Lost Days

What day is it? I have only worked 1 1/2 days this week, and with all that time off and holidays, I am having trouble keeping the days straight, Wednesday felt like Saturday, Thursday felt like Sunday and yesterday felt like Saturday again.

A couple of days ago, it was negative wind chills, today it is almost 60 degrees. A lot of the snow was melted by the time I got up, about 8.
Here are a few pictures.

This one is looking out toward the horse pasture, behind the barn.


This was taken from the front of the pole barn looking at the pond.


And this one is looking through the "gate" at the horse barn.


and this across the pond, at the back of the pole barn.

They look a little spooky and eerie. They also look like they are were taken in black and white, but I was using the digital camera and they were printed in color.

Charlie said that the pond water level is up several inches, and the water is "gushing" through the underground drainage pipes he put in and it is still running all over the pasture. He said the water in the middle of the pasture the area behind the first picture is about 10 inches.

Catching Up.

Boy, It has been a month since I have posted. Where does, the time go?

I've had a lot of things going on at work.
The end of March I went to a Public Library Association conference in Minneapolis. I got there and had an afternoon off before the conference really started. So a friend and I took a bus tour of the cities.

There is a lot of art around the city, some peanuts sculpture, I didn't realize Charles Schultz was from Minneapolis, unfortuneatley the bus didn't stop so I could get any picutures of that. I was thinking that I did get a picture of the Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) statue, but apparently I didn't because it is not on my camera.

We did visit the Mall of America (Yipee, shopping is one of my least favorite things to do) It is 4 levels of stores, with an aquarium and an amusement park. Most of it is the same stores, you can find at any mall, just more of them all in one place.

We, the Jackson District library employees, have had a rough couple of weeks. The parents of two employees died, not totally unexpected, but still sad, then the death of an employee (worked at the library for about 20 years) - totally unexpected - only 58 years old. She was a work and she wasn't feeling well, (actually hadn't felt well for a couple of weeks, had a bleeding ulcer, diabetes and had a heart attack a few years ago) at the end of the day she told another employee she was going to the hospital, where she died during the night. All three funerals were the same day. Then on Thursday another former long time employee died, she retired a couple of years ago after working at the library for 37 years.

Last week I got out cut some old plants out of the flower beds. Now we can see the daffodil plants. I trimmed the rose plants, I think I may have to replace them all, it doesn't look like there is any green on them, but we'll have to wait and see.

Charlie finally got his pond dug several weeks ago, he is hoping this will help keep water out of the barn, now he has to put in some drainage tile. Spread out the extra soil and he's planning on building a waterfall at one end.

For those of you keeping track we heard the frogs for the first time a couple of weeks ago (March 3o) and had heard them everyday since. according to dad and ed, we need to have two cold snaps or freezes before Spring is really here. It is cold and raining here today but we can still hear the frogs.

Oh, did anybody else see the giant human sling shot thing Charlie saw on Bill Engval's Country Fried Home Videos the other night. I missed it but, if you did too, or if you want to see it again check out Youtube. Anybody want to try it at the next family reunion????