Dreary-Drippy

December 22, 2006 (12:38pm)
37º F, Dreary-Drippy, E wind 11 mph.

Good afternoon,

It is about an un-Christmas-like as it is possible to get outside. Really a very dreary-drippy day. More to come from the sound of it. The central part of the state, from about mid=state north, is expecting the rain to turn to freezing rain to snow. Possibility of 7-9" of snow before ending. All the way north into the U.P. also. There are several schools closed or delayed in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, thanx to freezing rain. According to the weatherman, we MIGHT get a dusting of snow, but it probably will not stay. I think Santa will have to get out the water-wings for his reindeer this year! Hope Rudolph doesn’t short circuit his nose and get a shock!

The tree is up and mostly decorated. We found that we have left one box at the storage unit, so I will need to go over later to get it. I had to go to get more ornament hanger-uppers yesterday. Suppose there will be several hundred in the box! Never fails. One thing about using a "wild" tree is that they actually have branches you can hang tinsel on! The trees you buy from the lot are sheared so much, there are not real branches any more. Just an even and perfect shape of needle ends. The tinsel still needs to be added, but will wait until the missing ornaments are retrieved first. I have claimed the tinsel job as mine this year. Margriet has a good eye for the decoration and I am satisfied to just drape tinsel equally along each branch.

The only thing we did outside of the house yesterday was to go to the postoffice, get the hanger-uppers, and went to the store for something they didn’t have on hand. It is too wet and muddy to do anything outside! It was really strange coming back home after going to the postoffice. I turned off the highway to head west and in the woods a little bit was a bank of fog hugging the ground. It only extended up about 5', covering the underbrush, with the tress sticking out of the top. Kind of reminded me of some of Edgar Allen Poe’s writing. Kind of spooky. The strangest part of the deal was the wind. It was blowing pretty stiffly down the road I was traveling, but in the woods, the trees blocked the wind, allowing the fog to form. If there had not been the wind, suspect the rest of the countryside would have been blanketed with fog too.

Denver and London are having problems at their airports - Denver snow, London fog. Denver is messing up travel in this country and London is messing up travel in Europe. Sounds like when it is all said and done, both airports will have been pretty much closed for three days! Lots of grumpy folks with sore backs sleeping in the airports. Glad I am not one of them stuck in either place.

I spent a bunch of time gathering up the research for the next Bible study and now have the first lesson’s material in an understandable form. Started to work on the 2nd lesson’s research too. We will not be using it for a couple of weeks, but I would like to get a bit ahead for a change, rather than playing catch up so much. The second lesson covers the first two chapters of Acts. They really fly through the material quickly. Most of the other studies I have looked at, take 4-6 lessons for the two chapters. Obviously they are not getting very deep into the material.

Margriet had the oven fired up again yesterday. We now have four fruit breads to deliver in the next day or so. She also has some rising at the moment so we will have some to eat. These loaves too are huge. Much bigger than she planned. She has been using the bread flour we bought at the Amish store in bulk. It seems to work differently (better) and costs about 25-30% less than other places. The flour is not as pure white as store-bought flour. Think that may indicate fewer additives in it. What ever the reason, I like the deal and the results very much. Sure is good eaten and smelling around here!

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><