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Not A Bad Day

    It started snowing during the night and by this morning it was around freezing with a northwest wind, snow flurries and about a  half-inch of snow on the ground. Gloomy and overcast, it was not an ideal day to mess around outside. However, if you let the weather dictate your activities you are not going to get very far in this life. Come to think of it, I haven't gotten very far anyway.
    I went out and checked the air in the tires of both vehicles. When the weather changes the pressure in your tires changes. I added air to the tires and did a few other chores outdoors. Then I ate breakfast, a bacon and egg sandwich and some milk.
    My wife and I walked to the creek and looked around for tracks. We saw signs of where a bear had been rooting around and saw some tracks that were so tenuous that we could not determine what might have made them. We returned home with semi-frozen toes and lit a fire in the fireplace. Then we started rearranging the living room so we could put up the Christmas tree.
    I put on some music to listen to while we decorated the tree. We have a boom box that you can put an I-Pod down into. The music was really sounding great today. I could tell that I hadn't been listening to music lately by how much I was enjoying it. The tree looks good, even though it's not a real tree and I didn't stalk through the woods for it. We put all purple bulbs on it this year with white garland.
     After this I fired up the grill to cook some rib-eyes. Yes, it was too cold to do this. You try to minimize the time the grill lid is open because the cold air on top of the steaks and the heat underneath them tends to toughen them. They turned out fine and we ate them with some french fries and salad. My wife chopped onions and fried them in a skillet to put on top of the steak. Then I ate the meal with a glass of red wine and a coke.(Not a commercial)
    After I ate, I kicked back in the recliner and started watching some NFL football. The fire was nice and warm. It made me sleepy after being outside in the cold. So, to keep from going to sleep, I got a dish of ice cream(Chocolate Ripple). This gave me the energy needed to properly pull for the Atlanta Falcons. My wife was quite content playing a new game on her I-Pad. It was free and has something to do with shooting colored beads into what appears to be the digestive track of a large animal. Just kidding on that last statement but it does look somewhat like that. But hey, she just informed me she really liked it and is now buying it as we speak. The game is called Sparkle HD. It has a free version and the paid version is $4.99 for the I-Pad version and $2.99 for the I-Phone version. Though a little miffed at the price, my wife is buying the I-Phone version. Hey, HD is not worth $2.00 more.
    It's supposed to be around 15 degrees in the morning. I wish I was at the beach. From the cold retreat, I'm CE Wills.  
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