Snow-Covered Sunday

"Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day" is the song in mind today, for reasons which will be clear later on.

We had a pretty small amount of snow, stating yesterday afternoon, which had pretty well stopped by the time we went to bed. I would say maybe 1 1/2 to 2 inches: enough to cover the grass, but apparently surfaces were warm enough it didn't say on the streets. I hear our friends in Illinois have gotten more snow. It's certainly worked out well for us to have left Illinois last year! We miss our friends there, but not the bad weather.

Daughter, Rachel, is gone to Lexington this weekend where she's helping her long-time friend, Michelle, "kid sit" Michelle's nephews. She'll return this evening. Barbara has been doing her seemingly never-ending schoolwork. Since most of her teaching is for online classes, she spends what seems to me an inordinate amount of time online reviewing work done by students online!
C'est la vie, but she seems to love it, which is good.

I've gotten hooked on doing genealogical research on the branches of my father's Fiehn family, my mother's Shane family, and Barbara's Markwell family. I've only done research online but have traced some ancestors back into Europe in the 1600s. I am now mainly having trouble with my dad's direct lineage: I can't find anything about my paternal grandfather's birth family. They came from Germany, and as I've learned, a lot more Fiehn's emigrated from Germany - some via England - than I had before ever realized came to the USA. It's fun, but it's time-consuming!

We finally, on Friday, got the VW of our daughter, Rebekah, back from the shop. It now has two new mufflers (who knew a Cabrio had two mufflers?) and some exhaust pipe. They also replaced, free, the catalytic converter, they'd installed a few months back. Their "bad", the man said. At least now we don't hear the car coming and going. The guy is excellent doing work on any foreign model car, but he surely isn't speedy. His shop is always full and he's highly recommended, but it does take them a while.

Well, off to do some shopping today, do Barbara and my laundry, and who knows what else.

The song in my mind probably came from doing all the genealogical research. I noticed how some more distant cousins, most of whom I'd never been in close contact with, had passed on. And it seems like only yesterday we were going to family reunions together. The song, of course, is "Abide With Me".

Do have a good Sunday and a good upcoming week. I hope to keep posting a bit more often: the 3 day hiatus is unusual for me.