All this week the temperature has been hovering around the mid 20's and beautiful blue skies.  The leaves are turning because of the frosts at night.

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Julie is busy making purses for her debut show November 3rd at Fredericton Exhibition Ground's christmas craft fair. I am helping to build a business plan so she can apply for some help from the local enterprise agency.

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Kathryn is really enjoying her Biology and Chemistry studies, plus she is making friends.   Gemma is one of the official photographers for the school year book and she is in the Save Grad club. She is making lots of friends and seems much happier too.

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Yesterday evening we sat on the back deck and watched a young American Kestrel trying to catch food. Now these are small birds looking similar to UK Kestrels and they eat mice, grasshoppers and perhaps a very small bird. This one has different ideas, it is chasing crows and actually managed to catch a Blue Jay but it doesnt have the ability to actually kill it so after much  indignant squawking the Blue Jay flew to a tree and the Kestrel chased a passing Crow. All the squirrels were scurrying around and the sparrows hid in the trees. It was funny to watch this little Kestrel chasing after a big Crow.

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Apparently this isn't unusual and on the radio the other week they were talking about immature bald eagle trying to pick up a German Shepherd dog