I have a new blog

  I am not giving up this blog, but I have started a new blog over at blogspot. If you are interested, here is the address:

http://myworldofwords208.blogspot.com/

Mary-Ann

Dear Reader

  Do you ever have a day when you are not able to find a pair of matching socks? You know you wash at least a half dozen pairs and have folded them, yet some how they disappeared somewhere between when you folded them and when you put them away?

  For me, today is one of those days. I washed and folded five baskets of laundry yesterday (I was a little behind on washing), and somehow not one pair of my socks went through. I am sure I folded some, but this morning they seem to have gone to that land where missing clothing goes.

  So this morning, since my feet are freezing and I am off Christmas shopping later today, I put on the closest match I have. Unfortunately, the closest match I have is a white sock with a tan toe and heel and a brown, blue and green plaid sock. At least they are both bobby socks and are the same brand of clothing.

Oh my, I guess it is a good thing I decided to wear snow boots today, at least no one will see.

In the words of Michel de Montainge, "Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it."

Sincerely,

~Mary-Ann~

SNOW!

   It finally snowed about a week and a half ago! We got about 18 inches of beautiful white. It is snowing again to day, but I do not know how long it will last. I love the snow, so I enjoy getting to march to and from my uncle-in-law's house everyday to feed his cats and check on his house while he is away for the month at trucking school.

  It is tough walking in the snow, it was making my ankles so sore, that I couldn't wait to get home and take my clunky boots off. Now it barely hurts, or doesn't hurt at all now that I am used to it. Of course, it still gets to Sarah when she decides she want's to tag along, but she will get used to it just like I have done.

  On to other news. As some of you know, we moved into my Aunt and Uncle's not so finished farm house. My sister and all her stuff has moved into my room while her room is having it's walls put in, so my room has nothing but mountains of stuff and small narrow paths that lead to the closet and both of our beds (one of which cannot actually be called a bed, since it is simply two air-matresses, one placed atop the other with a sleeping bag and a stack of blankets). The dresser has had shelves set up against it, so no one can get to their clothes that are trapped inside, and the remaining clothes that are trapped on the outside with us, cannot go in the closet, because it is have a door put in. So they are not so carefully placed (thrown) on the top of mount junk-more.

  To add to this, the furnace doesn't work! That's right, the small controller, which powers everything died when the basement flooded last winter (and of course, we have no fire place). So this large, not-so-well-insulated farm house is being heated by a propane heater, a karo-sun heater, and several electric space heaters. My poor dog Tipper (my Whimeriner/Lab/Springer cross) who has very short hair and very little fat, has been subjected to the torture of the propane heater. She has been burned, lit the tip of her tail on fire, and gotten a sun burn from its aluminating heat. Even after all this, she cries when it is turned off, because she gets too cold. So she has learned the boundry of the heater, so we won't shut it off. Of course, the ocassional "got-to-close-to-the-heater" happens and she comes crying into the kitchen for protection.

  I know that everything with the house will work out, it just takes time.

  At least the cat doesn't mind what is wrong with the house, she would rather be in here then outside. She wanted out so bad this morning that I let her, she took about six steps out onto the porch turned around and looked at me as if it was my fault that the snow was everywhere, she then proceeded to sit on the porch and cry for me to come get her. Poor thing.

Well, that is all for now. In the words of Ogden Nash, "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

Sincerely,

~Mary-Ann~

Snow!

  We were starting to believe that it never snowed in Wisconsin, because it had not snowed since the first day we were here in October. Yesterday, however, we got a nice little blanket of it, and the snow drifts have kept it powdery white for the last two days. The snow makes this season seem more christmas-y then our previous christmases. When we lived in Oregon, we had snow on Christmas only twice, and it never lasted the whole day. So I am excited to have a real white christmas.

In the words of Marie Beyon Ray "We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in hand...and melting like a snow flake. Let us use it before it is too late."

Sincerely,

~Mary-Ann~

Dear Reader

  Well, we made it! We actually made it a week ago, but up until a couple of days ago, we had no internet.

We are now getting used to our new home in Wisconsin. It was such a long move, with as slow as the moving truck was, it made a two day trip take a week! but we made it and we are all doing fine.

I took tons of pictures and video footage that I am busy putting together into a slide show for my blog. Right now it looks like it is going to take a while though, because the computer doesn't want to read the video feed! sigh*

Well, since I have no video for you yet, I have uploaded my very special picture of the house for you to see what we are now living in.

Sincerely,

Mary-Ann