Slushy

 Another slushy morning that turned into a really slushy night. I wasn't going to build a fire but by 9:00 am the house felt cold. I was leaving for mom's but Mark was staying home today was willing to keep the home fires burning. The first job at mom's each morning is to fill the bird feeder.  For Christmas mom got 90 pounds of black oil sunflower seeds and the outdoor freezer is full of those seeds. The birds are doing their best to help empty that. The last couple weeks of weather was so cold and snow packed that the birds really are visiting and emptying the feeder each day. Today while we were watching a red bellied wood pecker arrived. 

Lots of finches mostly house finches but I also saw the gold finches are starting to turn yellow. No pictures of them as I wasn't taking pictures at that time.

Karin has been busy making baby blankets and now has 4 finished.

We will need to take mom back to JoAnn fabrics soon to pick out more material. There are 4 more great grandbabies expected as of now.  Rebekah, Anni, Emily and Hannah. Aunt Jinnie called and started a new book with mom. She read 3 chapters today. Each day she calls and reads.  Right now she is in Jupiter Florida with Aunt Sandra and was heading to the beach today.  Karin made it home by 1:45 pm and when I got home was glad to see that Mark had kept the home fires burning. It was 35 degrees so not freezing but just damp and cold.  Lots of melting going on today and more this evening. The rain has been steady and it is currently 36 degrees. I just now took the video below:

Evan was standing out in the rain looking at Lea who was ignoring him. Seeing Evan in the snow reminding me of the time we turned him loose one winter in the pond pasture behind the mare's paddocks. He really was showing off for the girls. Since the song Rhoda picked for the video was longer than the snow clip I added some other pictures and videos of him to finish out the song.