I had never seen one of these before. What do you think it is?

Take a close look at Puzzling Photo #2 and you’ll see wing tip impressions in the snow. I think this means that a hawk swooped down and grabbed whatever was running through the snow. We have a Coopers Hawk that uses our backyard bird feeders as its fast food outlet.

OK, OK, I admit it. Sometimes I, Chief Tormentor, accidentally torment my wonderful Stave crafters. This time I went too far and they rebelled. They ‘forced’ me to sign a contract that I would never, ever design a certain type of TroubleMaker puzzle again…. see below. That’s Paula giving the signed contract the official Stave seal. Hmmmm.. … live and learn.

Puzzling Photo #2 was taken out our back window. What’s your take?

And you thought it was a backyard ice sculpture? …. Wrong!  Just old, melted together ice cubes I was throwing into backyard. Below is photo of ice maker tray.