Well, not totally nothing. We’ve been getting new seed catalogs in the mail, and thinking about what we want to plant next year. And thinking about all the strawberries (hopefully!), I’ll have to play with in June.
Mishkin hiding under the couch, glaring at the fact the housekeeper was here.
He was growling and hissing at her, so Dan used the cat attitude adjustment tool, aka squirt bottle, and chased him up the stairs. He came down about five minutes later, and crawled under the couch, and resumed giving dirty looks to all and sundry, mainly Dan who had managed to get a few minute drops of water on him.
We had really cold weather in December, -13F one morning and then several other mornings well below zero. Then it fogged in and we didn’t see the sun at all.
Everything outside was covered with ice crystals, well over an inch long.
Trees, bushes, dry grasses sticking up out of the snow.
It was a fairy land outside, until the wind kicked up and blew everything away.
Then it warmed up and snowed a bunch. And then it warmed up more and the snow melted. And then it snowed again about a foot, which is where we are today.
The snow hasn't fallen off the roof by the living room (yet), and the icicles are growing all sorts of weird angles as the snow curls around.
I’ve thought about trying to knock off this icy edge of snow and ice hanging out over the edge of the roof, but it looks a little intimidating so I’ll just not and say I did.
Even the greenhouse is dreaming of spring.
And it’s doing it’s imitation of a glacier as the snow started oozing over the side and hanging down.
And then it shook off the snow cover with an impressive avalanche.
Today we’re back to being in a fog bank. Figures. I’d really like to see the comet but we won’t see the sky at all until this fog goes away and it shows no signs of wanting to do that.
So I’m playing in the kitchen. I fixed coleslaw and I’m making pizza. Can’t hardly imagine everything green outside, but we’ll be planting lettuce and greens in the greenhouse in two months, and potatoes in the garden in mid April. It will be here before we know it.