Charlie checks out the seed gazebo.

Dear Diary,

Third bird in a row but with all the to do with the furnace yesterday it is the best I could do.  Charlie is checking out the seed gazebo which now sits on the feeding table since Gaylord and company broke the hanger!  It is not made for their beefy bodies.  I call all my male cardinals "Charlie" since I obviously can't tell them apart. All the females are "Charlene".  That wonderful red color is so uplifting on a cold morning.

My brief inconvenience of not having heat yesterday did make me think of all my ancestors who woke every morning to a cold house.  Dotty told me one time that the water jug in her room always had a skim of ice on it  in the morning!  We do have it easy now.