As many of you know, the week before Christmas the entirety of Oklahoma lost it's mind when just over a foot of snow fell in the state.  It shut down the inter-state highways in and out of OK for two days.  People abandoning their cars that got stuck in snow drifts.  At least 25 cars worth of people slid into each other making a huge mess and the evening news.  I knew they'd go nuts.  They always do.  This kind of weather is so infrequently (12 white Christamases in 100 years and this one made 13) they just aren't prepared for what I know to be a minor inconvenience in Star Valley.  

I made a new bird feeder out of a soda bottle because for some reason Cardinals and Bluejays like to eat dog food and then bathe in Munch's water dish, a process that includes depositing "litter" in his dish just before they take off.  It worked in the city and it works here, too.

This picture is just at the storm was kicking up.  The wind, which is what caused 14 inches to drift into three foot death traps, was blowing hard.  Please notice in the picture below the lump that took up residence in my bird feeder for about 20 minutes.

All I can say is I really hope this cardinal made it through the storm.