Day Thirty Nine

The Next Wave Of Winter Weather

Looking out my back door at the bare limbs of the Cherry tree all lit up by the street light and all covered in big snowflakes. The rain turned briefly into snow earlier this evening then switched back to rain. Who knows what's next? Looks like a mixed bag of Winter weather the next couple of days. Stay tuned.

Day Thirty Eight

Afternoon Snack

This Mockingbird is loving him some peanut butter snacking this afternoon. Life is good.

Day Thirty Seven

What's For Supper, Grandpa?

Neil's homemade blueberry waffles. Yum yum!

Day Thirty Six

Banished

Here sits Major Nuisance, a.k.a. Eddie Kitty, watching us from the outside while we eat supper. He has been banished from the house during this time because he insists on checking out the food on the table by jumping on the table in hopes of sharing some of the meal. He is wrong, of course. But being a cat, he doesn't understand the word "no" so out he goes. I'm sure he wonders why.

Day Thirty Five

Random Restaurant Shots

Last week Neil and I ate lunch at McDonald's on South Jefferson and a man came in with this big German Shepherd. The dog had on a vest that said Service Dog. They must be regulars there because everyone behind the counter knew them. The man got his lunch and sat down in the booth right next to ours. When he went to get his coffee, I took a picture of his dog. You just don't see a German Shepherd in McDonald's every day.

The kids were out of school Monday for a snow day. I promised Elijah a vanilla milk shake at Arby's after lunch. He wanted to go inside to drink the shake so that's what we did. Shelby got a chocolate shake, and they were so thick, we had to eat them with the straws. Plus they were on the dollar menu. Not too shabby.

This afternoon before daughter Kelly and son in law Kerry headed back to Murfreesboro, we stopped at the Cafe Dolce on the square in our little town. I didn't want coffee so I ended up with hot cocoa (that's what it said on the menu which has such small print you can't read it), but it was this dark chocolate that was thick and creamy and totally delicious and so rich I couldn't drink it all. Kelly and Kerry wanted to sample it--that's what the tiny coffee cup was for. When the guy set the little cup on the counter, I thought it was my hot cocoa. Duh

While we drank our coffee/chai/hot cocoa, a man stopped outside and tied his two dogs to the pole and came inside for something to drink. The wind was really cold today and we felt kind of sorry for the dogs out there. The yellow dog was shivering, but they waited patiently while their master had his coffee inside the warm cafe. Maybe I should have shared my hot cocoa with them.