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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Stacey & Linda Leave

Linda spent a large part of Tuesday on the phone taking "Happy Birthday" calls. Brent was scheduled for a school conference in Louisville on Wed, Thur & Fri, so Stacey and Linda went to stay with Pauline, Julie and Kyle for a couple nights. They left around 11:30 AM on Wednesday in the HHR. I worked on the ditch between the hayfields with the tractor after they left. I used the scoop to level out the bottom of the ditch and move the rock and dirt. I then dumped the dirt over the top of the cement culvert tiles and along the dirt road that I had built next to the ditch.
 
It's looking like rain today, so I'm going to work on filing our taxes.
 
I also noticed that we have the first flower blooming, it's good to see a sign of Spring.

Posted by Dave at 9:00 AM
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

Week End Vistors

Pauline, Brent, Julie and Kyle arrived around 5 PM Friday evening. We all went to town to eat supper.
Saturday morning, the sun was out and the weather warmed up quickly. I went and started the tractor while Linda, Julie and Brent went walking in the woods behind the house. I used the tractor to rake the debris out of the hay fields. Before I was finished, Brent drove the Mule across the creek with the black trailer behind and Julie, Stacey and Linda riding along. They picked up the piece that were too small for me to get with the tractor. They piled the small limbs and sticks on the trailer as Stacey drove the Mule through the fields. When we had finished, I let Julie ride with me on the tractor and then Brent and her rode in the scoop when we crossed the creek and pulled to the fire pit. Stacey followed with the Mule and trailer. We tossed most of the pieces into the fire pit and then went to the house for lunch. We had hot dogs for lunch, then Pauline took Kyle and we all went down to the fire pit. Brent lit the fire and we finished tossing the pieces onto the fire until the trailer was clean. We sat around the fire and enjoyed the warm weather and the heat from the fire until it was nearly dark, then we went inside.
Sunday morning was another nice day. We didn't do any work, but were outside most of the day. Pauline waited a little longer than everyone else to take Kyle out. Once it was warm enough, she took him to the pond area. Stacey, Julie, Pauline and Brent took Pico, Poco and Coco for a hike in the woods behind the house. Linda took care of Kyle while she sat on the bench beside the pond. I took pictures.
   
   
   
A little before 5 PM, Pauline and Brent were preparing to leave, Brent was carrying out their bags when Nancy and Steve Riddle came in the front door. They were wanting to see our new grandson, Kyle. Nancy held him for a few minutes and her and Steve talked to Julie, Pauline and Brent. Soon, Nancy and Steve needed to leave to attend their church services and PB&J/K left a few minutes later. Linda took a nap as Stacey and I watched the recording of the NASCAR race.

Posted by Dave at 9:00 PM
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Friday, March 05, 2010

Linda K & Imon Head To IN

Linda N fixed french toast and sausage for breakfast as we drank a few cups of coffee. When breakfast was done, Linda K and Imon began packing for their trip back to IN. After he carried their bags out to the truck, we all went down to the pole barn. I helped Imon hook up the truck to the trailer with the Boss Hoss motorcycle on it. He pulled it out of the pole barn and they were ready to leave. Stacey snapped a couple pictures of us right before everyone hugged and said good bye.

Linda K and Imon left about 8:30 AM CST. Stacey, Linda and I pushed the hay wagon back in the barn, closed the doors and went to the house. Pauline, Brent, Julie & Kyle are coming over later this evening, so we had some things to get ready for their arrival.

Posted by Dave at 9:00 AM
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

End Of The Week

Thursday, Linda fixed two pans of brownies to take to the Cumberland River Cruisers meeting. We took Julie, Stacey and the brownies and went to the meeting at 6 PM in the Senior Citizens & Veteran's Building. The club furnished hot dogs, chili and canned drinks to the members and their guests for free. We had a short meeting before the food was served. Members and guests mingled afterwards and I took a group picture. Shortly after I took the picture, we cleaned up and went home.
 
