March 17, 2007 

Top of the morning to ye...Are you wearing of the green today? I'm not. I just tossed on the clothes I could find in the dark. With 2 boys in the house, it may be a wise idea to wear some green today however. 

"Joey" the kitten woke me up at the normal time of 6 am. He has gotten really good at sitting on my pillow and banging my nose with his paw three times to wake me up. This has been going on for a couple weeks now. It is mildly better than "Watson" sticking his nose in my ear and purring loudly. 

"Break Up" is officially on now and my guy will sleep for a week. To bring in "Break Up", which kinda sorta brings in the beginning of the Spring melts... we get 9-12 inches of snow. It was a wet soggy snow and sheets of it fell off the roof. I always like hearing the snow crashing as it is still a novelty for me, but it does make me jump if I am not expecting it. It can get rather loud. 

My darn neck is still hurting. At the moment it is not painful like a knitting needle stuck into you, but more uncomfortable, like a golf ball sized pressure spot under my skin, just below my left ear. 

Last night I finally got to try out a recipe I have been wanting to make. While me and my family watched "The Horse Whisperer" on the telly last night, I baked Beer-Rye bread. Due to the lack of humidity, I had to go to a full can of beer over 1 1/4 cups and I dumped the remainder in cold (a no-no), but it came out wonderful. I even finally got to blenderize and use those organic orange peels I had been saving and drying for awhile. 

Other than finishing up the magazine today to get printed on Monday or so, I have no idea what I am going to do today. I suspect it is going to be a lazy day. I think we all deserve one around here. 

Contest!!! Go to our Forums to place your 'bet' of when the various cows will have their calves. The person closest to when each cow will calve, will win a "Down to the Roots" T-shirt. (You will have to let me know your size later). Alot of people are starting to put their dates down, I think we have eleven entries so far. (Click the word 'forums' above to be taken directly there.)