Cold enough yet?

I feel like Legolas when I go out with my dogs ��’cause I’m walking on top of the snow instead of through it. Seriously, there is some major crust going on in my yard right now, and I can’t wait for some new fluffy stuff to cover it up. The dogs are’t too happy with it because their paths are all broken up, and with it being in the teens (bleah!) it hurts their little feet when they try to walk on it.

As I understand it, we’ve got one more night of really cold stuff coming, and then a slight warm up. No one is complaining much around here because of the devastatingly cold winter we had last year to compare it to. The city deer have rebounded better than I would have thought, and I saw about six a few nights ago in my neighbor’s yard. They’ve been all over the place this winter, running through the city residential areas and hospital, and I think we’ve got a potential problem brewing. I skipped protecting my hosta from munching deer last summer due to the low numbers, but this coming spring, I’m going to have to put out the good stuff or lose my tender plants.

But that is not for months and months, even if the seed catalogs are filling my mailbox. Pika is ready for it, though. He’s been on my desk for almost twenty years,��and he reminds me every day that this writing stuff? It’s hard. Don’t expect it to be easy, because it isn’t.