Snow Day

Wow, snow drifts everywhere. We are in the middle of a major winter storm. We had at least 12 - 14 inches of snow last night and with the blowing snow lots of drifting. We closed the cafe today so I'm just going to call it a snow day. I spent about an hour trying to clean off sidewalks so hopefully will have customers tomorrow. I was suppose to get a grocery truck in today, but they cancelled and should deliver tomorrow. I though I lived in Oklahoma, but I'm starting to believe it's Colorado or Vermont!I think we should advertise ski Oklahoma, but there is only one problem--we don't have any mountains.

chased cattle

It's Super Bowl Sunday and we were out chasing cattle all afternoon! We had a good day planned, but everything went awry. We had eaten a late breakfast at the cafe and headed home. Gripey Joe decided to check the steers he has running on wheat pasture while we were driving back. Yes, we farm - run cattle- and run a cafe! Anyway, he noticed some of the cattle were out so we proceeded to wrangle them back in on foot. Well, two hours later we finally got them back in their original pasture. That was after we treaded through snow drifts, muddy creeks and lots of yelling. All this and not to mention the shock we both got from the electric fence. I headed back to the house to ,but Joe spent the rest of the afternoon fixing electric fence as well as pulling electric fence out of snow banks. He finally made it back for the Super bowl half-time,what a relaxing afternoon!

I'm Back

It's January 2011--- A year since I have last blogged - another year at the cafe-
lot more gray hair. Yes, that's right, we are on year ten. I never thought we would make a year, let alone 10 years in the business. In my personal life, I've had some highs and some lows, but that's a whole other blog! As usual, January is an extremely slow month. I think I do a great deal of catering in December just so I can pay my bills in January. If I'm still operating the cafe next year, I will close the month of January! On a positive note, our middle son Sam, his wife Courtney, and our youngest son Ben came up this weekend and put siding on the cafe. It's not done, but looks great so far. It was really nice having them home and had a great visit and especially appreciated all their hard work. I am very grateful to have the family that I do. I have a wonderful husband, three great sons, and an amazing daughter-in-law.

Besides the new siding, I layed some tile behind the bar and the front entrance. I think every little bit helps! Also, I just purchased an ice cream machine which I am excited about. I haven't moved it in yet--not even sure where we are going to put it!