Christmas Morning

It's so quiet, peaceful, and beautiful this morning I can almost hear the angels singing "peace on earth, good will to men." I hope your Christmas - and everyone's - brings peace and goodwill! And, possibly, just possibly, just a little less snow? Say, for a day or two or three till we get dug out from the last few snowfalls?

Happy Holidays!

Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas from all of us at Rockwood!

It's been an interesting week, lots of snow flurries - missed the eclipse last night due to overcast sky, but the birds and the little furry critters are very active. The area Audubon Christmas bird count is just about over, I'd been wondering if it was just my feeder that the purple finches, redpolls and siskins were avoiding, but apparently they're all spending the holidays somewhere else, no one counting birds has seen them this week either. MercyCat is spending a lot of time in the window happily bird watching the ones we have!

We had a small "disaster" over the weekend - for some reason the passenger side window of the truck literally shattered into a few million pieces - surprise! No injury and the insurance company has already set up an appointment later this week to get it fixed, but what a nuisance. Guess we get one last chance for Christmas shopping!

Who says birdfeeders are for the birds?

Here's our newest winter guest -a gorgeous little snowshoe hare who's decided that sunflower seeds are his diet of choice. He's not a bit nervous of people - or jays - he chased a blue jay away a while ago. I felt sorry for him and took him out some lettuce scraps - nope, the seeds under the feeder are much more to his liking. The jay, however, enjoyed the lettuce!

Home again

It's wonderful to be home... three weeks plus in Iowa was a l...o...n...g time. However - I'm not sure I was ready for quite this much snow! While I was gone the lake froze (so did the house water line) and the snow kept falling... and falling... and falling - I gather Mike's had the snowblower out daily. I need to start feeding the birds (tomorrow?) but thought you might enjoy seeing just how much accumulated on TOP of the bird feeder. One thing - it's great weather for snowmobiling and cross country skiing!

Winter is getting here!

Well, like everyone else in Minnesota, we got snow this past week... and now we're getting ice on the lake too. Swamper Lake (the one by the Moose Viewing Trail) was pretty much iced over when we went to town Thursday, but this is the first day we seen much ice on Poplar. It's been too windy for ice to form, but despite last night's wind - well, 17 degrees means ice - wind or no! Gorgeous day today, we're trying to keep the house warm with solar gain through the front windows and it's working pretty well.

Still have a bit to do to close the resort, Mike reports that a kevlar canoe covered with ice weighs a lot more than you might think! He's got all but one undercover now. I've got most of the Christmas shopping done, just need to do some wrapping.

Happy Thanksgiving, all!