Kirsti sent this photo to me from last Sunday. They have changed church meeting times to 1:30 and poor Ivan just couldn't stay away during Sacrament meeting. It is such a sweet picture. He is now a BIG boy and graduated out of nursery and into the Sunbeam class.
We have changed our church meeting times, also, to 12:30 but we didn't get to attend last Sunday thanks to about 7-8 inches of snow that fell throughout the day. I took pictures to show the progress:
One can really see the progress via the boxwood bushes as the snow accumulates on them. By Monday morning, the snow had stopped but the accumulation of it and the painfully slow task of getting it off the roads (there are still side streets that have not been cleared!) caused cancellations all week long. Most of the public schools were closed all week - except on Thursday - because we got MORE snow on Friday - about 3-4 inches. Afghanistan Women's Meeting was cancelled last Monday and is again this coming Monday. The temple was closed Tuesday and Friday, the days that either Steve or I attend. I didn't have orchestra rehearsal Tuesday night because we rehearse in a public high school and they were closed that day. The first day that either of us ventured out was Wednesday because I had a dermatology appointment that morning and I also needed to drive down to House Springs to pick up some antibiotics for Sally. She has another UTI! They drew a specimen back on December 18th but then they lost the sample for a couple of weeks. I was called on Saturday, the 4th to say it was positive. Anyway, the major roads by Wednesday were fine and I had no problems navigating. Steve and I also did grocery shopping that afternoon and had no problem (except whoever is contracted to clear Walmart's parking lot did a terrible job). Sally was suppose to have a grooming on Friday but the new snow cancelled that. We are hoping that if we keep her little pee pee area trimmed of excess hair (a bikini cut, so to speak) and if we wipe her after she goes potty, it might prevent future UTIs. I am also putting about a tablespoon of cranberry juice in her morning food in hopes that it will help. I know cranberry tablets have certainly helped me.
Anyway, it is a good thing that Steve and I like each other because we have been cooped up in this house all week long. One of our major tasks this week was to clear our crazy-long driveway of snow. We did it over two days, fifteen to twenty minute shifts spread throughout the day to save our poor old bodies from too much stress and strain. Here is the driveway almost cleared to the road....
We have watched more things on the TV than we have in a long time. We are over half-way through Skeleton Crew and enjoying it (but the two boys are VERY annoying with their stupid curiosity). We watched the last two movies of the God Is Not Dead series. I really liked the last one. We watched The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness that I checked out from the library after we watched Empire of the Sun. It was good. We also watched Dune 2. So creative! So bizarre! So much story to relate!
One big project to keep me from getting cabin fever was to re-organize our family history stuff in the library on Monday morning. (below is what the looked like in the middle of the undertaking)
I also caught up on my Christmas thank-you notes and my scrapbooks throughout the week.
I have been working on patchwork quilt tops to donate to Happy Hookers and here are some of what I have been doing the last couple of weeks:
I was able to teach music lessons Wednesday, Thursday and today.
I painted with water color and with acrylic throughout the week. It is always fun to paint!
We put out our snow sign up this year in the front yard and I built a snowman this afternoon.
It has been a lovely, peaceful week.
The only negative event has been the death of Tamara's mother on Friday. She was admitted to the hospital Wednesday evening and it was discovered that her liver was basically not working at all and by Friday mid-day, she was gone. Tamara flew out to be with her family this morning and Steven will join her for the funeral. Sheila was a wonderful woman and she will be sorely missed. Her health had been declining for a few years so she is finally out of pain, at least.
I will close with a cute Feathersnap picture of Sally as she runs out to go potty and a couple of pics of birds at the feeder: a junco and a female cardinal hanging out with a sparrow.
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