Update

It's cold here, causing work on the house to slow.

My folks made it here to Tennessee, but their stuff hasn't yet. Apparently, it won't get here until Monday.

I am reading another Pearl S. Buck book called The Living Reed, which tells the story of the Korean struggle for independence from the Japanese in the early 1900's. It is a moving story, and I am realizing how much world history I am ignorant of.

When the night grows cold enough for a hard frost, sometimes the stems of certain plants burst from the water freezing inside them, and ribbons of frost grow during the night. I keep meaning to get a picture before the temperature warms enough to melt them...