Most winters, my dogs don't get as much exercise as they should. It's been so warm the past month that we've gone outside and played soccer with them every day! It's been good for me--no SAD this year. Yay! We let the geese stay on the pond this winter and discovered how relaxing it is to just watch them sail around. I may need to replant grass in the spring. My dogs do keep them out of the upper yard, though. Our bog has 25-50 mallard ducks most of the time and they are beautiful. This year, Snowy Owls migrated to Kansas, and we've seen a few of those. I imagine the bald eagle we see occasionally will eat them. The state biologists saw they are young owls, near starvation and exhausted, not likely to make it back to the Arctic. Too bad, they are quite the sight.
Forecast is for temps in upper 60s all week. I'll have to check for daffodils and crocus.