january

we have a new computer and got it set up last sunday and i forgot to take stuff off the old and actually had to email someone for a link to our blog. Duh!! it's been foggy and icy here. they really got hit hard with an ice storm over by carroll Iowa. they still don't have electricity. fortunately ours stayed on. i prayed it would as we would have no way to cook or no heat. we have someone coming monday to give us an estimate on adding some insulation to our attic. we had a leak last week and a person who is a friend got up in the attic and we had frost all on the inside of the attic and it was melting and that's where the water was coming from. he said we hardly had any insulation up there, so we're going to get it done. it's weird because we were just talking about adding some about 2 weeks ago.
bruce and his co-conspirators threw me a surprise birthday party last saturday. i was shocked. my best friend from KC and her daughter came up. they have never been to iowa. i told her now she had no excuse not to come up for thanksgiving. i was very surprised. we had a wonderful day.
i'm still not used to this new keyboard. but i really like the computer. our other one was full. but i have actually ran off some CD's for craig and for stephen of some pictures and it worked very slick. i called bruce at work and told him it was a keeper.
we are going to branson the middle of february. bruce has the missouri petroluem convention there and andrew and rita are going with us, they'll have their condo and we'll have ours. it's going to be great. we went last year and it was really nice having them there and we went and shopped when bruce was at the convention. we had a nice time.
the dogs have been inside for a while. they have their outdoor kennel but we had that really bad cold snap to where it was really cold like -15 and -20 below actual temperature so we kept them in. i know missy doesn't like it but she is adapting. now they follow me from room to room. hammer almost needs to be in my back pocket.
i still am on the treadmill 5 times a week. i do 13.5 miles in 5 days. it's the first thing i do when i get up in the mornings. i feel so much better exercising. we go over to the gym and swim also. we haven't been this last week but i go when bruce works with his personal trainer. i signed up for more swim lessons that will start the 13th of february. i figured i could use all the help i could get. ha! i can get myself down the pool and back, i am still leary of the deep end but i go further than i ever have so that's a major accomplishment for me.bruce got me some swim suits and beach towels for birthday and christmas. i can actual breath in the water and not have nose plugs. for anyone who has known me, this is MAJOR! i have always been scared of water and drowning. from the first day of swim lessons, i have not had nose plugs. so i'm getting there. the thing for me now is learning to breathe as i swim as i have a habit of holding my breath and then when i get to the end i'm huffing and puffing. so i practice and figure i will improve when i take lessons next month.
well, i better go and see what trouble i can get into. take care ad God bless, treasa

snow, snow and more snow

we've been having SNOW!! we got 18" then a few more inches and 6 more inches, today we have a winter storm warning and supposed to be getting 9" of snow or more.i'm geting pretty sick of snow and usually it doesn't bother me, but we've been having these sub zero temps and dangerous wind chills. i'm staying put.

we had some friends over last night and i made homemade pizza and a 7 layer taco dip and some chips and dip and a couple desserts. we watched the Orange Bowl where the Hawkeyes beat georgia tech.

i have my house clean and think i'll sit and get some letters written. i need to catch up on some correspondence.

we have ordered a new computer. ours has been giving me fits. plus it's about 8 years old and it's full. bruce and my brother-in-law looked at this one over new years and between all of my music and my pictures and my recipes and such, it's full. i haven't been able to copy any pictures to CD because there was no space on the hard drive. so they took a hard drive out of an old computer that they had built years ago and put it in this computer also. so now there's 2 hard drives, one is the master and the other is the slave. ?? anyway, it works. we've had problems with our email from mediacom and finally today i think i got it straightened out. i'm going to take this one and put it in the kitchen and work offline with it for my music and pictures and recipes.

well, i better close as there are a few things i want to look up. God Bless, Treasa