It's Getting Deeper

I think we are going to have to rule out making smores for a while.

We have received about 6" today and it is still snowing. It is nice to have Travis who is out shoveling the driveway and sidewalk at this very moment. We'll keep you posted. I think we will have a white Christmas.

Gettin Ready for Christmas

Looking out the front window at a couple of the neighbors enjoying a good meal.
We had a good week. Mom finished teaching, I got my buildings as ready for winter as I could, and now it is snowing. The week was really cold. Down in the zero to minus 1 or 2 degrees. I got a call Wednesday night that there was water pouring out of the ceiling at the institute. Last year a pipe froze and broke so we repaired it. This year a furnace went down and it froze and broke again. Mom went with me at 8:00pm and we sucked all the water up and set fans out to dry and by morning it looked pretty good. We had it repaired by 7:30am and when students started arriving you couldn't even tell it, except for the dozen or so ceiling tiles that had fallen out of the ceiling. Now I am worried that it will happen again. Each time I think we have it protected and it freezes again. I hate cold weather.

Mom and I drove to Spokane this morning to get Travis and Kelly. Their plane was right on time and we made it home without mishap. We did see one accident right in front of us out by Colfax but he missed us.

Travis and Kelly and Matt and Kimbre are going with Mom and I on a cruise on Lake Coeur d'Alene to see the Christmas lights tomorrow. Mom has been wanting to do this for several years. As cold as it has been we could probably walk on the lake and not get wet. Then Matt and Kimbre will come down for a few days and have Christmas with us.

Seth, Lacey and family made it to Seattle without problems. Seattle now has 6" ++ of snow and they are all going nuts. It is snowing here in Moscow and we are probably working on 10"++. All I want to do is get under my favorite blanket with a good book and let it snow.

Enjoy the holidays. Mom would like to have you let us know if and when you get the packages she sent so she knows they have all arrived safely. An e-mail would be fine.

Smores Anyone?

We tried to make smores at Thanksgiving and I guess we just never got around to putting things away for winter. Maybe we'll try again for Christmas.
More later. We're on our way to Spokane to get Travis and Kelly.