Larry's Birdfeeder

Larry took this picture from the front porch.  We had sleet and snow last night and snow all day today. I forgot to get my fitbit off the charger until this afternoon so I have less than 1000 steps on the fitbit.  It wouldn't have been a lot more if I'd worn it all day.  I mostly carved eggs sitting in the greenhouse.

It never got higher than 53 degrees in my art room.
He took one picture of a shivering bluebird but it was fuzzy.

Through the Greenhouse Door

The cardinal is all fluffed up. Larry feeds the birds. We get a lot of different kinds, but the cardinals are my favorite.

Somebody Else's Weather

We got several inches of ice last night and snow on top of it. Footprints go through the snow onto the ice so tiny steps are important. 

I don't know if the garbage truck will run but the top is frozen shut. 

Once we were in the Black Forest when it dumped seven or eight inches of snow overnight. Machinery got out and scooped up the snow and put it in dump trucks.  Then they dumped it in fields outside of town.  That sounds better than scraping all the snow onto parked cars along the sides of the roads. 

Volunteer Fire Departments

We'll be checking when the local volunteer fire departments have their fund raisers.  I think we'll be regular supporters from now on!  Thank you, volunteer firemen!

Snacks

 For a while I just ate roasted, salted almonds.  The almonds are low-carb and are supposed to lower cholesterol. But I eventually got tired of them.

 For the last few months I've been buying several kinds of almonds and also a Cajun Trail Mix, putting them all together, and then putting them in clear plastic containers from WalMart.

I measure out the little container each evening. The strawberry almonds and dark chocolate almonds, and cajun trail mix aren't as low-carb as the plain almonds, but they aren't awful, especially in the amount I'm eating.

New Low-Carb Side Dish

The hamburger patty needed potatoes with it but my low-carb diet just screamed at me. But the advertisement on television showing ranch dressing potatoes seemed like a good idea with cauliflower instead of potatoes.  So I used peanut oil to wet the cauliflower down.  Then I mixed a packet of dry ranch dressing with red pepper and paprika. I put the cauliflower in a foil-lined pan and cooked it for 25 minutes at 450 degrees.

Both of us liked it well enough to have again.

We Were Lucky

OK We would have been luckier without the fire.  But today we saw that the plastic downspout had caught on fire and flamed hot enough to start on the porch!

Scary!