After out bike ride today, we went to Sonic to eat. I was getting everyone's orders and asked Ewan what he wanted to drink and he said it: "Soda." Soda? Soda? Where did her learn that word? We're a midwestern family; we say "pop." Where did he here "Soda?"

The temp got above 50° today, so we packed up the bikes and headed for the trail. We had anticipated good weather, so we dropped by Dick's yesterday and dropped a bunch of money on cool-weather clothes for the kids. The trails still had some snow and ice on them in places, but it was amazing the amount of sitting water puddled on the trail. We came home wet and dirty, but enjoyed our ride. Ora 5 and Aspen both had personal bests: Aspen went 6 miles on her own, doubling her previous distance. Ora went 18 miles besting his best distance ...

Part of Aspen's birthday present was a new cat. Enid and the kids picked it out on Thursday and it was ready to go home today. The kids have spent the day coaxing it into playing with them. His name is Flynn.

Today is Aspen's 7th birthday and she woke up with a 102.7 temp. Poor girl.

Even after an amazing snow storm American Exteriors came out to install our new windows today and they look great! They are high-efficiency windows so the house feels warmer and I expect to save almost 75% on my heating and cooling costs! Woot!

Enid showed me this picture she did today and it is just beautiful:

Soon after I arrived home, I saw my neighbor pull up to the front of her house. She got out and proceeded to shovel her drive to try to get into her garage. (At my part of the street, you drive UP your driveway.) I got my shovel and offered Ora 5 $1 to help me and out we went to help shovel. It was short work with three people and she made it up her drive. After being in for about 1/2 hour, I saw another neighbor shoveling her drive. From seeing her husband arrive home, I knew that she ...

The weather called for blizzard conditions, so the boss started sending people home today around 1:30. One co-worker with a sporty car with low-profile tires couldn't make it down the unplowed frontage road that we work on and had to turn back. I decided I should get out while I could. The frontage road was bad with lots of snow shoved around by cars, but not plowed. I had my car in the lowest gear and just trudged through the snow. At parts it was like a one-lane road and you'd have to carefully move to the side to let ...