Windless

Last night I didn't sleep well, which is par for the course for when I can actually sleep in, I don't.  So I finally got out of bed, fed up with not sleeping at 8.  I had a pretty productive morning waiting for Sonja to get up.  I surfed the net, made the menu and grocery list, studied and surfed the internet some more.  I kinda woke Sonja up at 11:30 because I needed my credit card.  She got up and had breakfast.

After we went for a walk.  I saw what looked like a game trail when we took the puppy for a walk last week, so I wanted to check that out now that there is snow on the ground and see if it is actually being used by deer.  There were lots of tracks there, but only a few deer tracks.  Most of them looked like bird or wolf tracks.  But I figure if I want to fill our freezer this fall, I have to get a start and find out where the deer will be.  We came back and stopped to get our groceries.  Being a Saturday afternoon it was pretty well picked over so we will be going back tomorrow to finish off the list.

Today was also cleaning day.  We are pretty fed up with the "Mini Cats" that hang out around the baseboards and seemingly everywhere.  So I vacuumed them all up.  Our place is clean again, but probably won't last because of the amount that this cat sheds.

We were invited to a birthday party of one of our friends daughters tonight for supper so we went over there around 5.  It was fun for a kids birthday.  They just had another baby so Sonja was excited and able to hold him for a while.  He is pretty cute and tiny, only a couple weeks old.  It was a big turkey meal and was really good.  We also didn't need to cook which is always nice.  We decided to take some cookies as a contribution.  However our oven doesn't work again.  The lower burner doesn't seem to work.  It was replaced after it flamed out but it hasn't worked since I'm guessing.  It takes forever for the oven to get up to temperature.  So we ended up only cooking the top half of the cookies, leaving the middle and bottom mostly raw.  I think I kinda figured it out, that they needed to be cooked for a longer time at a lower temperature.  But that didn't seem to work that well either.

It was overall a good day today, the wind stopped blowing, so it felt warmer.  The Oilers won their third straight game, with one of the rookies getting a hat trick.  Unfortunately we couldn't watch it because it wasn't on our channels, but still a good time for all.  And we went for a nice walk.  On the way back we noticed that it had been cold enough to freeze the more sheltered and still water of the ocean.  All this was topped off with a birthday party.  So pretty good indeed.

Tyler