Spring has sprung…

Spring has sprung and the sun’s not hid

I saw more robins, yes I did!!

And that is my contribution to poetry.  A poet I am not!

It is a beautiful day.  The sun is shining brightly with hardly any wind and the temp is in the 50s.  It actually feels like spring today. 

 I have been to Kroger’s and picked up a few things which amounted to almost $80.  You see, our Kroger store is in the process of remodeling and they have several rows of clearance items and for some reason I can’t pass up a bargain whether I need it or not.  On the downside they are changing all of the aisles around and it takes forever to find anything.  It took me 4 years to know where everything in the store was and now I have to learn all over again.

Tomorrow I make the raisin pie, brownies, macaroni salad, and potato salad.  I found a recipe on the internet for macaroni salad with bacon and ranch dressing, etc.  I have decided on that recipe.  I probably won't be online for the next couple of days.

Enjoy this lovely day that He has given us!  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Just think….

tomorrow is the first day of Spring.  I think I started counting down at 77 days. 

The snow is all melted from the ground except for gigantic dirty snow banks in the parking lots at the store.  It is 44 degrees with an expected high of 45 degrees.  It is pouring down rain very nicely right now.  I had planned to go to Kroger for a few things this morning but I will wait until tomorrow now.

My son is coming home this weekend and we are celebrating his birthday which is April 8th.  I am getting ready to fix requested things such as a raisin pie which I haven’t made for some 40 odd years.  Also macaroni salad which I haven’t fixed in a blue moon.  If anyone has an exceptional easy recipe for macaroni salad please send it to me in an email.  I also have purchased a spiral sliced ham.  This will be mostly things I can fix the day before.  I think I will make the mandarin orange salad too which I love.

I have an update on my brother.  He saw the surgeon yesterday morning.  The surgeon didn’t agree with the radiologist that had read the CT scan.  So my brother will be scheduled for further tests until someone makes up their mind.  Very nerve wracking  for my brother and his wife and for Rae and me too.  I will keep you updated and thank you all for your prayers.

I saw my first robin day before yesterday.  I was in my car and I was mesmerized by the sight of it.  It doesn’t take much to make me happy.

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And for my friend Mari in Madrid who is learning English:

 

mes·mer·ize

ˈmezməˌrīz/

verb

past tense: mesmerized; past participle: mesmerized

1.  

   hold the attention of (someone) to the exclusion of all else or so as to transfix them.

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Yesterday I took a list of things to the rental office that I wanted done  before I signed my lease the first of April.  I came home yesterday and there were 2 guys inside here fixing all of the things I had on my list, including changing a light bulb  in the kitchen.  I will say that all of the guys that do maintenance here are really great!!  Very efficient and friendly.

I hope the sun is shining for you all today.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

 

 

Winter is back…

It is 25 degrees right now and the wind is gusting from the Northeast at 29 miles per hour to reach a high of 30 degrees today.  Sure doesn’t feel like it is only 3 days till the first day of Spring.

I did nothing yesterday except to eat and read.  Very boring.  I did fix myself a really nice meal and I even made one of my semi-homemade peach pies.

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Peach Pie

•1 package Pillsbury (refrigerated) ready to use 2 pie crusts
•1 large can of peach slices (do not drain)
•1 cup sugar
•3 tablespoons flour
•1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix the flour, cinnamon and sugar together in a medium size saucepan (use your fingers so there are no lumps) Add the peaches, juice included to the flour/sugar mixture. Stir to mix the ingredients together. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture begins to thicken and starts to bubble. Remove from heat.

Line 9 inch pie tin with the bottom crust. Pour the filling in. Dot the top of filling with margarine or butter. Add the top crust. Crimp edges together. Cut slits in top and sprinkle with sugar. Place pie on a foil lined cookie sheet. Bake in a 375 degree preheated oven until pie is golden brown and juice is bubbling out of the slits, about 45 – 50 minutes.

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I hope the sun is shining wherever you are.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Oh what a morning…

It is cold here this morning.  It was about 15 when I got up but  It has warmed up some now.  I still  have snow on my car from yesterday.  The snow didn’t amount to much, about 1 and 1/2 inches.  More snow up north of here.  It is only 6 more days till the first day of Spring.

