Apparently, Mr. Global Warming forgot to make his rounds of the Mid-West.  We are knee deep in snow, well maybe waist deep by now, it has been several hours since I've gone outside.  We've added an additional feeder to accommodate what I think is every winter bird in the county, all of whom have come to depend on the black oil sunflower seeds and cracked corn which we refill every day now.  You know how people often reminisce about their childhood winters, comment that "It just doesn't snow like it used to"?  Well, they just aren't in the right place because Ohio, in February 2010, is exactly the landscape of my memories: enough snow to build forts and igloos and connect them with under-snow tunnels.  Or maybe the HAARP conspiracy theorists have something after all.  An array of 180 antennas that will focus radio waves into a single beam in the sky and produce 3.6 million watts of power (that's 72,000 times more powerful than the most powerful radio station in the U.S.) seems strong enough to me to create some snow!  And since I have no obligation to leave my fire heated nest, it's truly like being a kid again: bundle up, play until I'm cold, then come in for some hot chocolate!