Did you have a great Setsuban? I know I did. We are celebrating Bird Feeding month at home, although it should be more like squirrel feeding month. I have some 'recipes' of some bird mixtures that I'm going to have Greta and I do maybe this weekend. It's also Sweet Potato month or, as they seem to be more commonly called up north, yams. Either way, the only one that eats them in our house is Clara when I blend one up for her. Sweet Potatoes are really big down here. Did you know they were the staple food during both the Revolutionary and Civil War? They even became a substitute for coffe when they were dried, parched, ground and brewed. I don't like coffee or sweet potatoes, but I can't imagine that sweet potato coffee would be any good.
I know so many of us are having a chilly winter, we woke up to a snowy covering this morning, about an inch. The roads did have a little icy glaze to them and suprisingly our school was not on any kind of delay. Of course people have been complainig about that all day about how ridiculous that is. But oh well. Anyways, did you know...that on Feb. 3rd 1949 the coldest recorded temperature was, well, recorded in Snag Canada in the Yukon Territory? No, you didn't? I didn't either. (I'm really getting some use oout of this teacher's calendar book someone gave me a few years back, so humor me with me not-so-useless fact entries here.) it was 81 below 0. YIKES! That'll make some icicles under your nose really fast.
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