Necessities - the list keeps changing and growing!

Wow! Constant temps in the 0 to below 0 range have made me re-think the items I thought were enough. As an example, I now realize that the gloves, scarves, hats, etc. that we do have are not enough in these temps. The kiddos were sent to school today (2*, windy) with little beenie hats, those one size almost fit all $1.99 for 2 gloves and their heavy winter coats. I just know that those kiddo's were cold by the time they reached the school. So I'm looking around for patterns that I can knit for each one to have their own pair of heavy mittens and a especially warm hat (read back a few posts) and maybe just maybe I can sneak in a special something for the puppies. They are having a devil of a time walking on the snow with barefeet and always come back in limping or we have to go out and get them before they freeze in place. Sweaters and foot coverings are needed for these guys. I never thought I'd see the time come where I thought those were necessities for our dogs! This weather is wicked and vicious.

Jolie is home sick again today. She ran a fever on Sunday and today broke out on her hands with a blistery type rash. Can't find any other blisters anywhere on her and no fever. Very strange and definitely viral like. So we're not running to the doctor but will keep an eye on her. She's content to lay on the opposite couch from me and watch "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" movie.

Check back a bit later I may be adding to this post....

Weather and Parade of Homes

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Here in Colorado one of our motto's is, "If you don't like the weather just wait 5 minutes, it will change or just change your altitude a couple of thousand feet." Well the last two days have brought unusual weather conditions. Kaitlyn needed to view 3 Parade of Homes, homes for her Architecture class. So we headed off Saturday with camera in hand and witnessed some interesting cloud formations. This group dropped a tornado just west of us on the other side of the foothillls. Sunday another group of clouds dropped 4 more tornadoes just north of us. I wonder if this is a precursor to what kind of interesting weather we can expect this winter?

After touring the first home Kaitlyn said that you could faintly hear the sirens going off. So we quickly headed off to the next home, trying to get the 3 done before the rain/hail hit. We got in 2 houses and then had to give up on the 3rd she had picked to see. Just couldn't find the house.

This is the first home that Kaitlyn wanted to see. Its the Walt Disney "Mickey Mouse" house.

$1.7 million
The house was decorated with replica's of Walt Disney's furniture, throughout. Also each room had a "Mickey" head somewhere as a sort of nightlight as you can see in the next picture.