Monday, January 3, 2022

Monday, January 3, 2022

Tonight's picture was taken on January 7, 2009. Mattie was home and that day our resident Jack Russell Terrier, JJ, came over to visit. Mattie and JJ practically grew up together and in his own way, JJ was very close to Mattie. Whenever we were home, JJ would come down our commons area to look for Mattie. JJ continued this tradition long after Mattie died. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 55,530,407
• Number of people who died from the virus: 826,678

We woke up to a winter wonderland today! Fortunately I did go grocery shopping yesterday. Because given our streets, there would be NO way I could get in the car and drive. This is NOT Washington, DC. In DC, we lived right near the State Department, not only were streets plowed immediately we never lost power in 27 years! I mean NEVER. Whereas today, on the Farm we lost power for an hour. So far our generator has been used 7 times, and we have only lived in the house since August. 

Look at this beautiful sight outside our family room. Cardinals dotted the Crape Myrtle. 

A backyard all in white!

We have about six bird feeders and they were VERY VERY busy today. 

Around 11:30am, I took Sunny out for a walk. He did not mind the cold or the snow in the least. He loved it. We walked for about an hour. I felt like I got a work out trudging through the snow, which was up over my ankles. 

The beauty of our streets. I learned today from a neighbor that our streets don't get plowed. The former owner of our house said that our home owner's fees paid for plowing. That was a lie! So digging out will be complicated. 

After our walk, we came home and literally everything on me got tossed into the dryer. Sunny was covered in snow and ice and I toweled him off. While working on Sunny, I thought I heard a truck driving up our driveway. When I looked outside, it was our neighbor, Dave, with his snow blower. Do you know that he dug our entire driveway out!! I still can't get over this. I told him he is my New Year's miracle. It is a blessing to have a neighbor who cares about his community and Peter and I were juggling so much inside the house, that we weren't sure where we were going to get the energy to shovel snow. Thanks to Dave, I don't have to worry about this today.