Dec 31st - Snow

Yesterday we went to Sunday School and then church. We then came home for the rest of the day. Andy, Kelsey & Lydia came over for an hour or so after they got out of church, and after they had lunch with Andy's folks at McDonalds (a family tradition). They came back later for supper (HOMEMADE NOODLES! and other things). Andy is working today and Kelsey goes in this afternoon for a 3 PM to 3 AM shift. It makes me so angry that they are punished by having to pay so much in taxes so that others (who are to lazy to find and keep a job or who have kids they can't afford to support) can sit around on their butts with their hands out, but I won't go off on that subject, it is for my political blog <grin>.

This morning, around 7:30, when I went out to add wood to the boiler it was just starting to rain/snow. All our snow from the last snowfall had melted. I took this photo an hour later.

I think we have received another inch in the last hour. We are supposed to get as much as 4" by tomorrow, depends on which weather source you look at. It is good to know that we can just sit home, we don't have to get out if we don't want to.

The small church we have been attending in Centertown, maybe three miles from here, is having a New Years Eve get together tonight. We plan on going but will wait and see if we think we can get up our driveway to the road. Getting up the driveway may be our first opportunity to test the "all wheel drive" on our CR-V.

The church is currently searching for an "interim" Pastor. I'm not sure what they mean by "interim", maybe part-time. They certainly aren't large enough to pay a full-time Pastor. Yesterday there were maybe 6 people in the congregation who were more than 5 years younger than Kathy & I. Three of the six appeared to be teenagers who came with a parent or grand-parent. I doubt if there were more than 35 people total.

Yesterday I put up the stove pipe for the wood burner in my shop, it had fallen down during the summer. (Its in pretty ratty shape but I wanted to build a fire in the wood burner and see that it worked before spending any money of stove pipe.) I built a fire in the wood burner and think it will be OK for limited use. I sure wouldn't want to leave much of a fire in it overnight. Doug brought me out an electric power washer to try out. I used it to wash some of the surface dirt of the motorhome, since it was in the low 40's yesterday. I didn't have any soap for it, and it didn't seem to build up much pressure, but it at least knocked off a lot of the road dirt. I need to go online and see if I can find some instructions for the unit. There may be some adjustment that isn't obvious to me.

It is now 10 AM and still snowing. There is now wind, the snow is falling straight down. It is pretty. I don't have anything I have to do. I have to figure out whether I want to "surf the Net" or do something else. I should out and come up with some type of a plan on how to make my shop more usable. Currently I just thinks stacked on every flat surface.

Have a great day. May God bless you and yours.