This was the view from the veranda early one morning last week. You will hear me say it many times. I love the architecture of the oaks.
We have seen Blue Jays here before but saw something quite interesting in the last few days. There would be 5 or 6 that would swoop in and busy themselves finding acorns.
If you look carefully you can see the acorn in his beak. We watched, trying to figure out whether they ate them whole, were carrying them away or were stashing them. They moved so quickly twisting and turning so we couldn't see the whole procedure. The most likely seems that they would take the acorn somewhere where they felt safe and proceed to crack it open and eat it.
Pat has been very busy outside. He and his bobcat have become one. Our driveway sits low so he has been busy moving earth. He has built up the driveway to the garage, lowered others spots and added berms to reroute some of the runoff that will come next spring. He has a number of piles of beautiful topsoil that we will use for gardening areas and he has prepped some of the areas where we will hopefully plant into next spring.
He has also spread a fairly large load of gravel and will spread another large load this week.
We have been in Saskatoon the last few days, a whirlwind as usual dividing our time between kids, grandkids, appointments and shopping. We are coming to recognize this routine as a part of our new life. I spent the better part of Friday at the quilt show. Brooke and I had a great time Saturday afternoon going for tea and doing errands. The roof on the playhouse is shingled, Ian's gate is fixed and the leaves in his yard are raked. I have new jeans and am still on the hunt for shoes. I think we have purchased the last of the light fixtures and that has not been an easy task.
We finally made time for the Farmer's Market Saturday morning, the first time since we moved and we have just passed the six month mark.
I usually try and finish with a great photo this time you get mundane.
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