Visitors.

 Visitors.

 

It has been a good day. The temps were not great, but the company was. Lance and his oldest came and stayed most of the day. It was so nice to have them here. School is out for a bit, and Lance took off this week. It was neat to have them relaxed and not worried about getting back to work or classes tomorrow.

 

Lance makes biscuits. These were frozen and probably could have used a few more minutes to thaw before they were put in the oven, but they were good biscuits. A WHOLE lot better than the ones made here right after my first breakfast in this house. Those were the ones the dog buried and we dug up years later in as good or maybe better condition than when they were first put in the ground!! Yes, they were that bad! Lance does a much better job. We also had fresh eggs (Lance scrambled), black pepper gravy, and apple butter. Not a bad breakfast.

 

Barbara Matthews stopped by for a little visit as well. She was telling me about Pat Harmon and her family as well. She was shocked at the price of eggs. Told her about the Feed and Seed Store on 281 having them for $4.50 a dozen for farm eggs. Mine went home with Lance for their family. Just looked at my Google locator, and he is almost home now. By the way, Barbara looks and sounds healthy! She seems to be doing so much better. So glad to see her happy. She has obviously been making goodies because she brought me a sack from Victoria’s Secrets with another box inside with cookies, candy, and pretzels coated in white chocolate. A pair of warm booties and a jug of hand cream were inside the bag as well. Sweet lady to think of such things!

 

Lance had some major technical help from Ellie, but they set up my new weather station. Lance thinks it will need to be moved to a better location away from the front of the house, but at least he got it pointed north. His oldest is a whiz on the computer and reading directions to make sense of them. SO glad these kids can do this stuff with computers. Lance updated everything on my phone, tablet, and whatever else he could consider. Who knew how to find a latitude and longitude at home? And now my Google location finder tells me that they are a block from home! Is that neat or what!

 

We were a bit surprised that the dogs did not offer to jump all over everyone who came in the house today. Maybe they are beginning to calm down a little bit. Don’t expect them to offer to go outside very often the next few days. They don’t like cold weather anymore than the rest of us! Sterling said they already have the danged stuff at his house, but they are prepared for a long haul of bad stuff with fuel for the generators and plenty of wood for the wood burning stoves. Lance ordered some kind of battery powered thing that will keep my phone charged if we lose power, but it won’t be here until Saturday. Oh well. We know where the old woman will be the next few days! And the hens are going to have to just bear with the temps and stay in their coops.

 

Have to get off this computer and send my daughter-in-law a Jacqui Lawson card with music as thanks for the neat things she sent me. Well, think Lance made the soup, but she made the brittle candy and embroidered an “N” on a beautiful red scarf for me. Thought that was so very neat. She is just about as handy as a pocket on a shirt anyway! She thinks of things the rest of us would not even consider!

 

Guess my son-in-law might have been able to go to work today. Jenn was very concerned about him yesterday. The blood thinner is considered pretty dangerous all by itself, but the blood clot is even more so. Kinda hard to win in a situation like that. Will call pretty soon and check on them.

 

Let us pray for those in our nation who are being slammed by this horrible winter storm with floods, deep snows, high winds, and everything in between misery and disaster. And not just in our nation! We still need to think of those in the Ukraine who are still being pelted by bombs of one kind or another. May God bless them and rescue them!

 

Rest well, my friends and don’t take any undue risks in this weather. Remember: you are loved.