January 23

Missed the anniversary of the blog yesterday. School was cancelled due to extreme cold. Warmed up quite a bit today (up to 34!). 

Snow Mound

Warmed up to 34 degrees today. Supposed to be below zero by Monday. Little bit of snow today.

School Cancelled AGAIN

School is cancelled again tomorrow due to extreme cold.

The Birds

Crows have been gathering en masse over the last few days and they've been cawing loudly. The photo shows Jim and Megan's backyard silver maple with a bunch of them. Our front yard silver maple had a good number as well. I took Athena out for a walk just before 5 p.m. and the skies and trees were so full it looked like something out of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. At times I'd look up and there were so many flying above that it reminded me of  the scene from The Wizard of Oz  when the flying monkeys are released.

Overnight Snow

When Dale and I went to bed last night close to midnight, there was no snow falling. When I woke up this morning around 6, I noticed that quite a few inches of snow had fallen overnight. Dale shoveled most of the snow on his own but I helped with the driveway. 

Bad Haiku

The snow remover

Shovels the powdery snow

Methodically

Sunset at 5:01 P.M.

The sunset today will be at 5:01 p.m. It won't set before 5 p.m. until November. Hope exists.