Calendar

Laura gets me a new calendar each year.  My new one is here.  January has pictures of Logan.  His birthday’s the 20.  February is couples. March is Sigrid and on through my year.  I’ll get a year calendar at Hobby Lobby later when they are marked down.  I try to find one with birds.

I’m feeding the birds each day and tending my chickens.  It was 22 last night and won’t get much above freezing today.  Tomorrow a snow storm is coming. Arizona sounds like a nice place to live today.
 

Biking

 I have been using my bike for exercise.  I’m glad to have it as it’s too cold to walk outside.  Thursday it’s supposed to snow.  I’m riding twice to 3 times each day.  Riding is boring to me but I’m enduring the time.  I am attending my silver sneakers class Monday through Wednesday.  

PBS has their new finding your roots on tv starting this week.  I like that show.  I have nothing to read and am just enduring each cold day.  At least, I don’t have to go to work in the freezing temps like fleta.

Sigrid is trying to make a scarf now.  She’s making even stitches.  She made the Dean’s list and starts her new job at the College Library this week.  Next week, she starts new classes.  All sciences with labs and all intense.  Laura will be back taking her school leadership classes too. She’s  almost finished too.

Winter is a Big Monday

School is open today.  I hope Ada feels better.  She has a lingering cough.  

We are in the deep freeze. It is 24 degrees this morning.  I have the water dripping. Fleta is at work.  It’s 19 there.  She is thinking of retiring.  She turned 77 January 4.  The two grands she helps graduate in May and will be able to pay their own way hopefully.  She gave each a vehicle.  She deserves a rest.

Laura made Astrid a tree skirt from the rest of the old quilt.  It matches the stockings.  She used a table cloth for the under side.  

Laura fixed her lunch for the week.  She will put in cool whip bowls and grab one each morning.  She gave me enough for my lunch today.

I’m planning to ride my bike and not walk outside. It’s just too cold.  I’ll go to my workout at 10. 

Stay warm if you can.
 

Ada Afternoon

Yesterday, Erin and Greta attended the ATU basketball tourney.  Ada’s stayed the afternoon with me.  I pampered her. She has a cough and is not quite up to par.  We watched Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse on tv.  I served her an array of snacks. We walked across the Meadow to visit Auntie Laura.  Too soon, headlights came down my drive and carried her away.  All afternoon she said “ I love you, Gigi”.  Her shirt says the secret— Ada is love!

 

Late Walk

 I walked to my mailbox late one evening this week.  The sky was so spectacular. I could see but dark was settling around me.  In the winter I stay inside too much.  It clogs my brain.

Erin is coming this afternoon.  She and Greta are going to an ATU basketball game. It’s a high school tournament. Ada and I will play together while they’re away. Laura picked her up a little outfit at Walmart in the markdown.  

Devotion

After I retired and now that was 13 years ago come May, I read a devotion each day.  My friend Jonell sent this one to me last year.  I don’t really like the author but the devotional was good.  Each day it held a reminder to be thankful.  Laura read the one below in 2024.  Perhaps it was also a gift from a friend.  We swapped and now I’m reading hers and she can be reminded each day to be thankful.  I going to have my eye out for one for 2026.  I like to be prepared and I plan to be here. 

 

Cold Coming

By Monday, it is to be much colder.  It was really windy here New Year’s Eve as the front passed.  I’ll be glad when the cold passes too.  

For Christmas Astrid made me a little solar light from one of the old fixtures in the Galla house.  She changed the lights but saved the light covers.  We moved to that house in 1989.  The little light carries memories.
 

In Her Genes

Sigrid is on a break from College.  She’s trying crocheting. Her first attempt at a bigger project is moving along.  She sorted through left over yarn for colors.  She designed her project on her iPad. Now, she off and hooking.  She has several blocks finished.

I’m thrilled she’s trying this pastime.  I find it a pleasant distraction from whatever is going on in my life.  A creative hobby is a good thing to master.

 

Up Home

I read this last week.  It’s about a girl’s rise from poverty.  It was encouraging and I enjoyed it. Ruth was the 12th child born in east Texas to a sharecropper. 
 

Cutting Wood

Logan is a good friend.  A guy he knows has a fireplace and he had a big trunk of a tree he’d cut and it had dried.  He put the splitter on the tractor and his friend has a pile of good dried fireplace wood.

The sun came out yesterday after a bunch of dreary days. Ada got outside and enjoyed tooling around on her bike!

 

Filling Up

Got another half inch of rain. The pond and lake are about normal again.  The Meadow feels spongy when walking there.  

 

Hoops

 Kay and I went to the Hoops for Hunger tournament last evening.  She recognized names on the rosters. Bella Ussery was on Pottsville’s team along with Mayli (Don and Sydna Daily’s granddaughter).  Coach Keaster’s granddaughter was running the court for Russellville.  We enjoyed watching the game.  Russellville won but Pottsville played a good game too.