Wow, you do great work. If I had chair to redo, I'd definitely get you to do them for me!

I did what I always do. After breakfast, pack chop (grain) to the replacement heifers and little calves. Don't really need to shovel much snow, we don't have much in the way of walks. And I have spent the last three days trying to get our year end books done.

I try and keep up on them through out the year, but when you have to compile the entire year, it's sometimes hard remembering what one exactly bought last January. I hate having to dig out all the receipts to cross check exact items to the total I post in the monthly totals. ;-s

mostly have stayed home, we have had the extreme cold but only about a foot of snow over several weeks...it's nice as dh is home office now and we can go out after rush hour, ect...then we've done marathon shopping hitting Costco, sams, and Walmart...we're lucky they're clusterd, and don't have to drive far...but i'm so tired of supplementing the heat with the space heaters...

forgot to add the local (1) deer spent the entire day in the vacant lot next door...we checked on it till bedtime and was gone in the am...I couldn't tell if it had tried to eat the spilled bird seed or not...i'm always afraid it will try and cross the road and we're on a 40 mpr street...scary....

Rats! Can't edit/add anything to my original post...

I don't have much snow either, but my driveway faces north, and takes forever to melt. Besides, if I move the snow to my lawn and trees, they get a drink as it melts.. and I prefer the moisture there. :)

Moni

You go girl!!! Bet the house smells yummy and the chairs look great. You kinda made me feel lazy though. I haven't done a damn thing but sit on my butt. Well I finally shovelled the walk but that's about it.

We're still having it - today was snow, sleet, rain and lots of ice on roads and cars.

It warmed up a little today and is raining at the moment. Still a lot of snow on the ground but most is gone from the roadways. I usually just use rock salt to get in and out of my driveway but this year I had to shovel, I did it a little at a time all day the day before I had to go to work. It was horrible. lol. I hope I never have to do it again. I would never have gotten out if I hadn't. The snow was over a foot high at the bottom of my driveway.

Nice warm fire in the fireplace and friends came and played our usual Mexican Train

Stayed home and did the usual things. I certainly don't want to walk around on snowy parking lots and streets while recovering from my meniscus repair. I did go through my travel keep sakes and pictures. I tossed all the duplicate pictures and paper work. The t-shirts will be donated and may toss all of the pictures if no one is interested in lions, elephants, gnus, zebras, giraffes, etc., etc., etc.. I will donate all the albums with pictures if I no one wants them.

No snow or ice thankfully just chilly temperatures for here and dreary rainy weather. I didn't do anything different, just basic every day chores.

You got a lot done there moni.

Fuss and POUT! Is it spring yet?

;)

It has been a long weekend. My husband is now in a heart center and we drove back from there in the snow, then yesterday we had a birthday dinner for Alyssa, she is now four years old. Not too many came but she had a lot of fun. My driveway has not been plowed out and as of last night my road had not been plowed either. Not sure of my plans for today, if the heart center says he is to come home we will try to get out and go get him before tomorrow as we are expecting an ice storm to move in! We have between 7 and 7 1/2 inches of snow.

Sue in Central Indiana

Shopping online! :0)

I shoveled a path for the mailman to walk to the front door. :0) I had time to read reviews and research what to buy....

On my last house remodel I burned up my 30 year old vacuum...yeah it was time for a new one. Put "my" washer & dryer into it....mine didn't do a good job on heavily soiled construction clothes anyway. My flannel sheets were thread bare.....maybe 10 years old. A stock up grocery trip with lots of coupons used.

My husband, me and the dog are just still trying to make it through this winter without all of us going stark raving mad! It's not easy let me tell ya. The worst part to me is the dangerous driving conditions. I saw wrecks and had trouble stopping myself even driving a big 4 wheel drive truck with nice big tires. I slid and missed my turn, had to keep going and turn around in a parking lot up the road...UGH! I was barely creeping down the road too. It's still snowing today. Will it ever end? UGH!

Slowly and systematically lost my mind. Here's what I did not do: any of the projects I planned to do over the winter. well, a little.

Baked too much, ate too much, slept too much, watched too much TV, and spent too much time on the computer, shoveled a small path to the door.....otherwise, just plain lazy!!!!

