Saturday December 8 2007

Early Snow on Sagebrush

A pretty good day. When daylight came it was not stormy as predicted but fairly sunny, some blue sky holes, mostly clouds, no wind. There had been a skiff of snow in the night. This was supposed to be the worst storm day. I thought maybe I should try to beat the storm and go in to get some groceries and stock up the dog and cat food for the winter, but had planned to do it all in one trip with my treatment on Monday. Prices might be better at Smith's in Jackson. Then Joe came in and said we should go get what was on the grocery list. I said I'd rather do it Monday and waited a while getting my morning act together, then decided yes should take advantage of a pretty nice day and go. He would have gone with me but I said I'd go. It worked out fine. Worst thing was a nose bleed while having soup in the Chinese restaurant and someone in the restroom. Haven't had one for years. I had egg drop soup and ordered two lunches to go for our dinner, then went to the store. They loaded it all for me so I didn't have to lift anything. I was back home by about 2:30. Joe unloaded and I got the cold stuff all put away. Saved the canned goods etc. for doing tomorrow.

Then Joe's TV went more haywire than usual, off the satellite signal. So that probably took most of an hour to try different things. I finally got it going again. He can't read with his bad eyesight and I've always done the technical stuff with it. I had a good set of directions from Dish from the last time this happened and it worked.

The nurse from Jackson chemo dept. called again to see how I was doing and I was glad to tell her I was pretty good. They had called me yesterday too. The pain in my side is definitely better. The surgeon said it would take two or three months to get over the surgery and maybe that's a lot of what is happening, as well as getting used to a new way of eating. The medicine regime is something I don't really want to do but have to anyway. I bought a whole sackful of "stuff" I have to take. Yes, sat and read my email sipping on a small glass of prune juice.

Soon after I got home it got pretty dark overcast and snow showers started but by dinnertime still hasn't put down much snow. The grass is not covered in the field yet. Seems like it may be staying more south of us. Today I saw about 6 eagles, and some rough legged hawks, no deer. Sparky watched for deer very alertly and there were none for him to see.

Debbie called to check on us.