Snow in the hills and every where else too.

We are scheduled to get 8"-12" of snow tonight and tomorrow. Guess what Will's working.....are you surprised? I've shoveled everything once to get a head start and will continue to shovel every two inches or so because it's easier.
The house smells wonderful. I have 20 lbs. of apples stewing into apple butter in the roaster and the aroma just fills the house. I need to start the spaghetti, but dread the mixture of the smells. Oh well, no way around it. The restless natives must eat.

It's been a really, really busy weekend, but very rewarding. Saturday the youth group (21 kids and 5 adults) met at church and baked cookies. Some of the ladies in the church had baked some sugar cookies before (about 250-300) cookies. The kids decorated those with the trimmings and then we made other kinds too. All in all we had about 800 cookies when we were done. I had made potato, cheese and ham soup as well as chili earlier in the day, so the rest of the church came for supper and cookies. We fed 45. The kids had decorated bags for cookies and we bagged up 400 to take around town.

Sunday 28 of us met and rode around on one of the Cranfest floats and sang Christmas carols. It was fun caroling as the snow fell. At each house we dropped off at least 20 cookies. It was good for the kids to see the fruits of their labor and also to learn about giving. Then we met at the retirement apartments on the hill for cookies and hot chocolate/coffee.

Today it was back to the mail route driving around on roads that are still not plowed very well and here we are getting more snow. Great googamooga. I am already tired of snow and it's not even Christmas. I just keep telling myself that in less than 4 months the weather will be better. Just hang on....

Will is due to head home in another half hour or so. That means, Deanna gets to get out there shoveling in another 30 minutes so that he can get into the driveway.

Have a great night. Think warm thoughts. I know I am..... dry socks, heating pads, hot showers, coffee, hot chocolate, soup......see warm thoughts....
dea