B-r-r-r-r! It’s cold outside. Regardless, I bundled up and went out for a run this morning. I discovered 2 things: 1) long underwear, fleece tights, hoodie sweater and gloves are just too much clothes for me, even in 18 degree wind chill and 2) I can run without fear of flaming out, my endurance is building again! Right now I am running on time instead of mileage and I had a nice 50 minute run.
This past weekend, John, Lee and I went to Huntsville, AL to visit John’s family. Most of the weekend was consumed with talking and eating… and eating and eating. Lots of good food to be had including an endless basket of deep fried hush puppies and white barbecue sauce from a local barbecue dive. I woke up yesterday morning with a food hangover that I am still recovering from, we also woke up to some of the white stuff.
Below are several photos from our visit. I will have more up on our Picasa site shortly.
This pic was taken early, maybe around 8:00 AM. We quickly looked up the weather situation in Knoxville and learned that I-75 was completely shut down about 30 minutes outside of the city due to a 9 car, ice related pile up.
John sitting at his mother’s kitchen table, drinking coffee and doing some calculations of some sort.
With snow comes the desire to build a snowman. Unfortunately the snow was incredibly dry and did not stick together very well. John’s nieces, Caitlin (left) and Jessica (right) were very creative in their efforts to build a snowman. Snowman building tools included a bucket, shovel and water. The girls stuck mostly to the deck where the snow was deeper and easier to manipulate.
This is Crawford (left), Lee (middle) and John warming themselves by the fire. Neither John or Lee have enough body mass to keep themselves warm without supplemental sources of heat.
As you can see, this photo was taken later in the morning. Most of the snow in the yard has melted. Jessica and Caitlin are proudly showing off “Bob,” the snowman. Not enough to snow to make him bigger and he started the melt process as soon as the sun came out.
One of the few pictures where Crawford agreed to sit still though I am not sure what he is doing with his upper lip curl. In agreement to sit still, he wanted to take some photos. The following 4 pics are through the eyes of a 4 year old.
Me in my reading glasses, I have my own twisted lip curl going
A 4 year old has a hard time holding the camera straight!
John’s mother through Crawford’s eyes
John and Lee giving Crawford “a face”
