The Flower of the Day is the table arrangement for our party last night. We celebrated Clarice's birthday and Clarice's and Roger's 30th wedding anniversary. It was a most enjoyable evening ending with singing old evangelical hymns around the piano.

The other story for us is the weather and the birds. We have had a fair amount of snow so far and more is expected tonight and tomorrow. If you were to count the birds in the picture on our deck it would come to about 36 or 37 including ten male Cardinals. We enjoy watching them. It's like an ongoing show. Actually, it's our reality show. The other birds are the Canada Geese on Lion's Lake near us, who honk as they go overhead to their morning and evening feeding in the fields outside of town. They are fun to watch, but frankly we could do with a few less.

The last picture is our group excluding Robert Schwartz and Judy McClure who are out of town, but including Peter Bailey who joined us old folks for the first time. He held up rather well.

There is no Flower of the Day on this blog; however, there is a "thing" of the day that Sandra and I spotted this morning on our way to her cataract surgery. Reliable sources say that it was sculpted by several very wise college girls. Enjoy!

Birds are wonderful, especially in the snow, and especially the Cardinals in the snow. In addition to the Cardinals, we also have Chickadees, Nuthatch, Red-Bellied Woodpeckers, Titmice, Blue Jays, Juncos and Sparrows of some variety. And we also have squirrels, and the birds and the squirrels seem to get along fairly well.

I know that snow is not much of a novelty at this time. Most of you have had your share and I hope that no one has had any major difficulties, but I felt compelled to blog so that I could not only share some of the birds with you, but especially the "thing".