Gone to the Birds

The mob of red pols is growing all the time. 

Update

Crazy right!?

Little Projects Plus Dog

We are trying to limit our news during the pandemic. While we indulge our selves in the half hour or so we have as our morning ration, I work on a project from the deep stash of unfinished objects. 

Isla is interested in love and affection and not so much in my desire to finish a project. 

Little Projects

I’ve wanted to do this for a while but couldn’t find birch bark on any of my regular jaunts. Yesterday skiing at Mount Mac there was a rotten birch branch beside the trail. Hooray! 

Telephony

As part of my response to Covid 19 I got our landline reconnected. Happily it is cheap and no one had to come to the house - but that is because Chris and I are both handy. And our friend Angela loaned us some handsets. 

UPDATE - We got the bill for the landline... not so cheap after all... a $68 + tax connection fee!!! The operator conveniently forgot to mention that little factoid!!! BASTARDS...

All reports were that the phone line was connected. But there was no dial tone. What’s up? Well, it’s actually not an old fashioned phone with the power and signal coming down the line. It’s a VOIP - voice over internet protocol or ‘cable phone’. In other words my phone signal is carried over the cable line, not the phone line. 

So that meant there had to be a connection between the cable wiring and the telephone wiring. And a ‘box’ to translate the data. Low and behold there was a box. It needs electricity. It was unplugged. Step one plug it in. Still no signal. Then I noticed another dangling line coming out of the box. 

The phone box needs to be connected to the cable line. Not possible because there was only one cable one coming in the house and it was occupied with our WIFI router. What to do? 

A quick trip to Canadian Tire for a splitter and bingo! Dial tone. The whole thing would have gone quite a bit faster if Northwestel folks had explained to me the fact that the phone signal is coming over my cable line. 

Who’s A Finisher!

After five years or so I finally finished this quilt! The binding took forever. 

Spritz Season

Something happens with the spring equinox- I start thinking about Aperol Spritz. With a cheese board, olives and other nibbles it really hits it out of the park. The cheese is from our local cheese monger Cultured Fine Cheese. I heard today that they will deliver to your door so you can self isolate and eat well. 

Covid 19 Home Office

This week I transformed my studio into a work from home office. It took a bit and it isn’t perfect yet, but it looks like I’ll have time to perfect it. 

Spring Fire

In the spring we like to have a fire in the afternoon sunshine on the front deck. It is what we are known for. We were able to socialize at a social distance with a few neighbours. 

And I made a lovely gin and tonic with some blueberry gin that a friend gave me. Delicious! She got it in part because it was the next to last gin in the shelf. 

Sunny Days

We got home on Thursday afternoon and found the snow had let go off the solar panels. 

It was a lot of snow. happily the snowblower started for the first time this year! 

Covid 19 Quiet

Normally there is a lot of vehicle traffic as I walk to work feeling smug about my active transportation choice. Yesterday it was like zombie land. 

Behind us is Robert Service Way which is usually stop and go traffic in the morning. 


This bridge and about a kilometre around it have stop and go traffic. We stopped for coffee at our local coffee shop and they are doing take out only - and no one was there. Normally in the morning they do a brisk business. In the afternoon I went to the cheese shop- they’d had a few rushes but by the afternoon was quiet. At the grocery store the canned goods isle was empty along with cleaning supplies and of course paper goods. On the happy side there was lots of kale, both fresh and frozen 😐. 

Mob of birds

These red pills have mobbed up and eaten all the food in our feeders in the last 12 hours. 

Crazy business. 

Selbu mitts at the coffee shop

Bourbon Cider Cocktail

Love. I’m going to add the recipe later. 

Quilting

Angels are Real

I love our Yukon ravens. They are the coolest birds. You can have a conversation with them. They play and frolick and just make me smile. 

Lovely Skies

Dog days

She snuck up on the couch.