The Flower of the Day is the table arrangement for our party last night. We celebrated Clarice's birthday and Clarice's and Roger's 30th wedding anniversary. It was a most enjoyable evening ending with singing old evangelical hymns around the piano.

The other story for us is the weather and the birds. We have had a fair amount of snow so far and more is expected tonight and tomorrow. If you were to count the birds in the picture on our deck it would come to about 36 or 37 including ten male Cardinals. We enjoy watching them. It's like an ongoing show. Actually, it's our reality show. The other birds are the Canada Geese on Lion's Lake near us, who honk as they go overhead to their morning and evening feeding in the fields outside of town. They are fun to watch, but frankly we could do with a few less.

The last picture is our group excluding Robert Schwartz and Judy McClure who are out of town, but including Peter Bailey who joined us old folks for the first time. He held up rather well.