Caper Art by Berni

February Mewsletter 2010

The robins have come home. The news came to me from our neighbour who had seen and heard the birds one day last week. They also have juncos, blue jays, sparrows, gold finches and chickadees.

In our yard, the chickadees puzzle us as they seem to have moved into the swallow's tree house. In fact it looks like winter births have taken place. You never know. The book tells us they mate in June.

The belted sandpiper spent the winter in our midst. From a distance we hear the loon. Four eagles are close by. For some reason they seem to be doing low passes over the frozen lagoon. Today we see no birds as we have a visiting Merlin hawk in the area.

Beneath the softly falling snow, pansies make a showing and in some areas the pussy willows have their buds in bloom even though it’s cold enough to see the lagoon frozen solid. In fact, a few weeks ago we watched folks have a Sunday afternoon skate. They seemed to enjoy the outing. It brought back memories of our skating days over the Cove. We were not allowed to skate on Sundays.

February was a busy month at the Community Hall. They had a good crowd at the big breakfast which takes place every third Sunday of the month.

On the last Thursday of the month, our hooking group meets at the hall. We had a nice crowd yesterday. We went down memory lane talking about old stores and places of business in St. Peter's that are gone from us forever. We still have the Cosy Corner and MacDonald’s Hotel, the old post office building and the liquor store. It seems to me the upstairs of the building housed a place for temperance meetings.

Critters Corner will be glad to see the end of the snow. All our furry friends long to chew on some fresh grass. We see Coco, the chocolate coloured Lab, go for her walks.

Last Sunday we had a classy gourmet meal at Debbie and Dave’s place where we met their Lab Keiver, a real heart warmer.

Blessings be on you and yours.