Round Two

This week we had round of two of cold, snowy weather and round of two of a stomach virus thing for me. Thankfully both were short lived and things are back to normal today. Everyone is getting a bit tired of the winter weather and as we don't get the extreme heat that my sisters do we are kind of looking forward to sun and summer living. We've all been ill more than once the past few weeks. The kids had sore throats and colds, we all got a stomach bug and then as I mentioned I got it again. Hopefully everything is past now and we are all healthy as we are going on vacation next week. We have a four day Mexican Cruise planned and we will drive down to San Diego taking a couple of days and seeing some sights on the way. I'm so excited. None of us has been on a cruise and a short one like this is perfect to see how we like it. The only problem is no one has any warm weather clothes and its in the high 70s there at this time of year. Oh well, we'll have to go shopping. What a shame.

Groundhog Day

Phil says six more weeks of winter. This was confirmed by the thick layer of frost this morning and the fact that I still need to wear several layers to be warm. I'm not happy but Phil is so cute I'll let it go.

When we had the big freeze before Christmas we were concerned about the birds that were foraging around trying to find to some food in the frozen snow covered ground. So we bought a bird feeder. Like most good eating establishments things got off to a slow start and we didn't see many birds at first and the food in the feeder lasted a couple of weeks or so. But word spread in the bird community and good reviews gave us this site each morning
There are usually several more on the ground getting what these guys have knocked out. I can barely keep the thing full of food now. I love it. Simon hates it and often barks at them and the cats are transfixed as they spend most of the day in front of the door watching them. They don't go out so the birds are safe. At least from my cats. There is a big black cat that keeps sneaking under the fence. He hasn't been able to get any and usually I see him before he gets too close. Some larger birds have appeared recently that seem to keeping the smaller birds away. I'm not sure what to do about that. But for now I'll enjoy watching them from my desk each morning.