Zoomed in from one of my windows this morning around 10 am (with my Sony camera, not the phone). What the birds may have found to eat in the snow and slush, I don't know.
An old orchid plant in my bedroom has decided to sprout a bloom or two as a bit of an antidote to winter depression.
It's been a day of various weather warnings again. Wet snow has kept falling from the sky all day, and ending up as a messy, grey, icy slush on the ground. I've not set foot outside.
The whole week has been one of those winter weeks when it's kind of hard to tell one day from another. Yesterday I had to set an alarm to get up at 7, though, as an inspection of our ventilation system was going to be carried out "between 7:30 and 14:00". (7 may not sound early to some of my readers, but to me it is nowadays - at least in winter. Even the sun still does not rise until 8:30 - even on the days when it bothers to show its face at all.)
I can usually count on "rounds" not to start with me though, as I live in the middle of a building with three entrances... So getting up at 7 I had time enough to both get dressed and have breakfast and make my bed etc before they rang on my door.
It turned out an air intake filter in my study needs changing. The guy said I'm getting no air at all in here now. I think the fact that I've not noticed kind of disproves that, though... ;) (The thing is, I hardly ever have any reason to close the door to this room; and there is a functioning air intake in the living room, just across the threshold.) But the very nice young man carrying a big test instrument from room to room said that he'll put it on his report to the landlord's office, and if I don't hear from them within a month, I should call and remind them. (It's they who are supposed to fix it, not me.)
That I had been up early resulted in me falling asleep for a while in the afternoon instead - which I don't think has anything to do with the air supply not quite being up to scratch, but just proves that there's not much point for me in forcing myself to rise early if there's no special reason... (So back to my usual morning habits today.)
