Snowmageddon arrived some time after I went to bed Friday night but before I got up Saturday morning at dawn. Sleet that changed to snow (some of the biggest flakes I've ever seen) then changed to sleet again. It all froze together in one thick layer than you can walk on without breaking the crust. Four days later, the main roads are passable, but our country road is still a frozen sheet. Today, Tuesday, it is sunny and almost 31 degrees. Water is dripping off our roof. Whatever thaws today will freeze tonight and stay frozen until early next week. It's a good thing the craft room is well stocked.
Birds have been finding their way onto the porch. I opened the screen door and shushed one out yesterday. Another one was on the porch this morning. I keep the bird food for the feeder in a plastic bin inside a garbage bag (to catch the spillage) on the back porch. When I came out, the bird was IN the garbage bag, eating the spillage. I eased inside and told The Husband, "Put your coat on and come out to the porch; there's a bird IN the feed sack." (He will catch them with his hand; I won't.) It didn't work. The bird heard us coming and flew up to the rafters. There's a tunnel up there, just below the rafters, where a bird can run three quarters of the way around the porch without ever showing a feather. I opened the door, and we knocked on the tunnel with a broom, but he wouldn't come out except to fly from one screen to another before going back into the tunnel. We gave up chasing him when our hands froze. I hated to leave the door open so that more could come in, so I watched through the kitchen door until the bird finally found his way out.
I have been trying to make jewelry this week. Not having great luck. I'm casting resin cabochons in various shapes and wrapping them with wire. Only a few have turned out to suit me, but my skills are slowly improving. Maybe there's hope.
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