A warm January

Usually in January it is cold here.  We have a few days of warmth to thaw things out a bit and then its right back to cold winter.  This year January has been surprisingly warm.  We had our January thaw like always and then we were cold again as expected.  What was not expected was the 52 degrees we had this last week and multiple days above 45 degrees in the last 2 weeks. The kids little ice pond has really not been a pond all month.  Even in the image above its a slushy mess and those are sweaters the kids are wearing not winter coats. 

 

The snow was melting fast and even the brook is open enough that the ducks have moved off their pond to play in the fresh water.  You know it has to be a warm January when Ticky Ticky (our cat for those who do not know) was outside wandering around.  The first snowflake of the season usually has her housebound till spring.

 

We were literally having tee shirt weather in the middle of winter! It has been so nice.  Almost seemed like perhaps we were heading into spring extra early this year.  The weather was even cooperating with all the frosty mornings and warm sunny days (one can wish cant she) but the reality is tomorrow we will have snow again and I'm sure the cold will return and stay for a while longer.  Thankfully its almost February and that is one month close to spring.  The sun warms us more each day and winter will succumb to the warmth.  Until that happens I will just be glad we had all these nice days of fun in the winter sun.