Our second weekend and more snow...

Greetings once more... It's now supposed to be 9 degrees outside with a "feels like" temperature of 10 below zero. It started snowing earlier this evening and has pretty well covered what grass had begun to show in our backyard this past week. It was warmer for a good week with snow melting in both the backyard and on the front walk from our porch to the sidewalk and street. Aaron and Daniel went out to play today a couple of times with the boys down at the end/corner of our block, Drew (9) and Tyler (7?), as well as Drew and Tyler's friend Dorian (just have to think of Dorian Grey to remember him). The boys invited their older friend over last night for a sleepover who's presently in 6th grade at Franklin Middle School, Kevin Omdahl. He's apparently the nephew of Kathy, Greg and Vicki (Phil Hartman's wife) Omdahl. The small world continues to grow ever smaller...

The boys played in the backyard with Duchess and their friends much of the afternoon while I got some transcription work done and went through some more boxes. I probably went through some 20 boxes or so today in my ongoing search for the missing wireless router so I could get Lisa's laptop to work upstairs. Come midnight, there was one box just resting by itself in the dining room wrapped in packing material that I had seen earlier, but discounted as I had seen it in a prior move and thought I knew all its contents. I went ahead and opened it anyway and lo and behold, there was the router and DSL modem. That solves our biggest mystery of the week.

Tomorrow (actually today as it's 1:28 a.m.) we're planning to attend Trinity Lutheran for the first time since I think sometime in 1982, with the boys attending Sunday School at 9:25 a.m. Should be fun, especially if we see many people I knew growing up.

Duchess continues to become a more permanent fixture in our household with each passing day. She's a very polite dog. So polite, that if someone comes up to her on the sidewalk, she will stand on her hind legs and just barely touch them with her front paws. She doesn't jump but more like just stands in greeting. She's been well received by those who've met her thus far and we think enjoys her new home. I may have mentioned earlier she's a lousy guard dog, but she actually started barking this week when hearing strange sounds at the door, so perhaps I was mistaken. We still wish she'd go potty faster when we're standing out in 10-degree temperatures rather than sniff the standard 4-square block area first.

The plan for tomorrow is to install the two remaining smoke detectors and two carbon monoxide detectors in the basement and upper level (larger house than I thought). I also noted the former owners apparently left us a large hose reel on the side of our house out front and I need to shovel some snow off that side of the house where the vent is for the clothes dryer to make sure there's adequate ventilation. The rest of the day will probably be spent in transcription and supervising the boys as they hopefully play some more with the neighborhood boys. That's pretty much all there is to update for now...