2018 A Strong Start...A Feeble Ending

The title says it all actually. While I began the year with the best of intentions, writing daily, once we moved in July it has been very spotty, to say the least. I will try to rectify that in the coming year, even if it only a few lines a day; which today's entry might be.

We did spend New Year's Eve as we normally do. After a dinner of shrimp cocktail, we had our lobster tails. Then we watched "When Harry Met Sally". We've done that for over 20 years. One of our favorite traditions.

Tomorrow starts another year and I am going to make the attempt to do much better at my blogging. We'll see.

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Our Latest Storm

This past weekend we had the second winter storm of the season and it isn't even officially the winter season yet.

We were forecasted to get between 3-6 inches; we got about 11 inches. At least it was just snow and not the ice storm we got about 10 days ago. We lost power and our driveway was impassible because of it being so steep.

This time I was able to clean the car off in an hour so the wife could go to work. The sun did the rest.

Rain is forecasted for the weekend; hopefully, it will wipe away most of the snow.

Pens and Bibles

Yesterday I went to my volunteering at the Stonewall Jackson House where I work in the gift shop I checked on my pens and pencils. Last week I couldn't take it anymore so I brought in sets of six new ballpoint pens and six new mechanical (cheap, but good) pencils. We had a mish-mash of stuff, much of it not working, pens dried out, caps missing, and pencils dull or broken.

Yesterday, when I went in, the first thing was to count them. One pen was missing. Two pens were left clicked open (another fetish of mine, along with capless stick pens)! All the pencils were there, but probably only because there is not much use for them. I will check again next week.

Today I counted my Bibles. I have 18. That includes one Book of Mormon and a Jehovah Witness Bible. And I have three Books of Common Prayer. I had more Bibles but gave several away. I did not count the small New Testament Bibles I have (3). Seven of the Bibles are the standard KJV. by far the most common type I own.