Coffee Time! #3

Hi everyone! How is your day going so far? Hopefully you are having a good healthy day. There is so much sickness going around these days, at least in this area. In this apartment building many people are sick, coughing, sneezing, and worse. It seems that mild winters are worse for sickness than cold winters. 

We now have some snow on the ground, about 3 or 4 inches. Not very much, but it does make things white anyway. Personally I prefer no snow, however, in this area we need snow, and lots of it, otherwise it will be a very dry spring and summer. It would take a lot of spring rain to make up for little snow cover. And dryness means lots of forest fires, something we do not want. 

American Goldfinch looking at me.

Normal snowfall for us is about 6 feet per winter. We have a long way to go for catching up to that amount. Speaking of dry, it is very dry in this building. Even with a humidifier going it is still very dry. I should probably get a second one for the bedroom, and maybe one for the hall too. Although boiling water for a while each day is supposed to help a lot too. 

Red-breasted Nuthatch.

I will try that one first. I have a lot of real wood furniture, and this kind of dryness is not good for it. Muffin does not like the dryness either. Whenever I pet her the sparks really fly. Then a different kind of sparks fly, meaning her claws meeting with my hands. Sigh. We had some fog again last night so the trees are nice and frosty again today. 

It is still cloudy though which dampens the beauty of those frosted branches just a bit. It still looks nice in real life, but pictures are dull so the beauty doesn’t shine like it should. It would look better from outside I guess, but then I would not be able to see much from the ground level. Oh well. 

White-breasted Nuthatch.

I will be showing some pics of my bird friends taken over the last couple of years. I do miss them, they always brightened up the winter. I notice SAD bothering me a lot more this winter because I am not feeding the birds. That always helped through the winter months. It gave me a reason to spend time outside. 

Now I do not go outside much, which is not good. We have had a lot of ice this winter too which keeps me indoors as well. Oh well, spring is coming, in a few months, it should be here by the end of April. Well, I hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday and God bless! 

Steve and Muffin. 

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