January 10, 2006
The Snowy Day
As I pulled into the drive the snow fell like like feathers!
Its Snowing outside. To this child of the sun it never fails to delight me. There is a little grumbling about the roads but we are so starved for moisture here, most are happy about it.We are 20 inches below our normal rainfal. One of the guys here said that they are thinking of sacrificing me to the Ozark rain gods as I brought the gods of sunshine and dry skies... I laughed and said "You want rain, go to Hilo 165 inches of rain a year! Its not my fault...." we all laughed...
The snow falls slowly. The post holiday slowdown has afflicted this office. 12 people with NOTHING to do. I have been working on my business and typing letters. I got caught today doing someone elses work on the sly and she yelled at me, then gave me a spontanious hug... There is horse play and long smoke breaks and lunches. Sports scores are discussed, and prospects for local football heros going to U of A. I have never lived in a place that takes its sport so seriously. Must be the weather...
"My goodness, get a load of him... I didnt know he looked like that!..." There is a crowd around a gals desk and they are looking at the Washington CO Dept. of Corrections website. All of the offenders in the county are on there. It takes little to occupy these "kids"... We are talking a lot about the impending birth of the baby I mentioned
last month in a post. The gal is going to the day and had to be forced to stay at home close to the phone and the hospital. I said we ought to have a charity pool on the day and hour, and that is being run through HR to see if it violates the gambling clause.
My vice at times like this is to monitor my stock portfolio, which has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride these last few days. I have limit sell orders in and hope to profit enought to stock my little shop as I cant make up my mind what to buy. What I want to do is buy it all and see what sells. I troll throught the Net to find new vendors and fill out credit apps.
And I shop on line... A little Avon, a leather case for my IPod that Ive not loaded up yet... I had requests for copies of the picture that I had on my last post, so I had 100 notecards made up by
vista print started with the offer we are giving you ten free ones... and we all got to talking that I could sell them in the store. We shall see.
I have some stock in but need to work on my home computer to do the inventory, but I priced the items and looked everything over. Its lovely. Its going to work out.I cant wait to see the next line that we bring in.
My drive home was slow but not bad and as I pulled into the driveway the sky burst open like the angels were having a pillow fight, snowfalkes the size of feathers...
Woody was glued to the living room window watching the snow... Mak and Nani were watching terrified of the falling stuff and were relieved as darkness fell...
Winter Wonderland, the snowy afternoon... outside my front door
