Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind than on the externals in the world.

George Washington  

2/5/25   Fair, calm, 5 degrees.Sunshine today with a stiff NW breeze, a high of 15. Partly cloudy tonight with a low of -5.  1-3 inches of snow tomorrow, another inch tomorrow night.  A SE breeze with a high of 25.  A brisk SW breeze tomorrow night with a low of 24.  Partly cloudy Friday with a brisk west breeze, a high of 33, a low of 15.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 25.   A low of 9. Saturday night with a NNE breeze and 1-3 inches of snow.  1-3 inches of snow Sunday with a stiff NNE breeze, a high of 21.  Sunday night's low, 1.  Sunshine Monday with a brisk WNW breeze, a high of 22, a low of -3.  Partly cloudy Tuesday with a west breeze, a high of 26, a low of 10.  Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday with  north breezes,  highs of 25, a low of 4 and 7.  Mostly cloudy Friday with a NW breeze, a high of 25, a low of 10.  PM snow showers Saturday the 15th with a NW breeze, a high of 27, a low of 14.  Snow showers Sunday the 16th with a brisk NW breeze, a high of 30, a low of 10. Partly cloudy the 17th, 18th, and 19th with brisk NW breezes, highs in the low twenties, lows 6-10.

    Some of the kids are sick, they gave it to Bekah and Doug.  I had it last week.  Or maybe a different bug as I wasn't as sick as the others.  I'm better now but I'm not able to pick up much slack for Bekah. Just the hens.  Jay has been going to the kennel to help her.  Sick or not animals need food and care. Little Maisy was out of school last week, went back to school this week and had a fever again last night. So she is home again today.  A couple of days last week a call came that the bus would be dropping kids off early because there were so few stops.  Bekah says she feels better this morning.

    We don't have any large flocks of birds but we have lots of different birds.  Which is just as well.  When I had that large flock of goldfinches they went through a lot of sunflower seeds even though they are little birds.    Some years I've had a large flock of grosbeaks.  They just take over.  Fortunately a neighbor feeds the birds too.  The other birds could go wherever the grosbeaks weren't.

    May your day be blessed, Sally