CAN YOU BELIEVE ANOTHER WEEK HAS SLIPPED BY?

The week has simply FLOWN by.  I don't know how that many days could go by that fast.  Fact is, they did.

Last Sunday Randy worked on our furnace.  We had 'wisely' left about 12 bushel of corn in the hopper from last year.  The temps had gotten warm enough that to burn it would have been wasteful, not to mention it would have cooked us.  The thought was we'd have it there to start the season this year.  Sometimes it gets cold before we've gotten our load of corn. 

Note to selves - DO NOT DO THAT NEXT YEAR.  Corn tends to get smooshy if left where humidity can get to it.  Add limited circulation to the mix and you have a start to an old fashioned 'moon-shine business'.  Poor Randy spent a lot of time nursing the corn through the auger.  Poking it and breaking it up.  Adding enough dry corn to make it work.  Not ALL of the corn was yucky, not most of it.  Just enough to make it - ucky.

Finally today, we are burning totally on good fresh corn and it is working well.  No smoke in the air, no smell of alcohol in the air, just good warm heat.  Which is good because I don't know how cold it is right now, but this morning the bank thermostat said THIRTEEN DEGREES.

It was just plain CUTE yesterday as I was leaving work.  Looking left and right and left and right trying to get a clear shot at getting out onto Houser Street from Harmony Lane.  All of a sudden something hit my window.  It was the perfect distance away from my eyes that it was in perfect focus.  One tiny little snowflake on my window.  I could see all its tiny branches and the little frosty tendrils away from those.  It was such a shock to have it come so plainly into view.  Just one little lost snowflake.  I couldn't see any others anywhere when I was looking.

We have running water in the basement.  It's the most 'shout-it-from-the-mountain-tops-worthy' thing that has happened here!  All these years we've had a drizzle from the basement bathroom faucet.  Not a stream, a drizzle.  Randy worked on it this week , got a new faucet on it and now it gushes out at record breaking speed (you would consider it NORMAL).  I can wipe things down!  I can clean that bathroom.  I can --- oh the possibilities are endless!  (Thank you Randy!)

Nick came hobbling home from work Tuesday night.  He had been helping to move a fridge at work and came down on a stair funny.  OUCH!  By Wednesday evening he was walking pretty good though.  It was good he had Wednesday off work, so he could stay off of it all day.  He actually brought up a ton of our Christmas decorations from the basement for me.  I was (am) so grateful for the help. 

Tuesday I turned the Welch Hotel Apartments over to the new management team.  I met with them (and my district manager) for about 1 1/2 hours.  Went through the things I had put together for them, and gave them a tour of the building.  They said it was nice to have things so well organized.  My district manager said they asked about keeping me, but she told the I'd been told it would be a conflict of interest for me to work for my current company and a new company both.  Now I am waiting for God to provide a different source of income to replace that one.  I know it will happen!

You'll notice I have not say the "J" word, not even ONE TIME.  I know you think all I talk about is "J".  I do NOT!  Why, I don't even know if I like her!  She's messy sometimes and poops her pants.  Who could like that?  Okay - I lied.  I love her to bits and am so tickled to be her Gram(me).  In fact I put together a couple of scrapbook pages of our trip to Chuck E. Cheese this week.

But just so you have a break - I won't talk anymore (this time) about her.  I won't even show you her pictures.  Instead ... I think I will show you pictures of ME!   Ahh yes!  Isn't that going to be fun?  I had to take them myself.  I went in the bathroom so I could use the reflection off the mirror to see if I had myself in the viewfinder.  When Randy saw them, he said "where did you take that?- I recognize that border from somewhere in our house, but where?"  (It is the bathroom here by the family room -- a place he frequents quite often!)  *tee hee*  Get ready!  Here I come!  (If you hold the cursor over the pictures, you'll see the description of what each picture is.)

Have a great week -- looking forward to hearing from you!