Hi Rachel, You are a puzzle master! Working a puzzle and listening to an audio is the best, isn’t it? The Super Bowl was a bit of an upset so we liked that part.
It seems you have gotten a lot of rain, but no snow eh? A bit unusual right?
The deer are definitely eating everything in sight but there’s enough snow cover here that there’s not plants to get at. You are smart about the higher bird feeder pole. We have not gotten one yet. I hope they don’t eat your plants! That’s hard to watch. Have a great week.

Those deer are pretty cute when they’re not munching on my plants, haha! I think I’d give them a snack if I had that much snow, as well. They have a lot to eat here right now with acorns and things are green. In the summer I thrown out all the apples that’ve been snacked on by the birds or worms. They love our birdfeeders, too. We installed a higher pole so they can’t reach them.

Hi Stargazer, great hearing from you. The deer are here almost everyday now. They’re hungry. And I’m so glad you told me about Wandering Souls. I haven’t read it and it sounds exactly like my kind of read, especially from Vietnam. So I will check the library for it and get on the list. Thanks! Enjoy your week.

Hi Tina, yeah the next five days will be dicey temps. I think of people’s animals outside, I hope they will be all right, ugh.
Good luck with your new tablet; it sounds good. And I’m glad to know you’re a Philly Pa. girl. Enjoy your weekend.

Hi Lux, thanks for stopping by. Yes it was quite a sight when the deer were running straight to the bird feeder from across the street, whoa! I agree the Super Bowl ads and halftime show weren’t that good, or they weren’t for me. But the Eagles scored a big upset, so that was interesting. Hope you are well. Have a nice weekend.

Minus 13?! You are a ahrdier soul than I am. Having grown up with cold winters in PA and then Michigan I liked it fine, as a young person. But I fear my blood has thinned living so far south for so long.

The tablet had some updates from the version I used before as I keep things until they die. I’m good now. My computer is probably about 15 years old so it’s slooooow to boot up and i can’t really use it for blogging. It does have a DVD drive so I use it to watch a DVD sometimes.
Philly must have been crazy celebrating! At heart that remains “home” for me. Will send you an email, ought to have saved all this for the email, ha!

Hi Nicola, it’s great to hear from you and I’m glad you’re back on your blog. I’ll visit it soon. Yeah the Beth Nguyen memoir is thoughtful and made for an interesting audio. I felt sad that her family had been broken up early in life by war. Wishing you a happy 2025.