The weather has been so nice here lately. The ice and the snow drifts were getting smaller. All the fields were of course mud, but that was ok, spring was within our grasp. But I woke up this moring and I could feel it. I could feel the stillness in the air, the sound of silence.

I am usually very good about checking on the weather channel, especially this time of year as we do have very unpredictable weather here in the mountains. But I have been so busy I have not even turned on the television.

So I wake up to snow, and it is a surprise. Big, fat, fluffy flakes too. The kind that you loved to melt on your tounge as a child. And the whole world around me is silent, watching the snow fall. I go let my doggies out for their morning constitutional and I sweep these big flakes off the steps and the front walk, all the way to the gate and the hedge.My hedge is full of little sparrows and chickadees all puffed up and watching, waiting. I often wonder what they are waiting for. So patiently, setting there while the snow falls. I don't want to disturb my flocks of little birds so I go in, taking my doggies and I make the morning coffee.

Even my lovebirds are quiet today, as if they know it is snowing. They usually talk to their cousins outside. In the summer I take them out and they keep a running chatter withtheir friends that continues through the winter I swear they hear their friends through the walls. But today they are silent too, as if they are waiting for the snow to finish. 

I take my dear husband his coffee. Dee has had the flu for two days. At first he wouldn't try my elderberry solution but one dose was all it took and he felt so much better he was truly surprised and now takes it and asks for it. He thinks garlic is the only solution to everything. So when he gets sick the first thing he does is eats one raw clove. If it dosen't cure him he get's flustrated. But flu is tricky, it doesn't respond like a cold and bigger guns are needed. So I gave him my elderberry with his coffee this morning. He is doing so much better. At least until I tell him it is snowing. LOL!!!!

So off to work he goes. Not to happy but he get's home early on Tuesdays, so it isn't to bad today. He tried to tell the guy he works with, his boss/partner and also his friend for almost 20 years that he was just to sick and was told to bad, work it is. This is the same guy that was out last week with this same thing. There is a serious double standard there.

I wake up the daughter for school. She is a tough one. Some days are worse than others. I see today is going to be a bad one. Hmmm, maybe a snowball would work. I've never tried it , but I've been tempted. I mentioned snow and she dug deeper into the blankets. Well that just back fired on me. I would have thought she would have loved to come and enjoyed the stillness of the morning with me. Nope, she wants to enjoy the stillness of her bed for as long as possible. 

So now I am waiting and watching. I will keep waking her up she only has a few more minutes before her max time is finally reached. She will be doing her school work in her PJ's until her break time. She HATES that. But I found if I stay firm, my authority stays in place.

I think I'll go check my feeders. Once it stops snowing I am sure these little birds will be hungry.