January 7

1/07/08: Monday, 8:00 AM. Temp. 30 degrees, barometer down, wind calm, partly cloudy skies. Island obscured by fog. We are having sort of a January thaw. The snow base is still substantial, though. Hope some of the ice on the roof melts. The plants are beginning suffer from lack of sunlight so hope we begin to get some. The woodpeckers haven’t returned to the suet feeders yet. We miss them.