Puzzling it Out

It snowed on Friday morning. This is what we thought of it and the weather in general.

The high temperature was 5C/41F. Yes, I did say high. The normal high for this time or at least the average high is 17C/63F. I understand that most of the planet is hotter than usual, but the jet stream is not favouring much of North America lately. We endure ferocious winds almost every day on our little walk, and we have demurred our walk entirely on a few days.

So . .  . although one dear lady advised me that I might find a heron at the pond ~8am, I abstained. I did think about it though, and I might have gone had there been just a glimmer of sunshine. Alas, there was not.

I do have two photo from my venture on the previous day. I had stopped the car to photograph the sulky on the car that I showed in yesterdays post. Then, I noticed a shed tucked away on the other side of the road.

To move on a bit from photos, I play Sudoku on my iPad daily, or almost daily. It is very interesting and more than a little frustrating that I can't do it on some days, as was the case yesterday.

Oh, I don't mean that I forget the logic of how to play, but I simply don't/can't concentrate sufficiently on some days. I make silly errors such as putting the correct number in the wrong line and so on and so forth. It seems that my ability to track just goes a little wonky, and there's little that I can do about it.

The app lets me continue to play after I correct an error, and it is usually the only mistake that I will make. But the blunder frustrates me, and I am likely to shut the game down in exasperation.

I really think the ups and downs are at least partly explained by how long and how well I have slept on the previous night. In this case, my sleep was on the short side. So maybe I'm not totally dumb but just sleep deprived. Yeah, that must be it. Not dumb. Only sleep deprived.