January Thaw

January 2018

Wow, time files when you are non stop busy. lol  I really must apologize for never updating this blog.  Honestly, I do blame it on the lack of audience and then again my lacking posts probably are the reason for the lac of audience......
Any way here we are over a year after my last post to give blogging another try.  We will call today's blog "January Thaw" as today is the 2nd day in row that we are above freezing and possibly 40's by the end of the week, has to be the January Thaw as spring this early would just be crazy.

Of course to have a January thaw we must first have a "freeze" and did we ever this year.  With a week till Christmas it was looking good for white Christmas with some snow covering the ground, temps were normal for that time of year and it was all going great.  Then 2 days till the big day and it warms up and rains, poo there goes the "white".  Thankfully Mother Nature took pity on us and delivered late on Christmas Eve/Morning with some snow.  It was perfect and beautiful and all that...
...but in order to have snow we must have cold and BAM!!!!! EXTREME COLD!!!!! was here and stayed.  We had about 2 weeks that we were in the -digits with horrible wind chills too.  The kids did not even have one near freezing temp day to enjoy outside while on vacation.  It was just cold, cold, cold and now 14 days later it has finally warmed up.  Late yesterday we hit the freezing mark (32 degrees) and today we could do the same.
Thank goodness its just been unbearable to even be out doing the critter chores.  And the critters were not to thrilled to be out while we did the chores so we all welcome the thaw.

On the bright side all this inside time did give me time to look up projects to do for our 4-H meetings and one of those projects will be Paper Quilling Bugs.  These are the samples I made up should be fun to see how the club does with them.

Paper Quilling Practice

Happy New Year to all my followers.  Enjoy the brief warm up while you can