Monday January 26 2009

The road home

willows and aspens

back street

i'm with him

are you going to let me in or not

Scott came to plow

Joe Clearing the Deck

Last night we had 5 or 6 inches of new snow. The thing was that it had to have snowed hard at times to put that much down, but every time I let the dogs out or looked out the door, there were only tiny flakes floating down. There was some wind that moved it around, but didn't seem to last long either, and no wind to.

Here it is 8:30 p.m. and I'm just getting time to write something in the blog. So it may be pretty sketchy. I am ready to get my pjs on tonight for sure.

This morning read the email and blogs that were done by the early birds. Then had some breakfast and showered. Scott was here to plow pretty early this morning, about the time I was wondering if I'd get stuck. The big road plow had come by this morning too and had left a big berm across our driveway and it was pretty deep, but Scott saved me (actually I'd have probably just busted right through it - I just need something to worry about).

Did some housework and then it was time to meet the friends for lunch. Charm, Gina and I went to the Bottoms Up for lunch for Gina's birthday which is tomorrow. We had a very nice time, and since it took them an hour or more to bring our food, we had an enjoyable visit. It was a lot of fun.

I went to the post office and mailed all the birthday cards I wrote out yesterday - I hadn't done any for three or four months so I went back to about the time we moved and did them all - yes..... they were very belated, but not forgotten. I couldn't remember if I had done cards before that or not, but knew I had not since we moved. It amounted to a pretty good stack of them. February is done too. Then got a few things at the store and went to the clinic. Made a circle around the back road to see if there was anything worth photographing - since I forgot to get a picture of us at lunch like I wanted to for the blog today.

Hadn't been home long and James came over at four to check with us about the list of things the seller needs to fix in the house. I was going to go with him to their realtor later this week, but James says he will get copies of the bills we have so far and take them to the other realtor, so that is very nice of him that I don't need to do anything yet.

Then Carol from Oncology called and said that my chemo medicine wasn't going to be in for my treatment in the morning, and could I come at 1 p.m. .... or on Wednesday instead. She said there is a shortage of it - oh, great, I thought. I balked at the 1 p.m. appointment because we drive four hours and I sit in the chair for the treatment usually almost six hours. And we wanted to check Smith's veggies. Charm would be snowmachining home at 10 p.m. if we did that. So I said I'd call them back in the morning to let them know for sure. Charm and I talked when she got home and she said Wednesday was better for her - so we are going on Wednesday. I have to call Carol back in the morning about 8:15. I think Tuesday is the better travel day weather-wise, but we will be fine.

Decided to make us a pizza with all fresh goodies for dinner, and it didn't turn out so great, as in not worth the effort. After dinner Betty called because she missed our usual Sunday call and we talked for a good while. She has those terrible disgusting rats back in her attic. I told her about the home made trap Gina happened to describe to us today at lunch and it might work for her. A large tin container with a stick on the side they can climb up - they can get in the container but not back out so they die in there. At least it is free, instead of $5 for each rat sized glue trap. So that was the day.

Nighty Night!