Well, since our last post, Rita had her 16th birth-day. It was the family party, which is small these days because there are only 3 of us. It was fun just the same. She wishes she would have gotten a car like her friend, but alas she has an old school family so it was clothes, jewery, books, itune card, cute picture frame, and P.J.s etc. She will have a friend party when they all go back to school if it stops snowing long enough. She can date now and get a job this summer, so that was all that was really important. Have fun Rita

As you can see, we still have snow. We shovel a few

hours a day at least. It has been know to be 4 to 5

hours a day. In fact, I have agreed that when Rita

graduates from high school, we should be the kind of birds that fly south for the winter. Banky had the idea first. You can still fish in California this time of year. It is beautiful. I do love it, but I am getting a little tired of spending as many hours as I do shoveling the snow. We hired a couple of boys the other day to shovel the roof. They had a great time. The shed that is in this picture no longer has snow, well much snow on it because Banky cleared it off yesterday. It snowed again last night, and is suppose to snow again tonight and tommorrow and Tuesday. They say it doesn't snow here that much, but the last 2 yrs. it sure has for us. I was trying to find a way to get some exercise when we got home from Thanksgiving. I'm not looking any more. Got all I need or want. You'd think I'd lose some weight.