It's so super cold here! Good Grief!
I could sure stand to live in a warmer climate

I've been watching the African live cam today and it's been real busy, the lions were at the watering hole quite late for them. I was suprised how many female lions there were in the pride. I didn't see the male lion at all today.
Nor did I catch a glimpse of the Baboons, however watched the zebras and Impalas there, caught sight of a single Wildebeast too.
Loved it the other day when I saw three giraffes. I don't think I've seen that many at one time.

My son and I heard about something called "Ruby's Pantry" yesterday afternoon. It seems this church group gives away food once a month. If one can afford a $12.00 donation that's all fine and good and the same if you can't. I wasn't able to cough up that this month, however next will give twice that.
My son, as he's moving out in just 3 days, used it and he was able to give a donation. It's about $40.00 dollars worth of foood too. Awesome stuff.
The important thing here, when I walked in I was half frozen, short of breath, having chest pain from the cold, and a tall lanky youth wrapped an arm around my shoulder, escorted me to his supervisors and they had me sit down, after giving me a huge hug first! Their first concern was that I was having chest pain, the second thing was I was so cold. Boy did they ever take good care of me.
I don't mind saying it brought me to tears, tears of joy at how much they cared. The lady that hugged me didn't let go right away like most people would when they hug you, if felt like I had been hugged by an angel. Such an unusal thing.

So now I'll make banana bread with all the overripe bananas and use the fresh, gorgeous strawberries on my oatmeal :)
The freezer is full of chicken, baked, breaded, fingers of chicken, pita bread, English muffins, ye gads!
Prayers for this church group, they have been growing and keep getting more to give away. Their mission was to end hunger here in MN and Wi. and I think they're suceeding.

The people that are going to help my son move will eat good too. I'm making a lasagna for them, and think I'll throw some kind of meat in the oven to make sandwiches with too. That way if they don't want lasagna they can have a hot sandwich.
They also are a fine organization. We've been very fortunate to have them helping us at step of the way with this project of getting our own places.

I'm especially proud of my son, and now he's excited and seems happy even to be getting a nice place to live. He's been offered a new set of towels, which I believe he turned down. His new apt. has a new stove and a new refrigerator, and the carpet is either new or just shampooed.

There isn't much of anything on tv tonight, unless you count sports....I don't really care to watch that, so will probably plop a movie in the VCR.
LOL, most of my movies are packed, however there's no flaps on the boxes ther in, so I can dig right in!

Tonight's supper is going to be leftovers! The leftover rice is going to be fried with onion, with some scrambled eggs going into it, along with fresh tomato, and maybe some leftover ham. Also the makings for a salad, and that will probably do it for me.
I don't know if the kid wants the same fare or not. He might be on his own tonight if he down't eat what I fix!

It's about half past 4 bells here and so cold around the perimiter of the apt. Last winter we had put plastic up to keep out the cold northerly winds, not this year, that's a post all by itself though.....not a happy one.

Spring isn't far away I guess, we've sailed through Nov and December and almost half of Jan was not too bad. I hope the snow holds off until after the 1st of Feb!







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