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Thank you, dear friends and readers of the Gazette, for your many, many cards, memorials, prayers, emails, and good wishes on the death of my mother. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and kind words. It was certainly a helluva way to start off the month of February and it didn't improve too much.

No, we didn't get buried in a February snowbank, but pretty darn close to it a couple of times, especially traveling back and forth to Marshall so often. Seems long ago already that my mama died. There was such a storm and so much blowing snow, they couldn't get Mom to the cemetery and buried until four days after the funeral. As I've said before, Mom always loved a good storm.

No, we didn't watch the Academy Awards in February. We hadn't gone to any of the movies that were nominated for the awards and so we weren't enticed to root for favorites nor to even care. Hopefully there will be more worthwhile movies coming soon to a theater near us. I love the great escape they provide, not to mention the stories that I don't have to read or write myself.

No, we didn't do anything special for the rest of February. It's been peaceful and rather picturesque in every direction, however, and so there are no complaints. I've never seen so much snow fall so heavily and so directly downward, nonstop, unending, like a continuous rerun just outside our windows. It's not the worst way to cover up a lot of dirt, but where does it all come from?

No, we didn't have any February dinner parties, but we did get to the grocery store a few times and have enjoyed our dinner-for-two each evening. It might sound like a sorry state of affairs to call it the highlight of a day, but that's just the way it is. Warm home, also lovely, if I do say so myself, perfectly decorated to suit my taste, good food, good wine, a Hallmark movie, fire in the fireplace, what more can we ask?

No, we didn't have any birthdays to celebrate in February so no angel food cake, no candles, no strawberries and ice cream. It's never been a popular month for birthdays in our family, which is just as well since it's not an easy month to put on miles in unpredictable and often treacherous weather. Our family birthdays occur in practically every other month, but February -- Mom and Matt in January, Dad in March, Nancy and Allan in April, Mia in May, Paul in June, Louie in July, Jenny and Chris and Bernie in September, Sophie and Steve in October, Nick and Barb in November, Me and Gunnar and Jen and Doug in December.

No, I didn't attend any city council meetings in February. Haven't attended a Victoria city council meeting for an entire year now and I'm not missing it. Recording and/or live streaming the city meetings is the best thing to have happened since sliced bread. No other person in Victoria has attended or witnessed more city council meetings than I have -- nearly 40 years' worth and counting. In 1981, the meetings were held in a room next to City Offices, up on the second floor of the Hartman Building at 1600 Arboretum Boulevard. Then they were held in a room next to City Offices in the converted old Fire Hall on Rose Street. Then they were held in the former gymnasium of the old Village Hall, also next to City Offices on Rose Street. And, since January 2015, they have been held next to City Offices on Stieger Lake Lane.

No, we didn't see much wildlife in February down here by Carver Park and Schutz Lake. A couple big deer (no antlers), a pileated woodpecker, a bright red cardinal, and a few squirrels complete the entire list. We did see coyote tracks across the edge of our yard, in the same location I've seen a coyote sneak in and out during the summer.

No, it didn't stop snowing even into March. Looks like lamb's wool. What do they say, in like a lamb and out like a lion? People make up stuff like that because sometimes it works. Silly humans, we are.

No, I don't have much to write about in this space today. Seems I said it on all the other pages already. If you don't believe me, see for yourself. There's so much to read and write, it hardly fits into one newspaper. And I don't make it up.

Later, gator.