GROUNDHOG DAY

Hooray!  Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow!  An early spring is on its way.  Of course no one believes this, but it's a fun day anyway.  I sort of feel sorry for Phil.  Poor little thing, sleeping so nicely and then pulled out of his burrow, held up in the light and have lots of people taking pictures of him.

It was an OK day at work.  It was steady, One of my customers today had the exact same thing I did -- upper respiratory virus -- and it started on the same day mine did.  How about that?

I am getting better every day.  Had only two coughing fits at work and two at home.  I'm sleeping much better.  And my appetite is back -- I'm eating everything in sight.  That is not good, so starting tomorrow I am going back to eating healthy.

It's 3 a.m. and I am going to go back to sleep.  Church and Elder's Meeting later today.  It's going to be a long day.

CLOWNS

I'm still not feeling my best, but finally I am getting better.  It's been such a long haul.  I hope this is the end for a long time.  I fell asleep on the sofa last night and Joe just let me sleep there all night.  I really appreciated that because I slept straight through for about eight hours, never woke up, never even moved.  And this morning I felt so much better.  I haven't slept through a night without waking up coughing and choking in over two weeks.  So nice to get a good sleep.

We had a good day at work yesterday.  We had two clowns from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus come to perform for us.  They were so funny.  Of course I got some pictures of them.

They got a lot of the kids involved.  That was fun.  There were over a hundred people that showed up for the program.  It was so crowded that I wasn't able to get very close to them.  A lot of the pictures I took turned out blurry because I had the zoom on but these are the best.

Of course I always try to get a shot of Marquita.  When she becomes a famous model (instead of just the small modeling jobs she does now) I will have original shots of her.  Ha, ha.  Truly she is very talented and I expect her to go far.  In this picture she said she was looking for her "light".  Ha, ha.
 

 
I am working tomorrow so I have off from work today.  I'm glad because going back to work I worked two days, have off a day, work one day, and have another day off.  It is easier than going back for five days straight.  And if I keep feeling so much better, next week I will be back to myself for those five days.

I'm going to run and be getting my day up and going.  Don't forget to see my poem for this month below.  Until later...

A POEM FOR FEBRUARY

Afternoon in February

The day is ending,
The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
Through clouds like ashes
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow