Wintertime! and 7 years....

Winter arrived yesterday and is continuing into today... It's only the 2nd or 3rd time in 24 years of living in Portland that we've had a white Christmas. No snow actually fell today but it never thawed so yesterdays snow, sleet, freezing rain stuck around. So glad Erika has her pickup! It allowed her to get around so we saw them yesterday. Tomorrow (hopefully) they'll be here again as well as Bobbie. It's been much too long since I saw my mother-in-law! I hear she has a pretty neat golden dog.

Tomorrow is 7 years since Dave left. I'm thankful that it has brought home the fact that you never completely know what is actually going on in someones life. Even those that your close to. Sometimes there's struggles within them that nothing is said about. Maybe hinted at but not actually addressed. One day there will be answers. We just hope that it's not 20 years from now! :)

Also, I found out the my kidney just dumps a lot of protein. It's functioning just fine according to the doctor. If the numbers were to get to a 1000 then she'd be worried and they aren't that high! I knew there was high protein, just wasn't aware of the actual numbers. Whew!!!! Does explain me going to things that have high protein.

Snow before the freezing rain

Pippy was quite intrigued with Erika. The girls were napping so he showed up. :)

Scarlet doing her front roll

Teagan is so flexible! 

Rhododendron nicely iced 

Half way decent amount of ice build up

My back yard

Rosemary iced

This is cool. Silver dollar plants drop their seed pods leaving the circle intact so I have ice circles!

Tonight... Road kind of thawed but is a sheet of ice again.