Tuesday January 22 2008

Field Rainbow

I did take these photos which give you the idea of what was there - it's just not very clear.

The ground outside the arc is very sparkly and inside is dull and flat gray.

Sandra said the full moon the night before had a rainbow halo with colors in the night and she thinks it was sooooo cold that halo fell down at daybreak and was laying on our field.

Note: I added a funny story about Judi at the bottom of the January 20 entry.

Forty below last night and 15 below at noon today. It's a glorious bright blue sky day. When I got up this morning the sun had just come up and I was just standing at the windows enjoying the beauty. Soon I noticed something I had never really seen before. I suppose the conditions have to be just right. There was an arc of color on the snow but not in the sky- imagine a rainbow on the ground, upside down with the sun in the middle. I don't know how better to describe it. Then inside the arc it was flat gray. At the rainbow and outside for some distance the snow was sparkling like diamonds (that I've seen before, but not this same way) and the sparkling snow just spread to the edges of what I could view. And the arc where it changed from flat to sparkly had rainbow colors. It stayed for a long time and was very unusual and awesome. Maybe a special gift or sign. Anyway that's what I'm going to say it was.

Joe went out to get the mail in the red dodge a while ago so the road doesn't look drifted in too bad. The mail lady must have been overloaded after the holiday because she was later than usual and he just came back without getting the mail. He passed Frosty down at the culvert, he said.

Surprising to me, I'm feeling better today than I have since quite some time before I had the surgery in Salt Lake. I realized that this was a landmark and I was so grateful and glad just to be here in this place that I shed some tears of happiness. Was feeling good enough that seeing something dirty or needing done, I have been cleaning or doing it. Sure hope that keeps up. Got the bathroom well cleaned and two loads of laundry done and folded.

I've been forgetting to say that my hair HAS started falling out some for a couple of weeks now. It's very noticeable every morning on my pillow, but cleaned my brush this morning and there was lots in there - for just a few weeks worth. I had begun to think I wouldn't loose my hair, so we will see how much it amounts to as time goes by. It also seems a little more wavy. I've had two months of the treatments now, or 6 times, and it's almost three months since the surgery. Dr. Mulvihill said it would take three months to recuperate from it.

Tonight I'm going to make some stuffed green peppers for dinner. Things are starting to taste a little better than they have for a long time. Did some more Vanguard telephoning and I hope Joe's happy that his accounts are like they should be. They had been putting money in the wrong place and hopefully its straightened out now.

Sunset was rosy and beautiful on the snow covered hills and in a while the full moon popped up over the ridge top. This was a special day.