February 29, 2016 Eggs & Wind

Ground re-appearing in
the grove.

Saturday 2/27. Today is the first time this winter that it felt like Spring might actually arrive this year.  Our high was 46 and I didn't even need a coat to go outside.  But it wasn't just the warmth, Spring was definitely in the air.

Lots of magazines from the mail and some papers we bought yesterday.  So there was lots to read with breakfast this morning.

I began taking fire wood off the porch today.  We still have a little less than two rows in the wood shed, but I do not want to have to re-stack any of the porch wood in the shed.

The only side effect from this whole colonoscopy situation is that I have become addicted to Ritz crackers.  Will have to stock up on them next time I am Down There, which will hopefully be the end of this week.  All depends on how slushy the road is.

The girls gave us two eggs today!  They may set a record.  They have now given us seven eggs in seven days.

Orion has moved far enough to the west now that we have to look to the south prior to 8:30 pm in order to see it.  Otherwise it is hidden by the trees.  Never noticed the seasonal changes in the heavens until we moved Up Here.

We finished watching the third season of Elementary this evening.  This has to be my favorite series of all of them.

Sunday 2/28. It was 34 and overcast this morning with off and on sprinkles.  Then it was mostly blue sky and sunshine by 11:00 am, until 1:00 pm when the wind picked up and blew in a rain/snow mix.  That kept up for more than an hour with gusts up to 20 mph, until the wind blew those clouds away and the sun shone again.

Today is Jesse's tenth birthday!  He certainly doesn't seem that old.  Hasn't slowed down a bit from when we adopted him in 2009.

I baked a cherry coffee cake this afternoon, using the last of the cherry pie filling that I made with the cherries from Elsie's cherry tree.  So good!

The girls have been pulling out the straw from under half of the nesting boxes, and it had filled the whole space under there.  When I gave them their afternoon corn and checked for eggs, I almost missed the two for today as they were in a nest on the floor where all the straw had been.  Two more today!  That is nine eggs in eight days.

Wind gusts increased to 29 mph late this afternoon and blew in a wall of snow at about 5:00 pm.  We were on the southeast edge of the storm, so it only lasted about 20 minutes.  Long enough to turn the deck and some of the bare ground white.

JB made a delicious fritata for dinner out of some of the eggs from the girls.

By the time we went to bed a little after 9:00 pm, the highest gust was 33 mph.  Since Dinga doesn't pace on a windy night if one of us is sleeping on the couch, that's what I did.  

Monday 2/29. It is 30 and partly cloudy this morning.  JB and Dinga slept well last night, but I sure didn't.  Definitely a day for a nap

Thought for the day: We scientists found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.  Martin Seligman, from Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being.