I am beginning to get a little cabin fever.

I spent the majority of my day working on 1099's. These are for the subcontractors who worked for and with us this past year. Some of the numbers amaze me. Krl and I were talking about it and she asked, "Do you ever think we are on the wrong wide of this deal?"

Preliminary figures show we paid out in excess of 830,000 dollars to about a dozen subcontractors.

Wow!

We may need that bailout as much as Wall Street.

I woke yesterday, and looked out the back door. Ice, and or sleet was on the rooftops of the neighborhood, but not much was on our yard. When I walked to the front door, I could see how the sleet had drifted up on the sidewalk behind the shrubs two and a half or three inches deep. At that time no one had driven down our street and it was beautiful!

Once the sun came out, the temperature began rising swiftly. About mid-afternoon I drove to the Post Office, then downtown to pick up my supplies. Any shaded area didn't thaw very well.

I went to the storage facility to get some 1099 envelopes from the company travel trailer and it was a good thing. I had placed an electric heater in the trailer, just to prevent it from freezing. Apparently the thermostat has a wide variance because when I checked a container of water, it had slush floating on top.

I wasn't the only one checking on RV's. Several people were there, starting their motor homes, or checking propane levels.

When I returned home, Krl had begun working on some home made chicken noodle soup! The house was filled with the delicious smells of all the different spices she was using! It turned out great! I may grow feathers!

My today is going to be TWC and FUTA tax reports. Sounds like a lot of fun doesn't it?

I talked with Rian and he said his week had been hard. While Abilene schools were closed two days, Lubbock started on time Tuesday and two hours late yesterday. Rian said when he is the one making the decision about bad weather day or not, he is going to be much more compassionate. Of course he went on to say it is a hard decision, because some of his students have no heat at their homes, and if they stay at home they have no food. At least at school they have heat and a meal.

I think that there should be a law regarding child care facilities. The one thing that stuck out in my mind Tuesday and Wednesday was the number of child care facilities that were closed. What do single parents or families that both parents work do? Especially if they don't have a sympathetic boss?

Of course, bad weather days can be a lot of fun too. I can remember playing dominoes, and monopoly while eating popcorn and drinking hot chocolate when I was a child. Of course when my kids were little, even in inclimate weather we had to feed and check livestock water, so usually while we were out in the country, we would do a little sledding behind the pickup.

Of course when I was a teenager, George Parks the boys club director would come by in his panel wagon. He would have gone to a wrecking yard and "borrowed" the hood to a car. He would attach a long rope and us boys would ride on the hood!

Well, my day isn't going to start without me.

Have a day!

FATHER, thank you for the productive days I have had. I ask that YOU keep me on task. Some glad morning.... ......... . . .