Snow Day

About 9" of snow fell overnight in our part of North Carolina.  It's beautiful but very cold (19F at 11:30 am), windy, and too deep for Paisley to take a walk. It definitely brought the birds out -- we counted six bluebirds on the suet at once!  Have also hosted juncos, pine warblers, yellow rumped warblers, titmice, nuthatches, goldfinches, and others.

Paisley checking out the snow - she didn't last long!

Painting the kitchen ceiling

An odious task, but one that needed to be done, due to a bad patch from years ago and no way to match the original paint exactly since we had no more of it.  We used the same cream from the walls and painted the ceiling with it, and it looks very nice (or else the paint fumes have clouded our judgment!)  The price was right, too, as this was leftover paint.  :-)

It's Coooooooold here in NC!

Paisley had to don her Lands End squall jacket for today's walk.  She looked so cute in bright red, running around the woods with Barry, while I worked at the kitchen table (I work from home on Mondays).