Squirrels

This morning over breakfast I counted 8 squirrels at one time attacking our feeders. Yesterday we had a visit from our local white squirrel. It's hard to get a good photo shooting through dirty glass but I wasn't about to do the National Geographic thing and position myself amidst the feeders in the cold (11 degrees outside right now). Besides it is hard to time when the white squirrel will appear so having my camera nearby in a nice warm house is enough preparation.

By the way, Nicki suggested I mention that many of the feeders used in our photos come from Wild Birds Unlimited. The feeders actually attract birds too which are then available for a local hawk that has visited as recently as today.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article about “Enchanting Ellicottville” in their Sunday Travel section today. You can read it online by clicking this link or this link. The crowds will probably be horrendous in Ellicottville now. Glad they didn’t mention the real Dina’s. The map in the paper did show Little Valley.

LV Attic 2

Work continued today on the attic insulation. Would have been finished but the workers decided to not open a new bag and instead bring an already opened bag tomorrow when they come to start the roofing work. Martha swears you can already feel a difference upstairs.

Got the photos by stepping cautiously over the empty plastic bags and then sticking the camera into the ceiling entry hole. The workers didn't seem to mind the company and didn't let it interrupt their work.

Did have breakfast with Ed at the Harvest Moon. Usual dishes so I won't go into detail. Came back to LV and chatted about family history while hearing the progress of the attic work. The day had started out sunny but was getting gray after breakfast and by the time Nicki and I arrived back in Oberlin the rain was falling. Martha also reported snow in LV.

Photo of the Kelly Quilt won by Martha in the Little Valley Public Library raffle.

LV's Attic

Nicki and I are in Little Valley with Martha and have just inspected today's work on the attic insulation project. Note the very large bags containing the rolls of insulation and think about the little opening in the upstairs hallway ceiling that the rolls were forced through by the three workers that are doing the job. Maybe by tomorrow evening our homestead will be blanketed in comfort and we can worry no more about ice building up on the roof - of course, with global warming we probably just wasted our investment. But at least all the several generations of unused and unremoved electrical wiring has now been pulled out.

This last picture is to suggest where we might go with the next house project or why we are now getting the roof fixed.

Nicki, Martha and I earlier did dinner out at the Myers Hotel in Salamanca. Nicki - Chicken Cordon Bleu, Martha - Chicken Parm, John - New York Strip Steak with a Cube Cheese and Ellicottville Brewery Beer soup. All excellent. Breakfast tomorrow morning with Ed at Harvest Moon also in Salamanca.