I canceled appointments and social plans just about every week. I stacked firewood and burned it. Lots of it. I wrapped the dog house (for cats) on the porch in an old comforter and kept the two outside cats supplied with warming disks. I kept the bird feeders filled.

I didn't do any rug hooking, and I don't know why. I haven't even tried the new sewing machine I bought in January. I did a little writing, but not much. I accomplished some reading, but no more than usual. I spent too much time online, also as usual. I got lured into Trivia Crack. Big mistake!

It's still snowy and cold here. We got another 6" last night, and we're supposed to get more, with ice, tomorrow. Tonight's temp in the single digits, and it will fall below zero again on Thursday. I'm about to cautiously venture out to buy bird seed and cat food, and yet another tarp for firewood.

Same thing I always do, except I made fewer trips out to the grocery store. 3 days a week my cousin brings her baby here for me to watch while they work. One day I deliver Meals on Wheels. We didn't get all much snow but it was colder than a witches t^t. DS still walked my dog every evening and shoveled my snow. Nothing keeps me away from the basketball games when they play at home. ISU men's and women's teams will both go to NCAA playoffs. I hate the extreme cold but don't mind the snow.

Woke up to 6in on sat, walked the dogs to the dog park. The had great fun.

Husband was on call at the mill(paper) folks out there told hubby not to make the trip in the snow. Nice guys. Did cross stitch, tried to call granddaughter. Missed her on Friday, her bday she is 14 now. Rain washed most of the snow away by noon on sun. Saw a rainbow over the Zuni mts on sun. morn.

Live in NM. Crazy weather this winter. You folks in N Al. Have had more snow than we have had this year.

Landlord's good at clearing our long lane ... but he, sod farmer on winter holiday, was in Dom. Repub. with wife ... then on trip snowmobiling with pals to N. Quebec, not sure where his son was.

No trouble getting in and out for an extended period but after the old guys' coffee hour and shopping and computer stuff, had to back up and go ahead several times in order to get in to house on Thurs. almost two weeks ago, then same story both out and in on Friday while coming to the library to yak to you folks. Stayed home on Sat., some back and forth both ways on Sunday for church, shopping and visit to son. On Monday, after several times back and forth ... got stuck, had quite a lot of shovelling ... to get to church for discussion of topics brought up by our church magazine ... to be told that it had been cancelled, sec. had called me, left a message but I, thinking the machine full, hadn't checked: it's been full for a while. So ... to the library again. On return home ... had enough speed developed at the early part of the lane that I got through O.K.

What's that they say ... that guys over 40 aren't supposed to shovel snow|?

Snowed overnight ... was really stuck going out on Tuesday ... a pickup truck travelling the road drove back and forth in the lane a few times to break trail for me ... but not in the best spot, and my undercarriage too low, so I was shovelling again ... when the landlord arrived ... so he went home and returned with the snow blower .... I backed quite a long way back the lane and then was able to get out O.K. Later he fired up the (small) bulldozer and cleared a wide path.

It's been O.K since ... but snowed last night, snow and ice pellets with freezing rain today, I had to bang the garage door a bit to break a bit of ice, then a bit of shovelling near it and arrived here O.K. ... should be acceptable drive home, despite more snow and freezing rain. I'd thought to go to town ... but thought better of it: too much traffic on busy streets.

I may be dumb ... but (claim to be) not stupid.

Like in investing: measured risk-taking. And experience helps.

Measure of health has a major bearing on the issue, too: as I've said here before, it's seldom that my body says, "Listen, you darned old fool: I can't DO that for you any more!"!

Which reminds me: the office assistant at the urologist's called today to tell me my biopsy is to be March 18 ...

... then, 10 min. later, said that Cancer clinic called to say that that was week of March (school) Break ... so my date's to be Mar. 25 ...

... I told her that I'd try to stay alive till then. My P S A test's way high.

ole joyfuelled ... thankful to have noted next to no diminution of capability after the pulmonary blood clots almost 4-1/2 years ago

Gee OJ, I'm sorry you have this biopsy hanging over you. I'm sure it will be ok--there are so many "fixes" these days. I also hate to see that you're shoveling a bunch of snow--no neighborhood kids to hire? Very glad to know your landlord is back and will be shoveling for you. Take it easy, ok??