Sunday, November 21, 2010

Snow! You ARE kidding!



Two days ago, we had snow over night making it a bit cold and nasty. The liquid amber tree still has most of its leaves.  Some snow froze to the leaves and then the wind got blowing.  There are a couple of branches broken.  Not too bad considering the snow load.   There were robins and lots of other birds in the back garden this morning.  I had told Grace that the birds were not eating the berries off the strawberry tree.  Well, just to make a liar out of me, today the robins were scarfing down all the berries.  I guess they needed that frost to make them into the ice berry of the season. I brought in the humming bird feeder and added some hot stuff to unthaw it.  The two hummers are zipping around out there in the 0 to 5 degree temperatures, same as usual.
I have made up more pesto.  Tomorrow should be a a few pans of cabbage rolls with some to freeze.  My freezer compartment is full.  I will have to rearrange things to make anything more fit.  Tonite we had some of the purple plums I had frozen from 2009.     They were delicious.  And some of the ready made seafood chowder... its ok     has too many different tastes in it.  I added canned fish and seafood.   Next time just fish or clams and not too many of either.

2 comments:

Michael Rawluk said...

The robin is probably thinking that he should have booked his flight a little earlier.

Maggie said...

:-)
These robins don't bother going south. They must be on steroids or something. Our Anna's hummingbirds over winter here too. We put out feeders. This morning I was up at the crack of dawn to put out the thawed out feeder for the hummers. They are awake awfully early! I have no idea where they go to keep warm over nite. Inside a bush, I suppose.