Christmas cards 2009

Janae and Janell volunteer

Janell and I have been volunteering at Thanksgiving Point. I get regular emails asking for help and we volunteer for the fun things. Halloween was Barnyard Boo, a carnival for preschoolers or kids that don't like to be scared and this week we were Santa's helpers. I took pictures of Santa and families and Janell mounted them and delivered them.

Snow in Omaha by Kay

Thursday was the third day in a row school was canceled in Omaha. Tuesday it snowed, Wednesday it snowed some more, the wind blew and the temperature dropped below zero. Thursday was just cold and the city is still digging out. I spent the first two days plowing snow. As soon as I got it all plowed I would have to start over at the beginning. I plowed my lots 3 times on Tuesday then spent all day Wednesday moving it out of the way and plowing walks, roads and parking stalls. Of course that was between driving tenants to work, pushing and pulling stuck cars and teaching my Burma tenants about driving in the snow. Many of them have nice cars but have never driven in snow before. Like most inexperienced snow drivers they don't realize spinning your tires as fast as they can does no good. One tenant was stuck in the middle of the parking lot in his nice Dodge Durango 4x4. When I saw him spinning his tires until the rubber smoked I stopped him and motioned for him to let me help. He didn't speak English. I hopped in, shifted it into four wheel drive and slowly straightened it out. I spent about a half an hour getting the car in the picture started this morning so she could get to school. She had not started it since before the snow started falling. Believe it or not she did not leave the hood up overnight. The wind blew all that snow up onto her engine while it was parked with the hood closed. This afternoon I went into an apartment to finish some work and noted it was very cold. I switched the furnace on and started my work. Out of curiosity I went and got a digital thermometer and placed it on the counter while I worked. The furnace had been running a while so I am not sure how cold it actually was but the thermometer dropped to 46 before it started rising.

Victoria Secret and the spoon

I don't usually shop at Victoria Secret but got an email about their cyber Monday sweater sale. 3 sweaters for $30.00 and a free scarf with 20% off that is 33.00 for the 4 items. I was cooking soup and was so distracted I didn't notice my spoon had fallen and was resting on the coil burner and was on fire. I noticed a small flame coming out from under my pan on my electric stove, the spoon handle had caught fire and wa-la it melted. So this is what Victoria Secret did to my cutco spoon (it's next to a normal cutco spoon). Luckily I will send it in to be repaired.