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Birthday of poet John Milton, and it's snowing!

Borrowing a few lines from today's  posting on The Writer's Almanac : "It's the birthday of poet John Milton,  born in London (1608). . . . Milton coined more than 600 words, including the adjectives dreary, flowery, jubilant, satanic, saintly, terrific, ethereal, 
sublime, impassive, unprincipled, dismissive, and feverish; as well as the nouns fragrance, adventurer, anarchy, and many more."  I can't imagine a world without those words!

 The first snow of our winter!  Blanche and Little Red wonder what these white flakes are, while Betty headed back to the chicken coop to watch the snow from a dry space.

Gabby the duck put her head under the wing - her downy feathers keep her warm - and watched the snow beginning to fall around her.


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