Week 3 & 4 - I'm Already Behind!

4 weeks into the new year and I'm already behind...I figured if I'd been able to blog once a week for the past 2 years, doing it again for another year wouldn't be so hard.  Sheesh!  That's what I get for figuring!!!

So the past 2 weeks have been eventful but still uneventful...let me explain.  While we have been busy, nothing of any consequence has occurred.  We had significant snow during week 3.  Enough to cancel school for 4 days and work for 3 days.  Living in the country, school is cancelled if the buses can't get down roads safely to pick kids.  We were open on the last day of their 4-day closing cause it was easier for us to get into town.  I spent those days (some of them regularly scheduled days off) tidying and knitting and generally working in the studio.  Organizing my thoughts and plans for the year, craft wise.

One of the TV show we really like is a series made in Canada - well, no longer made but still showing in several markets here in the States.  It's called the Red Green Show.  A comedy that just tickles us. One of our favorite sayings from the show is:

Fortunately for me, Mr. Wonderful is not only handsome, he's quite handy.  I got really lucky with him!  It used to be when I was growing up, my dad was not at all handy.  NOT AT ALL!  It took me a long time to get used to NOT calling a repairman as soon as something broke around the house.  Mr. Wonderful is amazingly talented in the repair department!  

This past week our pride and joy, our treasure, our only son, John III, celebrated a significant birthday.  He turned 40!  His staff decorated the office with tons of glitter and candles.  

He says if you want to find him, just follow the trail of glitter...it's insidious!

To end this week's post, I've got a riddle for you.  A friend of ours who emigrated to Australia when she got out of the Navy posted this on her Facebook page...it tickled me.

Let me know if you get an answer to this...

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Week 2 - January in Missouri

Our temperatures continue to see-saw.   This past week we went from the mid-30s to mid-60s and now down to the mid-20s with snow.  

Even the cows are not immune to the snowfall.  John put out fresh hay for them yesterday and that lump of hay at the front right of the photo fell off the roll...all 3 cows headed for it and laid down in it.  I figure it was really warm for them to lay down.

Since this is a holiday weekend - Martin Luther King Holiday is tomorrow -  and I always have Tuesdays off, I've got an especially long weekend.  I'm tidying up the studio - slowly - and hope to get in some sewing while I'm at it.

My office partner loves to watch cooking shows on youtube.  He decides he wants to make pasta or cook a roast a different way and heads to youtube to see how others do it.  He is particularly fond of this one woman who has a Russian accent and is really funny.  The other day, he started to laugh at lunch...I turned around and this was the disclaimer on her site for whatever she was going to cook that day:

Allergy Warning:

This contains a scale, a calculator, and might contain traces of math!

It struck me and I started to giggle myself!  

Gilligan hasn't asked to sneak outside recently...I can't imagine anyone wanting to go outside with the snow and the cold.  John found him like this when he got up this morning.

Warm, safe and sleeping kitty!

John has to work tomorrow even though it's a holiday for most folks.  I think we will stay home and either sew or knit...maybe watch a movie.  No sense in going out in the snow and cold when we have a nice warm house.

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2018 - Week 1

2018 has begun and it's started off fairly well.  My birthday was on Tuesday, the 2nd...let's not discuss the age issue.  Suffice to say, I am not a card-carrying Medicare recipient.  How the h*** did I get to be this old?  Never mind...it's all a state of mind anyway, so they say.

Mom's birthday was yesterday and she continues to amaze me.  I love that lady like crazy and we are so honored that she is living with us and trusting us to take care of her.  She got a ton of phone calls from friends and family all day long.  We all went out to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Bambino's, to celebrate both of our birthdays.  Braved the frigid temps and came home stuffed!  

Speaking of temperatures, we started off the new year with really cold - I mean frigid, I mean arctic temperatures.  The temperatures at night were below 0 and the temps during the day mostly got up in the teens.  Brrrrrr.  Today is a relatively mild day, rainy with wind chills that are sometimes making the rain freezing rain.  Fortunately, we are expecting the thermometers to get up to the high 30's, maybe into the 40's...and by Wednesday or Thursday we hope to see in the high 50's...I'm not stupid enough to expect the winter weather to stay temperate...no, indeed.  We have 72 more days till spring and February is usually our 'worst' winter month here...so I don't think we are done with snow yet.  As long as I don't have to drive in it, I'm good!

 I saw this on the internet the other day.  Sometimes the stuff I see really resonates with me and this one did.  I'll share it with you all.

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