December 1

Just before we fell asleep last night  Steve said  “this is the best… I mean the BEST!  I said the heating pad?  He said “everything”! 

I got up at 6…slept so good… it was cloudy but warm…in the 30’s..

Steve got  up soon afterwards..

I decided to go for a walk and strapped on my snowshoes…I got the key to the shed... I thought I should at least check it to see if any creature had made their winter home inside.

The snow wasn’t that deep but it still was easier walking  than if I didn’t have them, I checked out the apple trees on the way trying to imagine where they should be trimmed…some were pretty over grown..well, really all of them were but some more than others.

When I returned I decided to make eggs for breakfast…Beth showed up…. Marissa had called and they weren’t working that day at Lenawee.

So I made breakfast for her too…I got the skijorriing gear out for her and her laundry soap she had left at Thanksgiving… I showed her how to hook up the haulter and  belt on herself like Joyce had shown me.

 

Beth and I went out and cut down my Christmas tree …and we also went and cut some bows for my window boxes..
We talked about Christmas and she said what a pain it is to do all that driving and this year their trip to Rocky’s family is back to back to their coming to hutch…I told her that it would be alright if they skipped our side this year… but maybe we could come up over New Years and celebrate then ..I would  see if Pat, Vonnie, and Caela wanted to also come…we could rent the rooms at the VI and have our get together in the commons area there… I will check with P and V when I get home. 

I started emptying out the fridge and Beth decided to leave so we could continue on …

It had started to drizzle as Steve loaded the car but not too heavily… we left around 12:30... heading to Duluth to Lynn's for the rest of the weekend..