We are having some bad weather

The dark­ness of the early morn­ing is leav­ing and day­light is appear­ing. We are being greeted by a world of white. It has been snow­ing all night and sev­eral inches are cov­er­ing the ground. Snowflakes are still com­ing down very thick. I love to watch it snow. So many snowflakes and our won­der­ful God cre­ated each one. We are also hav­ing wind along with the snow. After a rainy week in Jan­u­ary we are happy to see snow again. The chil­dren are look­ing for­ward to some more sled­ding. Warm weather and rain we had this week prob­a­bly ruined the lake for ice fish­ing. My hus­band Joe and sons Ben­jamin and Joseph along with Tim­o­thy and Susan’s friend Mose spent last Sat­ur­day ice fishing.

They had two ice fish­ing shacks with a propane heater in each one so they stayed quite warm. They didn’t have too much luck with get­ting fish but they still enjoyed the day. Tomor­row sev­eral of our chil­dren have doctor’s appoint­ments at the children’s hos­pi­tal two hours away. I hope and pray that we will get back from there safely. Our friend Irene usu­ally takes us and she is a safe dri­ver but acci­dents can still happen.

I think a lot more about acci­dents since the tragedy that took the life of two of my cousins two weeks ago. Joe will take off work to go with us which I am glad for. Days like that can be more stress­ful than being at home working.

We always like to start out three hours ahead of our appoint­ment time so that we can get there on time. You never know when you get delayed in the traf­fic. Because of the weather we will be leav­ing at 6:30 a.m. so it will take most of the day.

Last week Joe and I attended the funeral of Joe’s cousin Willis’ wife Irene. She had a bat­tle with can­cer. Such a dread­ful dis­ease. Our sym­pa­thy and prayers go to the fam­ily. Their house will seem empty with­out a mother in it. God had all of this hap­pen for a rea­son. In less than three weeks three of our cousins all around the same age were taken from this earth. Our hearts ache for all of the fam­i­lies left to mourn. The only com­fort we can have is know­ing that God makes no mistakes.

Yes­ter­day I was finally able to do our laun­dry for this week. It had amounted to quite a bit.

Mon­day I couldn’t start the motor on the wash­ing machine. The chil­dren were home from school all day due to icy roads. Ver­ena went along with Susan to her baby-sitting job. She enjoys the lit­tle chil­dren. Ben­jamin was help­ing me fill the machine with water and gath­er­ing all the dirty laun­dry. But noth­ing we did would make that motor start. When my hus­band Joe came home he tried dif­fer­ent things and couldn’t get it to start. We took the motor to get it looked at but it is 17 years old so we don’t know if it is fix­able. We bought another motor and Joe hooked it to the wash­ing machine. It was such a relief to finally get all that dirty laun­dry washed. Susan was work­ing so I ended up doing the job myself. I didn’t hear Ben­jamin com­plain that he didn’t get to help since he was at school yes­ter­day. That motor worked really well so I got a lot of wash­ings done with it.

This a great recipe to try, an easy, hearty meal on a cold win­ters day.

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