1/8/25  In 73 days the sun will set at 7PM

It's partly cloudy, calm and 14 degrees.  Partly cloudy this morning, clouds moving in this afternoon, a high of 17 with a WNW wind.  Clouds tonight with a low of 16 and a WNW wind.  Strong NW winds tomorrow with clouds, a high of 29, a low of 23.  Sunshine Friday with a light NW wind, a high of 33, low of 18.  Cloudy Saturday with a light NNW breeze, a high of 29, low 0f 21.  Sunshine Sunday with a NW breeze, a high of 32, a low of 17.  Cloudy Monday with a light NNW breeze, a high of 30, a low of 17.  Cloudy Tuesday with a NNW breeze, a high of 29, a low of 13.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday with a brisk NNW breeze, a high of 24, a low of 8.  Partly cloudy next Thursday and Friday with NW breezes, highs about 24, lows about 8.  PM snow showers Saturday the 18th with a west breeze, a high of 28, a low of 19  Mostly cloudy Sunday the 19th with a stiff west breeze, a high of 30, a low of 17.  Partly cloudy the next three days with brisk WNW breezes, Monday's high 39, Tuesday and Wednesday's high 18.  Low's about 6 all three nights.

    Cold or not the Christmas boxes went out to the garage,  Today we rearrange the house.  A table will go where the Christmas village was for the kids to play board games on.  A table will go where the Christmas tree was with germination lights over it.  Another ton of pellets has been ordered, it goes in front of the Christmas boxes in the garage.  The forecasters who forecast a warm January are proved wrong as we go through two pus bags of pellets a day.  Plus a heaping wheelbarrow load of wood for the cook range. We are debating getting a load of logs to be worked up and stacked to season for next winter.   Meanwhile families In western North Carolina are brushing a foot of snow off their tents!

    A flock of finches came to the feeders yesterday.  Doves cleaned up any seed they knocked to the ground.  Small and large woodpeckers ate suet.  Chickadees came out of the Christmas tree for a drink, then ducked back in it's shelter.  A bright red cardinal was coming in and out of the other tree to get sunflower seeds.  The tree's branches are so thick he was well hidden when he went back inside the tree.

    May God bless you on this day, Sally.