New Great Grandbaby

I became Great Grandma again this week. Scott and Cheryl's oldest daughter had another little boy, so now there are 3 great grandsons. The link to see his picture is: http://www.st.alexius.org/customers/babies/nursery/baby_photo.asp?BabyID=9969

Will have to get pictures of all three of them together one of these days and post them.
Now all we need is for the weather to finally warm up and stay warm.

Robert's Birthday

We had a small celebration last Saturday, January 17, for Robert's birthday which was on Friday, January 16. Her turned 52!! His mother and her friend were down and I made us a big roaster of lazy pigs in the blankets. We had a good time and the food was wonderful, if I must say so myself. His Mom brought the cake from Jamestown. He shaved the fur off his face on Sunday. He lets it grow until it bugs him in the winter time so it helps to keep his face warmer.

Snow in My Back Yard

This is what we have had to do to my yard so I can actually get out of my driveway after the wind blows again. Right now as it stands, I could flood my backyard and have a skating rink in it. We have actually had a couple weeks without a storm and more snow so that is a miracle. Hope it lasts a bit longer because we are all sick to death of snow and being snowed in. I hope the storms hold off until I am done with supervisor training and get sent home to work, and then it can storm again if it wants too and I will be able to keep on working. Bailey loves the big area of back yard to run in when she can stand the cold long enough to go out side and run to her little hearts content. We just hope that spring comes soon this year and we can keep from floating away in the floods that are bound to come after all of the snow. Driving the streets in town are like driving down little valleys with all the huge piles of snow pushed up along all the streets. I actually get rather claustrophobic with all of this snow piled up everywhere. Oh well, it is a normal winter and not one of the dry ones that we have gotten so used to the last few years so things should be better this year for the farmers.

Cute Winter Song

Since we are up to our hips in snow this winter this little link has a very appropriate message and it made me laugh!!!

http://froggyweb.com/?p=1744

Bailey Dresses for the Frigid Weather

This is Bailey dressed for the cold weather we have been having. As you can tell from her body language, she is not exactly thrilled to be dressed like this. She is actually getting used to the sweater but the boots did her in. As cold as it is outside now, she still asks to go outside for a few seconds at a time. She seems to enjoy the snow but really does not tolerate the cold real well. We will keep working on the boots and evenutally she will figure out that her feet do not get as cold when she goes out with them on just like she did with the sweater. Yes, some of you may think this borders on animal abuse but no more than what some other people do to their animals. You should see some of the stuff on the Internet that some people put on their pets!!!

Old Age Hits Home

Just to update some of you who didn't get my mass email. I spent the night on Thurday, December 4, in the hospital after being treated for atrial fibrillation. I went in that evening because I had not been feeling well for several days and it got considerably worse that day. They gave me meds in ER to convert my rhythm back to normal sinus and then started me on oral meds. They seem to be working as I feel much better now but they tell me I have to give up caffeine and that is going to be hard to do. Guess I am following in Mom's footsteps with this one since she has it too. Somehow the genetics seem to pass over Dallas and Verna and hit me all the time for all this bad stuff, just hope Dad's genes don't hit me too. Now Robert and I both are on meds for atrial fibrillation. Guess we are at that age!

Visit to Creston

After the rain one day we got a beautiful view of a rainbow outside of Renelle's house over the ridge, it was a huge one and even a double rainbow but I did not get a picture of the double. The other picture is of the three generations who went to the Sunday afternoon tea, it was very enjoyable, the food was delicious and so was the tea. I now know what "clotted cream" is that I read about in all of my historical romances and have now tasted Lapsang Souchong tea, it is a very smokey flavor but very good. "Clotted cream" is basically sour cream that has no sugar added to it so it does not taste like what we would call either whipped cream or sour cream but has a flavor all its own. We had a ball and I will post all of my pictures on the Webshots space so look for an email regarding that. It feels good to be home again although I had a wonderful time. All good times must unfortunately come to an end. Bailey seems to be happy to be home too even though she and Mozart had so much fun together. She traveled very well and her main naughty thing was to bark at Shawn all the time, she has a thing about men. Guess that is about all.