If the predicted snow falls, that's 13 - 21 inches of snow over the next couple of days, and then it warms up to the 60s again.

After last year's big floods, I get the feeling the Weather Service around here has gotten very conservative, and they over-warn of bad weather. It's entirely possible this storm will totally miss us.

While it's still nice out, I'm headed over to the storage cabin to get a string of those big old Christmas lights, and will set it up for the hummingbirds in case it helps them stay warm during the day (they hide and go into a form of hibernation overnight). I've seen them make it through similar snow storms in past years without a heat source, but it'd be nice to see what they do.





The feeders have to come in overnight or the juice will freeze, so we have to get up at dawn to put them out for when the birds wake up.