My telephone service is out  this morning.  Thank heaven for a cell phone.  I have to keep in touch with my family as several family members are going through health issues right now.  I switched from Comcast to iTV-3 about a year ago.  The customer service from Comcast was very poor.  I like iTV-3 for their customer service.  The worst thing about them is that the telephone service is sometimes sporadic.  That is irritating!  Would I go back to Comcast?  NO!!  Not even for those promised $200 visa cards I keep getting in the mail from them.  To me the most important thing about a cable company is customer service and reliability.

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for my friend Mari in Spain who learning to speak English.  Stop by and say hi to Mari if you have a chance.  She is a very talented artist.

spo·rad·ic

[spuh-rad-ik]

adjective

1.

(of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional:sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.

2.

appearing in scattered or isolated instances, as a disease.

3.

isolated, as a single instance of something; being or occurring apart from others.

 

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Oh, Oh, just as I am sitting here typing this the telephone service is back up so I guess I will quit complaining and just thank God for this beautiful sunshiny day. 

Take care.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Winter is back…

and there is snow on the ground again, not a lot but it is still snowing.   What happened to the beautiful weather that we had for the last 3 days?  It is only 7 more days till spring so this weather has to end sometime.  I am not holding my breath though.

Yesterday was a busy morning.  I had a hair appointment then  a trip to the post office, then stopped by Food Depot for a few items (including a lotto ticket for Mega Millions which is over $300 million right now) then a bite to eat then home.

I am sitting here drinking a Carnation Instant Breakfast while I am typing this.  Did you know that stuff comes in bottles now like Boost and Ensure?  Not too bad.  I keep some Boost on hand for when I want a quick breakfast or supper. 

Monday while at Costco I got a rotisserie chicken.  They cost $4.99 and the chicken is a fairly good size.  I took the meat from the bones and used the carcass to make homemade chicken vegetable soup. Cook carcass in boiling water for a few minutes.  Remove rest of meat and strain broth,  I then refrigerated it overnight so I was able to remove the fat from it yesterday morning.  I diced one large carrot, 2 diced stalks of celery, 1 large potato diced , some frozen peas and a diced onion.  Bring to a boil and simmer for about one hour.  Add seasonings and more chicken if desired.  If you don’t have enough broth add a can of Swanson chicken broth.  I really enjoyed the soup.  I don’t eat nearly enough veggies and this really seemed to satisfy me.

And now what am I going to do with the rest of the day?  It is too messy to go anywhere and I would have to clean my car off again.  That alone puts me out of the mood to do anything.

I hope you all have a good day.  Stay safe and be happy!

Beth

 

Spring is coming….

Another beautiful morning checking in at 38 degrees.  It is to reach the upper 50s today.  It is 8 more days till the first day of Spring,  I know that spring is coming because I have seen numerous birds the last couple of days.  No robins yet but I know they are on their way!

I got up early to do laundry this morning.  It was still dark at 7 AM  It is just now starting to get light.  I am not a fan of DST.  I am a fan of baseball though and I am getting ready to cheer my ST Louis Cardinals on to another winning season.  Perhaps we will end up facing the Red Sox again and have another chance.

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St. Louis Cardinals

1. The St. Louis Cardinals, a team based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League Central Division of Major League Baseball. Busch Stadium has served as their home field since 2006. Wikpedia

Founded: 1882

Arena/Stadium: Busch Stadium

Manager: Mike Matheny

Location: St. Louis

Mascot: Fredbird

World Series championships: 1926, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, 1982, 2006, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals

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I have to get busy now as I have a hair appointment at 10AM.  Catch you all later.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Clarification…

To begin with I didn’t wake up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt.  That is the first line of the song  ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down’ written by Kris Kristofferson and a smash hit for Johnny Cash.  I keep forgetting that not everyone is a Johnny Cash fan.  I do thank you all for the well wishes though.

It is starting out to be a lovely day.  The sun is shining brightly and the temp is to reach into the 60s today.  What a treat that will be.  It will help to melt down some of those mountain high dirty snow piles around here.  I am planning a trip to Costco this morning to see what they have new for spring.

And speaking of spring, it is only 9 more days till the first day of spring.  Yesterday I saw a woodpecker and several sparrows and a couple of black birds, all hovering in the front yard on some bare spots where the snow has melted.  The squirrels in the front yard have gotten really skinny over winter too and they were digging trying to find their buried acorns.

