Good morning once again. I have yet to decide if this is “Finally Friday” or just Friday. I think though I will go with finally Friday. It has been a long week hasn’t it? Snow and ice and and bitterly cold weather have either kept people cooped up in the house or required them to go out in treacherous weather and on slick roadways in order to be to work. I don’t know about where you are but here the school system has been closed all week leaving parents wondering what to do with the kids since they maybe have to go to work anyway. As for the kids, —- well in this neighborhood, they played outside for the first couple of days but I haven’t seen any of them outside sledding or doing such things since.  So yeh, —- we’ll call it finally Friday because it is starting to warm up today and the temperature is actually going five or six degrees above freezing and the sun will be doing some melting.

The backyard buffet is busy this morning. I filled the feeders yesterday and cleaned and refilled the bird bath. I currently have four of my fuzzy tailed rat friends out there casing one another away from the feeders as they try to grab a bite themselves. The starlings come and go in flocks of six to ten. They fly in, fight over feeders and then fly out again. In the mean time, the cardinals, woodpeckers, finches, wrens, doves, mockingbirds, and junko try to get something to eat in and amongst all of the fray. But —— my best guests this morning again are the blue birds. I had a couple of pair fly in yesterday afternoon and they are still here today. What has surprised me is that they don’t have a lot of problem standing up to the Starlings.

Ms. Kate and I are getting out of the house today too. we are meeting Bob and Brenda for beer and schrooms out at St. Joe Inn today. I of course, got out Wednesday for my meeting, but Ms. Kate has not left the house since church last Sunday. I think she is getting a little stir crazy. We also have to go to the bank and Ms, Kate says I need a haircut. It isn’t often she says that so I must be looking shaggy. Ou subdivision is still a mess to get in and out of. I tried to remove some of the snow and ice again yesterday from the street and from the neighbor’s driveway but the ice is holding fast and the JD couldn’t do much with it.

Tomorrow morning the folks from Safelite will be here to replace the windshield and wipers on my truck. I’ll be glad to have that back up and in operation. I don’t drive my truck very often as is evidenced by the fact that it is a 2007 with only 44,000 miles on it. But, I do love my truck. We generally take Ms. Kate’s car because it is harder for her to get in and out of the truck. But if I’m going somewhere by myself, I prefer to take my truck.

I reckon the timehas comefor me to vacate my comfortable spot here under my lap robe in the sun porch. I pray your day will be pleasant and filled with the Holy Spirit. If you let the Lord plot the route and do the driving, you’ll never be in the wrong place. Peace.