After having a beautiful day yesterday, we have rain with the possibility of freezing rain if the temp get to the freezing mark. Very little snow left, only on the sides of the street and our driveway where it has been piled up by the snow removal equipment and Hubby doing our driveway.
The snow reveals treasures that have been sleeping throughout the Winter, namely my snowdrops as they are now almost in full bloom just need a bit more sunlight. Then the daffodils are showing about two inches of their leaves and I did notice the lilac leaf buds are swelling. The warm weather also brings not so pleasant treasures, read, trash and wild animals. Today there has been two racoons in our neighbours back garden, they can be big trouble makers when they are looking for a place to have their young and finding something to eat, they tear things apart. Three years ago our neighbour had them in the attic of his house. They got in under the eaves, now I must admit is was very easy for them to do that as that part of the house was in a bad state of repair. The racoons ripe through garbage finding something to eat, so we have to keep all the containers well sealed and secure. We also saw a chipmunk, a friend and my sister also saw robins, so Spring should be just around the corner. The trash is from people walking by and not taking their wrappers, coffee cups home with them, plus the dog walkers who pick up their dogs poop and do not want to dispose of it properly, so the small plastic bags are just dropped. Plus garbage that gets blown out of the containers when put on the curb for pickup and then snow arrives and covers it up.
The moles we have are small animals the size of a mouse, they live underground and cannot see very well. They eat worms, grubs and bugs in the soil.
My housework has been suffering since I have been busy decorating so should get busy and do some this afternoon.
So with that I will say goodbye for today.
I hope you took it gently with the housework today, Pat. You deserve a day off! We have snow falling here at the moment but, hopefully, it won't be much and it will disappear soon.
ReplyDeletePossums are the bugbear here. They get into the roof and piddle and it stinks. They don't rummage through rubbish but will strip a plant of new growth. And they are protected. It is illegal to move them from your property as they are territorial so all you can do is possum proof as much as possible.
ReplyDeletePeople leaving wrapped dog poo are evil.
We've been getting heavy heavy snow all day over here in E.Ontario. Not a creature was stirring, except the hungry birds. And us stupid humans that decided to go out walking in it. There is GLARE ICE under the new snow!
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