Friday, the weather was slightly warmer. I put on a couple sweatshirts, gloves and a hat and went to the wood shed. I loaded two loads of wood in the back of the Mule and hauled it to the back porch. When I finished unloading the wood, I took the battery charger/booster to the equipment shed and used it to start the Ford Tractor. Phil Garmon had asked me to dig a hole for a fish pond. They only have a few days left to move their things before the highway relocation crews demolish their old house. I drove the tractor to Betty and Phil's farm and dug the hole in about a half hour. I took a look at the new barn Phil had built to replace one the relocation will take down. When I returned the tractor to the shed, I hooked the float charger to the battery and took the battery booster back to the pole barn. I went to the house and Julie was wanting to take Daisy for a run. I was already dressed for the cold, so Julie and Linda put their coats on and we took Daisy across the creek in the Mule, let her run for a little while, then put her back in the stall and gave her food and water.
Saturday, we were to take Julie home around noon, so I fixed us fried egg with cheese on toast sandwiches for breakfast. As soon as breakfast was over, Linda dressed and then dressed Julie while Stacey and I took showers. We left the farm a little after 11 AM and went the parkway to Smith's Grove. When we arrived, Brent met Julie at the door, grabbed her and threw her up in the air. Pauline was right behind him to take her turn of hugs and kisses from Julie. Linda grabbed Kyle out of his seat and began tormenting him until he woke. Linda finally passed Kyle to me so I could hold him. Pauline was baking apple cobbler and fixed each of us some of it with ice cream. It tasted great still warm with the ice cream. We loaded in the HHR and headed for home at 4 PM after saying good bye.

Posted by Dave at 7:00 PM
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Splitting & Cutting Wood

Friday the weather was nice, so Stacey, Linda and I went to the wood shed and I set the splitter next to the pile of wood. I started the engine and began splitting the larger pieces and tossing them onto the black trailer. We used the trailer so the girls wouldn't have to pick up the split pieces off the ground. Stacey and Linda were picking the pieces off the trailer and stacking them in the shed. When they would get caught up, Linda would move to the pile of wood and throw some pieces closer to me for me to split. We worked a while, took a short break and then finished what we could. Some of the bottom pieces were frozen to the ground, so we had to leave maybe 10 - 15 pieces laying there until they thaw and come loose from the dirt. As warm as the weather has been, it shouldn't take but a couple of days.
Earlier today, I went to the equipment shed and worked on the chain saws, putting chain oil and fuel in them and lubricating the chains and bars. I also started all three of them and then placed them in the back of the pickup truck. I drove the Mule over to the pole barn and did a couple of things while I was there. Steve Riddle called and said he was headed out on the ridge to cut wood, so I took the pickup truck and drove out there. I parked near the tree tops that the loggers had drug into the field for us to cut into fire wood. If we don't cut the tops for fire wood, the loggers leave them lay in the woods to rot. I started the little chain saw and started trimming the small limbs. It wasn't five minutes and that saw quit running. Steve came over and started sawing wood with his saw. I switched to the medium saw and continued trimming for a few minutes until I saw that was the same thing Steve was doing. I started the bigger saw and began cutting the larger pieces of the limbs. We took a short break, worked a while, took another break and decided we should load some of the pieces into the truck to clean up our work area and make it easier to walk. We had a few pieces thrown on the truck when Nancy joined our crew and began loading the truck. I said that I had enough on my truck and we could either quit or cut and load some on Nancy and Steve's truck. After a little discussion, we decided to cut up the rest of the pile and load it on their truck. Mark had come out and was watching us work. Steve and I took turns cutting and loading until we had the larger pieces cut while Nancy was loading their truck with the medium sized pieces. Steve and I lifted the last large pieces on the back of the truck and called it a day. I loaded my saws on the back of the truck, said thanks and headed to the house. I parked the truck in the shed and plan to split some of the wood tomorrow inside the shed, rain or shine since the temperatures are supposed to stay in the upper 50s.

Posted by Dave at 10:15 PM
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Better Weather & Home Makers International Dinner

This morning the sun was out and the temperatures were predicted to climb to the mid 40s. It was nice to get outside the house without the freezing temps and wind chill. Coco even liked the break in the weather as I let him go out the front door this morning to look around.
   
