26F and partly cloudy @ 20:00, high hit 31.1F today. Headed down to a low of 27F overnight, but "big" warm up tomorrow (predicting a high of 39F) with rain/freezing rain later, followed by a steep drop in temps (highs in 20's, single digit lows)
We got about 12" of snow with that last storm but had high winds which ended up blowing it around some and into drifts.
Nonetheless, was able to fire up the van and make it up and down the driveway several times (despite the city leaving a large pile of pushed snow right in the middle of it) Kind of surprising, given the tread depth on the rear tires is only 4/32nds ... but the thing is a goat.
I had gone out to try and start the van about a week ago and was surprised that it started right up, given that it has several bad glow plugs. I think that it has a slight parasitic electrical draw, where if it sits for a couple of weeks, it flattens the battery. A project for this coming summer. In answer to MG's question from sometime back: nope, never checked the voltage.
Woman worked on shoveling the entryway while I was doing that and I salted it after I was finished.
Refilled hopper feeder yesterday, it was empty. Still fairly full today. The winds with the snow storm had blown snow into the bottom couple of inches of the two sunflower tube feeders so I brought those inside and took the bottoms off so the snow could melt. Need to get those filled and put back up tomorrow, probably put out more corn for deer. Know they're still out there ... can see some tracks in the snow. Seems to be fewer though so hunters may have taken some.
Got The Woman all caught up on The Expanse as far as everything that has been released on Amazon. Now it's just New Episode Fridays.
White Feather hostas seem to be doing good. Woman said to let them grow in the square pot awhile longer:
Still don't really have so many that we can't keep track of them without labels (despite all assertions by Drew to the contrary ...
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Coleus all doing well too, but still very small.
Completed another trip around Old Sol about a week or so ago so that's in the books.
Cat treat supply is now at a critical level ... so probably will venture out tomorrow for that.
Hope everyone is having a great day ...
. Took advantage of the trip to pickup my plumbing pieces. 
the 1/2 x 1/2 valve as marked on the box turned out to be wrong size in the box grrrrr. Luckily the waste line pieces were correct and have been installed 
