Winter is Coming

In autumn break, Äiti prepares the Catio and garden for winter.  This year she has a new additionto the world beyond the Catio,a hedgehog house (centre of the picture). Her wonderful neighbours, Loyal Readers and Servants to Kisu and Reetu made this amazing construction.They also made one for their own garden, and there is a lot of competition between the houses as to which will be occupied. Unfortunately we have not seen our hedgehog since the roof was done - we think he got disturbed by them.

Äiti also put up two bird feeders, and all that grey stuff on the ground is frosty sunflower seeds.

On the Catio, she has covered a lot of the furniture,but decided to leave out the shelves. The beds will be removed when the snows really fall.  Pekka inspected the tarp closely.

Mirsku did watch from the table, which Äiti also covered over.

He did not want to hang around and went inside.  The camera on the tuulikaappi hasn't been live for ages but as always Äiti is slow to make changes, like removing it.

Pekka and Mirsku are pleased with the winterisation process since under those tarps there are many mousie hiding places.