While I was outside, I saw Steve Riddle go up the road in his farm truck. Linda wanted me to go to Bonnie and Henry Holley's house to pick up decorations for the dinner, so I decided to take our truck and also go out to Steve's place on Jone's Ridge. It took me a few minutes to stop by the Holley's to talk and take the decorations Bonnie had, then I drove on to Steve's. He had his tractor running with a roll of hay on the hay fork and his truck backed into the driveway ready for the roll to be set in the bed. We took a short walk around the field to look at the tree tops the loggers had pulled up for Steve to cut into firewood. I'm supposed to cut some for us to burn, maybe on Saturday, if the weather is decent. Steve loaded the roll of hay into the truck and then I headed back to the house. On the way, I pulled into Phil Garmon's driveway and took a look at the pole barn he is having built. Emanuel Hoestetler's crew built our pole barn and is also building Phil's. Phil and Steve Garmon along with two or three others were cutting up another hog and I stopped and talked a few minutes with them before going on home. Linda and Stacey had been baking and fixing food to take to the Home Maker's International Dinner later in the evening and they were still busy with that stuff, so I went down to the wood shed and split some of the wood that had been piled up. I worked a while and then took Daisy for a run, brought her back and then I went inside. Linda and Stacey left for the dinner about 4 PM after I showed Stacey how to work the camera and told them to take lots of pictures. When they came home after the dinner, they had quite a few pictures on the camera and said the dinner was a big success. Linda mentioned that she took most of the pictures because Stacey had left with Hazel, Odis and Jason to watch a ballgame.
 
   
   
 

Posted by Dave at 10:00 PM
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Extra Day For Sledding

PB&J+K stayed over Sunday night because the weather reports were that it was sleeting and the roads were slick. This morning, we had snow on the ground and more falling. The accumulation was about 2 inches, just enough Brent and I thought we could let Julie go sledding. We dressed warmly, then started the Mule and took Daisy some food and picked up the sled at the barn. Julie was excited about sledding and it didn't take much coaching until she was ready to go.
  
Brent rode down the hill with Julie the first couple of times to make sure the ride went OK and to help pull the sled and Julie back up the hill.
 
Then Brent sat Julie on the sled and showed her where to put her feet and to hold on and away she went on her first solo sled ride.
  
Julie went several times by herself and each time she was giggling and having fun.
 
When we went back to the house and went inside, Julie couldn't talk fast enough to tell her Mommy and Grandma about her sledding. She was still excited and talking about it as she was taking her gloves and coat off.

Posted by Dave at 3:00 PM
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Flower Delivery & Kyle

Friday afternoon, the door bell rang and I asked Stacey to answer. She went and opened the door, there stood a delivery man with a couple of items. He passed Stacey a vase with cut flowers and a stuffed animal. She thanked the guy and closed the door. Stacey opened the card that was attached and the flowers and teddy bear were from Jason.
 
In the evening, when Jason called from the basketball game, they only talked a few minutes because it was hard to hear, then Stacey called Jason back later to thank him for him sending the gifts.
This morning after we had breakfast, Kyle was awake and in a decent mood, so I sat him up in the car seat and took several pictures. He is remaining awake a little more each day according to Pauline and Brent.
   

Posted by Dave at 2:31 PM
Categories: Current Events, Farm, Flowers

Friday, February 12, 2010

Kyle's First Visit

Linda was just getting home from the day care about 5 PM and Pauline, Brent, Julie and Kyle came in as she did. It surprised Stacey and I, we weren't expecting them to be here that soon. Brent carried Julie inside and said she had fell asleep in the car during the ride. Kyle was still sleeping in his car seat while Pauline carried him into the house. Julie quickly woke up and began passing out hugs. Kyle, not so much. He was moving around a little when I unbuckled his harness and picked him out of the safety seat. I held Kyle while they carried in the rest of their things and Linda fixed everyone something to eat. Julie wanted a book read to her, so I volunteered for the job. She picked out a book and climbed on my lap while Kyle slid deeper into the gap between my arm and the chair.
   
After finishing the book, I put Kyle in his car seat while we ate, then Stacey took over holding him for a while. We passed him around between Linda, Stacey and I the rest of the evening to give Pauline and Brent a break. Every once in a while, Pauline would have to take Kyle into the bedroom for a quick breast feeding session, then return him to the living room for more attention.

Posted by Dave at 10:30 PM
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Snow & Wood

The weather had been warmer and rainy for about a week, but yesterday the temperature began dropping and this morning there was a light snow on the ground. It was still snowing during the morning and had accumulated to about an inch in depth.
 
