Hi it's Kelly again. I'm in trouble. Another posting without pictures. :-) I keep forgetting to take the camera with us when we go places.
Ryan was gone this whole past week so there was less picture-worth than normal going on. He was able to come home Saturday at midnight and then had to leave again Sunday evening. He might have to be gone this whole week too. He's not too keen on his job right now. He's working in a rock quarry/coal mine doing 12 hours on/12 hours off shifts. Apparently the fires from the work going on are so bright that they have to wear spf50 sunblock at all times so they don't get burned. And safety goggles, coveralls, steel toed boots are mandatory at all times. There is so much rock dust in the air that anywhere uncovered gets coated black by the end of the day. He's been sending me some pictures on his phone, but in my imagination I picture it pretty much like hell. You know, lucifer up on a hill, the workers down in the quarry with pickaxes, fires all around...sounds lovely.
Yesterday while Ryan was home we took a long walk. It was sunny but really cold again. We took a half loaf of bread down to the river and fed the ducks and swans. There is this really cute family of baby ducks that lives near where we are on the river. I'll post a picture of them soon. They were all fluffy yellow when they were first born, but now they just look like miniature ducks.
That's all the news from here. We booked plane tickets to Berlin to meet up with our college friend Amy when she's there in May, so it's nice to have a trip to look forward to. We'll see where we get before then.