0915/15th October 2022 Most days now start with mist, often quite dense and so it was on Saturday, but as it cleared we debated taking another drive on a weekend. Everywhere else I have lived, I avoided driving on weekends or in rush hour. Here, we decided, this would not be a problem. We paused … Continue reading Saturday…
0812/27th February, 2021 So much for green and brown patches opening up. Overnight snow covered them over again. But Winter is basically done and the melt has resumed. At least I hope so, as we had a couple of summer visitors return yesterday and I wouldn't want them to retreat. While eating breakfast, I thought … Continue reading “Zoomer’s back!”
August 29th, everything normal in Cambridge. Just a week ago, we'd had the 12 minute weather phenomenon! Things were going along as they do in a Cambridge afternoon, when suddenly things began to beep. Not the "Hal" beep (our temperamental washing machine), or the microwave, but a rather shrill, urgent "All Hands on Deck" beep. … Continue reading Not a tornado
It was all the way back at the end of March when the wild turkeys began their courting routines, down in the field. With what seemed like limited success... But at some stage, those boys must have got their act together, because: Low and behold: "Baby" turkeys. More like juveniles, really. Mum's obviously been keeping … Continue reading A family visit
Is it possible that Wild Turkeys have regional accents? When I went out, early this morning to replenish the bird feeder, I could hear a familiar sound from somewhere "out there": "glubble glubble glubbler gluck". Wild Turkeys! I recognized the sound and it is definitely not "gobble gobble". Not up here anyway. Immediately I went … Continue reading Turkey love and Gimpy