I can't believe it's Wednesday

Sunday was well, blah.  Rained early and it was warm. Never got the snow they predicted.  Jill picked up Kyle Monday morning and he stayed with us until this morning.  What a treat that is. He is just so much fun. He's even more into music now.  Alicia Keys and Natasha Bedington :-) And he loves the Disney movie Cinderella.  And books.  I don't think we had a toy out the whole time. He and Jill sure do have something special going.

We went to his favorite restaurant last night, Antonio's. It took an unusually long time for our food to arrive.  When our waitress finally brought it, Kyle asked her "What took so long?"

We've been wanting to put some pictures up in the hallway on the second floor but just have never gotten around to it.  I finally ordered some big prints in canvas wrap style. They arrived today and we hung them.  We're both quite pleased with the way they came out.

 

Went outside a couple of time to see the lunar eclipse. There were a few clouds but we could see it pretty well.

Museum of Modern Ice

     Went down to Millennium Park yesterday to see the Museum of Modern Ice. It's sort of an ice wall with Canadian artist Gordon Halloran’s work, Paintings Below Zero.  It was interesting but not spectacular.

It was cold be we were dressed for it so no problem.  Had lunch at the Park Grill. Great table overlooking the ice rink.  Food was good; waiter seemed to have an attitude problem.

It's up to 43 degrees and raining.  Rain may be heavy all morning, turning colder this afternoon and rain changing to snow.  Maybe a couple of inches here - more up North.

Had a great Valentine's Day

The electronic card was a big hit with Jill and the girls liked it too.  Lunch at Lori's house and then Kyle and Lindsey got to make Valentine cookies with the kit that Jill had picked up.

Jill and I went to dinner at Yao's Place in downtown La Grange and then picked up Lindsey and brought her home to stay overnight.  Keir and Lori were due at Loyola Hospital at 6 AM for Scarlett's tear duct surgery so we figured Lindsey should stay at our place.  We dropped her off at preschool this morning.  The surgery went quite well and Scarlett was cool with everything except coming out of recovery.  So we're glad that's behind us.  Now she won't constantly have tears overflowing out of her eye and running down her face.

Tonight we're going to the Claim Jumper at Yorktown to have dinner with Rich and Debbie and Ron and Carol.

Happy Valentine's Day

This is the electronic Valentine I sent to Jill

Winter at night

Did some time exposures last night.

Our backyard

Neighbor's house

Our house

Make it stop!

Cleared out the driveway three times today.  That's too much.  I cleared it when it first stopped but by 5:00 it was all covered again.  I had to clear it so we could get out.  I left for a haircut at 5:45.  By the time Jill left for book club it was covered again.  I cleared it around 8:30 so hopefully no more snow.

Jill maid some of those incredible Valentine cookies that she makes every year.

I took some more shots of the snow :-)

 

Bitter cold and more snow on the way

Well it never got much above zero yesterday.  It was sunny but we stayed in all day.  This morning it is two below zero - dropped to five below last night.  There's a winter storm advisory from 3 PM today until 1 PM tomorrow so it looks like we're going to get another 4-6 inches of the white stuff.

Yikes, it's cold

Yesterday seemed fine but the temperatures dropped overnight.  They're talking about a high of three degrees today. Should be -2 tomorrow morning when we have to put the trash out at the curb.

Went up to Best Buy yesterday and picked up a new phone/answering machine and a larger external hard drive. Shot this out the windshield with my camera phone.

 

 

Met Mark and Ro at a restaurant on Butterfield near 355 and had a nice time. We hadn't seen Ro for a while so we were delighted that she felt up to going out.  The restaurant was Carlucci.  Italian food, pretty good.

Just going to stay in the house today.  It's too cold to go anywhere.

Cold weekend ahead

   

We got a little break from the snow, thankfully. Now the temperatures will start dropping.  The high for tomorrow is forecast for 3 degrees Fahrenheit.  Windchills will be minus 25 to minus 35.  Whew!

Our house	Our street
My constant companion	Sidewalk leading South from our place.

Winter has gone on too long

Worked from home yesterday and watched it snow all day.  Finally stopped around 5:00 so I went out and cleaned the driveway and walks.  This morning the driveway was all full of snow again.

    

 

Went back to the pain management place today for a follow up on the sciatica.  Everything was cool.  Talked to him about the pain in my neck and ended up getting an injection for that.  Didn't hurt much, hopefully it will relieve that.

More snow on the way.

This is getting ridiculous

Another driveway full of snow this morning.  We had driven home from Lori's in near white out conditions during the Super Bowl.  Pretty foggy all day today.

Big snow storm

We got ten inches.  It snowed most of yesterday and all through the night.  I went to my last physical therapy session yesterday at 5:00 and, although, it's only 10 minutes away, traffic was a nightmare.

Got it all cleared out though.