My son likes astronomy and rockets and so I wasn't sure how he would respond to this story about about a Japanese poet.  He has done well studying it though and even worked with me, hesitantly, to write two haikus.  So now we will have a little more poetry for the blog.  Here they are.

Winter haiku #1

It was cold outside

I was walking in the snow

Ice cracked under me

Winter haiku #2

Deer climbed down the hill

looking for something to eat

paws dig crunchy snow

These truly describe the outdoors around our house right now.