MONDAY

Well - Saturday was a bummer - rained all day - dark, gloomy, cold. We had planned to go to Dollywood but with the weather the way it was we nixed that idea. I don't want either one of us to get sick from walking around in the cold rain. We opted to wait and go on Sunday. So, I slept in and it felt WONDERFUL. It was a pretty relaxed day.

Sunday "dawned" cloudy and cold as heck - but no rain - so off we went. We were driving along thru Townsend, and I really wasn't paying too much attention to anything other than the road and the "crazy" drivers - and there were SEVERAL on the road Sunday. Drove through Wears Valley, just talking and sort of planning what we were going to try and see at Dollywood. Got to Pigeon Forge and turned on the back road that bypasses the main drag and all of a sudden I looked UP and the mountain range right in front of me was a glistening fairy story of SNOW. It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Clouds were hanging pretty low but that picture picked my spirits up considerable. It was just gorgeous - God's gift to me on Sunday. Thank You.

We had a nice day, Ryan and I. We saw the shows we wanted to see, and Ryan rode 4 rides. Gosh it got COLDER and COLDER. We were freezing, so after Twas the Night Before Christmas we packed it in and went home.

LORDY I'M SO GLAD I HAD OUR GAS TURNED BACK ON!!!! The house was warm and comfortable and the birds and dogs were happy....hehehe. I had considered trying to get by on the just the space heater this winter, but man - I'm so GLAD I didn't.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week. I'm going to try very hard to make this week good for us. Thanks for stopping by - come again...and

Peace