It’s 24 degrees and snowing. It just started and the flakes are very small. The forecast is for 2-4 inches. We could sure use the moisture. The ground is getting drier and drier, but it’s too blasted cold to do much watering. We had a thin covering of snow on the ground Tuesday morning but it was gone before the day was over. Yesterday was cold, too, but we still managed to get out in the afternoon and take care of business. Joyce serviced the livestock, including the dogs. The neighbors went to Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine for the weekend. I spread the load of granite we got Friday and decapitated the two bushes in front of our house. They had gotten overgrown and needed to be put in their place. We really weren’t uncomfortable. The sun came out briefly and the thermometer shot up to 37. Then it clouded up again and the temp was below freezing again. There wasn’t much breeze, though, so while we were working we were warm enough. In spite of the cold weather we’ve had this month, when I walk to the office in the morning I hear the cardinals dueling from the treetops. They must think spring is coming and they need to stake out their territory.
Last week I forgot to mention the faculty recital at WT we attended with the Brokenbeks the previous Friday evening. The profs doing the playing were Emmanuel Lopez on the cello and Choong-Ha Nam on the piano. They were quite good and since it was free admission and we were home before bedtime, it was a pleasant way to spend an evening. This past Wednesday evening, Abigail and I went down to watch the WT chicks basketball game. They whipped up on Abilene Christian pretty good. As we left the parking lot, we got a view of the moon rising over the prairie. It was full and looked huge just clearing the horizon. We usually don’t see the full moon until it is at least 15 degrees or so above the horizon. It was about 7:45 and had been dark for over an hour. I couldn’t understand how the moon so low in the east could reflect a sun that had gone well below the western horizon. The angles just didn’t look like they would work.
It is snowing more seriously now. I may have to crawl back in bed.