Birds, snow, heating bills

We got 4-6" of heavy snow last weekend. (One inch was predicted. Sigh.) Shrubs in back are like twiggy wood folk trying to stand back up. (I never would have planted boxwood here; they didn't clear that with the HOA board. But it does soak up excess water.) It's overcast now but has that winter glow things sometime get when the sun is hidden.

Birds have been by and taken down most of the winter mix seed and half the hot stuff. Woodpeckers, sparrows, black-eyed juncos, chickadees, titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, cardinals--I even saw a young bluejay--lots of birds. I saw both black squirrels (a variant of the greys) and a tiny red squirrel the size of a chipmunk tearing around yesterday.

The next day everything was waiting to see if the snow melt would start and reveal things. I planted two Northern pin oak acorns yesterday before the snow started. They come from a tree three hours north. We need more oaks here now. Perhaps they will like the soil.

Then another six inches. More coming. :(

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