Up again at 5:30am and hit the crossing even earlier. However, they didn't close the street today I guess due to the expected rain. So the early rise may not have been necessary. But I got into work early and so left early. We'll see if the early mornings shatter me!
I made it through reading all the applications. There will be 3 weeks of interviews!
The baby birds are very hungry, even requesting food when the parents are not there. Their eyes are not open yet.
I was up at 5:30am and just made it across Brock St. before they closed it (they were one street over).
The baby birds are clearly 3. No eyes open but very hungry. Parents are bringing huge worms!
After work Kim and I took Pat out to a nearby park.
The robins are still successfully feeding the babies. They tiny heads are now visible over the edge of the nest. I saw 3 teeny heads.
After 8pm I went to check out the brock st crossing. It looks like they have paved the length of Brock St/ But haven't finished the joins to the cross streets. Then painting the lines would be the last step I would guess. To make the crossing before they close it I will need to get up very early!
Last night the backyard was full of racoons. I tried to scare them off from inside but they didn't care too much about me.
The robins are still working away at feeding their babies. I heard them peep today, so cute!
I walked down to take a look at the Brock street work. The sign seems to have the arrow turned incorrectly
I got up early and tried to make the crossing over Brock St. before it closed at 7am BUT the 7am today was the time that they closed the last street. As I was biking down college I saw the workmen running down Brock St and it was closed. So I travelled a parallel street until I could cross over at division. It was not a bad run because it was before 7am. Biking home I had to go all the way over to Sir John A. As I left after 6pm, it was also ok traffic wise.
I did not see any ants today helping themselves to the non-borax poison. I didn't see any ants at all.
The birds are now bringing large cut up worms to the babies so they must be growing exponentially.
I actually had a good sleep last night and woke up at 8am so I felt better during the day. I am trying to figure out what to do tomorrow as Brock St. closes at 7am so I may get up very early to beat that.
Today there were some ants and they seemed to been visiting my non-Borax poison. I thought maybe the non-Borax poison was put out a while ago and maybe had started to dry out so I put out a new container of the non-Borax poison. But they seemed to still like the old poison pot. As long as they are eating the poison, it is all good!
The robins are very dedicated to their babies. They are not pleased about my laundry activities but are willing to accept it and will still feed the babies even when I am in the backyard.
I was on AV at Rustle today - it wasn't a smooth ride as there were some technical difficulties!
I woke up at 2am, maybe woken by people outside, then woken at 6am by squirrels!
The robin nest seems to have a lot of activity so something may be happening today. They did not care about my laundry activities.
Our stove is in a time out as it was making weird beeping noises.
So far the war on the ants seems to be successful I haven't seen an ant in a day or two.
I was looking at a bush like thing in the backyard to try to determine if it was a weed or not, so I downloaded Google lens and it told me that it was a Eunomous also known as spindle tree or burning bush which sounded interesting so I left it to continue growing.
James is at a soccer tournament today
There was a cat that woke me at 5am yowling. I went out to chase it off. The robins are still actively sitting on the nest. We'll see if tomorrow brings any new developments.
Brock St. is a major artery in the city and it is closed daily from 7am - 7pm until July 31 for resurfacing. As I am north of Brock St and Queen's is south of Brock St. it makes it more of a challenge to get to work! I either need to head in before 7am or I have to take a route around it. A new challenge.
Temu quickly resent the package that I had an issue with. I was impressed at how quickly it arrived. There was no packaging- I guess packaging just slows them down. They just popped the label on the box and off it went. It was pretty battered. It was also the identical box to what I had. Still no spring.
We have summer orientation tonight. I'll need to log on soon to get things set up.
I woke up at 5am so I went into work early so I could have a break before our10pm orientation. The session went well and we have another one tomorrow!
I biked home while it was spitting rain but made it home before the downpour. The atmosphere is cooler now!
I have seen no ants in the new bait but I also have not seen any more ants so that is good.
I was incorrect about the hatching of the robins on Saturday. Something happened in the next on Saturday but it was not a hatch as there have been no feedings. But they are still sitting on the nest. Maybe they lost an egg or something on Saturday. They still on not keen on my laundry activities. They'll leave the nest and if I take too long they will stand on the fence and give me unhappy looks.
Today I was working on enrolling transfer students and putting together some contracts for TAs for September. Lots more hiring still to do!
Today I made Carmelized park and mixed veggie chow mein. It was very good!
Tomorrow it is supposed to rain around 8am so I am hoping to go in early. We also have orientation at 10pm so I'll head home early from work to balance my day out.
Kim's chickens were attacked by racoons last night. She is trying to shore up the coops. She already had to scare them off tonight as they came back.
We had a good interactive session for summer orientation. Lots of questions asked and answered.
The air and my eyes were better today.
Open enrollment begins on Monday so I need to complete as much enrollment as possible this week. We have 2 more orientation sessions on Thursday and Friday.
Today I was up at 6am and into work early as we had summer orientation and I had a lot of meetings as well. After the meetings I still had 3 hours of email. At the end of the day I was pretty spent. I biked home and then really needed a lemonade. That revived me a bit.
My eyes are sore now, I guess from the wildfire smoke.
I bought this "corner shelf" for the bathroom and this was part of the advertisement. It seems to say that there would be a spring, but when the box arrived it didn't mention a spring and there was indeed no spring included. And so I couldn't figure out how to get it to fit. So I tried to contact the Temu bot to explain it but it didn't really understand and just decided to send me another one. I'm not sure that would fix the spring issue if it is just the same box. I did watch some videos about it and think I may have figured out to put it together with no spring. Stay tuned for later this week.
Robins are on day 2 of the hatching. They still sit on the nest but also peek into the nest quite a bit.
Due to the threat of storms I only hung out the laundry at 2pm but thanks to the wind and sun it was dry by 4pm.
I had a board dinner to attend. The result of my tracker was that I walked 13km today.
There may be some hatching going on at the nest. Both parents have been at the nest at the same time looking inside, which is rare- normally there is only one at the nest at a time. When I went out to do laundry one of them stayed on the nest for part of the time, which has never happened before. Eventually it flew off when it heard a squirrel alerting as I guess it needed to check it out. Now a robin is happily nest sitting again. The photo was from the active time:
When I was heading out to do some shopping I saw that the rear passenger tire was flat. I encouraged James to use the other car but he didn't want to- he pumped up the tire and left with the pump. Hope he comes back!
I saw some ants this morning so I am going to Canadian Tire to try a new bait as the ant b gone didn't seem to work to kill the colony and they were smart enough to figure that one out! I didn't think they had taken enough but I was hopeful. It may also take some time. Just depends if they are eating what they did take back or if they are rejecting that as well.
The robin is still happily sitting on the nest. Less happy when I do laundry. When I take too long, one of them comes and sits on the fence and gives me angry looks until I finish up.
