Snow Sunday

Boy, it has been so cold this past week.  Doggie walks in the mornings have been tests of endurance and will-power.   

 

 

 A beautiful, if freezing, sunrise...

 And, now more snow.  I love snow.  And, I am actually fine with it in March because it usually melts quickly by this time of the year.  I just wish we could get more snow in the front end of winter.  

 

This squirrel is my NEMESIS!  He constantly crawls across the kitchen window screen to raid the bird feeder, spilling seeds all over the deck (which the dogs then eat - dumb dogs).  This morning, when I filled the feeder, I decided to sprinkle a few seeds on the patio table.  If he would just eat seeds from there, I'd be happy!

 

There was no school for the kids on Friday (teachers had a “flex” day) but it was the music festival at Central Methodist University in Fayette.  I had a private cello student perform so I got to make the drive up and back.    

 

 

She played very well – got a “1”.  But, it happened on the coldest day of the year and the walk from my car was frigid.

Steve and I went to the temple Friday evening and stayed overnight with the Southerlands.  After breakfast (thanks, Emily, for the sausages and scrambled eggs) we left and got to Columbia around 11:00.  Snow was predicted for later in the day but I guess it got impatient because it started falling as we were going to Aldi to grocery shop.  And, it kept falling the rest of the day.  The orchestra boosters had planned for a table at Lucky’s Market from 1:00 to 3:00 and I had arranged for several students to take turns playing duets and quartets.  Bless their hearts, everyone but one showed up and played.  And, I think we made over $300! 

 

 Carrie Schlimme and Eleanor Farnen

  

Helen Keithahn, Betsy Schlimme, Trentynne Davis, Ethan Forte at Lucky's Market

 

 Speaking of RBHS orchestra, here they all are during class last week

Camden Killian, Jason’s son, read Flat Stanley at school and his class sent their own Flat Stanleys all over to visit and report back later in the spring.  He arrive in our mail on Wednesday and I have been showing him around.  

 

Guess where he went first???

 

 He got to visit orchestra.

 

And Fayette.  If you look closely, my cello student is holding him in her photo.

Netflix report:  I watched “Robots”.  It was quite cute.  And, I am almost finished with season 1 of Enterprise.