These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them: Plant Shopping Holiday Gifts Birdfeeding Today's Smoothie Holiday Gifts Birdfeeding New Year's Resolutions Check In Philosophical Questions: Suffering Birdfeeding Photos from 2022 Birdfeeding Gardening in Cold Climates Tsundoku (25 comments) Follow Friday 1-20-23: Alternative Seed Shopping Moment of Silence: David Crosby Poetry Fishbowl Themes for Early 2023 Birdfeeding Landrace Gardening: True Potato Seeds Poem: "Food and Cheer and Song" Birdfeeding Cuddle Party I am still posting poems from the Holiday Poetry Sale . I'm sorry this is taking so long, but there are 36+ of them ! The 2023 Rose and Bay Awards are now running in . They celebrate excellence in cyberfunded creativity. Go nominate your favorite projects and patrons! Nomination period is January 1-31 and voting will be February 1-28. These are the handlers for the 2023 award season: Art: Nominate art ! (1 nomination) Fiction: Nominate fiction ! (1 nomination) Poetry: Nominate poetry ! (0 nominations) Webcomic: Nominate webcomics ! (2 nominations) Other Project: Nominate other projects ! (1 nomination) Patron: Nominate patrons ! (1 nominations) The is now running every other day through January. Come fansquee about everything and make new friends! Snowflake Challenge 1: Introduce Yourself Snowflake Challenge 2: A Brief Guide to the Avengers Snowflake Challenge 3: Scream into the Void Snowflake Challenge 4: Add to Canon Snowflake Challenge 5: Fannish Resources Snowflake Challenge 6: Scavenger Hunt Snowflake Challenge 7: Interact Snowflake Challenge 8: Poetry Fishbowl Themes for Early 2023 Snowflake Challenge 9: Win Snowflake Challenge 10: Create a Fanwork Snowflake Challenge 11: Favorite Trope Snowflake Challenge 12: Goals Each January, I do a set of New Year's Resolution check-ins to support folks who have set goals for the year, or whatever. New Year's Resolution Check-in January 6 New Year's Resolutions Check-in January 13 New Year's Resolutions Check In January 21 There are two open epics at present. " The Heart's Best Tenant " belongs to the Steamsmith. Charlotte has good ideas. " Within the Souls of Men " belongs to Shiv and has 17 new verses. Shiv thinks like a cat to assess wildlife conservation techniques. The weather has been moderate here. It snowed a little, but melted off by morning. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a flock of sparrows, a pair of cardinals, two female downy woodpeckers, a starling, and a fox squirrel. Crocus are sprouting in the rain garden and under the old bee tree, along with daffodils in the daffodil garden.