First Official Day Of Winter

Hey, it's been winter for me since it snowed on October 1st. Since then it's just been a matter of seeing what days it's NOt going to snow or be below freezing.

That's why our "Making Memories" trips have been put on hold. Too many places to get stranded around here. Just think...only about four more months until it MiGHt me time to travel again!

I love it!!!

My Baby Turned 27 This Week!

27 years old this week, my baby was born and this is where he was born...

Les got to hold Corey before I did. Because I had to have an emergency c-section, I was still loopy on drugs. So, when this picture was taken I wasn't even aware that there was anyone in the room. In fact, I don't even know who took this picture of the happy father and the newest member of the family.

(flash forward about 25 years...Corey and Derek on the day he was born).

A note I put in Corey's baby book...

First pictures of Derek via cell phone...

Corey was a good baby. He was pretty good about sleeping through the night except for his feedings or a diaper change. I do remember those 2:00 a.m. feedings. There was no cable in Omega at the time and the only channel that came through was the CBS and it was nothing more than looking through a snowstorm. He was also ALWayS VERY hungry and wanted to nurse about every two hours. Consequently, I seemed to be tired most of the time. He hATed having a wet or dirty diaper on his bottom and would pitch a fit until he was changed. I learned to nap when he did no matter what needed to be done in the house. I had to have my rest when he rested.

How grateful I am for Corey and the man he's grown into and what a responsible husband and father he is to his family. He is a son I am very proud of and love very much.

This reminds me of when we visited Sherry on her ranch in Montana and I went out to gaze at the stars. (see blog "Twinkle, Twinkle Lots of Stars dated 9/20/09).

A Budding Artist

This was sent to me today via text message. It's a coloring that Derek did today in church. I'm sure it's the first of many "scribble/scrabbles". But isn't it lovely?

RMOTC Christmas Party

Friday night we attended the company Christmas party at Three 3 Crowns Golf course. We wanted to be fashionably on time, so we arrived about 6:45 since I thought it began at 7:00. Boy was I wrong! People had been there for at least an hour already socializing. We would have been there sooner if the wind hadn't kept blowing us back home!


We had a wonderful buffet dinner and then played a "Name That Tune" game. I won two prizes - a $10.00 gift card to the brand new stadium seating movie theater and a free car wash. The car wash will be used much, much later - maybe sometime about next April. I correctly named the song and artist of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" by Charlie Daniels (can't understand why I knew that one) and "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye one of my old-time favorite songs.

It was so nice to dress up and wear real make-up. This was only the second time I'd dressed up in nice slacks and a blouse since the move here and it felt really strange.

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho It's Off To Work I Go...

Good morning Mother Nature! This is the temperature when I got in the car the other morning and by the time I got to the carpool parking lot, it was -13 degrees. What's three degrees difference though, huh?

The temperature in the greenhouse between my office and the rest of the department...

Scooping up the snow outside of my office...

Do you think it was snowing???

Can you see how cold in the greenhouse? Seriously, the foggy looking stuff is the ice crystals floating around.

Yes, it was plowed, but more snow fell...

This is looking outside one of the greenhouse screen windows towards the back of the office...

This is the time/weather clock in Mary's office. It measures wind speed (23 mph at that moment), wind chill (-29 at that moment), actual temperature (-7 at that moment), average wind speed (17 mph during a ten minute period) and notice the humidity - 3%. Eat your heart out south Georgia people!!!

The snow isn't so pretty after it's been piled up and mixed with dirt...

It's been so cold, that even the North Platte River is now frozen...