Happy Birthday Bob

My brother's birthday is today. We took him to The House of Japan for lunch. It was yummy and we had lots of fun.

Adorned by Ice

Andrew took a few photos in the park on his way home tonight. Note the reflections you can see in the ice on the blooms. Very pretty. Our gutters are full of ice and with the warm up today they backed up and water ran down inside our front window. Andrew spent about 2 hours after work removing snow from the roof and chipping ice from the gutters (let me tell you he was just thrilled about it). I haven't been out of the house for days other than go to work, feed animals and take Daisy on a poop walk. My excitement for Friday was a cream filled donut for breakfast from Schneider's (a local favorite) and getting a new pair of All Weather Slip On Shoes from Land's End delivered this evening.

Tree Clean Up

Cleaning up
To the left of the truck there is another tree down-note the debris from the first one to the right.Just a pretty view of unglaciated countryside...

Andrew had to go to Hocking County today to open the county road through one of the parks that was closed because a tree loaded with ice fell across it yesterday in the storm. Note that everyone is wearing proper safety gear. Just after finishing the job-another tree fell in the woods right behind where they were working.

Happy Birthday Daisy!

Daisy is 8 years old today. Andrew and I went to Indiana in February 2001 to visit the breeder and put a deposit down. Mom and I then drove back in March to pick her up. Fun times. She was just a tiny little ball of fur and looked like a stuffed animal when she was a pup. She's a sweetie. I bet you can't tell we love her. :-)

Book Nook

Andrew and I finally decided that we (he) would build a book nook in the den to handle the issue of having so many books and no where to display them all. Most of our books are reference type and collectible (to us) books. We tend to sell our fiction books back to the Half Price Book Store when we finish reading them and then buy more. In addition this will serve as a storage solution for our many blankets, that are currently overflowing from my linen closet, as the middle section will be a chest which opens at the top (instead of a cabinet as pictured). Daisy will have a cushion to lay on and will still be able to look out the window. Presently we have a small couch in that room which will come out once we are finished installing the "nook". The room will also get repainted. That part I am not really looking forward to. I'm thinking about using a sunny warm color. Andrew spent about a week drawing plans and making measurements, another afternoon going to Home Depot for the lumber and to Sears for a new and larger router (any excuse will do). The book nook has been in progress since last weekend. It took several hours for him to true his saws and make jigs etc. Then another few hours for him to cut everything. He's still working on the cutting. Pretty soon he will move into the house and start assembling things. In this photo all the cut wood is laying behind him. It doesn't look like much in the stack but it will all fit together like a puzzle.

An Ice Storm

It's 5 am. I up checking to see if we have to go to work. Everything is covered in inches of ice. OSU is closed so there is hope. :-) The trees look pretty but the roads sure don't. I can hear a few cars slogging along on the street in all the ice. It's not smooth like glass but rather piled and frozen as the rain mixed with snow and the traffic has run over it. Not sure how much snow we got last night. It actually looks like the ice may have come instead of the snowfall amounts and of course there is the hype factor of always predicting more than we ever get.

P.S. 6 am Yippee!! A snow day! Dancing the happy dance....

I'm looking for that brown rabbit.....
I know he's here somewhere....
The snow is fun!

Mom I'm cold-can I come in now?....
I'm bushed! I'll just have a quick nap...

A Snow Flake

Not much going on tonight. I've been spinning yarn since 6 o'clock. I've done two large spools of the angora mohair blend. I also washed some Shetland wool that I plan to spin tomorrow. It's been snowing since 4. I left work early to beat the rush. I guess we are suppose to get another 6 inches on top of the 3ish that we already have. Andrew was experimenting with the macro lens for his camera and got a neat photo of a snowflake. Not bad for a first try.