Braced for the Storm!

Well, it looks like the snow is on it's way! The wind has been gusting...I mean GUSTING all night at about 40 mph. Sounded like a train coming through these sliding glass doors in the room. I've been up since 6:30 and the temp has dropped from 46 to 33. They are calling for 4 inches today and three more tonight, and no forecast for tomorrow yet. There is a winter storm warning until 5 pm tomorrow. I look out the window and large gray clouds are rolling in from the west.

I saw where a great man and scholar passed away yesterday morning. Avery, Cardinal Dulles was 90 years old. He was the only American Cardinal who remained a priest. When JPII named him a Cardinal in 2001, he declined episcopal ordination, so he never became a bishop. He was a great theologian and a Jesuit centered at Fordham University in NYC. He was a convert to Catholicism in 1940, as he grew up Presbyterian. His father was Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.

Yesterday was a great day at the library. Started out with a scrambled egg, coffee and a great cinnamon bun. It was warm and had a cream cheese glaze icing. MMMM....

I found some info for my friend Barbara who wanted me to research some of her German and Irish family. And then I found a good bit on this new James family I wrote about yesterday. Looks like my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a wheelwright and then his son was a shoemaker. All farmers and husbandmen after that and then progressed to coal miners.

Found a section on Lithuania, so going to explore that today. And going to do some piece work on the Bell's and Jobson's. I am going to check out what they have on Slovenia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well. There is just so much to do...and with five floors in the library...it's just WOW!

Hoping to go to Lamb's Restaurant tonight. It is billed as the oldest restaurant in Utah! It was started by Greeks (imagine that!) in the late 1910's.

Last night I ate at Squatter's, a brew pub a few blocks over. Had great fish and chips and some killer coconut cream pie. Seems they really like coconut cream here in Salt Lake. Hopefully I'll be able to get some rice pudding tonight at Lamb's!

OK...needing to get going and start the day! Take care and stay tuned for more later! I am planning on going to the Cathedral of the Madeleine for Mass tomorrow and also to another cathedral---Episcopal cathedral of St. Mark for an Anglican service. Haven't been to one of those since UT-Martin days. I hope I can trudge through the snow....