Rain yesterday snow today

Another picture of the little brook behind the ball park loop from yesterday.

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I must have needed some extra sleep last night because I woke up

at 6:15 and fell back asleep and didn't wake up till 7:45.

I had planned on going for a walk after lunch but never got around to it.

Today it stayed in the 20's and it snowed on and off all day but it

didn't amount to anything.  Just had a dusting like someone

sprinkled icing sugar over everything.  Nice that the wind died down.

We went out and did a couple of errands and stopped at Subway

along the lake and had lunch.

Took this picture out of the car window while Ken was in the 

store getting our subs.  We eat them in the car looking out over the water
and watching cars go by.

 This is the first year since we've been here that the lake didn't freeze over

for the winter.  People are usually ice fishing and riding snow mobiles

over the ice at this time of year.

I baked an angel food cake and here it is cooling upside down

on a bottle.  We will have a piece of it tonight for our snack with a bit of ice cream.

Worked on the puzzle again today and we should be finished in the next
day or so.  
Read, did some ironing,
and got my steps in today walking around the house.
 

A happy day to you.

happyone  🎈

I came across some fun and interesting facts about money and thought

I'd share them with you for the next few days instead of the quotes I usually write.

I got them out of the Readers Digest in an article by Brandon Specktor.

• The U.S. paper money isn't made out of paper but is 75% cotton and 25% linen. In Benjamin Franklin's day, people repaired torn bills with a needle and thread.
• With a life span of about 4 1/2 years, the $10 bill is the shortest-lived note and the longest-living note is the $100 bill, which lasts about 15 years.

Lots of rain

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When I woke up this morning it was pouring down rain with thunder

and lightning so I thought it a good idea not to go outside and walk.

Got some of my steps inside today.

On the step challenge for the month of February on Walker Tracker I am

in 5th place out of 65 (a few more people have joined the challenge)

and have walked 75,499 steps over the challenge for February.

The challenge is 15,017 per day.

I've hit my first million steps for the year with a total of 1,009,738.

Not very many coins did I find this month.

Just 1 dime and 6 pennies.

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Baked another batch of Snickerdoole Cookies for the kids at church

and now I have enough.  Have some left over and Ken and I get to eat them.

I will be giving a few of the extras to Jasmine tonight when I see her at church.

These are her favorite cookies and she is the one who gave me the train

and cat cookie cutters a while back.

Ken was looking through a book that he got off our book shelves

and tucked in side was this bookmark that I had made years ago.

I had forgotten all about it.

Mid afternoon there was a break in the rain so I went for a shortish walk then.
Went over to the post office and then around town.
 Just went 3 1/2 miles.
Though it was 50 degrees it was very windy and cloudy and felt colder.

We have gotten a LOT of rain and behind the ball park loop the
brook that runs along there is usually pretty small.
This is what it looked like today.

A good day for working on our latest puzzle
and I got a little reading done too.

A happy day to you.
happyone 🎈

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Comment Replies:

Robin - No, we don't usually burn the brush.  Some of it we use to make a natural fence or we just move it up the hill with the tractor and make a big pile of it.

Happy Trails is 21 acres of woods so there really is no need to burn it.  We do have a fire barrel though and burn scrap wood.