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Friday 12/21. Man plans, God laughs. Our plans were that I would drive Miss Kitty down to the main canyon road and JB would follow in MAX. He would drive me most of the way back home, then drive back to Miss Kitty. Park MAX, and drive Miss Kitty down to his Jeep. Then go to town to do his Christmas shopping and a few other errands.
Well, we got about a mile down the road and, for no apparent reason, one of MAX's rear axles broke. Fortunately, there was plenty of room to park him off the road. JB continued on down in Miss Kitty, while I covered MAX with the tarp and trudged back home. It was actually a nice hike, but I was wearing way too many clothes to hike such a long way and ended up carrying my jacket, hat and scarf. Took me about 45 minutes, which was about the time it took JB to get to his Jeep, move the cooler out of Miss Kitty, talk to Larry, and drive into the city limits.
While he was gone, I did my daily chores and wrapped my gifts for him. He was back home by 2:30 pm, with no issues driving Miss Kitty back up as the road is nice and solid.
The past several moonlit nights have been amazing. The moon is so bright that we can see only the brightest stars, but it is so beautiful as it glistens on the snow. I am back to setting the alarm to get up and stoke the fire as it is getting down to 20 at night.
Saturday 12/22. It is 20 and mostly cloudy this morning. The avalanche canon is booming over at Mission Ridge. There is a major snow even predicted for this evening and the following 24 hours.
JB and I worked a bit on getting the plow chained to the tractor bucket. Not too sure it is going to work.
On our afternoon walk, there were quite ominous dark clouds moving in from the southwest. We saw the first tiny flakes just as the dogs and I arrived back at the house at 3:30 pm, but it wasn't until about 6:30 that is really started coming down. Our high for the day was just 24.
Sunday 12/23. It is 20 and mostly cloudy with valley fog and just 2" of new snow. The fog began creeping in around 9:00 am. As it ebbed out, we could see blue sky and sunshine until snow began falling at 12:30 pm. That only lasted about an hour and then the sun was back out and the fog had sunk back into the canyons where it belongs.
JB baked a couple loaves of banana bread with our last two bananas. I baked a pan of "luscious layered brownies." A recipe I cut out several years ago but never made before. Am sure the words "extremely decadent" should be somewhere in the title. Must be 1000 calories per piece! Then I cleaned house and vacuumed while JB got the snow thrower out, cleaning and widening the pathways around the house. He wanted to make a better one to the well pump generator, but the snow was too crusty.
A breeze picked up, knocking snow bombs and sparkles off the trees. Our high for the day was 32.
We have been invited to the Gridder's for lunch on Wednesday as Mrs. Gridder's parents are coming over from Moses Lake. As long as we don't get too much snow and it doesn't warm up, we should be just fine driving down and back up in Miss Kitty.
We began watching our annual Christmas shows, beginning with The Holiday this evening. Will probably watch two animated show this evening and Holiday Inn on Christmas evening. One of these days, I will find A White Christmas. I remember watching it at a theater in Spokane when it came out in the 1950's.
Monday 12/24. This Christmas Eve morning we are ensconced in fog and the temp is 23/21. Here's wishing all my readers a very Merry Christmas!
Thought for the day: Gratitude is the very best attitude.
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