Brr!!! We are in the deep freeze now! My thermometer tells me it's 14 degrees outside right now! And it will get colder overnight, and be cold again tomorrow.

After shoveling off the front steps and the deck, we stayed in most of the day, and spent a good deal of time just watching the great variety of birds that visited our bird feeders again. All the birds seemed bigger than usual - they were all puffed today up because of the cold.

This evening we went to a wine club gathering with one of my colleagues to taste nine different dessert wines - icewines, botrytis wines, and late harvest types. All rather sweet, but some quite tasty. We were all to bring some fruit or nut dessert (non-chocolate since the organizers felt that the wines didn't pair well with chocolate). So we ate lots of sweets and sampled some sweet wines. Now I feel totally sugared out! It will take a while to get off this sugar high! Guess I'll settle in now and watch a movie.