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The weatherman predicted substantial snow and cold. 

Thursday morning Leofwyna was scooping snow when I woke up.  I think we got nearly six inches here.  We couldn't get the snowblower to start so I called Mohrhoffs to pick it up to fix.  I put on a pot of beans with a hambone so we had soup and storemade cornbread for supper.  Mainly I spent the day with television and computer while Leofwyna slept. 

Friday I moved some more snow off the driveway; the layer of packed snow underneath should soften in Saturday's sun and slightly warmer temps.  I really must get the rest of the snow moved Saturday as it's supposed to be colder the next week.  Friday evening we went to Morganna's housewarming party and played Scrabble with her and the Doerrs. 

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Saturday afternoon in the sunshine I scraped another layer of snow pack off the driveway.  I really should have gone out in the cold Thursday and worked on it then when it was looser (as Leofwyna was so kind to point out Friday).  It didn't get thawed as much today as I'd hoped as the sun is low enough in the south that 'those damn pine trees' in a neighbor's yard cast a shadow across the street and halfway up our driveway.  Part of the year its the awful trashy castoff from those trees but in the winter it's the shadow causing ever thicker ice in the street.  Since this was the warmest day predicted for the next week I don't expect it to get any better for a long while now.

Leofwyna started her house/dog sitting with the shar pei today so I'll be walking Sammy at midnight those days she's working over the holiday and she'll be sleeping over there days so I could be accomplishing some painting except she's changed her mind about the tone of the gold paint for the front room and hasn't gotten it yet.  So I'm dividing my time meanwhile between genealogy (Tenth Century, I've got P-R-S-and-T left to do) and cutting down cotton samples for a couple more quilt tops to send out to Kronberg.