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Ice and Snow

  • Thawing and Freezing

    February 1, 2009

    • The ice here thawed enough I could drive to town yesterday morning for my weekly hair appointment.  I ran by my daughter’s, but she was asleep and never knew I had visited.  In the afternoon, Gerald and I went over to Southern Illinois University Carbondale to watch his friend Steve Soldner’s daughter Regan play basketball with Missouri State against the Salukis.  Steve sells Peterbilts ...
  • BRRRR!

    January 28, 2009

    • We are iced in here at the farm, but we are warm, well fed, and with electricity. I wish everyone were so blessed.    Yesterday our daughter Katherine phoned and asked if it was pretty looking out our large curtainless windows. Although the roads were covered with ice, the fields were largely brown.  I had to say no.  But when we woke up this morning, it had snowed several inches, and the ...