Tough Winter

Hi...just keeping in touch.  If you aren't aware of it, this was one of the worst winters ever.  In Michigan we have had such a long period of below freezing temperatures that snow is a couple of feet high.  I used my snow blower for about the sixth time this season...normally two or three uses will get one through the winter.  This doesn't count the times that someone else has done my walks for me. The Great Lakes froze over for only the fifth time. I know I'm whining, that's why I have a blog.

A squirrel was hanging from our kitchen window last week!  Did he want food?  Heat? A conversation?  Later he was nose to nose through the window with our cat Zeke!

My daughter said she was hearing sounds in the bedroom walls.  I also heard some.  Just last week my wife saw signs that mice were chewing things up in the window seat in the bathroom and later in some kitchen drawers.  We cleaned things up and I put out D-con.  Zeke caught two mice on successive days.  None since.  Mice have consumed a lot of bait but today I noticed a slow down. We also had some car problems.  

I'm wondering when the locusts are coming.  

The temperature is finally rising a bit and we will have some melting and rain later this week.  Soon we will run away from it all for a week.  We are visiting my son in Orlando and my brother in Vero Beach for a week.  Then we'll come back for the rest of this winter season.  Much of the country has had to suffer through this also, so welcome to the club.  Don't feel like the lone ranger. Keep a stiff upper lip and cheerio mate. Good times are coming!