Wow! Today is the 15th. Around here that is a significant date... These strange B.C. people open their moose season today. Today is the day that most people start thinking of as the end of the summer. They stop going into the bush for fear of being shot... (do I look like a moose?!! ... don't answer that please!) And actually what is strange is that Mother Nature in all her glory seems to agree. This morning I got up and came downstairs and put the rabble outdoors (that would be the cat and the three dogs)...and low and behold there is a change in the air. It is definitely feeling fallish out there this morning. I have been noticing small changes for a while now. For instance... I have been noticing that the crows are flying around in flocks for a while now... you see we live so far north that crows migrate. (Not ravens though) So do Magpies. They've been flocking for a few weeks too. Then for a while now the morning air is no longer filled with the songs of warblers but instead we are hearing the songs of Jays and Chickadees. That doesn't mean that there are no warblers around just that they are not singing in the morning like they were. The sparrows are thinning out too mice and squirrels are filling their winter caches. I guess that is why moose hunting season starts so early. Still I can't imagine having to skin and butcher a moose this time of the year. It would be ok if you shot your moose 5 a.m. and still had a few hours of coolness in the air but if you shot your moose in the middle of the day the meat would be fly covered in no time at all.
Teapot and I are hunters... we like to hunt for some of our meat... but for several years now Teapot and I have not been hunting. Mostly because we never seem to get the time and by the time you pay for your license and bullets its a pretty big waste of money if you are not going to make a pretty serious effort and try to get an animal. Instead we are concentrating on trying to finish some of the work that needs to be done around here. For instance, Teapot has promised three years standing to finish the roof on the electrical shed. So that is one goal that we will try to accomplish this year. I also have a few small electrical things that need to be done. There are several electrical boxes that have never had the plug installed. There are some fixtures that need to be moved around, and new ones installed. The jacuzzi tub has an outlet for the plug but the outlet is to far away and so we have to move the outlet closer since an extension cord for so a large appliance is not really a good idea. Last but not least the wires for the light fixtures for the outside veranda need to be finished. That for now would be awesome. Then later in the fall my intention is to finish the master ensuite but I will hire someone to do that. Mostly the renovation of two or three years ago has never been completed.... but all that is left is a whole lot of finish work... this, we finish a little at a time.
Obviously there is a shift in my thinking.... and I am putting it down to a shift in the weather. Last week while we were camping nights were balmy and warm... but over the weekend night have become chilly and cool. I am digging out warmer blankets for my bed and considering the sad state they are in I've even been looking at a new down blanket for our bed. I am looking around the house at the dirty floor in the kitchen that has been tracked over with mess from outside after unloading the tent trailer and I'm beginning to think that it needs to be dealt with as apposed to putting it off till next week. Basically I'm beginning the huddle... I'm unconsciously thinking about the fall and and winter and preparations for weeks on end of cold unmerciful weather.
It was only a few days ago that I was reading one of my favorite blogs and the writer mentioned that it was the first day of school in her part of the world... now that was a bit of a shocker...! Perhaps I am thinking more about the winter huddle because more and more I am seeing back to school things coming in the mail... either way... for better or worse fall is coming.
Two things left... that I was thinking about....
1. Last week I began to notice that the under brush in the forest is beginning to change colours. There is a whole lot more in the way of gold and yellow and a whole lot less in the way of green.
2. My damn washer is on the fritz again. Last night I was washing bedding from the camping trip and the blasted thing is once again leaking water underneath... water was dripping down through the floor to the kitchen below and that means that there will be a new washer for us in the near future. Which means a perfectly good dryer will have to go too. Why?.... because I have an upright and if I replace the washer I don't have enough room for the old dryer. So of course, that means a new dryer as well. I think this time around I will get a stackable set instead. It also means that I can't do any laundry for the next week unless I take it to the laundromat. Teapot is away and can't look at it to fix it... I can buy a new one but won't be able to install it until he is home unless I hire some young studs to move it in. And Mom's and Dad's washer and dryer is out of use till next week because they are getting their bathroom renovated. Argh!
Anyway... this is a fallish morning and I think I will need water hauled and recycling done this morning and I am off to look in on the renovation of Mom's and Dad's bathroom since I hired the contractor and I am in charge of the renos.... I guess that means I need to go have a shower and get dressed... and not sit around drinking tea... hmmm.... I had better hop to it then, eh?....
Have a good mid-August day where ever you are too....
Stay tuned I will have pics tomorrow of a 40 year old mobile home renovation... You've never seen such a horrible thing in your life... it should be called the mold wagon... who knew I would grow up one day to become a slum lord!
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