Different look?

December 28, 2006 (12:49pm)
34º F, Cloudy/wet, E wind 7 mph.

Good afternoon,

If this looks a bit different, it is because I have a new keyboard. I finally found a "cheap" one that I have been looking for. It actually cost about the same as the last time I bought first on some years ago. That was very much stripped down and this has many features of the one it is replacing. Actually all of the features and better laid out. The one this is replacing came with the machine and it cost at the time about four times what this one did. The old one worked OK, but one of the tilt legs broke when I dropped it on the floor, about the time my Woman came. I have been using a piece of heater hose as a prop-up since. Not too crazy about that, since it would roll occasionally. One think I do have to get used to is the keypads. They are more like those on a lap-top, but spread out as a normal keyboard. The pads are not separated by as big of a space and they don’t extend up as much as the old one. Time should cure that I think.

We did get a bit of snow early this morning and it continued until about 10:00 A.M. or so. Many big, wet, "warm" flakes came down, piling up to ½-¾" in depth. It has been melting almost as fast it fell, once it stopped falling. The air and ground are too warm. The snow did stick to just about everything and that really made it beautiful for a while. Most has now melted off of the vegetation standing upright, but the grass and like that is still covered.

The "big" snow that we are supposed to come starting Friday has been postponed for a day or so. Seems the storm wants to spend some time in and around the Denver area. Guess the last storm liked the area and mentioned it to this storm. From what I hear, they should get a foot and a half from this one. Well, at least the folks there should have their shovels polished and ready to go. At present, the weatherman is saying that we might actually get a "normal" snow and it will stick around for a while - like until spring! Hope so. This is not good now. Not healthy for man, beast, or soil.

We were able to contact Astrid and Brenda on Christmas Day. Never did manage to catch up to Sandra though. It was good to here from the girls and find that everything seems to be well there - but they were not pleased with the rain either. They seemed to enjoy the packages we sent, even though Brenda had to get a head start on opening it early. Guess she couldn’t read the instructions written on the outside of the box - "Don’t open ‘till Christmas." Maybe I should have written it in Dutch - if I knew how. Margriet even had a chance to talk to Pim, but just for a short.

The roulade is almost gone - only enough for one more meal. Margriet has been making the leftovers by making a gravy (last night with a lot of mushrooms and onions) over excellent "Mrs. Miller’s German Noodles." I tell you what, that is one excellent meal. We did finish the last of the dessert from Christmas too. That ain’t too worse either. Trying to get her to do it again - soon - but she doesn’t have all of the ingredients. In the meantime, I have to be satisfied with finishing the Christmas bread. Boy I really have a hard row to hoe!

We did go to Green Bay for more than just a new keyboard. In fact the keyboard really wasn’t on the list this time. We went close to Circuit City so decided to see what they had, as we have not been there for some time. Nothing in particular, but wanted to check prices on ink tanks (the same price) among other things. The price that popped up on the register was about twice that on the shelf. Apparently another model was put there in error, so got the right one and everything was OK again.

My trap line has produced again. This time another opossum. A rather small one, but one less to bother us. There sure are a lot of them around this year. Hope to thin their ranks, and raccoons, some this year. One thing about opossums - they sure are ugly. Not a beauty queen in the whole specie.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><