Monday 10th February

It is still brutally cold, it has to be the coldest winter I have ever known, certainly the coldest in Oklahoma.   But then it is exceptionally cold all over the States at the moment.

The icicles here fascinate me.  Although these look as if they are hanging straight down, in actual fact  the wind blew the water back, and then they froze.  And look how long some of them are.  As I'm driving round town I'm looking at the icicles on everyone else's house, seeing if theirs are as long as mine.

I was running round town this morning on my errands.  I needed to see Louise for a few minutes about the Kiwani's bulletin and caught up with her at a diner.

A diner which has just introduced fresh baked buns!!   Fancy.   Presumably they have hitherto been serving old stale ones.  

Valentine's Day is certainly a big deal here, we just get a little card - if we're lucky.   And on the subject of Valentine's, I bumped into my new friend from the posh retirement home in the checkout line.   She was buying gifts for the single men there, a pair of socks each and confectionary.   It wasn't until I got outside I wondered about the single women.