Finished reading: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong 📚 This is an excellent book by one of the best science journalists around. It concerns the closer than intimate relationship of plants and animals with their microorganisms. Bacteria are not just in us and on us; in a lot of respects they are us.

It is one of those gray winter mornings where I can’t tell where the earth ends and the sky begins.

It’s -22° F at our place this morning. That’s the coldest we can remember.

Snowy day

We went to a production of “A Christmas Story” by the Lewiston (Idaho) Civic Theater. The music, choreography, and acting were excellent.

Finished listening to: Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison. This is a well-written and performed urban fantasy. 🔊📚

Finished reading: My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. This is a classic collection of short stories. Every one of them made me smile. 📚

We received the holiday catalog from the Vermont Country Store. I don’t think there was anything in it that wouldn’t have been there 50 years ago.

I rescued a young hawk that accidentally flew in the door of my workshop this afternoon and couldn’t figure out how to leave. Fortunately, I was wearing gloves, and it let me pick it up. I released it outside apparently unharmed. It’s hard to say, but I would guess it was a sharp-shinned or goshawk.

As I was doing the morning chores I had the full moon setting in one direction,

moonset

and sunrise in the opposite direction.

sunrise

It looks like lawn mowing season is over.

Snowy back yard