Woke early and alert. leaned teeth, checked emails, read blogs, checked comments. The whole day stretched out ahead of me, a totally blank canvas. Had breakfast, watched birds (it’s the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend), swore at squirrel as it (for the second time in two weeks) unlatched the peanut feeder and dumped them on the ground. Julia went out for a walk. While she was out I read a bit, typed a bit and then decided it must be time for soup. So I got up, made butternut squash and chilli soup with tuna mayonnaise sandwiches and finely sliced cucumber, just as Julia arrived back home. Thirty seven years and we are in faultless synchronicity. Or she has mastered the art of mind control.
She has bought a new peanut feeder. I was going to make a new anti-squirrel fastener with bent wire but she has gone out and bought a caged feeder that will keep squirrels out. The moral of this is that if you content yourself with regular small amounts you can take a lot over the years. But if you get greedy and try to take too much, people will take counter-measures and you may find you are locked out. for good. They had been annoying her this week by chasing birds away and this was the final straw. It looks like they will have to confine themselves to bread and fruit from now on, and we don’t put much fruit out. In nutritional terms they have done themselves no good at all.
Now, at 6pm, I have the last vestiges of my blank canvas ahead, virtually nothing useful done, and no ideas in my head. Tomorrow I will not be making that mistake. tomorrow I will hit the keyboard knowing what I want to do in great detail. It’s that or waste another day. There’s a lot more to not procrastinating than I thought.
Looks cute but is actually the antichrist with a fluffy tail.
Julia has the mind control thing in hand…
Which probably explains all those sudden urges to do things in the kitchen. The sharp stabbing pains have a similar origin . . .
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Yes – these cute tree rats are a pain
We do not have squirrel problems in my immediate area (too many predators), it is the local black-tailed deer that do the most damage, both from browsing and at rutting season when they scrape their antlers on bark and make matchwood out of shrubs.
We have a few deer round here. but we rarely see them. They say we have more deer in UK now than we ever have had as there are no predators and plenty of food. The Woodland Trust used to moan about the damage they did to newly planted woods.
Yes, they do look cute but in Australia we have cats and rabbits that look cute but they went feral years ago and should be destroyed – they have been the cause of a number of Australia’s smaller animals becoming extinct. Britain should find a way to destroy them and reintroduce the red ones from Jesery where I saw some four years ago.
We still have reds in parts of the mainland. The trouble is that they are very numerous and very mobile – cleanse an area and they just recolonise in weeks. We don’t have enough people with guns to do the job. We have, I believe, caught all the Monk Parakeets and exterminated the coypu and the Ruddy Ducks, but grey squirrels are just too numerous.
Great selection of pictures in today’s post and soup made timeously so not a totally wasted day
That is true, though I’m starting to worry about the rapidly approaching end of the month.