Dear Mom,
This morning a couple of our friends came over for breakfast, and stayed for a couple hours until one had to go to work. It was a nice morning, and then Ron and I went with a walk in the snowy woods with the dog. I didn't bring the camera, because the snow is so dry and slippery and it makes it twice as hard to walk when you're worried about falling with expensive electronics. As I followed Ron, each one of his footprints would immediately fill back in with snow like we were walking through loose sand. It would have made nice video. The parts of the hill that had been getting a lot of wind had hardened over so we could walk on top of the crust. Until you fall in up to your thigh and have to crawl back out.

I spent a few hours today sending out my new catalog, so keep your fingers crossed.

I hope you had a good day with your sister, although Dad will be glad to get some undivided attention. Do you know how many emails he sent me "Just to tell you I love you"? Heck, one day he even called. Finally I asked, "are you feeling a little left out?" He said, "yep." Please tell Aunt K that I hope she has smooth travels. I hope you can adjust back off the high of GoGoGo.

I wish you were here to rub my feet with your hot dry hands. I would even put up with some nagging to change my socks.

I don't have any new pictures to show, so here's one you saw a long time ago. Spring has to come eventually.




Love,
Ruth

p.s. I know the enlarged photo is still small. I uploaded it a long time ago into the photo sharing web site you have to use with blogs, and at that point I needed the file smaller.