Despite the snow we are happy to be back. There are no stairs in this house and my knees now carrying almost 20 extra pounds ate glad for that. Mikelle loves her new room and we moved most of her toys in there so she plays in there more often. The has a new hair cut courtesy of me and it is very flattering, those crazy curls really go nuts the longer her hair gets and I can't keep up with it. Danny's sunglasses are too scratched now so Mikelle wears them for fun...all the time. I always catch her posing in them. 
I finally got new glasses after losing my old ones to Mikelle and the garbage can almost a year ago. I love them. One of the gilrs in young women's told me they look like I have always been wearing them, like one of my facial features was missing with out them. I am not sure if that was a compliment or not.
Danny's last big project in Durkee was to update some corrals. That required digging a lot of holes and setting a lot of post. He was only about a half mile from the house so Mikelle and I went to see him a lot during the day and I tried to help him where I could. Mostly I would stand there and hold a post of try tuse the level for him. Mikelle helped out a lot too but mostly she just played with her new best friend Sally. Sally is what we finally decided to name our six month olf border collie. She is a very good dog and very gentle with Mikelle. They played so cute together.