I was much more enthusiastic about this:

when I thought it was INSIDE the Bass Pro Shop.

He ultimately caught this:

but then we were faced with what to do with it.

He didn’t want to throw it back.

I offered to cook it, if his Father would clean it, but he didn’t want to do that.

I didn’t want him putting it in a box and storing it under his bed.

We compromised by agreeing to bury it in the flower bed to fertilize the flowers that will be coming up this spring.

We promised to do more fishing this summer, but I think we really need to come up with a better plan than burying them in the front yard.

On Friday morning, I walked out of my front door and found a blanket of snow on my front lawn.  It almost made me cry.  Here it is, almost March, and we STILL have snow.

Yesterday, I went out, and found these in my front yard:

Crocus.  They are always the first flower to arrive in the spring.  They always give me hope that winter will end.

Soon.

Tonight, the BoyChild was watching a movie downstairs.

I went upstairs to see if I couldn’t find any Law & Order on the tee-vee.  I love L&O.  It’s always on.  It’s always gritty.   As luck would have it, I did find L&O.  Since we got the DVR, I DVR everything and then I don’t have to watch commercials.

So.  I’m surfing the channels to see what else is on.  And I stop on the Real Housewives of Orange County.

All I can say is:  Wow!  And not in that really good sort of way.

Is there a group of more repulsive women?  A more self-absorbed group of women?  A more ugly group of women?

I guess I don’t fully understand the concept of the show.  Are they suppose to be friends?  What exactly is the relationship between all these women?

But you know?  It’s almost like a train wreck.

The things I’ve managed to miss.

We’ve been hit by another winter storm.

This one isn’t as breath-taking as the Great Christmas Blizzard of 2009 but it’s pretty bad.

It started yesterday with freezing rain and sleet.  Today we have had 6 or more inches of snow.

At least we have power.  And cable and internet.

I called my Mother this afternoon.  She’d been without electric and heat since 11:00 a.m. yesterday.  I asked her about any shelters in her small town but she said she thought she would be o.k.

I called the County Sheriff’s office where she lives.  They told me where she lived  was hit the worst in the County and they were saying it would be Monday before the power was restored!  They gave me the number of the city police department.  I called and asked them to go check on her.  They talked her into going to the shelter set up at one of the Churches in her town.

The BoyChild’s school was cancelled Thursday and Friday.  The BoyChild didn’t even put pants on today.

So tell me, how long does it take to get cabin fever?

Yesterday we went to the mall because the BoyChild needed some new shoes.

The BoyChild has Fred Flintstone feet; high arch and flat.

This is the only pair he found that he liked.

This is, except for the pair he was wearing, the only pair of shoes he has that fit.  We tried to get the BoyChild to buy another pair, but he wouldn’t pick another pair.  I’ve learned not to buy any shoes unless he likes them because he won’t wear them.

My son has the shoes of a 50 year old man.

The BoyChild lost a tooth a recently.   He got $2 from the Tooth Fairy.

The next day, as he was leaving for school, he gave us one of his $2.00 and told us to send that to the people in Haiti who needed it.  He is such a sweet generous child.

Last night there was a second collection in Mass for the victims of Haiti.  The BoyChild asked if he could give money from his savings account.   I asked how much he wanted to give.  He decided $18.00 was an appropriate amount.

I am amazed, and proud, at how generous he is.

My family likes Snickerdoodles.

But no one really likes them when they’ve cooled off and are no longer soft.

If you’ve not had Snickerdoodles, they are a basic sort of cookie, rolled in cinnamon and sugar before baking.

I tried this recipe at the RecipeZaar.

They weren’t as hard as the recipe out of my Betty Crocker cook book, but they were still more crunchy that we’d like.

So.  Help me out here internets.  Anyone have a recipe for a soft Snickerdoodle cookie?

Today my husband and have been married 20 years.

On the one hand I think “20 years!  Damn that’s a long time!”

On the other hand, I think, “It can’t possibly be 20 years,” it seems like yesterday that we were dating.

Or are those just two ways of saying the same thing?

I was talking to a friend about our upcoming anniversary and she asked, “have they all been mostly happy years?”  I thought for a moment and honestly answered yes.

We’ve had some tough times in the past.  We are currently going through a rough spot in our lives.  We’ve always gotten through them together and I have no reason to believe this will be any different.

Happy 20th Anniversary, Honey!  Here’s looking forward to the next twenty!

This Christmas David and I bought a 42 inch television as our gift.  We do that, instead of buying one another stuff, we generally decide what we want, or need, and buy that.  With all that has been going on in our lives recently we needed a new TV.

The new television is big (42 inches), shiny, has a beautiful picture and doesn’t dominate my living room as much as I’d feared.

This gave us the opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to do for a long time; create a game room.

We got the Wii a year or more ago, but we didn’t have enough space on the back of the TV* to use it downstairs so it’s been hooked up to the TV in our bedroom.  With all the swinging and dancing that goes in when we play Wii?  Not an ideal situation.

So we took the television that was down stairs and moved it to the unused bedroom upstairs.

It’s pretty kewl.  But it’s caused some sort of technical overload.  We have suddenly gone from no cable in this room and never having spent more than 10 minutes at a time in here, to digital cable and five – yes  FIVE – remotes!  With our wireless and our laptop, I never have to leave!

We now have Wii, a television, a receiver, three speakers, the digital cable DVR box, the VCR player/record, the DVD player and just for good measure the CD player.   We’ve officially gone into technical overload.

And now I have to stop writing.  David is trying to hook all this equipment up to one universal remote.  Apparently, the clicking of my keyboard is loud and annoying.

*That’s about as technical as I can get.  When David starts talking about HDMI cables and components all I hear is blah, blah, blah.