Decked

Remember I said that I sat out on the deck eating jambalaya a few days ago?

This is a picture of the deck this morning:



We got about three inches of slushy wet stuff yesterday afternoon and overnight.

Tomorrow evening may bring thunderstorms, and there is a fair chance of more snow showers over the weekend.

On the brighter side, we saw purple finches at the feeder today, the first we have identified since we started keeping records. A pair of ducks have set up housekeeping in the standing water alongside Berry Road above the pond. Drainage is a mystery. Water stands in this ditch and a marshy area until summer drought gets to it, but it doesn't drain down into the pond well below it or down the hill on the other side. There must be an interesting layer of clay that makes that area a pond unto itself.