This is a tropical bird I've been working on. I liked it so well I'm going to do another hopefully with improvements.

Canary for lunch! I carved this bird a couple of years ago but never put legs and feet on it nor did I paint it. The cat disquised as a bird house is something we've had hanging around the house for a long time. I just decided to add the bird to it! I only completed it because I was experimenting with legs and feet made of copper wire. It turned out so well I decide to go ahead and paint the bird and give it to the cat!

This is the quilt Mom recently completed. Nice isn't it!

You should see the other guy! On our way home from Billings on Wednesday evening between Deaver and Cowley we came suddenly upon a deer in the road. He came into our lane of traffic too late for me to effectively stop. I hit the brakes immediately but not soon enough. The deer is dead. We are alive and well, and the car...well you can see the car. We are currently awaiting word from the insurance company to see where we go next. Some damage you can't see, there is fluid dripping out from somewhere so I don't want to drive far. As a result I'm not going to my temple assignments this week. Hopefully the car will be back in working order by next week...but if not...that's the way it goes. And if the car is not enough trouble, the furnace is clowning around with funny stuff. For a while this morning it wasn't coming on at all to warm the house. I've torn into the workings and tightened some connections and that's helped some, but there is still something funny going on with it. I have a call into Sanders Plumbing and heating to discuss options.

As you can see, we had more snow in the last 2 days. It measures 5 inches on top of the pontiac and the same in the driveway. The temperature this morning was -8 degrees. Not as cold as the before mentioned temperature 2 weeks ago, but cold enough! Spring is now only a month away, but we'll probably end up with it being 30 days. At least it is in sight! Other signs of spring...seed catalogs. I might even abandon my vow to NOT plant a garden this year. And I might even plant as much corn as I have before even though we haven't used any that we put in the freezer last summer. There are always bottles to store corn in.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Just wanted to share the cold with all of you! Hope you are having warmer weather than us, and hope we will have warmer weather soon. The groundhog says we'll have an early spring. It's only a month and a half away. Otherwise it may be as long as 6 weeks!