Bah, humbug!

I am officially tired of snow now. It’s been snowing all day long. The only time I remember it staying this cold and snowing this much in Boise was our first winter here. Back when we were used to snow and cold for 4-6 months of the year. Before I went to Honduras I couldn’t imagine a Christmas without snow. After Honduras I prefer them without snow. I’m getting spring fever already…aaarrrggghhh!

Of course, January 5 will be bright and clear and the roads will be perfect for going to work so there will be no snow days.

Oh, and we set up a timer on the hose to water the garden last summer. It was a miserable failure because the kids would unhook it and play in the hose then “forget” to reconnect everything when they were done. Except they remembered the last time because last night I couldn’t figure out why it sounded like there was water running. I finally found it. The water had frozen inside the timer and was now gushing out the huge crack in the side of the timer. At least it didn’t freeze the pipe! We just haven’t gotten enough snow or cold to remember those kinds of things.

Ok, I’m done. There’s still sugar in the house…

And I don’t want to eat it. Not even tempted.

It's been a crazy week

We got the earliest snow in recorded history on Oct 10. Only one inch here in Boise, but the flakes were huge. Eastern Idaho got slammed. Burley had 16 inches of snow! The freeway was closed because of it for several hours. We were supposed to go to Pocatello on Oct 11 for a band competiton. The director called it off, and we were so glad when we learned how bad the storm was in Eastern Idaho. We could have been stuck on the freeway with two busses of band kids. Not fun at all. We hadn't even turned on the heater until the night before it started snowing.

My sister Nancy and her kids visited us this week. We had lots of fun making memories with them. We kept busy the whole time, shopping, going to the corn maze and such. The maze is a corn field with a total 6 miles of trails...if you don't back track and you take the shortest route through. There are four different mazes of varying distances. We stumbled onto the first checkpoint. After that I was able to follow the map and get us through the rest of the checkpoints and out of the maze. lol...the kids thought I was cheating. The maze we did was 1.75 miles, but I'm sure we walked over 2 miles.

We had my piano recital this week. The father of the other girl was sitting too near the piano for my taste and I felt nervous the whole time. He's a nice guy, but somewhat intimidating. Oh well, what do you do at times like that? Stop the song and move the piano? Not! I played a Sonata by Beethoven. It was 12 pages long and 15 minutes of nerves...lol. My teacher and I also played a duet and that went much better.

I am also planning the church Halloween party so that is taking some time. We're doing the traditional chili cookoff, activities and trunk or treat, but this year the high school kids may be involved in a district football game that night, and many of the leaders (children and youth) weren't planning to attend at all. It's been quite a snag to work around.

Last week a man who has been involved in scouting with the boys (unit advancement counselor) passed away. His funeral was this week. Then, one Tom's high priests passed away this morning so we will be helping with the funeral and dinner after this week.

We found out this week that our friends are moving to Utah sometime soon. They don't have a date yet, and she will stay here until the house sells. I'm really going to miss her. She's more like another sister than just a friend. We have plans to meet at Bear Lake next summer for camping.

Tim's marching band took first yesterday. First in music and overall in their division. Second overall the competition. That's the best they've done in the years Tim has been involved.

Hannah had her first orchestra concert of the year this week. She loves playing the cello and is getting pretty good at it.

Whew! That was just this week!

See ya soon...I hope.

Ann