I am stalled on the spring cleaning simply because I don’t want to do it.  When it dries up outdoors perhaps I will get back in the mood.  For now I just want to go outside and shout at the top of my lungs that I have survived this record breaking winter.  That said I just bet that we have some more snow starting tomorrow night into Wednesday morning.  No, I don’t have to bet on that as that is what the weather person has predicted.

I hope your week is great.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Good news and….

Thanks to the reader who commented on my post yesterday correctly identifying my vine.  It is the cardinal vine.  http://awaytogarden.com/cardinal-climber-and-its-cousins-annual-vines-that-are-hummingbird-favorites/  I am going to see if I can be allowed to plant it around the light pole at the end of the driveway.

I got wonderful news yesterday after a visit to the Cancer Clinic headed by my oncologist and the ENT surgeon.  I am officially in remission.  I will have to visit the cancer clinic ever 2 months.  No pet or ct scans unless they find something in my examination.   Thank you God!!!  And thanks for all of the well wishes and prayers from my blogging friends.

It is now 11 days on the countdown till Spring.  Not very spring like here today.  In the low 30s with some kind of precipitation going on out there.  I am not sure what kind.  To be in the mid to upper 50s on Monday.  Sounds heavenly!

Daylight savings time starts tomorrow.  Time to set the clocks ahead 1 hour.  It takes time for me to get used to this.  I don’t like it.

I am all set to make the banana bread today using my tried and true recipe that I have used for the last 40 years or more.

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Banana Bread

This is the recipe I have used for banana bread for all of my married life. Jim loved it. I will never forget him sitting in by the front window in July 2006 eating banana bread and drinking a glass of milk while he was watching the city finally put a new curb in front of our house.

•1 cup margarine
•2 cups sugar
•4 eggs
•1/4 teaspoon salt
•2 teaspoons soda
•4 cups of flour
•6 large ripe bananas mashed
•1 cup chopped pecans (may use walnuts) optional

Have oven preheated to 350 degrees. Sift the dry ingredients together and set aside. Cream the margarine, sugar and eggs together. Add the flour mixture together alternately with the mashed bananas to the creamed mixture. Fold in the pecans. Pour into two loaf pans (or several small loaf pans) that have been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake for approximately 1 hour for lg loaf pans. Watch smaller pans. Bread is done when the top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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Have a peaceful weekend.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Continuing the countdown….

Only 14 days to go on the countdown till Spring.  It is 23 degrees right now with snow showers.  My daughter came over yesterday and finished shoveling my car out.  THANKS!! 

I did run some errands yesterday morning and got started on the spring cleaning.  Nothing drastic but it is a start.  Today I am cleaning out the drawers in the kitchen and putting in new lining.  Not a favorite thing to do but needs to be done.

Sharing some photos from my flowers at my old home.

The hens and chickens were started from some we brought from Jim’s mom’s house many years ago.  I brought two containers of them when I moved here and they are flourishing.

Have a lovely peaceful day.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

 

 

Another cold Monday….

at 6 below zero.  We got about 6 inches of snow all totaled and the temperature plummeted.  It is bright and sunny this morning.  It is supposed to warm up a bit gradually this week.  I hope so as I have appointments with my oncologist and surgeon on Friday.  There are 16 more days till Spring.

I went out yesterday afternoon to clean the snow off my car.  When they clean the driveway they blow the snow high behind my car and when they snow blow the sidewalk they blow it up against my tires.  Yesterday about finished me off as it was so cold and the snow was the heavy kind.  I am really hoping this was our last major snowfall of the year as my poor old body can’t take much more. 

From the shrub behind the garage at my old home taken 18 April 2006.  I don’t have anything beautiful like that in my yard here.  Just a magnificent old oak tree in the front yard and lots of squirrels.  I haven’t seen a bird all winter.  Since I am renting I can’t put up a bird feeder.

I am busy doing laundry this morning.  Then I need to do some dusting and cleaning.

I hope you all have a good week.  Stay safe and be happy!

Beth

More snow…

and bitter cold but what else is new.  I am so expecting it.  My car is a giant snowball again and I will have to try and get it cleaned off when the snow is all finished.  The countdown till Spring is hanging in there at 17 days.  Next Sunday Daylight Savings Time begins.  I am not looking forward to that at all.  I will take my daylight in the morning instead of evening.

I am reading a new Lisa Jackson book that I ordered from Amazon titled Memories.  Actually it is two of her books from the late 1990s.  Have you noticed that the really popular authors are releasing a lot of their earlier works at the price of their new books?  I don’t remember reading this one before so I am enjoying it.

