Bashey and I both sat up straight in bed just before dawn this morning when the snowplow went through. A very loud scraping sound totally unfamiliar to us. I am amazed that the County plows when there is just a dusting of snow on the roads. It seems like a waste of tax-payer money. It wouldn't hurt people to slow down, drive through the little snow on the roads and have the plows wait until there was heavier accumulation. But this area is known for keeping the roads open.
the birds have been eating voraciously for the last two days so I suspected there was a storm coming. I also have a fat red squirrel (hawk food)who runs a zig-zag pattern across the lawn from the evergreen hedgerow. He goes as fast as he can to avoid the hawk. He climbs inside my feeders and eats until he can barely climb out. My feelings will not be hurt when he evolves to be food for hawk. I was pleased to see the large red-bellied woodpecker at the feeder this morning. they were here all summer but I hadn't seen them in a long while.
Yesterday, as I walked Bash in my yard, my ankles kept turning over and it was difficult walking. I realized I was walking on frozen ground for the first time in 22 years. Certainly Virginia and North Carolina have some freezing temps, snow and ice but the ground really never freezes. If it does, it is just a surface freezing. The Earth remains warmer. Not here in the north country. We are frozen tundra.
Sebastian likes the cold temps and the snow. He has very long thick fur right now. I want to have him shampooed and trimmed but haven't been able to do so yet. When I do, I may have to provide him with a jacket. He is right now cuddled on the sofa on his blanket sound asleep. He looks like an oversize whitish mop with a large black nose.
The snow falls and the darkness deepens as we roll on to the winter solstice in a couple of weeks. I wish you Light and warmth, music and dancing.
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