You have more snow than we do, Dan. We only got 8-10 inches followed by sleet and freezing rain. I do have to shovel as the snowblower needs new belts and the tractor is more than my wrists can handle for now.

I've been overwhelmed with the many tasks I can't do alone, with my husband working away from the farm during the day now. I try to take care of both chore lists, but much of it must wait for the few hours he has off on the weekends- or will be done sporadically (or not at all.)

Yesterday and early this morning however, I sat here long enough to enjoy the little birds visiting a new feeder stuck onto the window, and I suddenly knew the right tune and harmonies for a springtime poem I wrote twenty years ago. Just now I revised the poem in a few places, and today I will take time from work to record the song with the revisions in place.

I am grateful for the equipment to do that and for the inspiration for a new song of joy from an old sad poem.

I'll enjoy some of that pizza pie, Dean.

maeve