In other news

Our thermostat picked today to break! Cheaper to replace than the boiler, at least. Would’ve been cheaper still if I’d done it myself, but I thought it was the boiler. Also, realistically speaking, that wasn’t gonna happen. The Home Depot is, like, way out there. I wasn’t gonna schlep there and back, not in this snow.

Speaking of snow, you’d think it’d be easier to tell the birds apart in the snow, but not so! The snowglare doesn’t help! And we had so many birds today, including our mockingbird! And some birds have finally figured out the upside down suet feeder!