Our weather has been more seasonal, 30's at night and low 50's during the day for a high. Quite pleasant for outdoor activities. This afternoon I rummaged the woods for dry dead kindling and Cliff filled the wood rack on the back porch again. The Weather Channel is putting the next wintry mess right over us for Tuesday and Wednesday. We're in for an icy couple of days. My guess is that it's not really a winter storm as it hasn't been named. My birds have plenty of seed and suet and I'll be making more warming winter soups and probably another small chocolate cake to go with the wine to get us through this year's crazy NC winter. Cliff wishes he were in Florida. I really don't mind it if it's only a few days and by Friday we'll be back in the 50's again. The garden will need to be tilled around the first week of March so I can plant my snap peas and a few weeks later get the potatoes in the ground. So in my mind, spring is not that far away.
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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