Thank you Mr. President!

 “Southern Maryland might get a light dusting or maybe 1 to 3 inches of accumulation” 

          ~11 am February 15            ~11 am February 16

our little nuisance dusting:

and on the "Bridge Side"

With the ground covered up the "poor" birds had no food source, so they said “Hey! Let’s go over to the Feeder’s house, he always has full feeders!

Well, they were for a while,, the hoards of voracious little bas**rds cleaned out the feeders in almost half a day.  Plus they were by and large those annoying Grackles who have no social graces whatsoever.  Pretty much drove away the usual diners of finches, cardinals, juncos and so forth.  But, as a birder friend says when i bitch about selective feeding,  "If you're going to feed the birds feed the birds!"  

Later in the day we were treated to everything from rain to sleet to freezing rain, a veritable buffet (hey, this is food blog) of wintry precipitation and winds.  An “all rain” overnight had us awaken today with everything but the remnants of plow piles gone.  Amazing.

So, what’s a snowbound Feeder to do?   Keep going on “the project”.  So much to MFO’s delight this

Has changed to

And this

Has morphed to

Now, the only remaining task is to clean up the Blogger’s Table.  More to come.   and, oh by the way have you ever noticed that when you "organize" you can't find anything anymore?  

Bits and Pieces

And to conclude the kind of short report today, just a couple of this and that’s.   First of all, after throwing brickbats at the Super Bowl half time show, I should note that Lady Gaga gave very nice signing of the National Anthem before the game.  Oh God, I thought, what will she come up with?  Well, she came up with a classic, tasteful, performance of the Anthem.  Good for her.

And just a little food buzz which may or may not prove true.  Bollywood Masala may be moving to Lenny’s.  There could be a “pumphouse” establishment somewhere along the 235 corridor (DB’S?);  Front Porch is undergoing some renovations.  The fate of Café Des Artistes seem to remain in flux.  They should say “the heck with it”, and just keep going.  But after bringing us so much joy for so many years they deserve to have some semblance of a normal retirement near friends and family.  

Guess that’s it.

DFD