The weather the nation has had has mostly bypassed Florida - we had one flurry of sleet and a couple of days of hard freeze, but everything has pretty much snapped back - it's in the 70s today and will get up into the 80s by mid week.
My health is not good - fairly serious heart problems but I'm hanging in there.
I'm frustrated by all those things I no longer seem to be able to do - getting around and even bending over is a chore - my primary MD says basically that my warranty has expired. I'll be 84 in April, I suppose that has something to do with it.
We haven't heard about the condition of our place in Maine - it's unreachable this time of year and the couple who look after it are pretty much snowed in themselves. Many years ago snow loading caused the cabin actually fall off its foundation - cedar posts in those days - it slid down almost to the lake until it was stopped by a large pine. It's been moved back and is now on a solid pile of rocks.
Here in Tallahassee we have lots of small animals and birds this time of year - the whooping cranes were recently led back on their annual migration by an ultralite plane as they are every year. There are over a dozen of them in a more-or less secret refuge at the St. Marks Wildlife Area - which is connected to Tallahassee by a bike trail. Once down at St. George Island we ran across a Whooping Crane who was checking out the beach - they are huge birds - standing almost 5 feet tall. This one was not afraid of humans - in fact quite curious about us. Eventually another crane flew over and they both flew back to the refuge.