Count Down - One Month

Let the count down begin. The dates have been set for our trip south. We plan on leaving February 5th and returning on the 23 of April. Lists have been made, utility companies called and we have started on our many lists!

Steve came down this afternoon and asked if we had our phone off the hook, and Lou and I both looked, everything seemed fine. He told us that Kris was a the doctors office with Michelle and they had been trying to reach us and the phone rang busy. So I immediately tried to call Kris, you guess it, Frontier has turned our service a month early, so after several phone calls our service has been reinstalled, with promises from Frontier it will once again happen on the 5th of February.

We have friends that left for Florida on Sunday and we are sorry for them, they are having some miserable weather, so maybe it isn't so bad being here at home with good insulation in our home and a thermostat and gas furnace that understand cold, windy weather. Plus we are enjoying North and South with our Netflix in the evenings. After having the television installed, can't find anything can enjoy in the evenings. Thankful for X-M Radio and Netflix.

Lou has gone this afternoon to help a friend with a leaking gas line and to run a few errands from our list. I am accomplishing some ironing and preparing a meal that is less in calories, as Lou and I, like most of our family and friends are trying to lose those pounds that crept up on us during the holidays.

I have made a big pot of Sauerkraut soup from the left over pork and sauerkraut from New Year's day. We sampled it for lunch and it is wonderful. This was a new recipe from the one I used last year. This ones called for tomatoes where the last one had a creamy base.

Tomorrow night we are back to square dancing lessons, Thursday I want to clean my house and Friday we will take Krista for a "dry run" for her radiation therapy.