Black wintry river,with icy green floes, drifts toward
A southern ocean
Got all these photos... so here are some more.It's groundhog Day. I read a little bit about the history of it, and it started way back in pagan times - kind of sounds like a fertility thing - weren't they all. Then the Christians called it Candlemass Day, which I've never know what that was either. But in astronomy February 2nd is a "cross-quarter" day in the solar calendar, which means that it falls exactly between a solstice and an equinox. I'm not going to copy the whole thing about how it got to be groundhog day to us, but you can look it up if you want to. The sun is brightly shining so it looks like we'll have six more weeks of winter. Maybe in Pennsylvania but in reality spring won't come until May or June here.
Joe went out to the ranch this morning to feed the cats. Said he still drove right in. I don't think we ever had a year we could still be driving in in February. He had a hamburger for lunch at Boulder on the way home. Says he's got a toothache with his gum swelling up like it did about five years ago. Boy, that time was awful - his whole face swelled up, so he doesn't want that to happen again. I've got a call in to the dentist and at least we can get him some medicine until he can get in. If it gets too infected the dentist won't be able to work on it until that gets better and he doesn't want to go through that again.
We go to Melita’s house to paint tomorrow with the small group and I’m sure looking forward to it. I guess I’m the February hostess of our next big Mixed Media meeting so have to get that planned and done before I go back to chemo on the 27th. Wednesday Jo Crandall asked me to lunch. This Friday is my doctor appointment with Dr. Ward in Jackson - he's the doctor from the Huntsman. Saturday Kay and George invited us to a dinner get together they are having.
I think the Dyson is the vacuum I will get. Two other friends also recommended it and Shirley said you can get them refurbished like new from Amazon.com for about $200, I might try that, because I’ve spent so much money on the house that $500 for a Dyson or $800 for the Oreck sounds like a lot right now – I mean it’s hard to conceive a nearly thousand dollars for a vacuum cleaner. I’ve been wanting a Dyson or Oreck for some years now because they are lighter to use, but hadn’t gone ahead with buying one because of the price. Sears also has a canister that really cleans hair and all. The lady who cleaned the house totally before we moved in had the Kenmore. I was impressed with the way it sucked the nap up and all. She swore by it, cleaning houses all the time. I didn’t get far with my online shopping. It takes me a long time to do that. Other people must just know what they want and go click and buy. I have to look and compare everything. I did buy two more sets of XL twin sheets. We only have one set each. Also chose some boots from Cabelas but they want almost $100 with shipping for them. Boots on sale are almost always size 5 or 6 and I'm a lot bigger than that. Think I'll just wear what I've got since spring will be here in a few months.
Beverly sent me some cute pictures of great grandson Samuel. Boy is he cute. Beverly says he is a little more than two months old now. I'll try to see if I can get one of them onto the blog, but they are in PDF so it might not work. .....Nope, couldn't get it to open or download, and would not copy either so guess you won't be able to see him.
Betty called yesterday and we had our usually good weekly visit. Her dog Cody walked by the window with a big rat in his mouth while we were talking and she had to get it away from him before he ate it.
Finally I am feeling better today. It took a while this time, just have been going through the usual stuff, but seems like more tired. I’ve really been going to bed early and staying there 12 or 14 hours, not sleeping the whole time but getting rested.
I've done 755 blog posts so far. Doesn't seem possible, but it's been about that many days since I started the blog - though not quite since once in a while I put in some extra entries.
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