We didn’t have too long to wait for the Senate acquittal in the House’s second impeachment scam, followed immediately by Nancy Pelosi’s screaming hissy fit.

The Senate voted Saturday, 57-43, falling two votes short of the two-thirds necessary to impeach.

Mitch McConnell, who must believe his time in the Senate is short, trashed President Trump after the Senate vote. A conservative surely will take McConnell out if he should decide to seek re-election.

After the vote, Pelosi crashed the House “managers’ conference,” which she wasn’t scheduled to attend. Lady Pelosi censored Republicans, including McConnell who refused to vote to convict, referring to them as “cowards.”

McConnell blasted Trump for “dereliction of duty but still voted not guilty, citing constitutional concerns about the trial taking place after Trump left office.

Pelosi was furious because senators don’t hate Trump as much a she does.

Possibly, in consideration of her health, Nancy should simply resign. She’s obviously under tremendous pressure.

See the Free Presser report at the bottom of this page for more details of Pelosi’s rant.

How Is this ‘global warming’?

We’re wondering how the global warming crowd is going to turn the cold blast into an effect of the global warming nonsense.

Undoubtedly, Al Gore and other rent seekers are already hard at work on that subject.

During episodes like this, we always feel concern for the stockmen across the county who are hard at work in this cold weather, feeding their animals while snow and ice cover their usual forage and breaking ice on ponds so the animals can get a drink.

We got our first hint of cold weather problems during a visit to a local feed store when we encountered a gentleman loaded down with packages of colostrum.

He said he had three heifers deliver calves the night before when the cold weather first hit. He was buying the “first milk” packages in order to get the new babies up and going.

Early calving seems to happen every time such an abrupt weather change occurs.

Christine and I have our own little cold weather routine.

Each cold or snowy blast brings dozens of tiny birds (I’ve always called them field sparrows - whether that’s correct or not.)

Our nephew in Sapulpa, Steve Wilson, whose hobby is photographing Oklahoma’s wild birds told us the photos we sent to him were of Dark-eyed Juncos.

They’re beautiful little birds. The males, we presume, have dark gray upper bodies and white bellies. The females are brownish.

Anyway, they are hungry and seem to expect us to feed them.

I always go through the bread packages first to find slices that have gotten old or hard and throw those out for the birds first. They seem happy to have them.

That’s not near good enough for Christine. She has to go to town to buy bird seed, which she scatters liberally in the back yard. I’m expecting a thick crop of plants other than bermudagrass when I mow the yard the first time next spring.

My question is: How do the birds know where they’ll get a free meal? Can the birds smell the food, is the message handed down genetically from one generation to the next or can they just spot an easy mark?

Now other birds are showing up in increasing numbers - starlings, what I think are grackles (bullies that dominate the food dish) even some doves, which I thought would have been smart enough to migrate south before now.

Anyway, the birds seem happy to have a banquet... and we enjoy watching them.

It’s little short of amazing that such small birds can survive such harsh conditions. However, we read that they summer in Canada where they raise their young and only come south ahead of the coldest weather.

When they show up each winter, I am reminded of the time in Harmon County a number of years ago when I stopped hunting at noon for a sandwich break and a tiny bird flew up to my window and looked in. I opened the window and the bird flew in, landed on the steering wheel and took a bite of the sandwich. He took several bites from my hand before fluttering off, not to return. I thought the bird might be an escapee from someone’s home but there were no houses within a mile.

After that I tossed the remainder of the sandwich on the ground, hoping the bird would find it before some scavenger did.

We have read that most wild birds are one meal away from starving.

While we don’t like the freezing weather or the frozen pipes that go with it, the small birds are always welcome distractions.

Christine is probably already shopping for “deals” on larger bags of bird seed.