I forgot to mention that Henry emerged from hibernation at New Year. Whether he was hoping for a share of the remaining Christmas cake he didn’t say.
As soon as I noticed that he was awake he was transferred, complete with his customised winter residence, to my “den” where he will occupy half of my workspace for the next few months until the weather is warm enough for him to go out to the garden. Meanwhile, he has supplementary heat and light to ensure that he gets enough of each until nature takes over, not to mention a five-star room service. The latter supplements my daily exercise by ensuring that I have two or three extra opportunities to climb the stairs daily to deliver Henry’s diet of miscellaneous vegetation.
Oh, hooray! I was thinking about him the other day, but had assumed it was too early to begin asking about him. As messed up as the weather seems to be around the world, I’m not surprised he’s out already. We were hitting over 80 yesterday – a record-setting high temperature for us. Henry would love it here!
(Well, until winter arrives, which I hope will happen soon. We need freezing temperatures to get rid of the mosquitos!)
Glad to hear Henry is doing well, even if he’s up early! He’s looking well. Weird weather everywhere this year.
Yes it is weird weather. I was sowing grass seed late in October thinking that I had left it too late and that it would be killed by frost in early November. We have had only a few days of visible frost so far (which didn’t last more than a few hours) and in the mild, damp conditions the grass has grown slowly but steadily and some sustained cold weather will be welcome now, otherwise I will have to start mowing soon (instead of April or May).
On the other hand, a few days of 80 degrees now and then would be rather nice!