We were somewhere in the negative numbers this morning but not sure what the actual temperature was. Downtown Murphy was 4 degrees at 6:30 AM. Our thermometer falsely read -17. We're usually about 5 degrees lower than downtown. I think our thermometer went into a state of shock. Yesterday my birdbath de-icer arrived from Dr. Foster online and kept the bathwater from freezing all night. The birds thanked us this morning as they gathered around the water and didn't bang their little beaks on a solid block of ice. I don't know how people choose to live in a frigid tundra for 6-7 months. It's so confining and all a body wants to do is eat and build up layers of fat cells and lather on whale blubber to keep warm and keep the skin from cracking. We were thrilled to feel the sunshine bring the temperature up to low 40's by 3 PM. Friday should be low 50's and Saturday may reach 57. Dig out the capris!
Some days are full of doing tasks and chores that Cliff did for me. The floor wasn't that dirty but he enjoyed saying. "Guess I need to pull out the vacuum. I'm tripping over debris." I thanked him. Whenever I was in the kitchen trying out new recipes, making cookies or the double batch tapioca pudding for him, he was there beside (getting in my way sometimes) washing the utensils, pots/pans, cutting boards, drying them and putting everything back in their proper places only to have me take some things back out and reuse again. "I just washed that" he would state. He learned to ask if I were through with things before he cleaned up after me. I thanked him. He emptied the dishwasher when it was finished in such an orderly manner (getting in my way sometimes because I was also in the kitchen working but he wanted to be there with me). I thanked him. Every morning he made my bed reminding me of the order that the pillows needed to be placed. John&
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