Dear Friends,

   I remember thinking back in November:  "Here come the holidays  and they will be over before we know it... I am going to SLOW DOWN and enjoy each day as it comes..."

   Well, tomorrow is the first of February, and the past three months have slid by like hot cookies off a greased cookie sheet...out my office window I can see the last vestiges of snow hanging onto patches of grass here and there...I guess this has been our BIG snowstorm for the next 10 years. Funny how everything shuts down here in Chattanooga if more than 6 snowflakes fall...I remember the snowstorms we had in Kansas when I was a girl--deep drifts against the fences and buildings...sometimes up to the roof line!  And how FUN to go out in the fields and pastures with the dogs...where a sparkling, smooth, white blanket covered everything--a fresh canvas for us to mark any way we chose!