28.03.2026 A herd of deer!

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  Saturday 28th 40F/4C [6.35] A damp start, turning grey and then sunshine and showers. 65F/18C in the room. 45F/7C in the greenhouse.

 Woke at 6am coughing badly after an unusually quiet night. Decided to get up.  Back and hips aching. 

 9.00 Back from my walk. I spotted about 25 deer resting out on the prairie. Some of them had huge antlers! While I could see the deer though my binoculars. I couldn't capture them, at that distance, with my phone camera. 

 I would guess they were 600 meters away. Every attempt at zooming in just made things fuzzier. Digital zoom rather than optical?

 So I walked home, collected my Lumix G9 DSLR camera with Leica 100-400mm lens and drove back to the spot. A disused field entrance. No memory card in the camera! It was still sitting under the computer monitor from the last download. The G9 has no internal memory for saving images. Grr!?

 12.30 I could have escaped on my e-bike but decided to be sensible. So I spent some time adjusting the level of the carport feet. Despite my best efforts to level it the rainwater stays in the gutters. Instead of flowing away. Which leads to falling leaves collecting in the gutters. Further blocking the flow to the downpipes inside the rear legs. 

 It rained briefly a couple of times. I have come in for a rest and some lunch.

 I continued outside after lunch. 

 Dinner was a salmon pasty with peas and pasta. I forgot the tinned tomato again. I washed up while it cooked.

 

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