In-between

February 24, 2007 (1:02pm)
23º F, Over cast and windy, E wind 9 mph.

Good afternoon,

So .... The 1-3" of snow turned out to be less than ½". Kind of pretty and sweeping snow. The second batch is on the way however. The weatherman has raised the possible snow fall to 8-16" of snow. Up from 14" in last night’s forecast. They are also saying there is a 90% chance of snow! Looking at the weather map, the central and southwest part of the state is getting it at the moment. Waupaca to Madison got 6" last night and are expecting twice that today. This is supposed to happen during the high school basketball tournaments - not now. There is also some rain/freezing rain in the storm, causing some real problems to the southwest. Watching the Ag Report this morning when I got up, their weather guru is predicting another snowstorm for next weekend, similar to this one. Also about mid-week a really cold front reaching all of the way down to the Gulf coast during the middle of the week. Freezing rain as far south as southern Louisiana! That should cool my brother off! This is really a strange year!

The LP tank was filled yesterday. According to the ticket, he was here about 1:00 P.M., but we never heard or saw him. Just a ticket in the door when we went uptown. Oh yes, there were truck and foot tracks in the snow too. Probably good planning on the part of the company, getting in here before the storm and with our narrow driveway. It took a lot and much out of our wallet. We were doing pretty good on gas usage until the cold month came. Needed to keep the temperature a bit higher than normal to be sure the underside of the house is warm enough. This should be the last fill for the heating season. We hope.

I got one package of the beef soup bones from the freezer yesterday and built a pot of bean soup. There was a lot of meat on them too, so it should be good. We about died smelling it simmer though. Always a very good smell. One of the stores has fresh shoulder hams on sale for 89¢/pound, so while we were uptown, we picked up on that was about 10#. I cut it into three parts, the upper hock and then the rest into two large roasts. Should be some good eating, Margriet already has designs to make the hock with kraut. You think I will complain? Not likely.

Just finished off a bowl of the new bean soup. Pretty good, but it gets better with more cooking. Still, all-in-all - ain’t bad. Margriet is talking of some salmon patties for supper, that sounds good too. As always. She made corned-beef hash for supper last night. That was sure good too. Dang but we eat good around here.

Probably will park the van at the end of the driveway tonight. Just in case. Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><