If it isn't one d**n thing, it's another, innit, birdy?
Must be time to call the landlord in yet again to fix the blasted thing!
I remember those bone-aching chills -- no thanks! I'm too old to freeze my fanny off for half the year. One or two months is more than enough for me.
Hope your counting went well. Like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...
Already called him again since it has not improved and in fact has gone down a little. Wouldn't be so bad if I were moving around doing heavy cleaning, but since I did that two days ago after the windows were put in, I'm not about to repeat the process.
The count went well, though it was more like, "1." and "1, 2." The only large numbers we saw were a couple of flocks of (American) robins - one of about 10, and another of about 20 (scattered by a swoop-through of a hawk being hassled by a few ("1,2,3.") bluejays). When I was a kid, they migrated and when they came back, they were the first sign of spring. Now many of them hang around all winter.
So the count was low, but the Garden was beautiful, and luckily I'd brought my camera, so I took lots of photos of the snowy scenery. I tried to attach one, but it's 99 MB, so I couldn't.