We reached he second half of January without any winter trouble. Already, the sun is shining a good hour longer than in December, and what a delight is that!
Sure, we had to shovel snow, and we are trying to keep the house warm,
but all in all, not too bad, we are not complaining.
There is a downside to the strong, constantly blowing north-westerly wind.
It makes one hesitate to go outside for a prolonged period of time.
If Molly would not be there, I probably would have grown roots with all that "sofa sitting" by the fire. She is the one that gets me out and about.
The cold and snow does not affect her at all.
Born in the winter, she grew up as an outside dog,
with temperatures around -40° F (°C).
It still shows.
What to do all these days?
Daily chores and cooking cannot fill the whole day.
Reading a good book or cruising online makes time go bye faster.
I confess that I am quite hooked onto a certain web page.
There one can find "thousand and one" ideas
about gardening, crafts, decor, recipes etc.
Once in a while I take my camera and walk from window to window.
Like today.
Fisher boats and their crews are braving the weather.
I look at the wind whipped waters of the Passamaquoddy Bay.
Nae, couldn't do that,
would be feeding the fish all day long!
Around the house snowdrifts are piling up and
frozen waves are forming here
and there.
Blue and white - I like the colours.
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Turning around,
inside the warm house my wintering plants are doing well.
In a cool room, half asleep (dormant), they are waiting for warmer days.
Some, in the warm temperatures of the living room,
seem quite happy about the longer sunshine hours.
They have started to grow pretty flowers!
A self-sown impatiens mixed with a basil,
and some surviving wave petunias.
Sorry, guys it will take another month and a half before
we can start thinking of gardening again.
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Outside, in front of the flowers,
a lonely squirrel on my lawn.
Looks more like the Arctic
to me.
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Auntie's tanslation
So weit, so gut.
Jetzt sind wir schon gut über die Mitte Januar hinaus.
Es gab Schnee zu schaufeln, es is kalt, aber wir können nicht klagen.
Der Wind ist "saukalt", da möchte man garnicht nach draußen.
Wäre da nicht Molly würde ich auf dem Sofa Wurzeln schlagen.
Sie ist ja im -40 C kalten Winterwetter aufgewachsen.
Es scheint sie nicht zu stören.
Was macht man so den ganzen Tag. Hausarbeit und Kochen
können ja den Tag nicht ausfüllen.
Lesen und auf dem Net surfen aber bringt keine Langeweile auf.
Es gibt eine Menge zu studieren.
Manchmal gehe ich mit der Kamera von Fenster zu Fenster.
Draußen sind Fischerboote unterwegs, auf dem windgepeitschten
Wasser. Da würde ICH nur die Fische füttern!
Um's Haus herum ist der Schnee zu Wellen gefroren.
Doch drinnen grünt und blüht es! Ein Trost.
Aber es dauert noch eine gute Weile bis ich wieder
an's Gärtnern denken kann.
Wenn man aus dem Fenster blickt, sieht es
eher arktisch aus.
