This is winter!

Living as far south as we do sure provides for interesting weather. Besides being iced in last monday, just north of us they're getting -19 degrees celsius! The bars are bringing in the beer kegs to put them in the fridge to keep from freezing. The homes are putting big round hay bales around outside just to keep warm.

It's nice though on days like today when I have my satellite clinic 15 minutes drive toward snow-capped mountains out to a small town (Nightcaps).

Yesterday, my nurse rallied me and our receptionist to help her move sheep during lunch. In the winter since there's so little grass they fence the sheep in a new small area of grass each day. Otherwise the sheep would eat all the grass for the winter in a few days. And now all the sheep are pregnant so they're especially hungry! It's funny/sad to see them all waddling around in their tiny patch of muddy grass.

Tonight one of our church friends came over and we had a good study on the Holy Spirit. We're still waiting everything to clear the church board so we can start a number of small groups on the theme. With so much controversy in our church, we didn't want to go ahead on our own and become a part of the problem. People are interested though and soon we'll have three groups starting up.

Tomorrow Jennifer Sun (my fellow Pomona Valley FP Residency grad) and her little sis are coming in to town for 10 days. They'll get some bright sunny weather so maybe we'll have some of their escapades up next.