It's officially fall. The leaves have changed color and fallen from the trees, the weather has turned to much colder temperatures and clocks have been turned back for daylight savings time.
Here is a minor update of what's been going on in the life of leaky20. Don't get too excited, I no longer live a particularly exciting lifestyle, as you will see. Nonetheless, enjoy!
Let's start with the trees in my yard. They looked really nice once they started to change colors. These photos were taken from my balcony.
But then they started to fall and every few days I would have to rake the lawn and put them into bags to be taken away by the garbage/compost trucks. It was an ongoing battle of sorts that lasted several weeks. I think its finally over now.
The feathered and furry critters in our yard have been working hard gathering food for winter.
This little chipmunk visits my wifes office window periodically to eat the evergreen bush out front. Or maybe he is making a bed out of the needles for his den?
Anyway, he is pretty cute as long as he stays outside the house. He also eats a lot of seed from our bird feeder.
The Bluejays are doing the same work on the feeder.
The Anti-squirrel bird feeders don't do shit against squirrels. They are too smart for them and figure them out right quick.
Bluejays are pretty heavy for a bird so they tend to close the doors on the seed holes, so that's unfortunate. They are one of my favorite birds to see. I love their colors.
Speaking of heavy birds, I've been seeing a lot of wild turkeys roaming around lately. Usually they wander away before I'm able to get a photo of them but this group of (probably males) were moving slowly across the road. Notice their beards. Mostly only male turkeys grow a beard though around 10% of females do as well. They are believed to be an indicator of health and dominance. These ones are particularly long and full so these turkeys are probably all mature and in good health.
You can kind of make out their spurs in the photos as well - the spikes on the back of their feet/legs. These are over an inch long, another indicator that these are older turkeys.
I'm not a hunter or an expert on the birds by any means but I'm guessing that they are probably at least 2 years old or more.
The dog dressed up for Halloween and hated every minute of it. We only kept him in the hotdog suit for about an hour or so. He wouldn't keep his head still enough for a photo. Stop moving your head already!
That's all I have to say for that.
We discovered an apple orchard in our area this year.
We have been buying apples and apple cider and pies and scones.
The apples are so much better than those from the grocery store and cider is such a seasonal drink that we had to buy some.
The pies have been quite good as well.
My wife chose a cherry pie one time and I chose a pumpkin pie another.
You can't have pie without either whipped cream or ice cream.
I moved to a different hospital for work a little while back so now I have a much different view of the city.
I managed to catch the sun rise briefly one morning. I only had time to watch it for a minute or so but it was still a nice thing to see to start the day.
And with that I have shared all that's new. I've got nothing else. I hope that you enjoyed this life update.