[1] Today was another cold winter day.  It started snowing sometime in the middle of the night, and has continued on and off all day.  The temperature has been hovering somewhere around 0 degrees all day long.  My dogs do not even want to go out in this weather.

This is a picture that I took of my deck.  I was trying to get one of the lake, which is frozen over, but it was too hard to do tonight.  It was definitely to cold to go out to take the picture.  Especially since I am in my slippers. 

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I worked on my website most of the day, and finished putting the last of the inventory on my website for now.  I will still need to take pictures of additional items, but that will wait until I get back from Mexico. 

I can’t wait to get to my little house down there.  A new garden has been put in near the kitchen since I was there in December.  I am excited to see what has been done.  I always love the bouganvilla and the cupa de oro’s that grow over the roof of our kitchen.  It is always so pretty when the flowers are blooming.

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This is our little house Casitas de las Palmas.  It is such an escape, especially after the last two weeks.  It has been freezing here.  Our neighbors were saying that it is cold down there, but I think it will seem tropical after the -19 degrees below zero last week.  I will have lots of time with my mom.  I will be able to spend time reading and studying the bible, and I will be able to knit and watch all of the movies that I have been recording for down there.  Here is a picture of the bouganvilla growing against the kitchen roof.

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Life is pretty simple down there.  We do not have regular tv, we watch movies on the dvd player.  There is no phone, we finally have a plan on our cell phones that we can use down there.  We used to use skype, but the internet is pretty irregular at our house, so that was not always reliable. It is small, and if the whole family is there, the kids sometimes will sleep in the tents, but we love it.  It is our own little piece of paradise, for which I am very greatful.

I will be checking in from down there towards the end of the week. Thank you for checking in, and keep reading.

Here is a link to a new item I added to Dreams by Debi today. Please take a look.

[5] http://www.dreamsbydebi.com/hand-knit-shrug-multi-purples-p-90.html