Fewer notes, more snow
Jan. 22nd, 2020 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkNo FCB rehearsal this week because schools were closed on Monday for MLK Day. They'd probably have been closed for weather anyway, but.... We did get the 6" predicted, and then it did indeed rain, and then it got cold and another inch+ of snow on top of that. There's a nice crust in the snow - when Ji finally went outside Tuesday (it was precipitating on Sunday, and just plain cold on Monday), in many places he just made tracks in the fluffy snow on top of the crust. Me, I break through, but the crust is thick and fairly cohesive, so it cracks 6"-8" away from the edge of my foot, leaving giant-size footprints behind.
Mum is back home in NC, after 10 weeks away from home helping her older sister (AC) deal with logistics (AC doesn't drive due to post-concussion symptoms, and needed to get from NC to FL -- and around in FL after -- without her usual driver, who broke her leg in a fall while walking in NC). Driver's leg has now healed, so Mum got to go home. She said that she doesn't really mind helping, but she quite missed being at Pennybyrn for the holidays, and she didn't get to put out any of her holiday decor.
There's been a red-bellied woodpecker poking at the 'weird' branches and eating birdseed for the last week or so. I don't know if this means that the insect supply in the real branches has been depleted or that this specific woodpecker is taking the easier route to finding food.
Mum is back home in NC, after 10 weeks away from home helping her older sister (AC) deal with logistics (AC doesn't drive due to post-concussion symptoms, and needed to get from NC to FL -- and around in FL after -- without her usual driver, who broke her leg in a fall while walking in NC). Driver's leg has now healed, so Mum got to go home. She said that she doesn't really mind helping, but she quite missed being at Pennybyrn for the holidays, and she didn't get to put out any of her holiday decor.
There's been a red-bellied woodpecker poking at the 'weird' branches and eating birdseed for the last week or so. I don't know if this means that the insect supply in the real branches has been depleted or that this specific woodpecker is taking the easier route to finding food.
