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We've been getting some sunlight during the day for the last week and a half or so. Only a few hours per day appeared at first, but there's been a few days where there was no cloud in the way through the entire period when our East and South windows get sun!

That is probably why I have started to have a little more energy in the day. Friday I cleaned the whole counter more thoroughly than I have since Christmas - putting away the trays and cutting boards that don't fit in the sink, hunting down the crumbs behind the stupid toaster.

The temperature dropped suddenly two nights ago, though, and the radiators were failing to catch up all day yesterday (it never got over 12°C/53°F in the bedroom, the coldest in the house) and all day I kept having to huddle up in a nest of blankets in my armchair because it was too cold to have my hands on top of the blankets to sew. It seems to be warming again this morning and is only a little below freezing. There's a lot of fresh snowfall from the weekend though, and the birds have eaten nearly all our peanuts. The bird feeders are constantly busy. Wax says we need to buy more right away so there is no break in our yard's supplies that could traumatize the little dinosaurs.