Night Visitor

Woke up this morning to a light coating of snow.  Remember, winter just won't let go here in the North!  Was surprised to see we were visited by a creature last night, or maybe several.

Apparently, this animal was coming and going on our deck!  According to my Scats and Tracks of Great Lakes book  (James C Halfpenny, PhD), the creature was probably a Raccoon.  Guess we'll need to get the cage set up to trap these pesky varmints.

Rain headed in later this afternoon along with gusty winds and cooler temperatures.  Spring is here, but just a slow welcome home if you know what I mean.  Snow melt means the beginning of allergy season for me.  Sneezing and watery eyes all day long today.  Thank heavens we buy Kleenex by the case!

Visiting Africa

I couldn't resist taking a picture of her beautiful hair.  She's been a library customer of mine for two years, and several days ago she came in and surprised me with her new hair style.  Apparently, she went to Africa over spring break....not sure what country in Africa, but she came back with a full head of braids.  She told me it took eight hours to braid her hair.  Wow.  So beautiful, and I just had to touch the multiple braids......I just had too!

Just Helping

It really wasn't planned, but I somehow developed a partnership with a local business owner who has run a successful soup, sandwich and gift show for fifteen years.  I know I've mentioned this before in my blog post, but I decided to help this business owner discover the success of marketing her business via Facebook.  You see, this business owner has no computer experience, so she happily took my invitation to help her.....and of course, it was a challenge for me!  

We've worked out a really good system over the last five months.  Sometimes I will stop by her cafe on my daily post office run and take a sandwich photo of the day's sandwich special, but most day's she now takes the sandwich and soup photo using her iPhone and sends it to me by email.  Within several minutes, I will post her sandwich special with a photo on her Facebook page.  To see her Facebook page, search Farmhouse, Colfax Wisconsin.

In five months time, her Facebook "likes" have more than doubled and customers are now commenting on daily posts.  On some days we'll have 100 viewers to her Facebook posts, and other days we'll have 600 viewers.

I'm not really sure why, but I wanted to take on this challenge to help this business owner, especially since I've known her for 15+ years.  I don't know, it's just me....always wanting to help a friend.    

  

The Women

Beware.  We were just warming up!

Because when the ladies of my family get together.......

We just can't contain ourselves.  Getting together with family, especially the ladies, means comedy-hour!  Spent a wonderful Easter with the family.