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Winter Weather
I overslept this morning not waking until almost 6:30 am. Thankfully that still gave me enough time to bake the now risen butterbraid and had it baked and iced before going over to mom's house. Kristin's car was stuck on the dam and Joan's van was already started and warming up. I guess Joan had quite a time rescuing people yesterday that continued this morning. Ruth was with mom waiting for Rachel's husband David to come install the brand new dishwasher. The 3 inches of new snow on top of the old snow left everything white and clean but a little dangerous. Some of the roads were not well cleared off on the way to the Berean office this morning. Skip was already there and was shoveling paths for the volunteers.
Both Shirley's arrived along with Marvin making us a total of 5 this morning.
We didn't have a lot of studies come in and only 17 Bible requests. 
I believe they are doves.
Below is a short video of getting the Bibles stuffed and ready for mailing.
Looking out the window of the Berean office there were 3 fat birds resting on a wire.
We enjoyed the butterbraid then loaded the car and left. My first stop was to Meisters to drop off some studies for Amanda's mom for grading. The next stop was to the Hanna City post office to drop off the Bibles and studies going out today. When I finally made it home Mark was out working on plowing the drives. He helped me move in a new round bale for Evan's paddock. The old dead heads of the flowers were topped with the new snow.
There was a downy pecking away at one of the stems.
There were also large sharp ice cycles hanging from the roof.
I was able to get all the sheets and towels washed from the barn. 
Tomorrow I will go over to make the beds and clean up the barn but today I just didn't want to go back outside. Instead the laundry here was finished and some split pea soup made for supper. Ham and bacon were chopped up and added to the pea soup and it was tasty and filling. The heat pump had frozen up. Mark brought buckets to the house, I filled them with hot water from the tub faucet then he hauled them over to melt the ice off of the heat pump. It took 4 buckets to get it working.
We kept the wood burner burning during the day but Mark wanted the heat pump working so we burn less propane during the night. The winter weather is starting VERY early this year.
