GO BACK TO BED!

A SPARKLING MORNING

LITTLE RED SQUIRREL FEEDING WITH THE BIRDS...

...HE'LL GO BACK TO BED AGAIN TOMORROW

Saturday, 8:00 AM.  7 degrees F, up from -3 when I first looked at it, and rising rapidly.  Wind NW, light with stronger gusts  The sky is currently clear, the morning sparklingly beautiful.  The humidity is 82% and the barometer is rising, now at 30.07".  We will have a good day to catch up on snow removal, recycling and other tasks before the mercury plummets again.
   Several inches of light snow fell within the past twelve hours or so, and city trucks are clearing streets and private contractors snow blowing driveways.  People are walking their dogs on the snow-packed roads.  It is as though Bayfield has come out of hibernation, at least for this morning.
   It may not yet be spring and we are surely not done with extremely cold weather, but everyone, including this little red squirrel, is tired of being indoors.   He has been eating seeds scattered from the feeders as it warmed up a bit the last several days.  He has a home somewhere in the big pine trees in the back yard, to which he will have to flee for shelter again by tomorrow.  He doesn't actually hibernate, but like the rest of us in the winter, he does sleep a lot.  I have some advice for him:
   Go back to bed!