Post Christmas message

I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas.

We had a super wet snow over Christmas eve and Christmas it was unbelievable the amount of heavy slushy snow we had.  we received a good four inches of good snow on Thursday and then Friday it was rain on top of it.  Then a snow rain mix, and when the snow plow came by on Friday the plow left large huge boulders of snow in front of our driveway. 

Daniel and Matthew tackled that job with the snow-thrower and shovels to clear the drive way and entrance away before it froze hard.

And froze hard it did,  this morning it turned cold again and everything is as hard as a rock.  Wherever the snow is, that is where it will be, it will take a jackhammer to move it.

Our Christmas meal went well, the food was all good.  Sarah wants me to make ham and bean soup, so I will make that this week after Daniel and I get back from deer hunting.

I came across this picture. Take a gander at it and see if you can name the person in the photo.

That is all for now

posted by Randy

Birthday Wishes

Well it appears we have a string of birthdays this week

Happy Birthday wishes go out to John, Joachim and Maria and Catherine and to Marie

I hope everybody is enjoying the last week of the Advent season, Christmas is in just a few days.

Last Sunday Night Philomena and I went to see the Broadway show Annie at the NIACC Center.  Annie is on tour again and they performed in Mason City at NIACC.  It was very good, and enjoyable, that is one of my favorite Broadway shows.  I saw it in London back in 1979, Des Moines in 1981, and now in Mason City.  they had a good cast of people.  Philomena had a front row seat I had row three.  We could see the conductor and the musicians in the orchestra pit playing.  They were actually playing and not using a CD!  I had Sarah fooled for a minute when we saw the Phantom of the opera a couple years ago.  I told her they were using a CD and everybody was just lip syncing the songs!

We have snow, we had another 2" drop on us last night and we are expected to get another 2 to 4 inches tonight and tomorrow.

I have decided on cheesy broccoli/cauliflower ham soup and oyster soup for Christmas eve dinner.

Daniel and I have late-muzzle-loader deer licenses and we are planning to hunt down at the 80 on December 28 - 30  we will probably come down Sunday and get things set up down there. I hope we shoot a deer.

Sarah will be coming home today weather permitting if not it will be tomorrow. 

Our house will be back to capacity

I will need to add back a leaf in the dining table.

I hope everybody has an enjoyable Christmas and take a moment to thank God for all the blessings we have had throughout the year.

Posted by Randy
Hey! I just found the spell-check button on the google bar, I am back in business for checking for spelling errors!