We got snow. A lot of it. But thankfully it is light and fluffy because it was also quite cold -- in the teens all day yesterday. Around 10F when I went to bed. I filled the feeder when I got home from work. I came home a little more than an hour early so that I would not have to walk home in the dark. It was nice getting home a bit earlier and feeling like I had time to breathe. I made a bowl of popcorn and ate it all. I don't have time for that when I work until 5. Especially since I am usually so beat. I am to bed by 8. No one truly understands what an effort it can be to walk everywhere in this kind of extreme weather -- the ice, the snow, the cold. It all makes for real exertion. I am sure I am quite fit, as MR remarked the other day, but it comes at a cost -- fatigue. And all these scathing tongues I perceive round me, among my so-called church friends -- they are probably the most judgmental lot of all. I have said ti before -- and will say it again -- Want to find a bunch of hypocrites? Become involved with a church!
That said, today is the choir party. Oh tra lah. J & D are picking me up. It is at 5. I am catching a ride home with them too, as they leave on the early side and I have a big dirty church to clean in the morning. But that's a worry for tomorrow. For today I have enough. I am washing all the couch blankets so M will have a nice place to sleep. I plan to clean the floors too so that she doesn't come home to a dirty house. I need to get some things at the market. I need to stop at the ATM to get some cash because I used the $80 child support money to buy food and pay postage on the box to RH. There was such a line in our tiny PO yesterday. It made me think the Postal Service was certainly sending a lot of boxes yesterday. I had an email from Aunt J about our respective packages and she also told me the woman who she rents her house from -- for many, many years now, at least 20 -- was killed by a car (hit!) and so the house is being appraised for sale now. I am sure she knew this would happen someday, but what an added stress. And it's always the risk when you rent. She is such a homebody and I am sure she loves her home and this must be very stressful for her. She has told me many times in the past she wanted to buy the place but it never happened. And with the property values being high down there -- of course, also, with the economy the way it is, lately -- BAD -- it is also a buyer's market. But anyway, I wrote her back about it, and am also praying for her.
I suppose I also have to shovel snow today. We took an abbreviated walk -- the snow was just too deep in the field and even Fergus -- my snow bear -- was relieved so that says a lot about what a bunch of old farts we are becoming!
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