When the news is grim (and, really, in my lifetime I don't know that the news has been any grimmer than it has been these last few days), I do best if I can get outside. And preferably outside in my garden. So yesterday morning, I took advantage of the "January Thaw" do an extensive walk-about in my garden as I filled up my birdfeeders. (JoJo - who loves the snow - sought the remaining piles of rapidly melting snow for a bit of a lie down. She loves to [...]