From My Window This Morning

[steelslaver]

April 17, 2022
Out my kitchen window with a screen.

Old doe, her daughter and the twins and and a couple friends

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Quick iPad shot out my front door.
That’s the Sandia Mountains in the haze.

 

[ZGrand]

This was in the back yard this fine Easter morning. No idea where it came from - no one in the neighborhood has a peacock.

 

[StrawHat]

Peacock? Another word for Easter dinner!

Kevin

 

[StrawHat]

Last evening we took supper on the deck. A week ago, 1-2” of wet snow. Today it is in the 80s.

Kevin

 

[StrawHat]

What a difference a month makes!

Spring is one of my four favorite seasons of the year!

Kevin

 

[StrawHat]

Here is a photo from a couple of days ago. The yellow jacketed wasps are trying to take over the hummingbird feeders but this entrepreneurial spider is disputing the territory!

Kevin

 

[pawngal]

I Have the same problem with the yellow jacketed evil buzzards. Just started a week or so ago.

 

[StrawHat]

I Have the same problem with the yellow jacketed evil buzzards. Just started a week or so ago.

In the fall they have a lack of other foods. They seem to crave sugar so the hummingbird feeders, apple butter festivals and similar draw their attention.

What I recently found out is they all die over winter except the queen, who starts a new batch each spring.

Kevin

 

[WardenRoss]

Daybreak at the duck pond.

 

[StrawHat]

Here is my latest view. It never gets old!

Even the pups like it.

Kevin

 

[oldman10mm]

Being that you're located in the NE Ohio 'Lake Erie snowbelt' area, surprised to see not much snow depth.

 

[BAM-BAM]

On the lake in the Laurel Highlands of Pa this weekend......lake is partially frozen over 24 degrees; with the Bald Eagle soaring overhead!

Back in the 30-50 degree range this coming week

 

[StrawHat]

Being that you're located in the NE Ohio 'Lake Erie snowbelt' area, surprised to see not much snow depth.

Denny,

I had to drive to the Eastside of Cleveland yesterday. You folks over there had a bit more snow then we did. The winds were wrong for us to get much. Now, a NW breeze across Huron and Erie can give us several feet overnight but an Easterly or even a NE breeze, not so much.

Kevin

 

[oldman10mm]

I had 'nothing' at home, barely covering the grass. Went to Broadview Hts, a southern suburb of Cleveland, and the further south I went the snow cover got deeper.

 

[Nevada Ed]

This morning around 9:30 I had to go into town.

The snow started at 3:06am and I had 8" covering the 4x4 when I went out with a broom, to clear it off a little.

Even with four wheel drive, I could break traction if I hit the gas or turned the wheel too fast. It was a gas in the parking lots but I only did a little "Out of controll" so not to scare the people around me.

Coming home a delivery truck with 4 tires in the back, was sliding all over the place and I stayed way back and let him do his best to get down the roads in town.
His sliding got so bad, the drived finally turned on the "Caution blinkers".
I noticed that he was not chained up.

I will attack a hot cup of chocolate, soon.

Stay safe & warm.

 

[StrawHat]

A little change has been made.

So our view has also changed.

Looking West.

Looking North.

Looking East.

And here is looking South, at the new porch.

At some point we will screen it, or an Amish crew will, or maybe the West wall will be a wall of double hung windows to block weather when necessary but allow a breeze when we want it.

Kevin

 

[sophie]

Very nice porch. I like it.

 

[StrawHat]

Very nice porch. I like it.

Thank you!

It sits well. We take our morning coffee and often our evening meal there. Now, with the roof, we can enjoy it when it rains. Doubly so as the raindrops on the metal roof are wonderful music.

Kevin

 

[StrawHat]

It has been a while since I updated this thread.

Todays view,

We are on a business trip. This is a house we rent in Fox Lake, Illinois on Pistakee Lake.

Kevin