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[releventchair]

Mornin all!

Soft hail again last night. Some lightning and thunder.
Followed by a hard freeze.
Sugar maple trees are raining leaves as the temp. climbs slightly.

20 plus M.P.H. winds forecast for later. We'll see.
If they stay West S.W. I'll try watching for a replay of that nice buck. He was where and when due to varied conditions , but was working the matters to his advantage when moving.
He didn't gain his age by making mistakes though.
I'm an infrequent visitor with an obvious and stinky truck. And stink like a human myself..
He's had a host of predators harass him. With coyotes alone throughout his whole life looking for a weakness of attentiveness or health.

 

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[bill from lachine]

Good morning RC.

 

[bill from lachine]

A few days ago Jim mentioned about a hot turkey sandwich well that's on the menu tonight since we had some chopped up in the freezer. Will be sauteeing some chard from the garden with lots of garlic on the side.

That should keep everyone beyond 6 feet when detecting tomorrrow.....

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Have a great day out grocery shopping, laundry, vacuuming, dusting, picking up, putting away, washing and waxing, trimming.
Geez get me another I'm tired out!

There's simply not enough time in the day to do all that Jim... ok, maybe I can work a little late tonight.

Today I only had time to do the grocery shopping, organize and clean the back shed, put away the deck furniture and did some laundry.
Tonight we're treating ourselves to dinner at the Lone Star in Whitby, we figure this will be the time we'll get out before our new puppy arrives.

 

[bill from lachine]

Well the missus did some pruning of our black raspberry canes today. I ended up with the sloppy job of emptying our compost bins.

We have 2 good sized bins and emptied one completely and the other about half way and transported to our raised beds.
It should finish composting during the rest of the fall and winter. The half bin left I aerated and turned it as best as possible to speed up the composting and hopefully I'll get that into the garden in a couple of weeks.

I want to get them both empty because we have a whack of leaves will be coming from our backdoor neighbours maple tree. I'll run over the leaves with the mower a couple of times and compost those in the bins during the winter.

So hopefully tomorrow I get to play in the dirt detecting for a bit.

 

[pepperj]

Well the missus did some pruning of our black raspberry canes today. I ended up with the sloppy job of emptying our compost bins.

We have 2 good sized bins and emptied one completely and the other about half way and transported to our raised beds.
It should finish composting during the rest of the fall and winter. The half bin left I aerated and turned it as best as possible to speed up the composting and hopefully I'll get that into the garden in a couple of weeks.

I want to get them both empty because we have a whack of leaves will be coming from our backdoor neighbours maple tree. I'll run over the leaves with the mower a couple of times and compost those in the bins during the winter.

So hopefully tomorrow I get to play in the dirt detecting for a bit.

Leaves the blanket for the winter, having 350 sugar maples on the property + other trees as oaks, ash, birch, cherry.
We have leaves and pine needle coming down everywhere.
I did a backpack leaf blower treatment a week ago to tame it down a bit.
I've learnt that just off the lawn by the time I get it to the roadway the pile is 15' deep x 3'high x 20' long then it takes a longtime moving to the compost pile.
A few years ago we missed the clean up then did the whole yard in the spring 40 loader buckets using the big tractor.
The sugar bush lanes can be 6" deep if I don't clear them off twice during the fall. Great compost-just a load of work.

I estimate I still have 500 green bell shaped tomatoes on 2 large plants-they won't get to the yellow tomato stage now.
It seems that they just didn't mature fast enough this year, late getting the fruit. Maybe the plants were too big and the energy went the wrong way-thinking.

 

[pepperj]

There's simply not enough time in the day to do all that Jim... ok, maybe I can work a little late tonight.

Today I only had time to do the grocery shopping, organize and clean the back shed, put away the deck furniture and did some laundry.
Tonight we're treating ourselves to dinner at the Lone Star in Whitby, we figure this will be the time we'll get out before our new puppy arrives.

Gee I thought the restaurants we all closed down again in the GTA and areas. Gee hope you had a good dinner.

 

[bill from lachine]

And it stoned me.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Well, RC, did you get one yet?

 

[releventchair]

Well, RC, did you get one yet?

Nope!
Windy tonight. Used my compact binoculars to try and spot him again in that limited distant area. Did I mention it's windy? L.o.l..
Poor eyes. (I get glasses, bifocals even , next week...).

Around 7 p.m. two tails bounced in the alder jungle to my left. Area the buck was the other night is far right. I was trying to be ready for either blind window so positioning was sideways mostly facing a corner of the blind..

