Stacy Horn

You are pretty freaking gorgeous. I pulled out some Christmas books. The Dickens of course, and an old Mary Higgins Clarke Christmas story (every single one of her books is the exact same book written over and over and over and over again, someone will ignore someone else, someone else won’t remember some key thing, but have a vague sense that they are forgetting something, there’s two guys, the bad guy and the good guy who the heroine will get together with by the end).

North Carolina Karen sent me a picture of her birds in the snow. Which inspired me to take a picture of mine, but of course there was only one up there when I went to grab a shot.

First, the country birds!

And the city bird! You can see how my fort, which I took down after the snow, created a nice snow-free zone around the feeder!

Someone took a picture of us caroling at Paddy O’Reilly’s!! I took one look at this shot and decided to get a haircut. I need something that works better with wearing a hat all the time. The guys singing around me (the only people I could hear) had beautiful voices. Really beautiful.

Oh, before I forget, I keep meaning to post this. When I was looking up which subway to take to get to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine I saw that people actually reviewed churches and this one review for St. John’s was amusing:

St John the Divine Cathedral 1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025-1798
Poor performance – Sep 17, 2009
Beautiful Cathedral, but did not fulfill on promises. Material provided promised entry into heaven by following several simple rules. After obeying those rules, and consulting with third party experts, was assured that necessary conditions were not met and that, in fact, their advice would lead to damnation.
 

But at least I don’t have to worry about the birds. They made it to the feeder, even in the snow. Good, smart birds!!

And my fort totally worked. I had a lot less snow to shovel as a result, too. So, the birds are fine.

I’m fine too, really. I went back to work on my singing proposal, based on my agent’s edits and so far so good, but I haven’t got to the hard part yet. The painful part. The big huge slash and burn part. Knowing it’s looming is making me a little insane.

But these are luxury problems. I’m well, all my friends and family are well, and the cats are mostly well. Health care is looking good!!

I just imagined the birds walking in the deeper snow. They must have completely sunk into the snow, so they’d have to do this rocking thing in order to lift each leg to take another step.

I decided to go caroling at Paddy O’Reilly’s and I head out and the mere dusting was turning into quite the snowfall. It was GREAT!!! Snow all over the place!! Blizzard-y!!

And caroling was so much fun. I really have to remember that choosing to go singing is never ever a bad choice. Especially in a bar. Or church. Interesting that those are the two best places, bars and churches.

I made a fort for my birds, but I’m still going to have to shovel that area this morning. The feeder inside is probably snow-free, but the fort around it is buried, I’m sure. I don’t have a snow shovel though. Hmm. Well, I find something.

Damnit. I was wondering why my pictures have come out so grainy the past couple of days and sure enough, one of the settings is wrong. And the movies I took last night didn’t come out because that setting was wrong, too. That keeps happening to me. I have to remember that these dials move if you so much as breath on them funny.

That, apparently, is the least of my worries. My building has NO HEAT OR HOT WATER RIGHT NOW!! I called the super, but if they have to get an oil truck here forget about it for today. Well, I’ve got a space heater. I’m going to relax with my coffee and then go out there!! I’ll get some daytime pictures of the snow while I run a couple of errands.