Feb 4

Bob and I checked things out; what a mild winter!
The oil tank registers about 3/16th and 49 degrees on the basement thermometer, 55 in the kitchen. A balmy day.
The pond is unfrozen, but of course, no sign of fish.
Bob sawed himself a cane from a thin maple tree near Lady Brook for a sprained ankle he sustained while running around our neighborhood: tripping on a rut formed by the October snow storm's fallen trees... no real snow since then!!