644 - back to work :-(

Day 644 was back to work for Sheldon and I. My work is still not very busy so only worked the morning. At lunch I stopped to pickup another treasure I bought online thanks to Kaylin's keen eye, a lovely 3Qt blue glass cracker barrel jar.

At the ranch Britt had just got mobile at 11 she said. She only wrote 3 final tests last week (Mon, Tues and Wed) and has had the rest off till this Friday. We grabbed a bite to eat and headed outside into the -3 sunshine. She rode bird bareback trying to help me catch Hawk. In the middle of this I stopped to trim Pepper's back feet, he is such a good guy. Finally we caught the naughty boy and her and I rode bareback with halters around the field thru the glistening snow. They both were acting silly but Diego was no help bouncing in front of their faces annoying them too. If I thought my legs hurt before, riding a prancing 50 gallon oil barrel added to it.

After our ride I trimmed him all the way around and also did Bird's back feet. Britt had made up food for her and wanted to give the rest to Julio so I started her a skidoo to run out. I decided to start the other one too and her and I skidooed around here and thru the neighbors field chasing a fox even.

goodies from ST Lucia, banana ketchup which started to be marketed about 4 years ago and it is yum, west indie hot sauce Sheldon loves, guava jelly that reminded us of crab apple jelly and the makings for coco tea on the right. Star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and pure coco are mixed with milk and water to make a traditional morning tea they enjoy there.

Back in at 4 I made us hot chocolate, yum! Sheldon and I enjoyed a cold beer once he got home to celebrate back to work. (or not :-)) Sheldon then ran the quads into the garage as both batteries were dead and they are threatening storm rolling in tonight and temperatures to drop to -24 as a high the next few days! NOOOOOO

Britt busied herself back in the TV room for rest of her day and after eating supper watching all the Vampire Diaries seasons. She loves her TV that girl. I had a chance to chat with Shaina who took the 8 am bus from Watson's where she has been staying in New Zealand to the airport for a 4 pm flight to Australia. Once there Terri has so graciously offered to pick her up and keep her until she leaves for Thailand on Feb 8th.

She amazed me having spent all of her $460 NZ ($402 CND) budget with $15 left. Her bus ticket was $45 so she used her credit card for that and efficiently used her remaining cash for food at the airport including a $10 chocolate bar!! Well in her defense she said a regular Mars bar is $3.50 and this was a jumbo! HAHAHAHA perhaps that would stop me from ever having a chocolate bar at that price.

After the yummy pork chop supper I cooked up I showered off the skidoo fumes before relaxing for the evening. Sheldon continues to watch his new basketball fetish and hockey :-)

Just before 8, Craig, Amanda, Asher and Travis came out for a visit and to pick up reverse osmosis machines. We enjoyed a nice 2 hour visit and they left just as the snow started to blow in and the temperature continued to drop.

Asher loves Coco, caught just before the big kiss :-)