Lead us not into temptation

But I still prefer the roof-rack disintegrator ray . . .

xkcd.com/562/

Damp

Drizzle now, rain last night With! Extra! Thunder!

Maybe even enough rain to wash the dogshit off the sidewalks.  Hope springs eternal.

No redpolls sighted yet this morning.  We've had some pine siskins, which may have been absent for the last few weeks or just masked by the seething masses of redpoll feathers.

Great moments of Western Civilization

Waded through wet snow and reached the compost bin for the first time in months.  So now our potato peelings can go back to dirt instead of feeding the trash stream . . .