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Yesterday’s bird list:
Vineland”
Flocks of robins
Chesapeake City:
Juncos
White throated sparrows
Grackles
Canada Geese
House sparrows
Robins
Hawk probably red tailed
Today’s list:
Juncos
Robins
White throated sparrows\
House sparrows
Blue Jay
Crow
I arrived here yesterday at 3pm. My nephew, Rick, had shoveled out a parking space, and the steps to the front door. I was so grateful. It was a lot of hard work. He shoveled for two hours to get things cleared up. I had shut the water off before I left so I tried to open the back door but there was too much snow and ice. I took the snow shovel and trudged around to the back door. The snow was frozen hard and I was walking on top of two feet of snow. They had about fifty inches with the two storms but it had compressed down.
I shoveled out the area to get at the water and shoveled off the steps. I knocked down some ice cycles that looked like swords hanging down from the roof. They could kill someone if they fell on them.
Cheryl, called and said my other niece, Tina and her husband Sean were coming to go to dinner. The five of us went to the Chesapeake Inn. It was hard finding a place to park. There was no where for the plow to push the snow. We could have parked at the inn but we tried a place in town first. It was too expensive so we walked to the Inn. We could look out over the water but it soon got dark. We enjoyed our meal and had a nice time visiting together.
Tina and Sean had an hour drive so the left after dinner. Cheryl and Ed dropped me off and I watched some Magnum and Rockford before turning in.
This morning, I walked Danny around the mobile home park. It was difficult with icy spots and muddy road on Mallard Drive. When we got back, I got ready for church. There was a big turnout. The church seemed filled. They were honoring the Boy Scouts. There were being ushers and greeters. They also led the procession and lit the candles on the alter.
I almost forgot I had ordered Girl Scout cookies when I heard my name called out and saw the Girl Scout in the back of the church. I had been away for a few weeks. Last week, I didn’t get to church at all because no one could get out of there driveways last Sunday. The first storm left two feet of snow in Vineland. CC had three feet and Ridley had three feet. Vineland didn’t get quite as much in the second storm as CC and Ridley but I had to do a lot of shoveling.
I shoveled a path to my shed so I could get my steel shovel. I needed it to chop up the ice that had glazed over my walk. That took awhile to do. I smashed a path through the snow with my boots from the back door to the front parking area. I needed a place to walk Danny at night. I usually walk him in the yard and around the house but the yard is a glacier two to three feet thick in some places.
I talked to my sister-in-law, Sylvia and to my mother-in-law, Phylis. I thawed out a quart of my pot roast I had frozen from Christmas. I had that for dinner while I watched on of Don’s movies. It was an old Sci Fi movie, “Forbidden Planet”. I know I saw it years ago but I didn’t remember any of it except for the robot.
News from the Vorlon Wife.