less worry, less work - shoveling snow off a sagging tarp roof is hard! as for Brutus, if it's as bad a winter as last year? I will bring him inside and build him an aviary in the "workshop" room that I keep the cat litter boxes in. down to 2 cats here, so I have cleaned that room out - before it was the cat litter room, it was my Pug Clara's room. she chose it when we moved in. I put one of her many beds in there and that was it. she slept in there for years. it's warmed by pipes running along the base of the walls to supply heat to the next room over. I'll bring one of the bantam girls in to keep him company. Sweetie will then know for certain that I'm nuts...