Still waiting for spring

One more wintry weekend at the cottage.

They may sound like a squeaky hinge, but Blue Jays are beautiful!

This was a lazy weekend: puzzles, books, games, and good food!

The required puzzle being done.

The weather was rather dull, unfortunately. The bright winter sunshine through the windows is always hoped for. Still, the days and nights weren’t terribly cold. No snowmobiling this time: Jo wasn't feeling very well. We took a short walk down the road, and that was pretty much all the exercise we got. We also had a nice visit with the Remus family, up for the weekend. Little Kenadee couldn't be cuter.

The view: cloudy.

We put seed into the feeder and were rewarded by visits from Blue Jays like the one above, plus Chickadees, a Red-Breasted Nuthatch, and several Red Squirrels.


I'm glad Iain built this feeder; it attracts lots of birds and animals.

There is still lots of snow.

A chickadee having a snack.

Of course, the squirrels fought over the feeder, as they always do.

This guy was enjoying the peanuts.

We DID get to try out our new (to us) barbeque (courtesy of Brian, who gave it to us when he moved). Thank you Brian!! First steaks of the year, and they were SO GOOD yummmmmm. I'm looking forward to more barbeques, as it worked perfectly.

Hopefully our next visit will be warmer, and we’ll be able to see the grass a bit!

Enjoying February

This is, admittedly, not my favourite month, but one must make do with what one has. In my case, this means I stay inside most of the time. We made a trip to the cottage last month, and that’s mostly what I did, but it was fun anyway!

Dodie hard at work.

No cottage trip is complete without the pre-requisite jigsaw puzzle. This was a rather hard one, and I wasn’t sorry to see the end of it.

It was a bird-count weekend but we saw so few birds it wasn’t worth submitting.

Despite our best efforts - as you can see, by the amount of seed and peanuts here - we saw few birds.

Friday was a very dull day indeed, weather-wise. Perhaps that kept the birds away.

A Chickadee!

I never tire of our view. In this case, I was happy to see the sun setting slightly further to the north. Spring is coming: very, very slowly.

Sunset.

The moon setting very early on the Sunday morning. Beautiful.

Moonset.

Having a cracked window brings about one good thing: a lovely frost pattern!

It kind of looks like big bug...

Iain took a walk in the snow before we got ready to go home.

The snow was quite deep. With the cold weather, I doubt it will have melted at all before we are back again.