Happy Leap Year Day - It's a Rare Day and a Freaky-Warm Winter

Good Leap Year Day to all of you, and Happy Birthday to my oldest nephew. I've always thought it must be an odd day to have a birthday because even though you're aging like the rest of us, in "actual" birthday celebrations, you're under ten - LOL. But today is a "bonus day" for the rest of us, a day to catch up, or have a fling, or do one thing that you would never have dreamed of the last time Leap Year came around. 

Happy Leap Day to my nephew, and the 
best of Birthday Wishes to him as well. 
This is my nephew who is fighting 
abdominal cancer, so I fear celebrations 
will be very low key. But he's still fighting 
the disease and that's one very positive thing. 

An online friend has stepped in and offered to pay some of the cost of the beadwork repair for my fixed income customer. I'll take you up on that (and message you directly), and I'll see what she can manage to do. It really isn't something I want to keep - I want it to be back in her home, not on my "pick-up" shelf in the back room. 

Although I am delighted with the lack of snow, I know 
it's hitting bars and resorts really hard. People who 
would normally go North to vacation doing ice fishing, 
snow shoeing, cross-country skiing and other winter 
sports are getting hit hard. I suspect there will be quite 
a few bars and/or other entertainment venues that will 
go out of business because of our lack of snow. 

I'm absolutely exhausted, and at a high weight (for me), so I'm not starting today out really great. I just feel a bit "blah" today, and I'm sure I've got a ton of computer work waiting for me when I get into the shop later this morning. *sigh* It's the story of my life. BUT, on the positive side, our "snowstorm" of Tuesday turned into less than 1/2" of snow in my part of the cities. I can totally deal with that. So far this is the "Winter That Never Came" and I'm happy to be living through it. 

This is "The Year that Winter Never Came". I know 
some people will have a really hard year ahead because 
they're not able to take advantage of our usual snowy 
conditions, but I am grateful. I'm quite happy to not be 
shoveling the driveway, and DH has only had to pull 
snow from the roof once this season (although he 
probably could have skipped it completely). We live in 
the "Frozen Northlands", but you'd never know it 
this year. 

So, as I sleep-drive to the gym to wake up in the pool, I'll wish all of you an extraordinary February 29th. Enjoy this rare opportunity to catch up on things. As usual - be kind, and stay safe. I'll be back with you tomorrow to celebrate my Dad's birthday. Slava Ukraini and חיים למען ישראל.