Goodbye January. You didn’t bring us snow or ice, thank you very much. You only thought about getting cold halfway through and that was nice for a while. Still, without your late month frosty nights, we’d be up to our earlobes in bugs next year so we thank you for that, too.
January is a good cleaning month here, especially on foggy days of which we had an entire week without even a hint of sunshine. It was like living in a cloud. Mom checked closets for disarray, shredded a bunch of ancient paperwork, and tried organizing the bedsheet cabinet once again. That cabinet is a constant fail. She also rescued all the gladiolus bulbs outside that the raccoons keep digging up. Last year was a first year for growing those. Lessons learned: Dig them up and bring them inside if we want to keep them for another year. We thought only the voles would like them.
The local weather people say snow is coming in February. They could say snow is coming in July and someone out there’s bound to believe them. Yes, we might get snow next month. Mom’s okay with that. After three years of work, she finally has enough vacation time to take a day or two off work should it snow here in a town that doesn’t have snowplows for anything but the freeway, which happens to be a long way away from our house.
Look for snow pictures posted if we get any. We love seeing your snow photos if you have them, or even winter photos if you don’t get any snow. We’ll look at them together, us and Quint who’s complaining about the cold and wondering when someone’s going to crank up the heat. What he doesn’t know yet is we just took his blanket out of the dryer and have it draped over his favorite living room spot.
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2024 – Wordless Wednesday
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2020 – Cats Who Sing
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2018 – Three Words Wednesday
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2014 – Viola Says . . .
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