SNOW!!!!!

It snowed here this afternoon. And the world has stopped. I love living in Arkansas. I've lived here since I was a teenager, so I can't drive in the white stuff either, but remember that people really can drive in it and remember as a child that snow shouldn't be a major deal. In Arkansas it is. It really is. Two snowflakes hit the road and schools start closing for the next day. We have major tornadoes that slam this area with more frequency than I'm comfortable with, last year the national weather service decided that it wouldn't be a severe thunderstorm unless the winds were over 58 miles an hour (vs 50).. hail over an inch, lots and lots of lightening. In other words a big bad sucker that's fixing to drop a tornado on us.. I live in tornado alley.. let the wind blow over 40  and one air mass cross another air mass and we have super cells trucking down the highway and the Tiv parked over in OK (I'm in the hills, they don't like chase in the hills.. hard to see the tornadoes and hard to get good pictures. understandable!) BUTTTTTTTT... it snows a drop.. we get WINTER STORM WARNINGS left and right all over the place, 5 news storm coverage, team storm coverage.. Garrett rolls up his sleeves (there's a Facebook page thingy "when Garrett rolls up his sleeves the sh*t's gonna hit the fan"... yes, I'm one of the many fans) Anyhow, we have about 3/4 of an inch. The roads are bad, Ginger doesn't have band tomorrow. Rob is supposed to go to work tomorrow night, but we'll have to see tomorrow.

This weekend has been pretty good. I haven't accomplished much. Rob has gotten a lot done. He's gotten all of the lard and tallow done. Over 4 gallons all told. I've really got to find a good soap recipe to use the tallow in. It's so pretty. I've got to get it together this week. I need to get the YCME directory done, it shouldnt' take me too long once I get it going. I'd like to have it ready for Wednesday. Friday is treatment day. I'm ready, so ready.

So, this week, I'd like to get some potatoes canned, some beans canned. Probably do that on Tuesday. Wednesday is band. Thursday I'd like to do a batch of cold process soap and wrap it up for Friday. I'd also like to load up some photo software and start posting pictures to this thing :)

Today was church and I've just kind of been blah since then. We did manage to make it Sunday school, and my oh my, God is so faithful. So so faithful. The truck overheated and it looks like one of the hoses was frozen.. but nothing was cracked or broken.. and he added water (and antifreeze) to it and we got to church at 10:12. I couldn't believe it. I was shocked. And so happy :) Talked to the Pastor and after I get through this chemo stuff, I'll start teaching the middle aged kidlets (8-12 or something like that) I'm excited. The Lord has really laid it on my heart to *do* something, to be a servant unto Him and I"m ready for this. Also spoke to Pastor about some prison/jail ministry. I feel that's a place where we're being led too. It's that bit of excitement growing again.