"T Stands For Teddy On Fallen Tree" - Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Teddy will be serving double duty as my main image plus as my "T-Day ticket" for my T-Day posts.

Teddy is posing on that fallen tree using the lovely Teddy Bear Picnic Blanket that my sister made for us to use when we're out and about. Teddy said the fallen trees blocking several of the paths on this trail that led to a reservoir lookout reminded him of all of the work that "he" had to do back in August, chainsawing the trees that had fallen in my yard. I told Teddy our recollections of who did all of the work back then differ.

We've been having slightly warmer than normal temperatures for about a week or so, and Teddy and I have taken advantage of it, by going out on walking trails. However, as a word of warning, if anyone ever gets a chance to go hiking with Teddy, and he tells you he knows a shortcut, do NOT listen to him.

For the second time now, while out on a woodland trail that we had never been on before, Teddy told me he "knew a shortcut" through the woods, to get us back to our car. But just like the first time he told me that, the shortcut resulted in us needing to backtrack to the trail, to find our way out. But our versions of what actually happened differ:

Teddy said the shortcut would've brought us out on a side road, but that I refused to scramble over a stone wall and step across what he called a narrow stream, and I called a small river. I told Teddy a picture tells a thousand words, and that I would ask the T-Gang is this a stream or a river?

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Teddy then said he didn't understand what the big deal was, because worst case, my feet would've gotten wet crossing the Aspetuck River here, and this direction was level, compared to the steep hill we had to climb up, to get back to the trail we had walked in on.

I told Teddy that from now on, when we're out on a trail, not to tell me about any shortcuts that he knows, because I won't listen to him. Teddy replied to that by saying that the old adage of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" applies, and that if I thought that he misled me with his shortcut the first time, when we went to the Brett Woods Open Space, where we ended up bushwhacking on his "shortcut" and ultimately  having to turn back, I should not have listened to him the second time, so it's my own fault we had to backtrack the second time.

Moving on from the Teddy trails "incidents", this past week, I took a lot of photos, including these:

Monarch Butterfly

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Possible Bald Eagle

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And in local news, there was a 3.6 magnitude earthquake Sunday morning (Nov 8, 2020) off the coast of Massachusetts, that was also felt in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Long Island NY, and Connecticut. Teddy claims he felt it here, but I told him I don't recall that, and that the shakemap doesn't show it reaching this far west into Connecticut. While those who live in California might say 3.6 is nothing, earthquakes don't occur "regularly" in this part of the United States, the way they do in CA, and because of the consistency of the bedrock here, they get felt farther.

We've had some rain, but as of the last measurement, Connecticut still has D0, D1, and D2 drought conditions. (United States Drought Monitor - Connecticut)