That was just what I needed to haul fire wood from the shed. With the ground slightly frozen and covered with snow, the Mule wouldn't make ruts in the back yard when I hauled the load of wood to the back porch.
 
I filled the bed of the Mule with wood, then drove to the back porch and Linda helped unload. The stacks of wood that I want to use this year are almost gone. We have some in reserve, but I'm trying to let the wood dry for nearly a year so that it doesn't make as much creosote to stick in the chimney when it burns. I'm about ready to bust up a couple of loads of wood with the splitter, just waiting on the weather to get a little warmer before I return to working outside.

Posted by Dave at 11:30 AM
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Blinding White

This morning the sun came out and the sky was clear. It made for nice pictures, but was blinding to the eye.
   
After a ride around the farm for a few pictures, I parked the Mule in the equipment shed and tried starting the tractor. It wound over but wouldn't start, so I went to the pole barn and picked up the battery charger/booster that also can be used to jump start vehicles. I returned to the shed and hooked it to the tractor, let it charge a few minutes, then set it to boost. The tractor started up after winding over a few times. I turned off the booster and unhooked it, then backed the tractor out of the shed. I put it in 4 wheel drive and turned the scoop down to use as a grader blade. I shoved off the driveway at our house, then did a few of the neighbors' drives. I think by shoving off most of the snow, the sun will melt most of what was left. When I finished the last driveway, I found Linda and Julie outside playing in the snow. I gave them a ride up the hill in the scoop, then I put the tractor back in the shed and hooked up the float charger to keep the battery fully charged, then returned the battery charger/booster to the pole barn. On the way back up the driveway I took a picture of our house.
 
While Linda had been outside with Julie, they had made a snowman and shoveled the walkway.
 

Posted by Dave at 6:30 PM
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Snowy Trip

Yep, you can tell by the pictures that the snow did fall. We didn't get a massive amount, but there was at least 5 inches when I went outside. I like to go out early before the wind begins to blow or the sun begins to melt the snow that hangs on the trees, so a little before 8 AM I opened the garage door and backed the Mule out. I pulled to the barn and let Daisy go with me.
   
   
   
After returning Daisy to the barn, I went inside and instant messaged with Brent to make sure we were still supposed to pick up Julie. We were, so the girls dressed and we left for PB&J's house in the red truck. We drove the truck because the roads were a mess and it was 4 wheel drive. There hadn't been much plowing done overnight and we had to pick our way though the narrow places that had snow drifted over the roadway. When we reached the Cumberland Parkway, the entrance ramps hadn't been plowed and I couldn't tell where to turn. I slowly drove over one of the medians, but returned to the roadway quickly without any real problems. The parkway had one lane clear and some snowy places in the fast lane. We stopped in Glasgow to pick up some sandwiches to eat with Pauline and Julie, then drove on over to their house. Pauline said that Brent had left about 20 minutes before we arrived. He was working a swim meet for Coach Powell at WKU. We hugged and got hugs from Julie, then ate our lunch and talked for the rest of the afternoon while watching Julie and TV. Brent returned around 4:30 to take Pauline with him to the swim banquet and we loaded up Julie's things and left with Julie. She is staying with us this weekend and then we are taking her to the Medical Center on Tuesday to see her new brother after Pauline has a c-section delivery. The plan is to then return to the farm with Julie staying with us until Pauline is ready to leave the hospital, then we will take Julie to the hospital again and let her ride home with her family when Pauline and the baby are released.

Posted by Dave at 8:00 PM
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Snow It Begins

We went and ate lunch and returned to the farm. About 3 PM the snow began dropping lightly. We wanted to take Daisy some food and pick up the kerosene heater from the pole barn in case the freezing rain that is supposed to happen would cause the power to go off. We dressed warmly and fired up the Mule in the garage and headed down to the barn. Linda let Daisy out of her stall and she made laps around the Mule until we opened the tail gate so she could jump in.
   
