Today was a vacation day from work. Richard normally has Monday off and I don't go to work anywhere but here, so it wasn't any different for us; but Steven got the day off from work, so he had an actual vacation. He cooked up a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs w/Vienna sausages in them, hominy and toast. That got us off to a good start. Then we did some chores around here--laundry, snow shovelling (8 inches), etc. Steven put the blade on the four-wheeler and had fun moving snow around in the neighborhood and at the track. (We had fun but not as much fun as the Barretts on their snow day. Why didn't we go over there? Duh!)
Today was a travel day for Tiff, so I had to make sure she was home safely before I went to bed. She went from Angie's house in Pennsylvania to Baltimore. From there she flew to Midway airport in Chicago where she caught the CTA train to Quincy Station in downtown Chicago. From Quincy Station she walked to Union Station and waited for 3 hours for her train to Mattoon. Her train was the City of New Orleans! It left Union Station at 8:00 p.m. and arrived in Mattoon at 11:15 p.m. I had been checking the weather in Mattoon and Charleston on the internet and there was a severe weather alert for that area. It was supposed to be snowing from 8 p.m. on. But when Tiff got to Mattoon it hadn't started snowing yet, so her car wasn't all covered with snow and she didn't have to drive to Charleston in a snowstorm. (But the storm did start after she got home. I had said a prayer to that effect, asking that the storm hold off, and my prayer was answered; for that I'm very thankful.) What a big travel day! Now that she is safely home in Charleston I think I'll go to bed.