January day.....
We've been through more firewood this winter than EVER before. Just ordered another load yesterday and will be glad to have it.
It is minus one degree right now and the ice is hard as iron. Just for reference the average March temperature in the area from 1981 to 2010 was 41 degrees
Across the valley chimneys steam and smoke and the sky is showing that cold, all the way around the horizon, pink that early winter brings.
Red-winged Blackbirds and their ilk are now sixteen days late here at the farm. Smart birds. What would they eat with everything locked down under ice and snow?
A couple of strays have been picked up in the county by other birders, but here at Northview Farm it is still all winter sparrows and Chickadees.
As far as I'm concerned the far far North can take back its weather and its kee kee birds any day now and send us normal early spring....you know, sunny and muddy one day, snow storm the next.
We're getting tired of shivering.
I shouldn't complain but of course I am. We are totally waterlogged. Drought in California is definitely over. We have missed a whole month of what is usually spring here.
ReplyDeleteBoy do I understand...we are down to 14 logs of wood. Not much, but I 'm making do, because I can see springs of green grass!!!
ReplyDeleteJan, I have read that the poles have shifted. Wonder if that has anything to do with the calendar shifting as well. We had nice weather well into November and now winter is still hard upon us. Ice and sleet today.
ReplyDeleteTerry, it isn't easy is it? The boss spends a tremendous amount of time cutting and moving wood to heat this big house, and we are already two more loads down than normal and a lot of cold weather yet to come.