I love your animal/pet updates. Given that we have such a menagerie ourselves, it's nice to know that there's someone else out there that spends as much time and affection on their little friends as we do. (Ours mostly have double the usual number of legs, of course, but we still find them fascinating.)

Interestingly, the last snowfall gave us a chance to see a lot of mouse-trails up and down the driveway. I'm always amused when I see a trail meandering down the center and then it zips off sideways and plunges into the snowbank, leaving a tiny little round hole. I can't help but wonder about these tiny, frigid little passageways criss-crossing beneath the unbroken surface...