january's first 12 days

 Things happening on the Ponderosa in January:

We started the year with a traditional meal of black-eyed peas, hog jowl and cabbage.  We also had some ham, corn, green beans and mashed potatoes!  Bailee thought the hog jowl was delicious.  Everyone ate some of the other things for good luck without complaint.  

We had stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve and played games!  We wanted to be sure to send 2020 on its way.

There have been some lazy days, some dentists appointments, some shopping and lots of Netflix viewing.

On the 12th Gibson Tax Service opened. 

At Cowan Hill Farm

They had a set of triplets born on a cold night.  All were girls, but only two made it.  They are having trouble nursing and their mom was not cooperating!  But they sure are cute.

In National News

Covid is worse than ever from the Christmas surge.  Unfortunately, on Wednesday the sixth during a protest in Washington D.C. Trump supporters broke into the Capitol Building.  It was hard to watch and disturbing that people believed they had the right to enter and destroy property.  Now the media reports that some politicians are trying to impeach the President again or invoke the 25th amendment.  It's a sad and disturbing time.

Restarting in 2021

 I have deserted this blog for one year! I restarted exactly one year ago with good intentions, then 2020 started! It began like any other year full of hope and promise, then quickly became  a year full of disappointments! A big pile of disappointments! It was a year students of history will read about someday.  

Surely, we learned some lessons. We learned to slow down. We spent more time outdoors We learned how to make our own fun.  We learned to get by without some of the luxuries we had become accustomed to. 

We missed so much, like no travel, isolation from family and friends and events and holidays we look forward to all year.  

We lost so many people, it’s been a dark season. 

We hope for better times this year, but so far the first week in 2021 has certainly not shown us much improvement.  

I am going to try again, starting now. I want to record this year and also talk about last year.  My goal when I started this blog was to create a record of our family and help them remember our experiences.  

It will be a long time before anyone forgets 2020!