Friday, February 20, 2009

Learning something new

I just learned from Pioneer woman's blog how to make a diptych

You could use any pictures but I like some kind of a theme. These are from our trip to Florida about 4 years ago


These are obviously winter scenes. Taken in my back yard.

Really easy and kinda cool don't you think

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Fooled Again

The weather this week was absolutely fabulous. Earlier in the week the temperatures set new record highs above 60 degrees.
Yesterday the high was only 38 but as I was driving home I couldn't help but notice that all the snow was gone except for a few charcoal colored piles that the snow plows had created a few weeks ago. The grass and fields were brown but it almost felt like spring. As much as I am ready for spring I know that we still several weeks of winter left.


This is what it looked like at 10:00 this morning.





I can't tell for sure what the temperature is but the weather site says it is about 27 degrees.

Charlie just got back from a walk. He said there is about 4 inches, it is about done snowing and it is starting to melt (so the temp must be higher than 27)



The apple trees. I will have to go out and see if the forsythia and lilacs have any buds. They are probably frozen.




Charlie and some of the neighbor girls went for a long horseback ride (most of the day long).

He has been having some problems with his little toes for a few weeks. He finally went to the doctor. They think it is a fungus, from his winter boots that are several years old and the insulation has gotten wet. He has some medicine to put on them and had to spray his boots with a fungicide.

I have been busy this week, training new employees and holding public computer classes.
I taught computers for 5 hours on Tuesday, a total of 12 hours this week. We are also short handed in the Admin office I had responsibility for the phones all day Friday.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

More Snow and ground hogs day

The weather has been pretty cold all week, but it started to warm up yesterday, it was in the mid 30's but the wind was really bitter. Today the high was 41 degrees in Jackson. It even melted enough to see tiny patch of dirt in the driveway.

These are some pictures I took yesterday afternoon.
This one I took because I thought I like how the snow was draped over the railing like a swag.


This one of icicles on the back roof next to the kitchen window.

I will be really glad when spring is here. Tomorrow is Ground Hogs day, I think there is too much snow for the poor thing to even come out of his den. If he comes out and goes back in it means 6 more weeks of winter.
If he stays out it means an early spring.
What does it mean if he doesn't come out at all?