You Don't See That Every Day

 Just a check in to see where I'm at in my goals for the year 1. Take care of my health .  I'm working on eating better. I've done some run/walks the past few weeks. 2. Read through the Bible this yea r.  I am still ahead in my reading. Getting to the end of Exodus. I've been reading through the Bible chronologically. So I read some of Genesis, then Job, then back to Genesis and on to Exodus. My husband told me he was done with Exodus and moving on in his reading plan. And, how crazy is this, my competitive side whispered to me, "You need to finish Exodus today and catch up to him." I did not heed my competitiveness this time and I'm sticking to my plan. 3. Projects ! I finished up the two quilts I was working on. One was a birthday gift for my mother in law - a lap quilt. The other was a T-shirt quilt for a friend. It is the second one I have made, and I think I learned a lot on the first one, so the second seemed easier and better. Except for the bindin

One of the things I love about my husband is his interest in the weather. He enjoys tracking the weather and keeping me updated on what's coming. It's a pretty important factor in a farmer's life too.  snow dusting a few weeks ago   So last week he started sharing the news of the coming snow. 6 inches, no 12, no, now they're predicting 17 inches of snow in our corner of the world. Definitely not something you see every day around here. I don't think we've had that much snow on the valley floor since the 1960s.  And I admit, I'm kind of excited about it. Yes, it will put a dent in plans for a four day weekend, but life is all about being able to change, adapt and overcome.  And spring is right around the corner!  

At the beginning of each month I hang a blank calendar page that I fill in with what we're cooking for supper. When I started this practice I would only fill in the week or two. I did this for two reasons - so I would know what items I needed on hand when I went grocery shopping every two weeks (we got paid every two weeks); and so when dinnertime rolled around I wouldn't be wondering what to make. Before this it seemed like we had the same three or four meals all the time and the minions began to gather a rebellion.  I've been doing this for 12 years now. And those once-blank, now-filled-in monthly calendars have been stuck into a binder. I pulled out that binder today and made a list of the meals we have eaten this past year. I came up with 57 meals!  So if I can pull this off, we can go nearly two months without repeating a meal! Of course, there will be some family members that don't like what might be served, but this isn't a restaurant and they'll get to e