Feb 2nd/332

The 2nd brought on "The Plague" and hit the person in our house and continued to hit us one person at a time for the last two weeks. It hit my youngest first which caused her to miss five days of school.

Feb 1st/333

Superbowl Sunday! Another day of ski racing and then my middle daughter and a bunch of her college friends came over to make cupcakes, watch the game and eat White Chicken Chili.

Jan 31st/334

Another day of ski racing at 49 Degrees North. The 31st was the Master's Race, my last race as race data adminstrator and my husband's last race as chief of timing and calculation for the FAST Team.

It was also a sad day as it was a day our family put a member to rest. My brother-in-law's mother's memorial service was on the 31st, but we missed it because we had to work the race. We did send our daughter instead to represent the family. We will miss Grandma Ruth.

Jan 30th/335

The 30th was my oldest daughter's 21st birthday, but she went down to the University of Idaho to visit her friends so I didn't get any photos of her. It was also a morning made up of frozen fog so I took a photo of this beautiful frost pine tree at my youngest daughter's school.

Jan 29th/336

I am horrible about returning movies on-time and always received late charges so a few years ago, I joined Netflix which is great for those of us who live out in the country because you just drop your viewed DVD in the mailbox and then in a couple of days you open your mailbox and a new movie from your list arrives.

Most recently, I purchased the greatest little $100 box to hook to our TV called the Roku box. It works wirelessly on our home network and allows us to stream from our Netflix Watch Instantly list to our TV, on demand. They don't always have the newest films, but they do have older television seasons, older films, lots of documentaries, and Disney shows which makes everyone in our house happy especially since we don't have cable. My youngest daughter has discovered old shows like The Munsters which has been fun. This little box was well worth the purchase for us and has already provided hours of entertainment.

Jan 28th/337

Well, first we have been busy ski racing and then came the beginning of the semester at work which also kept me busy and finally I got really sick with some horrible sinus infection and cough so I am really behind on my blogging. All I have done is lay on the couch or work and then lay on the couch. I did continue to make sure that I took a picture every day though so now I am feeling good enough to share my photos.

So here is what we did on the 28th. Two of my daughters went to Verizon and upgraded their phones. My how phones have changed. It isn't about the contact list and the ability to call their friends. They both were looking for something they could use to text easily and to take decent photos and one wanted apps like calendars and music plus a touch screen. In the end both chose LGs, one got the enV2 and the other chose the Dare. They had both been saving and were very excited about getting new phones. My other daughter has to wait until March to get her upgrade and I have to wait until June. We'll see what new toy is out by then.