1/5/25 Focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.  Philippians 3:13

    Quite a few clouds, calm, 8 degrees.  More sun this afternoon with a NW wind, a high of 16.  A light NW wind tonight with clear skis, a low of 8.  Sunshine tomorrow with a strong NW breeze, a high of 23, a low of 13.  Cloudy Tuesday with a NW wind, a high of 24, a low of 15.  Partly cloudy Wednesday with a WNW wind, a high of 21, a low of 14.  Cloudy Thursday with a light NW wind, a high of 28, a low of 24.  Partly cloudy Friday with a NW breeze, a high of 35, a low of 18.  Partly cloudy Saturday and next Sunday with brisk NW breezes, highs of 31, lows of 22 and 14.  Cloudy next Monday and Tuesday with NW breezes, highs of 27, lows of 16 and 11.  Partly cloudy the 15th and 16th with NW breezes, highs of 22, lows of 8 and 11.  Cloudy Friday the 17th with a NW breeze, a high of 26, a low of 12.  Partly cloudy Saturday the 18th with a NW breeze, a high of 25, a low of 13.  PM snow showers Sunday the 19th with a brisk NW breeze, a high of 26, a low of 14.

     Not many things got checked off the to do list yesterday.  but it was a pleasant day.  Bekah, Jay and Azalea went to New Sharon to have Christmas with Jay's family.  They had a good day.  Bekah took hot water out to the hens before she left.  She collected what eggs there were,  I went out a couple times during the day and in the evening.  Each time I collected the eggs and threw them down scratch.  We only buy scratch feed from Pullen because their scratch is high quality.  The extra corn in the scratch warms the hens as they digest it and  keeping busy scratching through the bedding to get every last kernel of grain warms them up too.

        Heather and Mike came out.  Heather and Maegin had fun making a fancy, three layer, cranberry, chlocate, gluten free Christmas cake.  We all enjoyed taste testing.  Gilbert came down for a piece and took a piece home for Barbie.

     I have an air purifier.  The last few years it has been up at my sisters.  When the air was heavy with the smoke from the Canadian fires Tom had problems breathing.  The air purifier  took the smoke out of the air for him.  She bought it back a while ago.  The skunk moved around some during those warm days, making the laundry smell.  Mike set up the air purifier, by afternoon the laundry was odor free.

      Today is Epiphany Sunday, tomorrow is the last day of Christmas.  In church today we celebrate  Communion, thankful for Christ all year, not just at Christmas.  May you be blessed on this day, Sally