March 1 Rebecca and I were standing in the kitchen after church when Rebecca pointed out the kitchen window. At first I couldn’t see what she was pointing at; then I saw Abigail on the 2005 side of the driveway. We were waiting on her and Kennedy to join us for breakfast. Abigail had her back to us and seemed to be kneeling on the ground. Rebecca said she was about to cry but I couldn’t see anything to cry about. I thought maybe Abigail was petting one of the cats which she is prone to do. I was sort of wishing they would stop fooling around ‘cause I was ready for breakfast. They finally got to the house and that’s when I learned that Kennedy had stopped on the way over to propose to Abigail and apparently Abigail accepted his proposal. Anyway, she was wearing an engagement ring and smiling.

January 11 After a long spell of relatively warm weather, January reasserted itself with cold wind, sleet and overnight lows in the teens. Abigail and I trimmed and delivered a load to the brush site this past week before the weather turned. Now the forecast is for afternoon highs in the sixties in the coming week so we should have another productive week grooming SA. We’re going to tackle the garden and flower bed cleanup.