Weather Report

 

 

Have you ever smelled the dessert after it rains?  OMG, it is  great scent and ought to be bottled.
It has softly rained on and off today.  That is the best kind of rain.

It turned warm earlier this week, in the 80s, but today it has been cool and rainy.

When I got home this afternoon, for some reason, the remnant wood pieces in our fireplace were really fragrant.  Why was that?

Big Chill

We are all good.  Miss B has been sick, but has recovered from it all.  The one day of school that she missed, warranted her a lot of homework.

Come in the water is freezing!

Blonde Girl has been going to play practice and basketball practice.  She is busy, busy and does not have time for what she calls "me time."  She needs her "me time."

It has been cold here.  In fact, I had to dig up extra sheets and blankets for our trees and shurbs.
A lot of our stuff is still covered with blankies and I can see the frost burn on the older, bigger stuff that we did not cover.  A lot of children reported ice on their swimming pools.  We covered ours.

And the Winner Is....

Nominated for worst behaved dog when a doorbell rings!

I have spent much of the weekend at the movies.  On Friday, we saw "Zero Dark Thirty" and is was good.  I also saw "Les Miserables" with Miss Brunette who had been hot to see it, and it was good.

The Oscars are just around the corner.  I think I have seen most of the movies.  I thought "Lincoln" was awesome and the three nominated for Oscars certainly deserved it.  I also loved "Argo".  I was so great!  I do think Ben Affleck should have been nominated for best director.  But, there are a lot of "best directors".

"Silver Linings Playbook" was also good, but strange.  I also felt sorry for the characters.  I mean they were sick.  Mental illness is still an illness.

The movie that I am pulling for is "Beasts of a Southern Wild".  It is the most incredible movie and that little girl deserved to be nominated for best actress.  I told Love Man when the credits were rollling, "she is going to get an Oscar for that".  She has a complicated name, but it begins with a "Q".

This film is now available on Red Box and you all need to rent it. 

TTYL.

The Borrower

Oh, the horror!

One of Miss B's friends borrowed this sweater for ugly sweater day at her school.  It has not been returned.  Why would she keep that thing in her closet.  It is a mystery to me.  I would have brought it back by the following day.

This sweater would win the ugly sweater prize everytime.

Paperwhites

We started growing our paper whites before Christmas.  It did nothing for a couple of weeks.  Love Man thought we got a dud.  I moved it to the dining room, which has less light because I was sick of looking at the bulb.  It took off and is growing a lot every day. 

This is not a picture of the growing bulbs.  For some reason I can not get into my pictures from blogspot.  Hopefully, it will work another day.

In Training

 

 

Love Man is presently at the doctor.  He came home last night barely able to speak and before I could protest, he said "I have a doctor's appointment at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."  He is also scheduled to jump in this ice cold lake or pool for the "Polar Plunge" tomorrow.  I said, "you are not doing that."

 

"You have been sick.  You just get better and go for a hike.  It was cold that day.  I have two words for you LONG PANTS."  That man wears shorts for all occasions, except for work.  He does not dress for winter here, which for him would be a sweater or long pants and perhaps a coat.  And, oh does he get chilled.

 

And, it has been cold.  We even turned our heater on.  Something we usually don't do until mid-January.  It is running as I write this.  We had to cover our plants and newer trees because they have on the news what is called "freeze warnings".  Yes, Iowans, freeze warnings are broadcast on the news. That ought to give you something to laugh about every morning until April.

 

Well, after Love Man's first hike - he was a little sicker.  Then, he took a second hike wearing jeans and that wore him out.  Now, he is waiting at the doctor's office..........

 

 



 

 

He wanted me to wake up the girls to get them ready for the dreaded, not talked about event on Monday.  "Why?"  They can go to bed early on Sunday night and it will be okay.  They have been sleeping until about 10:00 every morning.  A friend of mine has two teenagers and about a year about inherited two more - she reports all four of them sleep until about noon.  I used to sleep that late........

 

He wants them to be ready.  We will cope on Monday.  But, not until Monday.



 

 

 

Under Protest

We have done nothing, nothing, nothing on our break.  Read.  I have read a lot.  Do you know you don't have much laundry if you only wear pajamas.  Bliss.  Love Man is better.  Miss B still feels tired, but is doing okay.  A lot of people seem to be sick. 

None of us girls want to go back to school.  We don't even want to talk about it.