Valentines arrive,

some cyber, some paper, and

       best kind - in person.

 

 Happy Valentines Day to you!

       

 Hot dogs in a jar, (1)

jar in the solar oven -

      sure enough - cooked 'em.

 

(1) "jar" or "pan" 

Ok - you put stuff in a canning jar with hand tightened lid in the solar over and it acts like a pressure cooker.  So we have 3-4 more sunny or partly sunny days. Then we'll move on to something else besides the contents of the solar oven!

 

Pint jar of pinto

beans in the solar oven -

        sure enough - cooked them! 

 Or -

        sure 'nough -  it cooked em!

 

First time we've had the solar oven out since last fall. Nov - Jan the sun isn't really high enough in the sky to heat it up. It got up to 300 from 10am to 1pm today.

Partly sunny days,

 temps to high thirties (or more!) -

          Spring is coming - no? 

Men's short program, then

Men's ski slopestyle final, then -

       take out the garbage. 

Two eyes scan, ears twitch,
a nose sniffs, then hops away -
    outside my window.

God of this day and every day,

+when life is dull and bland as one day follows another, 

may any salt in my life bring out the delightful flavor in the life of each person I meet;

+when days turn dark and people are stumbling and bumping into things, 

may any light in my life shine to help others on their way;

+when days are cold and cloudy and all hope is gone, 

may my life somehow mirror yours enough to revive and encourage those around me;

until we come to the time of your peace in all it's wonderful and glory.

This is my prayer today.

And may I be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.

 

And Isaiah (and Gretchen) said - "Fix the damn roads"!