A HUSBAND TO REMEMBER

“Nikki Carrothers wakes in an island hospital with no memory of her past, how she got there or of Trent McKenzie—the man claiming to be her husband. Though she's undeniably attracted to him, Nikki's not sure he can be trusted. Even as her memory returns, he's the one piece of the puzzle that remains a mystery.”

 

NEW YEAR'S DADDY

“Veronica Walsh is haunted by the memory of her late husband, having lost him years ago in a ski accident. Now she focuses solely on her daughter, Amy, certain that no man could ever fill the void in her broken heart—until Travis Keegan comes along.”

All material is from www.amazon.com.

Have a peaceful Sunday.  stay safe and be happy!

Beth

I never realized….

how naïve I was until I started dealing with  iPad, iTunes and Amazon MP3 downloads.  You see, to begin with my blogging Twin sent me an iTunes gift card at Christmas,  I had to ask my Twin how to use it.  I did and I downloaded The Essential Ray Price album (41 songs) to my iPad with no problem.  I have an $8.30 credit with iTunes and each time I try to use it I go through such a rigmarole and I am never able to complete it.  

Anyway, I love Johnny Cash.  When I was young  I had all of his albums which are long gone by the way.  On the album ‘Hello I’m Johnny Cash’ is a song called ‘Sing a Travelin’ Song.’  I love that song and I have been trying to find it on a CD for a long time.  Amazon has the CD but it is a remastered foreign version that had bad reviews from ones who had purchased it.  I finally found the original version at Amazon on the MP3 downloads.  It took me hours to get that all figured out.  I have it now on iTunes and my Windows Media Player.  Whew!!

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rig·ma·role

noun \ˈri-gə-mə-ˌrōl, ˈrig-mə-\

: a long, complicated, and annoying process, description, etc.

 

See rigmarole defined for English-language learners »

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johnny cash

I will never forget the first time I saw Johnny Cash in person.  It was at Arthur Illinois at the Moultrie/Douglas county fair grounds. 

“ 1969 – Perhaps the biggest Fair before or since in terms of attendance, the Mo-Do County Fair started off opening night with George Jones and Tammy Wynette one of country music’s biggest acts. Only a few were bigger and Johnny Cash with his entire show including his wife June Carter, the Carter family and the Statler Brothers were one of them. They played to a crowd of between 15-20 thousand people. Only the recent Fireworks during Arthur’s Freedom Celebration have ever witnessed such a crowd in one day.”  http://www.moultriedouglascountyfair.com/history/history%20main.html

I remember that there were people on the rooftops of the buildings and in the trees, people everywhere.  It was one of the best times ever.  Somewhere I have some pictures I took that unforgettable night.  You can see that I am a classic country music fan.

I about forgot the countdown till Spring is 18 days!

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

February, It’s goodbye and so long to you….

“You can send me pretty flowers
You can send me valentines
Send me letters every day but it won't pay
Bend to my desires nothing else will do
It's goodbye and so long to you.”

A verse from one of my favorite songs composed and performed by Mac Wiseman.

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Goodbye February, you have not been a very friendly month.  You followed January which was even worse.  March is set to roar like a lion with much snow and frigid temps.  But you all can not get me down because it is only 19 days till spring.

I finished the Susan Wiggs chronicle on my Nook.  It was 835 pages which took me parts of 3 days to read.  She is an excellent writer.  I have read several of her books and she is normally not a historical romance writer.  835 pages is enough romance for me.  I am ready now for a good old murder mystery.  I need to check Amazon because I think John Sandford has a new book coming out this month.

My niece is coming for lunch so I need to quit thinking about snow storms and bitter cold and zero temps and get busy.

Have a peaceful weekend.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Updates and…

the countdown till spring which stands now at 21 days.  It is cloudy and 0 degrees this morning to reach 12 degrees by afternoon.  It is 10 days till DST begins on March 9th.

Marc was released from the hospital on Monday with no definite diagnosis.  Thank you for all kind thoughts and prayers.

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Work is still being done at the apartment complex down the street from me that was damaged during the tornado,  I think the roof is pretty well done now and they are working inside.

The date of the tornado 17 November 2013.

