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Hubby mixed some organ music he wrote with some winter driving footage.  Hope you enjoy!  (music cuts out near the end, sorry editor problem)

Last week a local paper had a funny story on the cover.  The groundhog had predicted 6 more weeks of winter.  But the robins don’t agree!  A robin was spotted in a town in the area.  This on the coldest day of the year to! LOL  Now this could mean nothing at all, but I’ve never seen a robin back home before April!

So is this a confused little bird?  Maybe all the cold weather in the south has him mixed up.

Although, I checked the long range weather…guess what?  Yup they show it warming to near 0^C next week.  For this little birds sake I hope it is an early spring.  After last years cold, cold summer I’m also anxious to get back to my gardens!

The way I see it the American realestate market was first to go down and some realitors may have found ways of continuing through the bad times.   I believe in being proactive not waiting for it to crash in the event of a Canadian downturn want to be prepared.

We haven’t had many snow storms this year, overall our winter has been mild.  Last night the wind picked up and squalls started.  Glad to be at home by a warm fire!  During this our southern  friends are gardening! LOL

Check out Hopefl1’s patio garden vid, it’s doing great!  I can’t wait for our snow to go away and get back to planting!

It was hubby’s birthday recently and he received a history of tractors book.  He really likes it!  This video shares some highlights from the book and his thoughts on it.

This is the copy hubby has.

This is the newer edition still in print.

Hubby was very tired last night, when replying to a YouTube comment.  This led to a funny mistake! 

Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to get back to work!

Our last shopping trip of 2009 and a good storm blew in while we were out!  Very strong winds and heavy snow.  It seemed to get worse the closer we came to home.  The camera doesn’t pick up the snow as heavy as it really was.  Watch near the end, we come around a side road and hit a huge drift.  It was about 2 feet high and very long.  Thankfully no ditching!

A little while ago our dd7 brought hubby a graph she made.  She explained to him it was “the economic collapse”.   This short video clip shares some of the kids thoughts on the current economy.  We’ve been studying the depression on and off for a while and it’s interesting how they see similarity’s.