Free at Last....
Free at Last!
Thank God Almighty, We Are Free At Last!
I've discovered how to keep my toes warm in the snow (Three layers of sock).
I can remove chains in 3 minutes time.
I can put on chains in 10 minutes time (and Les Schwab's instructions are water-proof!)
Got K's car to a high-and-dry place...
Streets are okay except for my street, natch... (I was told the snow-plow (The one I saw last night?) skidded into the ditch...
We'll be weathering tonight's storm on the main-land.
Back to rescue the dog (at the sitter's) and the cat (from eating mountains of food) tomorrow night.
Be Well...and Maintain a Safe Following Distance.
5 comments:
Hey, You made it to Tacoma okay, great. We are heading up to Ft. Lewis tomorrow, if the weather is okay. I'll be coming up one of these weekends to Bellevue, prior to Christmas. We have to drop a load of gifts off. Not much room in the car.
Here is another question I have been wondering about. There are squirrel nests up in trees, in the big bunches of leaves, not the tree holes. What's to keep hawks, eagles and other raptors from landing on the nests and easily eating all the squirrels?
Steve B.
Short answer: Nothing.
Long answer: In Normandy Park, we had tons of squirrels, but no raptors--one hawk that would spend the day on the electrical lines by the off-ramp watching the cars go by ("Too big. Too big. Nope. Too big.").
Out in Mossback, we have bald eagles (frequently flying over our heads), red-tail hawks (they do make that falling "Eeeeeeeee" cry you here in the movies all the time...just not so much), but few squirrels. Rabbits in alarming numbers, but fewer when the fishing is bad (if you get my meaning).
So that tells ya. You have larger populations of animals where their predators are not. At Normandy, we had crows (two in particular by the house...would make a good blog story some day) that'd constantly raid other birds' nests for the eggs. Bad for the birds. Good for the crows. The crows were getting cocky. Then a pregnant raccoon raided THEIR nest...and used it as her permanent sleeping place during her gestation period. No babies for crows that year. But three babies for Mama raccoon--and for some reason they liked to hang around our yard (Made Smokey nuts!). This was a tree in our front-yard...right off our porch, so we were always privy to the wildlife drama and karma.
Nature-red in tooth and claw.
Must not have too many predators on the island, what with all the rabbits there.
Steve B.
Oh, we have a lot fewer than we used to.......
Wabbits, I mean....
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