THANK YOU MOTHER NATURE!

It is SNOWING in Strawberry, and all the way to Sugar Pine!!  I measured 5 inches on the tops of the trash cans!!   I wish that I had had my camera today - it looked like a Christmas Card with the snow clinging to the pine and cedar trees.  My favorite is the way that it clings to the naked oak trees, outlining them against the grey skies.

Now if we can just convince some customers that DODGE RIDGE is open as is LELAND SNOW PLAY just up the road.  Today was a sschool Holiday but not many vehicles on the road.  Most of the teachers and aides must have used the day for shopping, if the number of cars in the parking lots at the shopping centers were any indication. 

I am just NOT a shopper; I have a hard time even remembering to go and get things that I actually NEED - like a key made, some connectors for the new faucet, and a 60 inch hunk of fleece for a project!!  I was spoiled by too many trips to May Company, J.C. Penny and "Monkey Wards" with my mother, the shop-a-holic.  We never missed a Month End Sale, a white sale - sheets, blankets, rugs...can't buy ANYTHING unless it is "on sale."  I did discover in traveling to other countries that I could "find" a SALE SIGN no matter what the language it was written in.  ALL the practice when I was just a kid!!

The last time that I went shopping with my mother, she was in a wheel chair by then, she purchased another COOK BOOK and I asked what on earth she planned to do with ANOTHER cookbook, and her reply was, "Don't you worry, I will use it!"  She did; it was my Christmas Present that year!!  I still have it!