Been busy lately, reorganizing the house, buying a new bed and moving the one we had been using into the room which was formerly the birds’ room, and moving the birds into the sunroom. All of which sounds simple but entailed a lot of work and a lot of re-arranging furniture, and finding a new home for a futon and chairs which no longer had a space.
Terry seems to like being able to see out and she has lots to say about the change in her location.
Oro is also pretty happy, though he doesn’t really like seeing big birds fly past. And he is sitting right next to a pear apple tree which is going to be attracting bears soon. Pretty sure he’ll come unglued.
We’re probably going to get thermal blinds for this room, to help keep it a bit warmer overnight in the winter.
The large plum tree by the house is starting to drop ripe fruit on the ground, which makes it extremely popular according to the local deer and bear populations. One day we had three individual black bears pay a call. One was a baby who climbed the tree twice!
I took this picture through a window as I knew opening the door would scare the bear away. He wasn’t quite as scared as I thought he would be, when I did open the door. It took a stern “You need to leave!” message before he hightailed it up the hill.
Plus there is a large forest fire due west of us (long way from here since it’s in the Cascades), so it is not presenting a danger to us, except for breathing. It went from around 60,000 acres to 85,000 acres the last two days and it is almost twilight dark today. Cough cough cough.
Visibility is limited to about a mile. Normally we can see over 40 miles looking to the west. And the further west you go, the worse the smoke is. Bleah.
No rain in the forecast.