John spent most of yesterday recovering from his test.  He still has a little sore throat and some pain in his stomach, but that's to be expected after such a procedure.  The affects of the anesthesia are completely gone and he is feeling pretty good again.

Since we know we will be here in Minnesota for a good portion of the winter in the future, we decided we need an all wheel drive vehicle.  We have been looking at area dealerships and their inventories on the internet and yesterday we found a couple of cars that were exactly what we wanted.  I used the web site to contact the dealership and made an appointment to see several vehicles this morning.  The fellow we met with just deals with internet sales, so he had the car we were most interested in sitting out front and ready to test drive.  After some discussion about what was on the car and how different knobs and buttons operated, we took a ride.  John and I decided this was exactly what we wanted--it's a blue 2017 Ford Escape Titanium with a little over 13,000 miles.  Most important, it comes with the cold weather packaged--heated seats, front and back window defrosters, remote start, etc.  So tonight the new car gets the garage and the Chevy is sitting outside.  At least the temps are beginning to moderate at night.

                                                     Our new car snug and warm in garage

                        View of our deck from upstairs window.  Snow on porch about 1 food deep.