Waning crescent moon

Air temperature 12 F, wind northwest gusting to 25, sunny. Saw a star moving across the predawn sky, first ISS sighting in months. Good to see that they haven't de-orbited it yet. The muskrat wants to continue getting paid for taxi service?

Sloppy squirrel mess

The local fancy rats are mining our snow cover for acorns. Tunnels down to the grass strata. And they haul their ore to the surface and eat it where they can keep an eye out for predators. So now we have holes in the front yard snow that are surrounded by shredded acorn shells.

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