Shoulda

Snowing today.

How I love it.

***BUT***

Although I am ready, mentally, for the slower paced days that winter brings, I am not quite caught up with the fall chores that need to be done.

I am in good company. Even the poet Robert Frost found himself in a similar circumstance, as he eloquently recorded in his poem, The Star-Splitter:

"You know Orion always comes up sideways.

Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,

And rising on his hands, he looks in on me

Busy outdoors by lantern-light with something

I should have done by daylight, and indeed,

After the ground is frozen, I should have done

Before it froze, and a gust flings a handful

Of waste leaves at my smoky lantern chimney

To make fun of my way of doing things..." 

And so it was with me and the birds today. 

The lone feeder was completely empty, and I had as yet to put out 

more feeders and suet cages. 

Feeling guilty, I braved the fine, misty snow that traveled on a biter

wind to hang another feeder and the suet cage, which I had filled

with new cakes. And, guess what? 

Yep.

Nearly out of bird seed. :(

In all my "stocking up" on things to prepare for winter, I haven't gotten around stocking up on bird and cat food.

All is not lost, though...there was enough seed left to get my feathered friends through the night, and Jim had put ears of corn for Blue Jays and Woodpeckers to nosh on. 

Guess what is priority on my shopping list for tomorrow?

At least, I do not have to go feed the birds by lantern light, but I am sure that our winter constellation friend Orion, along with the airborne leaves, probably makes fun of the way that I do things, too. :)

Marcheta *slowly Gettin' 'er Done