Today started out as another cold, dreary day but at 1:30 p.m. the sun made an appearance. What a difference the sunshine makes. It's not here for long but by next week we should be enjoying its presence more. We are due for a major snow storm beginning late tomorrow. Duluth is under a blizzard warning. I can begin to understand a little how my German great grandmother must have felt in March 1888. She was a new immigrant from Marktgreitz, a small village in Bavaria. She was living in New York City, in the Bronx. After a week of unseasonably mild March weather the storm began. It ended with 40 plus inches of snow in the city. The whole east coast was paralyzed for many days. My great grandmother had never experienced such a storm in Germany and she wanted to return home. Of course travel in those days wasn't what it is today so she never did return. But she talked about that blizzard for the rest of her life.
Speaking of travel, how would you like to be flying AA this week? I feel sorry for all the travelers unable to get home or to their destinations thanks to all the canceled flights. Two years ago this week Sondros and I got stuck in the Boston Airport overnight. We were returning from Ireland. Our Northwest connection from Boston to Minneapolis left without us. It was not a comfortable night.
The babies saw the vet today. Galway weighs 3 lbs! His paw size already shows he is going to be a big cat. His sister Clare weighs only 2 lbs. They got their first immunizations. Their leukemia tests were negative, whew! The bill today was $196. Is it any wonder so many pets aren't immunized! Each of the big cats have an appointment next week to get their shots updated. I have to take them one at a time.
That's Clare inside the Coke carton.
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