Turn The Page - Bob Seger

The first time I ever heard this song it was being sung by Josh Logan and his band and I'll never forget that night. I was still married to my first Jim and I loved listening to Bob Seger songs and wondered why I had never heard this one before.

He Ain't Worth Missing

Sometimes people come into your lives for a reason: to divert your mind away from hurt and to show and remind you what real love and kindness once were. Nineteen and a half years of hurt were so easily wiped away by the sound of a familiar voice. How could that be?

The Weather Report

I'm siting here thinking about the weather and listening to music. Music soothes my soul and has a healing effect on my heart. The weather is gloomy and it seems that there isn't much to look forward to but gray skies up ahead. It'll all be better once spring arrives and the sun starts shining brightly again. I think I just might have a bad case of wanderlust and I really do miss riding my bike.

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It's Getting Better All the time
Stars Over Texas-Tracy Lawrence

Ca $$$ ching...Ca $$$ ching

Today we made another trip to the Vet's office because our little Princess Pinky was jumped by a mean ole puddy tat and rolled in the mud about a week ago. Princess had stayed out for a couple of nights (she had a date) and when she returned home she was covered in mud from her head to her tail. It wasn't just a light coating of mud, but she looked like she had been in a mud wrestling match and lost. At that time we also noticed that one of her eyes looked a little injured but it didn't look too bad so we decided to wait and let her take care of her own eye, but it slowly became worse and then yesterday we noticed some infection and decided to take her in, but the Vet's office was closed.

This morning we called our Vet and he was able to see her first thing this morning. After he examined her he said that her eye was fine, only a little inflammation & infection of her eyelid, so he gave her two medications. The Vet applied an ointment to her eyelid while we were there and the antibiotic we brought home with us. Princess is such a gentle cat that we just picked her up and were about to give her a dose of that great tasting cherry flavored amoxicillin when she showed us her claws. We had never seen her claws before. We looked at each other and exclaimed, "Did you know she had claws?" She never even showed them to the Vet and just sat there and purred loudly for him while he rubbed an ointment onto her sore inflamed eyelid. She was such a good kitty at the Vet's, but now it was time for:

Plan II Wrap the entire kitty in a towel, but be sure to leave her head out and hold cat firmly, while another person administers the medication....then run!

I'm really looking forward to all of the added exercise I'll be getting three times a day as I chase the cat down to medicate her. Each medication is to be used 3x a day and I seriously doubt if she'll let us do both at the same time, but we'll give it a try.

Like a fine wine....

I don't know what has gotten into Jimmy, but I like it! Today as we were leaving to go meet Zac for lunch in Richmond Jimmy said that when we returned he was going to build a snowman. My first thought was, is this my husband or has someone kidnapped him? This is a man who I have begged for years to come play out in the snow with me and the other day he surprised me when I asked him to make me a snow angel and he said, "Okay." Just like that, no arguing or prodding.
We stopped on the way home from lunch to pick up a few things at the store and while I was putting them away Jimmy disappeared and then came back inside and asked me to look out the window at the big snowball. I couldn't believe what I saw so I just stopped what I was doing and went out with him and began rolling up another snowball for the snowman's head while Jimmy rolled up a bigger one for the middle. We put our snowman together and began looking for arms, eyes, hat and so forth. I know our snowman isn't perfect, but it was fun and he's ours...our first snowman.
I don't know what has gotten into Jimmy lately....maybe he has just finally mellowed like a fine wine, but whatever the reason I like it. All of you that know Jimmy know that he hates snow, cold weather and winter, in no particular order, so for him to suggest that we make a snowman came as quite a big surprise to me. What do you think? Is he going through his second childhood or just being nice(r)? Or maybe it's something more sinister.....you be the judge.

Invaded by men in fire-proof suits

Last night after dark we were, or maybe I should say that our driveway was invaded by the fire department and all of their emergency vehicles and also all the volunteer fire department guys and their cars and trucks. The koookie neighbors in the back that I have often talked about that have no sense, called the fire dept. All their lights were off when the firemen arrived but when they finally left their house lights were all back on. The firemen didn't even undo their fire hoses but they just went in the house armed with axes. I think the neighbors just blew a fuse in their breaker box and needed someone to flip the fuse back on. These neighbors do stupid things like this all the time. The worst thing that happened was that some of the emergency vehicles got stuck in the driveway because of the deep snow. They really made our driveway slick. It will be interesting to see if we can get out of it now. Last night there were two wreckers here trying to get the firemen out and it's a good thing that these guys are in shape because there was also a lot of pushing of cars up hill. It was a mess but I'll have to say that all of those constantly flashing emergency lights sparkled in the snow and made it look really pretty....prettier than any Christmas lights. I really don't know what happened in their house, but I didn't see any fire and I didn't see any smoke. Just lights off and then when the firemen were finished lights on.

This morning I accidentally let Petey out and noticed that the thermometer said it was 10 degrees and it felt colder than that. We can't take our new thermometer seriously because just a few days ago when the sun was shining on it, it said that it was 120 degrees. Just as soon as I opened the door though and stood in the opened doorway my nostrils began freezing up when the cold air hit me, so I knew it was cold cold cold. Jybow only stayed outside just long enough to pee and she wanted to come right back in but Petey wouldn't come in and I was just going to leave him out there until he got cold enough and begged to come in, but Jimmy went out and chased him down and brought him in.

Jimmy went to buy a newspaper a little while ago, so the driveway is fine and we're still able to get out. He said that the cashier told him that the temp was 3 degrees. I'm staying inside. No snowman building for me until it warms up...a lot.

a snow angel

Those of you that know Jimmy know that he doesn't like snow, and that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES is he going to play in the snow with me. So then how do you explain this first picture of Jimmy laying in the snow making, of all things, a snow angel? Truth or Fiction? You be the judge.

The snow that we've been promised for such a long time finally arrived last night. The snow is light, dry and fluffy and was easily swept away with a broom and if Jimmy would have thought of it earlier before he swept off all the walkways, he could have blown it all away with the leaf blower. That thing would blow the house away if we'd point it in that direction.


Our yard is pretty flat and I stuck this ruler in several locations and it pretty much came up with the same reading. I wanted to get a picture of the snow on top of my jeep wrangler which was VERY impressive but Jimmy swept if off before I could get my shoes on.

Today it warmed up to 38 degrees and the snow packed down a little and I'd say that with these kinds of temps that this snow should be gone before we know it.