Not to imply that winter is over or anything! But today we at least have mild temperatures and mostly sunny skies: melting underway big time. Therefore, the roads are a mess. So what else is new?
Let’s see, we had about an inch of snow on Sunday afternoon, but when it first started snowing it was quite stormy out and seemed as though it might be a significant snowfall. I tossed a bunch of birdseed out next to our house — the only places where the ground was exposed — and the juncos, jays, and towhees have been glued to us ever since. There are also some ground squirrels (the little ones, reminiscent of chipmunks, I’ll try to find their real name), a rock squirrel, and two cottontails who have been hanging nearby. I think I saw one of the cottontails eating birdseed: desperate times call for desperate measures.