Just got home. It wasn't quite the active weekend as last time--but that's just as well, for the cold was quite biting out there, this time. I didn't bother with a camera, 'cos i knew I wouldn't be outside quite so much. And, we have a brief snowstorm Sunday morning, which dumped about 5 inches of snow down, and made the viewing quite gloomy and gray, most of the day today.

My friend did my taxes for me--free of charge, and refused to take anything in return, other than my thanks. Well, I find something nice to do for her, anyway. I was made to feel like one of the family, and given the run of the house this time, which was quite lovely of her.

And, the really nice thing though, is that my co-worker used to be a bank clerk and tax preparer..and she actually got me a much larger refund this year, than last year...not huge of course, but still, I wasn't expecting a very big refund this year, so was pleasantly surprised to find it was much more sizeable than I'd thought it would be...not enough to pay off my debts or buy a car, but enough to leave me with a comfortable wee emergency fund...or to put aside for a move to some other apartment, or perhaps even for jetting away for a weekend holiday in London...okay, really I'm just kidding about that last one...that's purely fantasy. I don't think anyone will ever have to worry about me leaving a carbon footprint...the only footprints I leave are my own...to work and back each day, ha-ha.

But, it was a nice relaxing weekend, and again I enjoyed it. Didn't milk this time--in fact, only spent about 2 hours at the barn this time...mostly watching my friend's partner do the milking...tho' I did help to feed some calves, and of course I got to pet the cows again, and their horse, Corky, as well. Corky is cute as a button..he's a palomino paint horse...means he sort of looks like a dull-coated palomino, but with white legs and a white face, and his eyes are blue, not brown...and he's really got the cutest expresions...spoiled rotten of course, as well. Sort of like in the photo, but with more of a solid colour body.

So, Saturday after my friend did my taxes--which she says she actually likes doing 88| ---we had a tuna salad and mayonnaise sandwich and watched tele....BBC programmes...after coming back from the barn Sunday morning, I watched tele while she got ready for work (It's my day off, but she works today), and I watched my first ever episode of Top Gear on BBC America (they have dish tv) and that was really good, and part of something called Dragon's Den...which was..meh.

We were driving back to Glens Falls, when, in South Glens Falls, just before we got to the bridge that seperates the two towns, I spied what looked like a gift shop or some such place, with a Welsh flag hanging outside it...about the last place in the world one would expect to see a Welsh flag...and it's no big deal, but I just thought that was odd.