Catty corner across the street from me.  They have cleaned up the mess and patched up the roof but no major repair done yet  They are living in the house,

and next door to the house catty corner across the street from me.  The mess has been cleaned up.  This is the house that had the lit Christmas tree in the yard the months of November and December.  Around the corner from these houses are several houses that were damaged like this.  Our winter has been so bitter cold and snowy that no repair work has been done to these houses. 

Definition of catty corner: 

cat·er-cor·nered (kăt′ər-kôr′nərd, kăt′ē-) also cat·er-cor·ner (-nər) or cat·ty-cor·nered or cat·ty-cor·ner (kăt′ē-) or kit·ty-cor·nered or kit·ty-cor·ner (kĭt′ē-)

adj.

Diagonal.

adv.

In a diagonal position.

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I have been a bit depressed now and I have recalled these sights to help me remember just how very fortunate I am.  Thank you God!!

I am off to a doctor visit this afternoon.  I hope you all have a good day.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

 

A trace of snow…

and bright sunshine this  chilly Tuesday morning in central Illinois.    The countdown till Spring marches on at 22 days!  My Boston friend Paul asked why I wasn’t counting down the days till daylight savings time.  Daylight savings time begins on Sunday March 9th which is 11 days from now,  The reason I didn’t mention this before is because I don’t like DST.  I wish that the time would stay one way or the other.  Stop by Paul’s blog if you have a minute.  He always has wonderful photos of the Boston area.

Yesterday was busy for me.  I ran a lot of errands which included  having new windshield wiper blades put on my car.  The ice and snow this winter had ruined them.  I couldn’t believe how expensive they were.  The guy at Auto Zone came out in the bitter cold and had them on in about 2 minutes.

I talked to my brother near ST. Louis yesterday.  If all goes well he and his wife will come in a couple of months  and pick me up. We will drive to West Virginia to visit my sister and brother in law and all of her family there.  I haven’t seen my sister since 2010.  To say I am so happy at the thought is no exaggeration.

I need to motivate myself to clean today but the want to is definitely not there.  I was much more motivated in my own home, but, I can’t stand clutter so I try and keep this place as if it was my own.  It is time for me to sign another lease.  Before I moved here I looked at a lot of houses online trying to decide whether to rent or buy.  It is rather late now to make that decision.  A super windfall from somewhere would help me make up my mind.  LOL  Rae and I have talked about that and we can’t think of anyway that will ever happen short of a miracle.  But hey, my life has been filled with miracles the last 4 years.  I am living proof.

Time to get off this computer and do some visiting with you all.  Then a bit of cleaning and checking the fridge to see what is for lunch.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Update and….

The countdown till Spring continues at 23 days.  It is 17 degrees this morning and snow is predicted for tonight.  Just an inch or so,  HA!!  Then tomorrow night is below zero temps.  I have an important doctor appointment on Wednesday afternoon and it is supposed to reach 14 that day.  It has already been rescheduled twice because of the weather.

There is no definite news on Marc.  We do know that he has had several tests that have ruled out cause but no definite diagnosis.  He may get to go home from the hospital today.  Thank you all for your prayers.  I will keep you updated.

I was sad to see the last episode of Downton Abbey for the season.  That show has really got me hooked.  My sis sent me season 1 as I didn’t start watching this till season 3. 

I have been up since 6 this morning.  I have already exercised and now it is time to have my healthy no fat, no salt, no sugar, high fiber cereal with banana, milk and orange juice.  Then I want to find out what is taking the tax accountant such a long  time to get my taxes done.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Doozy Weather System….

We are having a doozy of a weather system move through here today.  We are under a flood watch and a High Wind Warning in effect from 3 pm this afternoon to 3 am CST Friday.  My sis in WV called me this morning to tell me that I was bright red on the weather map this morning.  She asked me if I knew we were under a tornado watch too.  I said no, no, no, no!!  So far as I know there has been no tornado watch or warning issued for central Illinois for today, just severe thunderstorms and  the flood and high wind warnings I mentioned.  I am not geared up for another tornado as I haven’t recovered from the last one.  

Anyway it is only 27 days till spring.

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doo·zy

noun \ˈdü-zē\\-zər\

: something that is unusually good, bad, big, severe, etc.

plural doozies or doozers

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I am helping my blogging friend in Madrid with some of our unusual phrases.  Mari, I hope you have a doozy of a day, on the good side of course.