We took her for a short run around the fields, then returned her to the stall, gave her food and made sure her water wasn't frozen. We went to the pole barn and retrieved the heater and the 5 gallon plastic can of kerosene. I pulled the Mule back into the garage and Linda shut the door. Later in the evening, a Pacer game was about to start on TV, so I asked Stacey if Jason would want to come over and watch it with her. She said that he probably would, so Linda called Stephanie and made the arrangements for me to drive over to their house and pick up Jason. The roads were getting to be snow covered as I went to pick him up. We returned to the farm and Stacey and Jason watched the Pacers play the Cavaliers. The Cavs are Jason's favorite NBA team and they beat the Pacers. After the game, Stacey and Jason played the Wii for a while. They bowled and then drove in the NASCAR Cart racing game.
   
It was after 9 PM when I said I had better take him back to his house. The roads were completely snow covered as we drove to town and made the turn on 90. I dropped Jason off and returned to the farm as the snow was coming down harder.

Posted by Dave at 3:30 PM
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Are We Ready?

We have stocked up on milk and bread, filled the wood racks on the back porch, gassed up the vehicles and parked the 4 wheel drive pickup truck in the garage. We're as ready as we can be for the winter storm that has been forecast for three days. We are supposed to receive rain, freezing rain, sleet and anywhere from 5 to 9 inches of snow today and tonight. Every school in middle TN and southern KY has already closed.

Posted by Dave at 7:00 AM
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Nothing Much

With Pauline almost ready to deliver their baby, we hadn't planned on doing much this weekend. That fit everyone's agenda fairly well. Linda fixed some cinnamon twists for breakfast and Brent helped me switch a computer from one location to another while it warmed up outside. Everyone was wanting to get outside since we had been house bound by the cold weather recently, so we walked around a little, let Daisy out, but kept her on a leash with the small dogs running along as we looked around. We put Daisy back in the barn and the little dogs in the house and went down to the pole barn. I mentioned that since it was warmer, it would be a good time to start all the old cars. Linda fired up her 97 Mustang first, then Brent popped off the TR-3 while Linda started the 65 Mustang. We let them run a few minutes then shut them all off and hooked the float chargers back up to each one. We also changed a tie down rope on the old cover on the Sea Ray. We had to attach it to the old rope and pull the new rope through the edges of the cover until it went all the way around the boat. We finished that by melting the ends of the rope so they wouldn't fray out. We had the doors open on the barn and someone moved over to the fire pit and started throwing sticks into the pit. I told Linda we should burn some of the scraps of old barn siding we had left from doing the 'club house'. That was right down Brent's alley, he quickly had a fire going and we spent an hour or two burning sticks and sitting around watching it burn. Julie and Stacey were getting hungry by then, so Brent drove us over to Albany to eat, then we came back to the farm and went back down to the fire pit We stayed down there until almost dark. After supper and taking some cold medicine, I went to bed early.
This morning was rainy and we stayed inside the entire day. Steve and Nancy dropped by to see Julie before PB&J went home about 2:30 PM.

Posted by Dave at 6:00 PM
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Julie With Us

Thursday afternoon, a Fed Ex truck pulled into the driveway while I was on the tractor cleaning up the hay fields. Linda met the guy and I pulled in behind him on the tractor. He set two boxes off his truck and carried them into the garage. I looked at the boxes and they were from Dell. I said that I wasn't expecting those until near the end of the month. He joked that he could keep them until then, if I didn't want them now. Then he asked about the pin ball machine and said he buys them and makes repairs, then sells them. He wouldn't make an offer and Linda wouldn't give a price, so he left.
Friday morning we ate a sausage biscuit and then left for Smith's Grove in the HHR. A little over an hour later we picked up Julie at her sitter's house. Julie came out giggling and yelling about seeing us from inside the house. She climbed in her car seat and Stacey strapped her down, then we headed to Bowling Green. We stopped at Granny's Attic and looked through their stuff, then over to Hobby Lobby. Our next stop was the mall, where we ate lunch, then to Aldi's and finally Sam's Club. We bought groceries and headed back home. Stacey read books to Julie the entire time it took us to ride back to the farm. Once we had carried in the groceries, we put on sweatshirts and Stacey drove the Mule down to the barn. Julie yelled, "Turn Daisy loose!" as Stacey let the dog out of the stall. Daisy made two quick laps around the Mule, then jumped in the back. We went across the creek and let her run around the fields as Julie was talking and pointing out where Daisy was going. Julie noticed that the creek was frozen and I told her that the water was cold and Daisy didn't like crossing the ice. We stopped at the corner of the field, Daisy jumped in the back and we took her up the hill to the barn. We noticed that Daisy had rolled in the dirt and was filthy, but it was too cold to give her a bath, so we put her in the stall, gave her food and a dog biscuit, then went inside. Julie played in the living room while we watched some of the Pacer basketball game on TV. After Julie went to bed, I went back to working on setting up the new Dell computer. It has Windows 7® as the operating system and it seems really easy to use.