I had the wind in my favor. Did not believe a deer had spotted me , but the two from the other night could have. Looked low though, like froggy fawns. They bounce around sometimes , just to bounce I think..

When shooting light was past I squeezed the chair out of the blind door. It's a tight fit out the vertical zippered heavy material.
Dropped off the platform and kept it upright...
Reached in to grab the shooting stick/rest. Then the rifle. Secured them and rolled away from the tall grass/weeds by the blind downhill a little to get in the open/shorter stuff so backing towards the truck was easier.
About seventy yards away on the edge of the alders a doe and two fawns were sneaking. It's seldom I catch a fawn sneaking and those two were doing great. L.o.l..
Momma seemed not to notice me. The wind maybe. Or, she noticed me and was just going to keep sneaking. Plenty of cover a jump away. And they went out of sight into more cover.

Think it was harvesting equipment I heard running about a quarter mile away. Those three might have drifted over from that area.

A cat went down my cutline/shooting lane whatever you want to call it. Turned where the buck had been the other night and was gone about an hour before returning.
Deer did that last year. Maybe they will again yet...

 

[WHADIFIND]

It must be so frustrating Jim, you lovingly raise your chickens, only lose them to predators in your area.

Let me just clarify for you... my neighbor only called the cops that one time I farted in my backyard and in my defense, it did kinda sound like a shotgun blast!

Did it kinda sound like......"barack!" ?

 

[WannaDig3687]

Nope!
Windy tonight. Used my compact binoculars to try and spot him again in that limited distant area. Did I mention it's windy? L.o.l..
Poor eyes. (I get glasses, bifocals even , next week...).

Around 7 p.m. two tails bounced in the alder jungle to my left. Area the buck was the other night is far right. I was trying to be ready for either blind window so positioning was sideways mostly facing a corner of the blind..

I had the wind in my favor. Did not believe a deer had spotted me , but the two from the other night could have. Looked low though, like froggy fawns. They bounce around sometimes , just to bounce I think..

When shooting light was past I squeezed the chair out of the blind door. It's a tight fit out the vertical zippered heavy material.
Dropped off the platform and kept it upright...
Reached in to grab the shooting stick/rest. Then the rifle. Secured them and rolled away from the tall grass/weeds by the blind downhill a little to get in the open/shorter stuff so backing towards the truck was easier.
About seventy yards away on the edge of the alders a doe and two fawns were sneaking. It's seldom I catch a fawn sneaking and those two were doing great. L.o.l..
Momma seemed not to notice me. The wind maybe. Or, she noticed me and was just going to keep sneaking. Plenty of cover a jump away. And they went out of sight into more cover.

Think it was harvesting equipment I heard running about a quarter mile away. Those three might have drifted over from that area.

A cat went down my cutline/shooting lane whatever you want to call it. Turned where the buck had been the other night and was gone about an hour before returning.
Deer did that last year. Maybe they will again yet...

Maybe next time. It is called “hunting “ and not “killing ,” right? Lol. Reading about the hunt has been exciting. And I am not a hunter.

 

[pepperj]

Morning

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Good morning Jim.

 

[ARC]

Morning.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Gee I thought the restaurants we all closed down again in the GTA and areas. Gee hope you had a good dinner.

I heard that only York Region went back into Stage 2 yesterday, not all of the GTA.
We've had a relatively low number of new cases here in the Durham Region.
See the stats for Durham Region below where I live.

Dinner was nice last night, except for having to deal with the attitude of a hormonal teen.


York Region sees record-high cases
The newly confirmed infections in Thursday's update were again mainly concentrated in four public health units:

• Toronto: 239.
• Peel Region:136.
• York Region: 127 (A new record-high for the area).
• Ottawa: 89.

Ontario saw almost as many newly resolved cases as new ones, as the number of outbreaks in long-term care settings also continued to rise.
Toronto has consistently seen the most new daily cases throughout the pandemic, however Ottawa currently has the worst per-capita rate of COVID-19 cases in the province, according to Public Health Ontario officials.
Other public health units that logged double-digit increases in new cases of the illness include:

• Durham Region: 40.
• Halton Region: 28.
• Eastern Ontario: 23.
• Hamilton: 19.
• Niagara Region: 19.
• Simcoe Muskoka: 15.
• Waterloo Region: 13.
• Brant County: 12.

Thursday marks the first in more than a week that the seven-day average of new daily cases has decreased, moving from about 781 yesterday to 779 today, though it has been trending consistently upward since a low in mid-August.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Good morning ARC.

 

[ARC]

Morning Anti.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Good morning, antiquarian, ARC, and Pepperj. [emoji4]

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Morning WD.