I woke up this morning to the sound of water running in the gutters and thought, heck, it's raining. Wrong. It was snowing...and has been for the last three hours at least. The temperature has fallen over night and is currently hovering at 33 degrees and with the warm weather of the last few days, any snow that has reached the ground has been melting...in most locations.
The squirrels have been stoking up on sunflower seeds like they expect the earth to be entering a new ice age. One is currently sitting on the deck rail next to the tray feeder. He blindly reaches out with his right paw and scoops a seed from the tray. Quick as a flash, that paw carries the seed to his mouth where he grasps it with both paws and shucks the inner goodness out. The left paw drops the seed hull while the right sweeps the feed tray for another morsel. It's impressive to watch as a small mile of seed hulls is swiftly built up on the deck rail. Occasionally the pile falls to the deck when it becomes unstable or the squirrel shifts position.
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I just don't get weather. I mean, you're what? Three, four hours away from me...and yet, we have springtime temps and moderate sunshine.
WTF?
It was down in the fifties here this morning but has warmed up..supposed to be in the mid seventies by this afternoon.
I have at least two new litters of tree rats running around..look like they are just out of the nest and HUNGRY! They can go through a feeder of seeds like a dose of Epson Salts through a vegetarian...
Yeah, I'm almost due west of Brooklyn but I'm also at 2100 feet elevation. Down in the valley there was only a bit of rain when I went for the papers and to Wally World for some cat crunchies.
It actually "warmed up" to 39 degrees by noon. The snow stopped (mostly) and there's only an occasional spritz of showers with the odd sleet thrown in for good measure.
Where the heck is this "warming" they're talking about. Perhaps its absence is the real reason us rubes in central PA are so effing bitter.
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