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Hope you are all staying warm. It's been cold here and I have a dusting of snow on the driveway. The news reported the blizzard didn't pack a punch like "they" thought - it's only 3 feet of snow falling - and how is that not a punch? I haven't done much except homework and housework since school started so I don't have any fun pictures or restaurants to show you. My husband has been traveling a lot and has eaten at some fun places but I didn't save the pictures. I do have one more square done on this wretched fruit bellpull and a start on the third square (apples)

I do have two truly terrible stories to tell you - fun right? ("truly terrible" is a matter of perspective - worse things are happening in the world as I type this but these things were pretty gross) Sunday morning I went downstairs with a huge basket of laundry and I almost stepped on the dead but not eaten mouse and vomit the cat left me- how sweet. Now when I come downstairs in the morning I carry nothing and turn on every light as I go - can you imagine if I would have stepped on or in ..... yuck. I did screech like a girl when I saw the mouse laying there - blah!! I bought an Aspen Bistro portion control pet feeder which does not work. I set it up for two meals 1/4 a cup each. It only feeds him about a tablespoon so I set it up to feed 1/4 c three times a day but I think he is still not getting enough food. He is always messing with it. I guess it will have to go back - bummer.

See the water thing - that's new too but two days after I set it up it smelled like sour milk which may be why he is throwing up. I washed it and put in fresh water and he knocked it over - so it's also going back. I was hoping this system would work for when I travel but I don't see much of that in my future so the old system will work. He is obnoxious when it comes being fed so I was hoping this would keep him from staring and meowing at me from 2 in the afternoon until 5 when he gets fed - annoying.

he doesn't look like a mouse killer

Finally - story two!! (Sorry I veered off course there) Monday morning in front of the school - in the near dark - I swerved to avoid hitting what I thought was a dead cat - I DID NOT hit it - the whole car filled with the strongest skunk smell I have ever encountered - like it was in the car with me!! The banana I was eating turned into a skunk banana and I gagged!! I rolled the window down but it was in the air outside too - must have just happened. All day all I could smell was skunk The girl next to me in my first class said she drove by it too and that was all she could smell - hope it wasn't coming off of me!! When I got home I parked in the garage - wrong - I could smell it in my kitchen so I had to move the car outside - when you open the car door  - it's unbelievable. I hope I don't smell like skunk when I go to school tomorrow - e gads.
Look at the size of this Red-Bellied Woodpecker that has been coming around - not as big as the Pileated but still impressive!

I know it's hard to see it but you can see the tilt of the feeder!

As for school - I don't want to jump the gun but it may be getting a little easier. I feel like I understand things a little better and I'm learning their computer system so it's not all foreign to me now. I'm afraid if I say it's easy then I might be missing the point and fail my classes - yikes!
Stay warm folks and thanks for stopping by