On behalf of everybody in the Northeast, I would like to bid a not so fond farewell the month of February, 2015 – for many of us the coldest month ever. Not that things are shaping up especially great so far for the month of March. We began ours with a low of -6° here yesterday morning, and of course it snowed. Only a couple of inches, I guess, and there was more snow for the ride to work this morning (I’ll probably have to plow the driveway when I get home) but we’re supposed to reach what passes for a summer-like high of 27 this afternoon – which is double-digits below what it’s supposed to be this time of year. On the bright side, they’re currently calling for a high of 37 on Wednesday which, if it holds true, will be the first time above freezing since January 29th and the warmest it’s been around here since January 18th. And then down to 0 with a high of 18 on Thursday.

I spent most of the day Saturday (cold, but sunny) watching our herd of deer hand out in my front yard. We have several little groups that like to hang out, but a herd of 8 or so seem to have decided they like the taste of the trees in our front yard, so I sat and watched them while they watched me.

If somebody would buy me a better camera, I’d have some much better photos.

On Sunday, our little (not so little, really) troublemaker Bud managed to find a new way to escape his containment area. Basically, he went over the fence. While the snow’s gone down considerably lately, it’s still about 2 1/2 – 3 feet deep and packed nice and hard. So I had to go out and dig a trench along the fence line (I felt like I was on the front lines in WWI for a while there).

Not that it stopped the little bastard from trying to jump over.

Oh well, time to get back to work.