Thur Jan 21 422

1/21/10 Gail and I went to Yoga at Gold's gym at 8:30. We got a few groceries at HERE'S THE BEST!! HEB grocery store. We raked the leaves off the back yard and put them out front for Tao to pick up. Gail had heard that snakes like to reside in leaves. With lots of leaves back there we figured that fewer leaves would be better. Texas is suppose to be very good for bird watching (and snake watching). I guess there a lot of different varieties...but we are not interested in any reptile watching, hence "goodbye" leaves. Gail was in a shuffle board tourney for American days. I've been here when there has been Canadian days other years. The American Days have tourney in Shuffleboard, Darts, Horseshoes, Pool, etc. Cummulating with a fried chicken dinner tomorrow night, which we have tickets for. Mandy got into the airport about 4:15, We came home and she looked at the schedule for Gold's so we went to a power pump class at 5:45 and stayed for part of a exercise jam class. Gail and Bruce went to get Nancy at 7. We all came home for supper and then to the hot tub...and to bed. The power is back on in Odebolt, so we lost our family in the basement at the farm. I guess the roads still have a inch of ice on them. Yesterday the icy gravel hills on 300th street caused Mark and Barb H. to slide in the ditch going up the hill right off Highway 59. They slowed down and the vehicles slid backwards into the ditch. Shannon came with his tractor, chains, and loader. Denny brought the pick up in from the west, started to meet the same demise and ended up parking down by the highway. He walked up the ditch, because you couldn't walk up the road. He made lots of trips from tractor with chains to cars in ditch, crawling thru snow. Everyone finally got out and home. Pretty much tuckered Denny out.