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Yes cabin fever, and it's all due to our non winter this year. Not non winter because of the cold, it's been that and continues to be cold. Non winter because of no snow,  less than a foot total so far and there's almost none left.  A more usual winter in our neck of the woods should be about 3 or more feet of snow by now. And the cabin fever part is that it's still too cold to be out and about very much, even with no snow. It's been almost a week of an an air stagnation alert for the North West. In many areas that's meant days and nights of freezing fog, in this area it's meant constant overcast with lows around 27 and highs around 30, just constant cold. So Stacy and I can look around outside and can see things we could be doing since there's no snow, but being out in it for any length of time gets cold quick.  If we had the snow all over that we should have it would be different, it's the visual thing of it I guess. But Stacy and I both are feeli...

Thinking back, as so many people and places do, to the highs and lows of the year just past. And at the moment as I'm sitting with Stacy as she's starting a new quilting project so I can get her comments too. Our high points- Stacy's last year of constant involvement with the IJJA, that's a YEA for both of us with her term as President over,  so a lot fewer trips to Boise this year. Sandy visited twice in 2013 with Justine, most recently was 4 days at Thanksgiving. In September our 2 weeks in Hawaii visiting our son Sean, and Sandy and Justine were there for a week of our visit too,  that made us both very happy! Stacy making all her projects. I was asked to be the photographer for a friend's daughter's high school year book photos.  As well as getting requests to use my photos in others projects. We got my Solstice all paid off! We're both still here to be talking and writing this! Daughter Laura loves living in Texas much more than Iowa! Tyler is...

Since it's only the second of January, 2014 doesn't look any different to me yet than 2013 did. Yesterday being a holiday, we spent most of the day at home but with a good chunk of it on a short trip to Scott and Cheri's place about 30 miles from our house. Scott is Stacy's older brother and they have some property near the Montana line. They were having a little New Year gathering with their two visiting daughters, and with their local neighbors in attendance with us at their house. Scott was very proud and showing off his recent purchase of a 1993 Corvette. He has always loved Corvettes and is very happy to have another. He still has his 'race car' Corvette that he used back when they all lived in Kansas but he'd wanted one to drive around, not race, and found this car on line over in Washington near Seattle. It was loaded, in very good shape and with only about 40,000 garage stored miles on it. It has the convertible soft top as well as the hard top wit...