Lame bird...

This little junco was here both yesterday and today.

Notice it's little leg that it drags along behind.  Yesterday it did not seem to bother it but it struggled today.

It is has been in the negative numbers all day, just as predicted.  I saw it as low as -12ºF this morn, it got up to -7ºF and I thought I saw it a degree warmer than that but not sure.  And it sits back down at the -12ºF again as I type this.

I have felt so sorry for the birds...they have really suffered today.  They would gather on my front porch and in the bushes out there.  I could actually see them shiver.  I could figure no way to make them a warm place to stay that they would use.

And Roger put out some more food, and one of the deep footprints he left served the birds as a shelter.  I don't know why, but I only saw them use the one.  This one dove sat in it about to go to sleep.  I thought it might be dying and pecked on the window....it roused and went back to eating.

The little junco above had to use its wings to balance itself.  Or at least I think that is what it was doing.
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I am working on puzzle...this is my third one since Christmas.  It does not want to got together good.  It is hard to explain...the pieces that actually fit together don't go together good.  So is a pain to work....

A friend of my husband that lives south of Terre Haute had a big limb break out of one of their big old pine trees and just missed really damaging their house.  How it didn't knock out windows is more than I know.  He sent pictures and it could not have been any closer.  It did tear up their deck.
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It feels so good to be blogging again.  I am slowly trying to touch base with everyone.  

Snow, snowing, snowing

I went to bed at 3:00 a.m. and it was not snowing...got up a few minutes past 7:00 and we had two or three inches of snow then.  It has not quit snowing this entire day.   I thought it was going to stop at one point a short while ago but I was wrong.

The birds have been at the feeders all day long...house sparrows, cardinals, juncos, starlings, tufted titmice, house finch and gold finches, some kind of woodpecker which I think was a downy....oh, and a nuthatch or two.  And doves.It is grand central station out there.
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Lorelei made it through her surgery and it has done made a difference in her life.  She always had a runny nose going and usually had a slight cough.  Not like a cold exactly but she would cough a couple times every so often.  We were constantly at her to blow her nose, or to wipe it...she does not have that problem at all now.

She had tubes put in her ears, and her hearing seems back to normal. She did get a stomach flu over New Years but is past it now.

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I am going to try to get back to blogging...now that the holidays are past.  Will be gradually getting back in the swing of things I hope.

Pajama day

Another photo from Sarah of Tootie!  Today is pajama day at preschool....well, of course Lorelei wanted a gown.  One from last year.  Sarah happened to have these leggings for her to wear under it!  Isn't she adorable.

I did not get to visit any blogs yesterday due to one thing and another.  And I won't be blogging after this for a few days.  Tootie has her tonsils out Friday...say a prayer that all goes well for her.

And in case I do no more blogging till after Christmas, I want to wish each and everyone a Merry Christmas.