Rabbit in YardIt snowed light and lovely most of the day. Kind of a misty silvery gray fog over all the landscape. Joe says we have about 8" now. He made a track out to the mailbox about noon in his old yellow chevy with the chains on the back tires. But the mail hadn't come yet so he didn't wait long. We didn't have wind that moved the snow today like it had in the night, but other places across the state it was bad traveling with most of the highways heading east being closed. I watched the Salt Lake news this morning and they were having all kinds of crashes on their roads and freeways.
But later Sheral and Dick called from Layton (North of SLC) and said their roads were dry, so that was good news......because.....Beverly, Brent and Clayton are on their way to spend Christmas with us. They were taking off from Vegas after Clay got out of school this afternoon and are stopping at their friends in Cedar City overnight. Then they will come on to the ranch tomorrow. It should be a much better day for traveling tomorrow. We've been anxious for them all to get here. I hope they have a good time experiencing winter here. They can snow machine, snow shoe, snow ski, snow toboggan, snowball fight, snow man build, etc. Beverly is going to cook Christmas dinner. And another special day, her birthday is the 23rd. When she was born we came home from the hospital on Christmas day. She's 50 this year!!
Iris also called me back this morning from Salt Lake and she is doing fine. (BTW Iris's b-day is Christmas!) She'll be on her way to her new condo in Houston on the 31st. We had a surprise visit from Susan and Joe this afternoon. So good to see them. Susan is a breast cancer survivor for 8 years now so it was comforting to talk to her about what she had been through. They brought us banana bread! Jonita and Madelaine were going to come over, but with the weather the way it was decided to wait until a nice day after Christmas.
This morning there were 6 jack rabbits in our back yard and little orange tomcat Rusty trying to stalk and keep track of them all. The rabbits weren't worried. I've been going to tell you since it first snowed how many rabbit tracks are all over the country, up and down the roads and round and round the house. I've never seen so many tracks. They make packed down trails off across the country side. I know from the past that you can walk on those trails, although narrow, and not sink down in the deep snow.
Joe was rubbing liniment on his foot this morning and I asked him what that was about. He said he thought he broke a bone in his foot a while back. I asked why didn't he get it x-rayed yesterday and he just did his usual language about suggestions like that. He said he had been asleep and stepped on his foot wrong when he got up. He's always groggy when he wakes up like that. I guess he's better than he was when it happened.
