day 9 and my eyes are crossed i SWEAR

it's snowing today

oh and raining..... and a bit of sleet thrown in for good measure.

i am doing admin stuff today, and drawing here and there.

i can't find the ira thing for bernie's roll over from his old job

and i have decided it's soup for supper tonight and heaven help anyone (glaring at bernie right now although he's at work and can't see me) who complains

it's pretty dreary out, it's pretty dreary in as well

even my budgies aren't as lively as they normally are

i still have to scan the taxes, but i got everything but that and the ira thing done that was on today's list

tomorrow's list includes snow i think.

i got an email from blick art supplies that my order shipped yesterday.... FedEx so i am positive that they will find me or find the po box---unlike UPS that never freeken finds me even with the phone number and directions......

meanwhile i wanted to post some sort of picture today.........something colorful and happy and not dreary........ so i put up one of the photo's my sister in law colleen took last may at longwood gardens..... pretty isn't it? i think we all could use a bit of spring right now..... although maybe it's coming along, as there is that endless mud out there....that is a sure indication of spring!

and i just decided that since my woodstove is being so damn cranky i am going to let it go out for a few hours, then start it up later

as i can't get draft right now....... which means it's probably as warm out as it is in here more or less.......even though it's raining

and it is warm in here

i did dishes etc, and now am about to go back to the drafting table and sit down with this drawing again for a while, it really is crossing my eyes at the moment

i got a bit more done, this part is a lot of work and very little to show as the drawing is growing imperceptibly but surely

catherine, you got a phoebe too? you should post pictures. yes ducks and chickens eat small rodents, frogs, bugs, etc... some chickens will even eat baby chicks, all of them will eat eggs given half a chance. the ducks eat their 'dud' eggs so that predators don't find them and the nests, and when i get a cracked chicken egg, i feed it to one of the ducks. people don't realize that they are omnivore, and actually require a lot of protein in their diets. that's why free range eggs are so sought after, they eat protein and the eggs taste it.

ok last night i walked down our snow covered hill ( we are at the bottom actually of a small mountain) to walk back up with bernie. it was over my knees....(ok that doesn't take much)

he yelled at me the entire time we were walking back. now it's 5am and he is going to walk back down to get his truck........ we are 'discussing' that ............

i am surprised you all can't hear it....... we had a small 'snow event' that the local weather people apparently were unawares and he couldn't get up the hill to our house

we are scheduled for another one tonight and a major one tomorrow.......

meanwhile i worry

so today the two biggest worries are.....ducks on ice and wood in the house

i am going to have to yank the entire emergency wood pile into the house

now he's leaving and WALKING down the hill, it's icy out and i worry as there aren't any street lights or sidewalks

he promised to call the second he got to the coach he's driving. and then i am going to worry until he gets to work and calls me,

he didn't get in the house until 10 pm so i didn't eat supper (too late for me) he did

OK he just called he's down at the coach.....now i got to worry until he's down to totowa...

he can't take the emergency bag with him.......he does have one at work but not his travel one, as he is always in a different unit from work (no time to fix his own truck) so he's stuck good if he gets stuck-he tells me (and i do believe this) he would forget it in one of the units and then wouldn't have it anyway.

normally i love winter, and i love snow....... not this winter... every single snow event he's down with the fleet and i am worried about him........and i am up here with not enough wood and i am worried about me!

and the snow shovel we got.......is not a push type one....... i found this out with all the snow

btw, i am having nightmares....last nights was that i was being chased by a bear and couldn't find my knitting.... (what can i say, the ducks and i have similar fears)