The inspectors came yesterday and they took pictures of the crack all along my wall under the kitchen window.  I caught them at the door and asked them to wipe their feet.  LOL It was really kind of funny to see the looks on their faces.  But they did wipe their feet and thanked me nicely when they left!

My son in law and daughter came over last night and I finally got my car backed out.  Thanks Mike and Marcia.

Tomorrow I am going grocery shopping if the Good Lord is willing and the creeks don’t rise.  I can shut my eyes and hear my dad saying that.  My mom said it a lot too and so do I.

I hope your day is sunny and bright.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Wonderful surprise…

Yesterday morning I looked out my beautiful replaced kitchen window and I saw my daughter out by  my car just shoveling and chipping away.  She had been out there sometime before I noticed her.  I hurried and put on coat, hat, gloves and boots and went out to help her.  About an hour later my car was cleaned off.    We both tried to back my car out but it wouldn’t budge because of the ice and snow underneath.  It got up to 43 degrees yesterday and there was some melting.  I will try again this afternoon.  

Things are a mess outside as there was a thick layer of snow on the roofs and the melting onto to the sidewalks has caused ice (heavy  in some places) to form.  Very treacherous.  The temp today is to reach the lower 40s.

There are 28 days left on the countdown till spring.

It is very depressing being stuck  indoors and not being able to go even to the grocery store.  I feel fortunate though because in the eastern part of Pekin over 3000 people lost power for several hours during the storm Monday night.

There is to be another inspection today to check for further tornado damage such as cracks in the walls etc.  They were just here last Thursday and they all track in and don’t bother to wipe their feet even though I have several rugs spread  out by the front door.  Very disgusting as I am the one responsible for keeping this place clean and I do not like a mess!!  And that is my rant for this Wednesday the 19th of February, 2014.

For Pam in Illinois,  I went back through my old blog postings and found that I took the pics of the magnolia/tulip tree in March of 2012 instead of March 2013.  What can I say except that my mind has endured a lot this past year.  LOL

Have a wonderful rest of the week.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

First came the ice…

and then came the snow.  Maintenance came last night and blew the snow off the sidewalks and now there is a very thick coating of ice on the sidewalks.  I was going out to take some pics this morning but it wasn’t safe.  I definitely do not want a broken bone on top of everything else.  I threw some ice melt on my back porch and came back in the house.  Peoria had 5 inches of snow yesterday.  First we had ice and then snow.    March 20th is the first day of Spring.  I am not counting that anymore so I am reducing the countdown till spring to 29 days.

Taken from my back door this morning.  there is a layer of ice underneath the snow on my car.  Might I say again that I don’t like the snow and ice.

I can’t get out of the house to work on cleaning my car until maintenance comes and salts our sidewalks so I have decided to bake.  I am making something healthy this time.  Oatmeal raisin cookies which happen to be my favorite cookie and also my son's favorite.

I found another good book by Lisa Gardner on my Nook yesterday.  I sat up till 11pm reading and got up at 6 this morning when I woke up.  I actually have lots of good books on the Nook by some of my favorite authors.  So the Nook it is till I get some of those books read.

Stay Safe and be happy!!

Beth

Another winter storm warning…

is in effect for today. The snow is coming down heavily right now and the forecast is for  4 – 7 inches of snow and up to 1/10 of an inch of ice.  I have nowhere to put the snow when I clean off my car.  I cleaned my car off again yesterday and today will be the 3rd day in a row.  It is 31 days in the countdown till spring.  After today the weather should warm up a bit and we have thunderstorms predicted for Thursday.

Last year the tulip/magnolia tree across the street was getting ready to bloom as we had enjoyed a mild winter.

This is was taken in early March last year.

I found  a book on my Nook that I read yesterday and that occupied my time along with cleaning off my car again.  I did notice that I have some pretty good choices on there so perhaps I will read some of them as I paid good money for them.  I did go on Amazon and order a couple of books with the remainder of my Christmas gift card.

I was just looking at the Peoria journal Star which I have delivered each morning.  I see that a snake handling pastor from Middlesboro Kentucky died after being bitten by a snake.  http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2014/02/16/pastor-dies-after-snake-he-was-handling-bit-him/5529907/  He was a reality TV star.  Which leads me to remark that I dislike immensely those reality TV shows. 

 

Time for me to get moving and do something, anything that has a purpose.  I hope the sun is shining where you are!  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

P.S.  Blogger is not publishing my posts again until about 12 hours later.  So you will probably see this sometime tomorrow.