Finally out of the house today! Went to the mall for lunch and the gstore for milk and lotion. Lots of dry skin running around here because of the heat. The heat from the heaters, not from the weather! I heard that I-81, I-78 and I-80 were finally re-opened today around 4pm. It is still ice covered here. Some melted because it got up to 35 today, but still a lot left.

Great news! In about 3 weeks, it will start getting dark at 7:30pm. Yea! Spring is on its way. Not fast enough for some of us, but it's a start.

TK, you will appreciate this -- a handmade sign along the closed highway read "HONK IF YOUR ANNOYED". If they were sitting there for so long, shouldn't someone have noticed that??

TADA--I finished my dirty job today! In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun (which I failed to do) and -- snap -- the job's a game. And every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake (which I would not eat, blue eyes), a lark, a spree.... I will stop there.

Happy Valentine's Day yesterday.

Second day with no school. Shoveled snow twice yesterday. Actually, we shoveled at 11am and I hurt my back, so I got out of the second shoveling at 8pm. The snow was soooo heavy. It was half water underneath. msb had fun. He used the broom on the bushes until he got tired of that. Then he jumped in snow piles, swept the steps, slid down the slide into snow piles, threw snow balls.... It is 18 degrees today and everything is ice. But the sun is out and it sure looks purty. Chances for school tomorrow are pretty slim. So many of the areas are rural and in bad shape. We shall see. Probably I should work on some dirty jobs while I have Reese to watch msb. Right. That will happen. Right away.

Morgan took this picture with our digital camera. Meet his puppies: Desert, Rowdy, Brutus, Carefree, Hobo, My First Puppy, Sneakers and Whitey. Reese purchased Rowdy, Brutus, Hobo and Sneakers in airports on various trips for Eitel. Desert was a gift for Morgan's baby shower. My First Puppy, who got to be in the Christmas card this year, was purchased for Morgan's first Christmas. Whitey belongs to a sleeping bag. Carefree was a gift from Aunt Wilma. I thot he did a pretty good job taking the picture. They are snuggled under his blankies.

Well, so much for my Dirty Job this week. I didn't get around to packing up my 2006 papers. However, I did fix Reese's e-mail. Yea for me. I'm such the computer guru. I was on the phone with the cable company for about 45 minutes, but I finally figured it out. Thanks anyway, Carol. :-) At least I wasn't downstairs eating something. Twila shared a website with me, but I forget what it was. Something about nutrition. Very interesting. I think I wrote it down and lost my note.

They say we are supposed to be getting snow this week. They just don't know when. It would be nice to have a regular week after last week. We had 2 hour delays every day except Friday. Messin' with my schedule.

Check out Chef Morgan. He is mixing up peanut butter brownies for our Super Bowl Party. His favorite part was making sure the eggs were all mixed up.

Will the cold ever end? I think we may have school at the normal time tomorrow for the first time this week. It has warmed up to 14 degrees. Heatwave!
I have a dirty job lined up for tomorrow. And it's not even Wednesday. I have to pack up my 2006 statements and bills. I hate to do that, so I've been putting it off. No longer! If there is no delay tomorrow, I will do it as soon as I drop Morgan off at school.
I saw the thank you note from Su. Doesn't it make you feel good to cheer someone up? We are a nice family.

The Valentine gifts are in the mail. Really they are. They should be in Hagerstown tomorrow. I am so impressed with myself that I actually got them done. I think the plan is for the exchange to be on Saturday the 17th. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and I can go down.
Here is Morgan playing his new favorite game -- jumping into a pool of babies. He gets all his stuffed animals out of the toy box and piles them at the bottom of the steps. Then he jumps from the landing into the babies and "swims" around. The slippers on his feet are his scuba shoes. He makes sure the babies that make noise or have something hard inside are put to the side to watch so they don't poke him. Such an imagination!

We had fun tonight. Pappy came up to watch the Super Bowl and Morgan and I had all kinds of snacks to put out. He wanted to make sure Pappy got to have some red fish since they are Morgan's favorite. We had donut holes and Morgan offered them first to Daddy and Pappy then took one for himself. He was really getting tired toward the end of the game. Waaaay past his bedtime of 8:08. He went to sleep quickly.

Is it cold where you are? It is 7 degrees here and very windy. School is delayed 2 hrs tomorrow because of the cold. I'm sure Morgan will be up bright and early...