leder legends

Ava and I headed downtown to see the ice sculptures. It was so cold and we were unprepared. We lasted about 30 minutes.

Yesterday the wind blew and blew! I was so happy to be in warm places while it blustered and took with it all the remnants of the snow and ice.  I pray that no more will fall this spring. I love seeing all that green grass and all the hope of new growth that it symbolizes. The wind also brought down all the dry and vulnerable tree twigs and they are scattered everywhere. That will be my first task, I guess.  I still have 4 boxes of labels to do and that has priority over twigs because I hate doing it. Actually the twigs and the green grass have provided the motivation to get those boxes done...because THEN I'll go out into the yard.  Maybe I'll do this too.

They do taste really good!!

Well, I sat through the entire game without leaving the room.  It was an effort! The company was great and so was the food. We also enjoyed the commercials...so creative!! The guys talked theology  intermittently.  I think there is way too adulation around the football throne and probably all sports in general. We love and expect to be entertained. Even the 'national anthem' is a spectator sport...

We have decided on a cost-cutting measure for our Toppers. We send out a LOT of fliers or menus during the year...probably 100,000 pieces of mail. Up until now, the printing company has done the printing AND the mailing. If we did the mailing ourselves it would save us a substantial amount of $$. Decision made, assignment given to XXX and the company is fine with that but OOPS the fliers have been printed with their code or permit or whatever ...so they could print us labels and all we would have to do (just this first time I'm happy to say) is attach labels,  XXX thinks "that's easy" and "let's do it" and the fun begins! 31 boxes arrive plus two boxes of labels!  It still sounds / seems pretty doable, right? NOT!! These are done. All set to go The trouble is if I work hard ...while watching TV ..I can do one box in two hours.  Do the math!  Mailing them ourselves turns out to be easy and we are happy to do it in order to sav...