FEBRUARY FREEZE

The weather forecasters were right on. Yesterday we went to Abilene to run errands and were lucky to get out of town just before the rain blocked underpasses there. I called to cancel the doctor appointment for Tuesday morning and got rescheduled for noon Valentine's Day so we will celebrate with a nice meal after the meeting. We went to bed with thunder and rain got up this morning to find .4 inches of rain in the gauge, a temperature of 16 degrees and about two inches of snow on top of my firewood on the porch.

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I called to cancel Kiwanis. I tried to feed the birds out back but the screen door was frozen closed so I put some sunflower seeds on the walk at the end of the front porch. Lydia called to cancel coming and told me to sweep the front porch to get firewood. Even though it was cold the snow could be swept off. The concrete was still warm underneath. But immediately some light snow covered where I swept. I lit the fire and started bringing in some more logs. I will burn everything on the front porch before it gets back above freezing Thursday. I didn't even think about getting the mail. We have had a snow event every winter and I usually walk to the mailbox and every time slip and fall. With the pain I have been fighting I didn't want to chance it so I only walked three steps off the porch to sweep snow off the internet satellite.

I started the stretching exercises several days ago and have had no pain in my leg since Saturday. I served as worship leader again Sunday and had no problem on the risers. No pain in the trip to Abilene or today. We are thanking the Lord for having electricity service! Hopefully it will stay on during this spell.