Wow! Yesterday (15-1-13), it snowed. Yay! It's so early. Very shocking. Coming right after I had said that we needed another hard freeze to delay the mowing season and kill the bugs. It was the first real snow that we had had on this wonderful three-acre property, so we had lots of fun, and lots more snow! With a good accumulation of 1.5-2 inches of mixed sleet from the night, and snow from the day, it was wonderful. Despite that the winter didn't come in until Christmas Day, it has been a good one so far. all shallow standing water was frozen when we left at 03:00 this afternoon, and we are still finding drifts and ice in cold, shaded places.
My room has no insulation, and is very cold. However, the summer is forecasted to be very hot again. We could use a lot of rain. The reservoir has gotten very low. but the burn ban as been lifted for a little while, so we took advantage of it and burned a lot of trash wood. It was a great, huge fire, with sparks going everywhere, amazing. Heb. 12:29.
Kristen Culp is renting out the little cottage on our property now. Fun fixing that place up. School started last week. Going well so far. However, the hours that we played in the snow Tuesday wrecked my schedule. Dad's job is going well at Fossil Rim. He becomes an official employee with all the required and included benefits that come with it and are not always possible for the company to provide. Sorry, I need to stop dropping random political jokes and jabs too much , but I couldn't resist that one. In case none of y'all know, Dad oversees the homeschool outreach &c at Fossil Rim, a local reserve.
Sorry for not posting in so long. We are getting Internet at my house soon, so that problem should be fixed. Also, sorry for any typos. The library computers have large. clunky keyboards that my fingers are not used to. Google's spell check does not catch everything.
