May I pour you a cup?  Sit down and let's talk about our plans for the day.  Friday makes all of us smile, in one way or the other.  Those who still work a regular job, smile because they have a couple or maybe three days to sleep late.  Those folks retired like me, still enjoy the weekend.  I look forward to Sunday, as you know, to worship with my church family.

What are your plans for weekend?

Aryn has a basketball game tonight at 6 and of course we will go to that.  I am thankful that it is at a school close to where I live and we don't have to drive up Signal Mtn. tonight.  Our weather has been rough for the past couple of days with some "black ice" on some roads.  Tonight we wont have to worry about that.  GO LADY EAGLES!!!

Speaking of Aryn (I know, I know, I speak of her and the others often...lol), below is a picture of her and her boyfriend, as they were outside yesterday evening, playing in the "snow".  I can barely see a flake, but you would have thought it was knee deep!

Ahhhh, to be young again!

It was a cold, soup day yesterday and I wanted to make some with whatever I had here, and not have to go to the store.  So, I came to my trusty computer and pulled up some recipes.  I am a big cabbage lover, had that, so searched the cabinet, found some canned tomatoes, chopped onion, added some celery salt, pepper, shredded the cabbage and put all in crock pot.  About 2 hours into cooking, I added a can of Rotel tomatoes and chilies, and about 1/2 V8 juice, browned some hamburger and added that.  Talk about a hodge podge....but we had some left over cornbread that I warmed, and had the soup, and IT WAS REALLY GOOD!  Jim is the chef in our house, but he put a stamp of approval on it.  Sometimes it is good to just guess!

Last night, just as the rain, sleet and spitting snow ceased, a bright light came over the hill behind the house.  I grabbed my trusty camera and went outside.....this is what I saw....it only lasted about 5-10 minutes and it was gone again!

Earlier yesterday around 1, Jim wanted to go for a ride.  At first he wanted to head toward the Ocoee River area, but as it leads to N. C., and the weather was to be bad, we decided not a good idea.  I mentioned another mountain in our area than I had never been on top of, so off we went to White Oak Mtn.  I should have taken a picture of one of the houses, but instead stopped and took some pictures looking down into the valley below.

It was a grey day, as I said before, but you can almost see that we are a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides.  The houses on this particular one, look like hotels.....too big for me to want to clean!  lol

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.  ~Will Rogers