Last Sunday we went for a short hike a little further up the gulch.
It was a grey day, and as you can see there was still some snow on the hills around us from earlier last week ..
I took a picture of these same ponds last June .. hard to believe it will ever get green like this again!
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Merl' was so 'not amused'! 'Not again', you could hear him think ..
The guys are happy of course that they didn't get any more snow, but it has been very cold lately, which isn't nice either.
James is wearing his thermal underwear and an insulated Carhartt coverall, which keeps him fairly warm, but despite the 2 or 3 pair of socks he's putting on, his toes are still freezing!
I'll better find him a pair of thermal socks and gloves, there's likely more winter still to come ..
Here he is, moving some piles of tree branches from the trees in the front of the house that they cut down a while ago, to the burn and firewood piles in the back.
They've also been digging more ditches and trenches for the sewer lines, and filling them back up with gravel ..
This is Tody (Steven's dog), their supervisor:
Well, that's about all for this week I'm afraid, there's really not much else happening.
We went for a coffee to Riggins on Saturday, just to get 'out and about' a little, but we spent much of our free time inside at the moment where it's cozy and dry and, most importantly, warm!
Here's a picture I made a while ago. Now the leaves are off the trees, I spotted this nest hanging from a branch in a tree near the river, I think it's from an Oriole:
Besides it being extremely beautifully made, I thought it was interesting to see that they've used a lot of fishing line in the 'design'. I guess it's nice and sturdy!
And this is a butt-shot (or end-shot, as my blogging friend Judy used to say) of a Ring-necked Pheasant.
I was in the car when I saw him and he just didn't want to turn around ..
So, there you have it .. the End (for now)
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