Hi Volkher! It’s mighty fine to see you again!
After an unusually mild winter, so far, we’ve now returned to more traditional February temperatures. It has been very cold the past few days. Birds are hunting around for extra fuel. They’ve been cleaning out my birdfeeders at an accelerated rate.
The robin, though, is normally a migratory beast and his appearance is traditionally thought to be a harbinger of spring. This fella is a little early, but, as I said, maybe he knows things.
Re Gatsby...the expression engine captchas were downright boring, so I tinkered a little bit. 
I would like to go with the little birds instincts myself but, have you seen the forcast for this weekend? Yuck. It was way to freaking cold for my liking this morning. One should not look like they have smoke coming out of their nostrals when they are not smoking! GC1 and I had a contest to see who could make the thickest clouds lol. Ya, we have to leave way too early in the morning.
Posted by justme on 02/09/06 at 03:40 PM
Looks like a winter nor’easter coming our way. They’re already doing the hysteria thing, talking about a MAJOR winter snowstorm. Predicted snowfall amounts? Six inches to a foot.
Come on. A MAJOR winter snow storm should be at least 2 feet of snow. Six inches to a foot takes us just out of the winter weather advisory range.
Of course, they haven’t gotten a snow storm prediction right this winter yet, so maybe it will be a MAJOR winter snow storm. I could dig it.
But let’s wait until Sunday night. It’s a total waste to have a MAJOR winter storm on a Saturday night. Fer cryin’ out loud.
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Today is one of the first nice days this winter here in Germany - but that’s due to a storm having blown the clouds away. It’s a first glimpse of what spring could bring, but having experienced the weather here these past 11 years or so, it’s going to get really cold again, right around carnival - which suits me fine, because it’ll keep all the nutcases indoors ... maybe.
BTW: The birds here are eating everything in sight. I think they know that it’s only a temporary reprieve.
P.S.: The captchas want me to enter “Gatsby”. If that ain’t better than “9x2y@”, I don’t know what is. ;)