COLD DAY AND 2009 MEMORIES

Brrr, 14 degrees this morning to get things started. I decided to take RL to pre-school and then come home and get the chores done.
The water pans were all frozen solid and it took almost twice as long to get things done when I got home.
I came inside and had my breakfast later than usual.
IR was sleepy early today from an early wake up so she took a nap around 10:30 and hubbie went outside to get the garbage loaded while I changed out the bed covers and got out clean furniture covers for the living room . I had to wait until IR woke up to get all the furniture vacuumed and get the clean covers on.
I did a load of laundry and then had a late lunch since my late breakfast didn't make me hungry until later in the afternoon. I baked a pan of brownies to take to market along with a pan of cubed sweet potatoes and cinnamon for lunch.
I don't know if I will go to market tomorrow or not if it gets down near the single digits in temperature again I will have to follow the same schedule as this morning and will be very late getting to market at best so I will wait until morning to see what the temperature really is.
The snow storm that "wasn't" yesterday did actually have a name , it was Jayden and it did  effect a lot of folks in the northeast with snow ,wind and ice.

There was some sad news in the area today that may be connected to the slick roads yesterday as 2 young boys were found dead inside their car at the bottom of lake Summit .

So sad for the parents of these young men and son-in-love knows one of them and said he was really a good boy who was going to the local community college and had attended the Boys and Girls Club.

Hubbie and I took turns getting the chores done this afternoon as IR took another much needed nap.

I walked Rosie and am so impressed with the routine she has fallen into and does things ahead of being told to do them.  She's still on a lease but maybe this weekend we will try her off the leash and she if she will stay with us.

Son-in-love picked up IR around 6:45 tonight and took her out to get something to eat since she had just woke up.

Hubbie and I had a quiet evening and it seemed strange to not be getting ready for market. Depends on which weatherman you listen to what the temperature will be in the morning. The spread is from 10 to 15 but that is still very cold. 

We had an unwanted visitor on the porch helping himself to the cat food tonight and even with hubbie prodding him with a broom he was reluctant to leave his newly found meal.

Hubbie set the trap for him so hopefully we can relocate him tomorrow. He was a very big opossum .

To finish up the decade pics for this morning I found these from January 2009.

That is the month we drove to Granite Falls ,NC to buy Annie our red Australian Shepherd and her sister for d-in-love named Ginger.

This is a picture of Bernie and Dolly at that time ,both healthy and happy.

Daughter worked for the local TV station then as a news producer and this is her and one of the meteorologist named Julie. Both these girls were single at that time and now both are married and mothers.

This picture brings back a lot of memories as this old maple tree stood in the bottom pasture all my life until a couple years ago when it fell in a wind storm. This tree survived many floods in it's lifetime and was struck by lightening more than once. Once it was a deadly strike for some kids who were swimming in the farm pond that was next to it and when the storm came up they took shelter under it. They were all killed by the strike but the tree lived on.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and praying tonight for the families of both these young boys who lost their lives in a tragic way yesterday.

God Bless and Good Night.