Waiting for the fog to lift

Too many warm days like this and there will be no possibility of ice caves this year!  Temps up in the lower 40s and we didn't even wear jackets.  And when we went down to The Lake, this was all we saw.  We're wondering when we will see the sun again!

Last night was the big Lutefisk & Meatball Dinner put on by the First Lutheran Church.  Lots of people came to get their annual infusion of lutefisk...and the rest just had meatballs!  I grew up eating lutefisk every Christmas Eve and I thought it all was delicious.  All the cooks and planners did a great job!

Last time I posted we were just bringing in our Christmas tree from the meadow.  We finally got it all decorated, even the ornament up at the very top.  That was acccomplished by Leann by standing probably too high up on the ladder and leaning in a little.  Next year we'll remember to put it on BEFORE we stand up the tree...and put water in the base.  This year we remembered to measure it while it was still outside and cutting off what needed to go BEFORE we brought it inside.  Learning can happen every day/year!

And finally, we finally got our trail cam put out and pointed at the deer feeder.  Leann made a post with a stabilizing base that we can move to a good position and it's easy to swap out the photo chips to download the pictures.   Mostly we've had bluejays during the day and deer at night.  These jays below are posing nicely.

And these are all in the middle of munching sunflower seeds by hammering them on the side of the box.

And this is our deer friend we've been calling "Mouse Ears" because they look like they've been frozen or damaged at some point in her life.  She's been coming here for a couple years now.

Someone recently suggested that deer might be attracted here by putting out some hay.  So I bought a bale of alfalfa from down here at Johnson's Store and it looks like he might be right.  Turns out he's the one that sold the bales to the store!  Marketing!

Then one night (by the digital time I see it was morning!) we had a group of three deer at the feeder.  They weren't posing very well though.

This one, however, got the memo about posing!