No blogging......Lazy????

Well it's not like the farm has disappeared except that it has under a blanket of snow. I do not have many chores but it seems to take 4 times as long to complete them. While snow is pretty to look at through a window in a cozy lounge it is not so friendly in my experience in person.

The first snow falls and melts and makes a muddy gunky slippery mess, then it freezes to make an icy slippery bumpy hard mess and when you think that is not enough it snows again blanketing the devious maze of neck breaking perilous paths. All of which are harder to negotiate with a 5 gallon bucket of hot calf feed or a bale of hay for the kids.

Now we are not talking about enjoyable winter sports but rather the daily grind. And I can not really complain (even though I am) as my husband maneuvers all of the above in the dark at 4am every morning.

I think Dairies are the hardest farms of all, the never ending unforgiving twice a day milking timetable. Oh to be in beef.

Anyway Christmas has been lovely except my SIL and her husband were not here and are due in 4 days, so I am madly finishing her Christmas present a crocheted scarf. It seemed practical as living in SD is as cold as it is here in South West Michigan.

On other fronts it seems the USCIS has 'lost' some of my paperwork and so we have had to resubmit it. So whilst I was job hunting in hopes of my Green card arriving soon I am now still waiting.

So again I am fodder for the local gossips. Who think that because I have full access to my husbands and my bank accounts I should spend freely. Well to be honest they think I do. I think frugality is lost on them. They miss the fact I barely buy from anywhere other than Sam's Club, Save-a-lot and Walmart and if its not on sale I mentally think it is a waste. They also seem to forget the hundreds of hours I spent over the summer nurturing the garden, the harvesting canning and freezing, why would I then just go out and blow cash???

Anyway need to go do a couple of loads of laundry.