Posted by Dave at 9:00 PM
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Sun Comes Out

After several days of cloudy weather with snow flurries, it was nice to see the sun come out this morning. When I went outside, I could feel the difference in the temperature too. It was warmer and the snow was starting to melt. I took a fresh bucket of water to the barn to replace the bucket of water that was frozen for Daisy. When I opened the door, she ran out of the stall and jumped in the back of the Mule, eager to get going.
   
It was a lot easier to let her run longer since the temperatures were higher and the wind was no longer causing a wind chill factor.

Posted by Dave at 11:30 AM
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Mule Repaired and Back On Duty

Stacey, Linda and I were sitting in the living room playing the Wii when the phone rang. It was the girl from Rex's Cycle Shop in Columbia. She said our Kawasaki Mule had been fixed and was ready to be picked up. I checked with her on the hours they were open and how much the repair work was costing. I hung up and we quit playing the Wii and drove the truck to Columbia. I pulled in the back of Rex's lot and hooked up the trailer that I had left there when I dropped off the Mule. I went inside and paid the bill, then returned to wait for the service man to drive the Mule out to the trailer. He pulled it on the trailer and I chained it down. We left the repair shop and went to Taco Bell for lunch, then returned to the farm. I unchained the Mule and let the rear gate down, then Stacey drove the Mule off the trailer.
   
We immediately began using it to put things up and haul the chains back to the equipment shed. Then I backed the trailer in the barn, unhooked the truck from it and parked the truck in the shed. Stacey drove the Mule down and picked me up, then we parked it in the garage. Stacey and Linda helped me put on the windshield. I had to take it off because when you haul the Mule the force of the 60 mph wind will bust the windshield. Later in the evening, we went to the Cumberland County basketball game. Both the girls and boys teams lost to Metcalf County.

Posted by Dave at 9:00 PM
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Monday, January 04, 2010

A Little Accumulation

The weather has went south for the winter. We have temperatures in the teens at night and this morning the snow was coming down. It was very light and only snowed for a couple hours. It did accumulate a little as the ground was cold enough that it didn't melt right away.
  
Coco was too little to remember the snow during last winter and today it seemed as he didn't know what was happening with the snow. He sniffed around in it until his whiskers were full of snow, then like most small dogs, he quickly became cold and began holding his foot off the ground. He then dashed back to the front porch to come inside. By noon, the clouds had moved on and the sun had melted the snow except in the shadows of the hills. We're expecting cold temperatures for about another week.

I've placed a new group of pictures online that were taken between July and December of 2009. There is a link at the bottom of the right column on this page or you can click HERE.

Posted by Dave at 7:00 PM
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Day After

This morning was a slow starter for about everyone. Julie slept in and even the dogs stayed quiet until well after 8 AM. I guess that a few votes for breakfast omelets put me to work. I'm not sure, because I wasn't present for the vote count, but I made breakfast anyway.
  
Stacey and Brent were playing with the Wii game console that came for Christmas. Julie was playing her "Super Why" learn to read game. Pico was just relaxing on the couch pillow and at one time was laying upside down with his feet in the air. Stacey lined up her music CDs in the new CD storage cabinet that Brent and I put together for her. A little later, Brent and I took Julie outside and rode the ATVs to let Daisy run. I used a leash to lead Daisy beside me on the 4-wheeler as we crossed the rode and creek, then I turned her loose and let her run while we rode around the fields. It was a short trip since the weather was cooler. We returned to the house and Brent drove us to town in the Traverse so I could pick up Stacey's medicine at the pharmacy. Julie rode along, chattering the entire trip. Pauline and Brent left for their house about 2 PM without Julie. Julie is staying an extra night and we are taking her home tomorrow.

Posted by Dave at 4:45 PM
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