We have been a little busy over the last couple of days.  Saturday morning we left home around 10 a.m. and headed up to Northome, MN, which is a little over an hour and half north of us, where we were invited to celebrate our brother-in-law's 70th birthday.  We spent a nice afternoon visiting with some of his family and friends as well as eating a delicious meal.  While we were there, Sara phoned and invited us to come for pizza since the kids would be heading back to college on Sunday.  On the way back to Bagley we made a quick stop at Target and then home to drop off our purchases.  You can't leave anything in the car too long or it will freeze.  John and I had a fun evening with the kids visiting and playing a new card game.

On Sunday Matt stopped down with a huge jack he borrowed from his work and helped John jack up the porch roof.  They ran a beam across the top and braced it with several supports.  Hopefully, this will keep water from running in on the porch as the ice melts or if we should get some rain.  The claims adjuster from the insurance company is coming tomorrow morning to take a look at the damage and let us know what will be covered.

Our temperatures here in northern Minnesota are slowly but surely beginning to moderate during the day.  There is nothing below zero with daytime temps reaching into the 30's.  We are suppose to hit 50 degrees by the weekend.  We can tell our huge snow piles are slowing going down, but we have a couple on the driveway that are still pretty big.

The snow is so compacted that John was able to walk right up to the

roof of his shop and the rim of the basketball backboard.

I ask that you all remember us with prayer as tomorrow John has an appointment with 

oncologist in Bemidji. We are hoping to get a better understanding of what we will be dealing with and are hoping for good news.