Woke up to snow this morning, the sun is trying to shine now. I love it when the clouds sit down over the mountains. It changed back and forth all day. At least there was no wind in the morning but by afternoon hail and another ground blizzard. Boy it's finally warmer, we've had a really long cold spell this winter.
Charm wrote that she has a robin. No robins here that I've seen yet. I think her forest trees make a difference - more feed and shelter until spring truly arrives. This is the time of year everybody in the county reports what new bird they are seeing in their yards. Happens every year and you just expect it is part of every conversation. All through the winter its "How cold did it get at YOUR place?" Now its "What bird have you seen?" Next we will be seeing cranes and bluebirds. Four magpies are in a group in the field outside the window just now. They are having some kind of important conference there. Tried to get their picture but they don't stay in once place for long.
The whole feeling has sure changed a lot in the last week. Could almost make you think spring is coming early. The ground is wanting to bare up where the wind has blown the snow thin and the drifts have gone down a foot or more. Its a shame to think when they go it will just dry up and be no moisture again this year. Its so dry here.
With two or three days of shoveling Joe has the "trail" for his snow machine through the mountains of snow pretty good now, however it's still a bit adventurous for the back yard. Its also a good two foot drop off down into the garage. If this weather keeps up I should be driving my car out in a few weeks, more or less?? Want to have a lottery on when Lynn's SUV gets out of the garage? I'll be saying "FREE FREE, FREE AT LAST!"
Thank you very much for nice comments about the crane painting. I really loved doing that painting. It was interesting because I did have reference crane photos, but none of them were in this configuration so it was a lot of imagination. I thought of it being in motion like one crane as it would bow and then raise its head as if it were caught in stop action, but made it into the family. It won a nice prize in the Dubois National Show and a lady bought it over there. It was gone so fast I hardly got to keep it very long at all.
Tuesday we go to Rock Springs for Joe's laser treatment on his eye. We have to get a motel and stay overnight because the eye Dr. has to check his eyes at 9:30 on Wednesday. I hope it fixes him, because his eyes have sure been bothering him. He just sits with his eyes shut a lot of the time. We'll have to ride to Rock Springs in the truck with both dogs in the front seat 100 miles. Anyway by leaving him in the motel I'll be able to do a more leisurely Walmart shopping and whatever other stores I want to go in. He always likes to go to Applebee's to eat so he will like that.
Joe's not watching news so much lately and I'm glad for that - it's the new HDTV with more sports channels and some good channels without many ads. He gets so mad at all the news commentators and politicians..... oh....the language (rolling my eyes here). I threaten if he doesn't quit that I'm going to change it to I Love Lucy.
Beverly's going to WeightWatchers and lost nearly 10 pounds in 3 weeks. Maybe she will inspire me to get back to it. I know I've gained weight this winter. I just give up fighting it with not being able to go out of the house. Very good news is Clayton is doing much better with his schoolwork. Perhaps the promise of a trip to Disney World is helping.
I ordered some books from Amazon.com and also some long underwear from Sierra Trading Post for Joe, and really like shopping that way (its new to me). The first shipment of books came in less than a week, in the mail yesterday.
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