Winter Days

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Oh Dear Readers, I hope you are keeping warm during this awful cold we are having!  I have attached a link to the epistle I received from my cousin in the North Country, where the snow and blizzard is even worse than we have here in East Texas.  I hope you enjoy his picture.  He looks and acts very much like yours truly!

I have spent much of the last several days on my plush blue cot which matches the blue font and is wonderfully warm.  The sleet frightened me.  Being Egyptian I had never heard of or seen it, and when I walked out onto the porch I immediately turned and ran back inside.  But this morning I ventured out on my skis to view the countryside.  Of course, I'm referring to my large back feet which make wonderful furry skis!  I went cross country to see if I could spot any mice or rats, but they were in their woodpiles all safe and warm.  I skied home for a large breakfast and a delicious feast of liver and chicken.  Then I retired in front of the fire to let my morning meal settle and wash my skis.

On these cold days, I love to watch the birds.  Cedar waxwings, yards full of robins, cardinals, sparrows and red-wing blackbirds are there to enjoy.  My keepers have a bird feeder and it's easy to see all types of small birds there.  The robins stripped my keepers' holly tree of berries, and the cedar waxwings have stripped the cedar trees at Steve and Patty's house.  Blue jays swarm around the feeder, only to be routed by the cardinals, one of the most fierce of all birds!

My keepers added a small amount of rubbing alcohol to a spray bottle of cold water and cleared their windshields immediately.  The roads are very icy and really no one should be driving about. 

Please be careful in the ice and cold.  Stay inside and have some hot milk and enjoy these quiet cold days of winter.  They will pass soon enough.  Your Hotep thinks of you warmly.