Many years ago, when we just had Mark, a family invited us to their house for dinner. We enjoyed our time and over the years, our friendship grew.
It was wonderful being able to spend a few days with Dave, Kristi, Cardin, Reece, and Casteel and just be together.
After a lot of rain and a short thunderstorm yesterday, we woke up to snow this morning.
It was a crazy year for sap, but we ended up with a lot of wonderful treats!
The first is maple sap, which is good as a drink or added to chili. Then syrup, maple cream, candy and then maple sugar!
The weather has warmed up. Audrey noticed this raccoon hanging around our sap buckets this afternoon. She tried chasing it away by banging a spoon in a pan. It only ran up our maple tree and then took a nap. It is still enjoying its cozy napping space.
While it slept, we made sure all the lids were tight on the sap buckets and then put a heavy brick on each one. We do not want a nosy raccoon to ruin the sap we collected!
After getting over a foot of snow last week, and then having it all melt in the last two days, along with rain–my dad’s rain gauge says 5.05 inches, we have a lot of water in the yard. On the side of the house, the water was halfway to Adrian’s knees. The air ducts under the house are full of water.
The girls spent most of the day wet vacuuming the ducts dry. Megan practiced keeping tally of all the times the vac was emptied (at least 240 times). Allan and Adrian worked on creating a ditch to divert some of the standing water to the back acre.
Hopefully, the rain will stop soon, we will get a breeze and everything will dry up quickly.
We went to visit the neighbors’ animals this morning. Megan enjoyed playing with Betsy.
The kids had these ice candles lit and sitting on our fort when we came home Saturday evening.
I told the kids that the next time it snowed, we would take the morning off and go sledding. It was 5 degrees at 8:00 this morning, but we still headed out to the park. We were happy that it warmed up quickly and we had a great morning.
My favorite picture from Snowglo.
And two others from the same presentation.
We enjoyed being able to participate in “SnowGlo” at Bonneyville park this year.
There were different activities to enjoy outside. One of my favorite was watching an artist twirl her lighted hula hoop.
