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Last September while we were visiting in Hawaii with Sandy, Justine, Sean and Brandy, Sandy had given myself and Stacy as well as Sean, a 23andMe kit to send off on our return home. So Stacy and I got home and after a few days decided to go for it to see what came of it. We registered online and over two days we did the spit and sent off the little tubes of DNA to wait for the results.  At the time, the online connection said to wait at least 4 to 6 weeks after the email notification of receipt of the samples to start getting results. Some of Stacy's results came in somewhat early of the 4 weeks but the 'meat and potatoes' results and my results took the entire 6 weeks to the day to come back. This also was when one could still get the genetic health profile which to me you should take with a genetic grain of salt, but enough people got scared and took it as their genetic bible of what their future must be holding, so the company got in hot water for those results and we...

Since my last post a bit over a month ago, Winter in North has trudged along, little rain just cold.  Then just over a week ago it got very cold again and for a change the weather guessers were actually right with their snow predictions. On Saturday March 1st it was only 13 degrees for the high with a low of 6 above. Saturday afternoon it started to lightly snow, just as predicted, and then it just kept snowing. By Sunday morning there was already almost 8 inches built up and I wound up snow plowing twice that day to clear then keep up with the build up during the day Sunday since it just kept snowing.  Monday the 3rd it was all deep again, still snowing too, so I took Stacy to work then went back home and plowed again. That afternoon it snowed one last heavy time, but by the time we got home it had warmed up to the upper 30s and was raining so it was more slush then snow by then.  The photos, above and below, were taken on Monday while I was clearing the d...