Winter Has Arrived

The warm weather is gone for now. Starting yesterday the temps. dropped and we've had lots of wind. It's 13 at noon today with 30 mph wind gusting to 36. We had just a little snow during the day yesterday but nothing that really stuck. Eastern Iowa is to get a few inches today, and I hear it's snowing in Indiana.

Bill was asked to go to a precision planting school in Peoria. He left Mon. at noon and got back late Tues. night. He learned several things and was glad he went. Today he's at a day of insurance school in Storm Lake with a couple others from our town. He has a bad chest cold that's not going away with medicine so I called the dr. for him this morning.

I had a P.E.O. meeting Tues. Yesterday I went with Diane and Camry to Camry's dr. appointment for shots in Emmetsburg. She came out pulling up her pants leg and saying "owie" trying to tell me it was not fun back there! (I could hear that out in the waiting room!) We had lunch at the salad and pasta bar in the Wild Rose Casino and got groceries at the Fareway store we like before heading home.

I'm still entering recipes for the cookbook and have a cookbook committee meeting in town later today. We have about 750 recipes now for our book.