SNOW!!!!!!!

 Heavens to Betsy!!  It's a lovely 28 degrees outside with a soon to be 22 degrees before I'm done typing.  Woohoo that's some chilly weather!!  I'm pretty glad I'm in a nice warm stick house instead of my rig boon docking somewhere.  

The snow quit falling about 7:00 as the sun came up over the mountains.  I do love the snow, as long as I'm not driving in it.  I'll have a few more images tomorrow.  I was in a big hurry to get up and about because the electrician was due at around 9:00.

Here's my sad little snowman!  My excuse is the dry snow.  It just didn't want to stick together.  Before I got the head on, the two bottom pieces fell over.  Once back up, I plunked the head on, to have the bottom piece break in half.  A snowman builder, I am NOT!

His head fell off once and half of it disappeared, which is why there is a big lump on the right wide.  He fell over once again about three seconds after taking this picture.  Oh well ......... I tried.

Neither Cooper nor I were keen to go outside, so I started this quilt while waiting for the electrician who called about two minutes later.  Hwy 10 is still completely closed, so he wanted to reschedule to Friday.  Luckily that worked for me.  Can you imagine having an entire freeway detour around five miles of surface streets for three days?

Since Jonathan has been without his usual Hawaiian banana bread for over a month, I whipped up a batch just for him.  Okay, I admit it's my favorite also, so he will just have to share.

Hey .... I've got a little time on my hands ... why not get frustrated with Frigidaire!  The first filters I ordered just do NOT remove the taste of the water.  I ordered one of their fancy dancy ones to see if it made any difference.  For $57.00, it BETTER!!

Funny, I had not received any shipment notice, so I called them.  It took three calls to figure out the first part of their phone menu.  I finally got a human who put me on hold for 15 minutes, then hung up on me.  I tried to call back and it said they were just too busy to take my call.  

Ok ... I'll try the CHAT thing, but by then I wasn't in the best of moods.  At least Shaquanda was nice about it.  Do you ever wonder about the history of the names people have?  Maybe it's just me.  Anyway, after quite some time (this is only part of the conversation) she gave me a tracking number.  I tried it immediately and it didn't work.

WAIT ... don't hang up ... that number is not working!  She finally said I would receive it by Feb 18.  So bottled water it is until the filter arrives.

Time to put another quilt on the machine.  This is that one of crazy small pieces I made at the request of Patty.  The pattern is called Bear Claw, so appropriately, I used the bear claw quilting pattern.  Afraid if I leave the room something will happen, I usually get down on the floor to play with Cooper.

You can't tell he's obsessed, right?  There are two pluses to this activity.  One, I stay fairly limber crawling all over the floor.  Two, I'm constantly picking up pieces of thread that magically appear out of nowhere, meaning I don't have to vacuum quite as often.  It's a win-win situation!

At last it was finished, ready for Patty to sew on the binding and ship it off.  This one is going to ALASKA!!

I kept looking outside, hoping it would snow some more, but the sun came out and eventually melted it off, except for right in front of my patio.  I got to enjoy it all day long ... and it's STILL there this morning.

Dinner was meatloaf sliders.  I recently learned the trick of squishing hamburger completely flat in a small zip-lok bag, making it super simple to defrost and a small enough amount that I don't have to eat it for a week.

Oh and by the way, I've started my new cholesterol diet.  I ate a small salad for lunch.  It had lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, bacon and some leftover chicken, smothered in thousand island dressing.  Take THAT cholesterol!!  

Yeah I know ... leave out the cheese and bacon ... but SOMEBODY has to eat it up!!  After all, there are starving children in the world, as my Mom said a million times.