Lucylee, you are not the only one whose stomach does backflips when it gets good news.
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Kathryn))) Glad for the good news, though!
Sounds like such a beautiful day yesterday!
Blessed -- yes -- you were asking about snow in the South. Oh my... all the memes you see on FB are exactly right. Alabama is closed tomorrow, LOL. Seriously, all the schools around here -- probably all the schools in the northern half of the state -- are already closed. DDIL thinks everyone totally loses their minds down here when they predict snow flurries. She's kinda right. And sometimes, it's even worse in the southern part of the state -- something about the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico? Like that day when dh and I started to college town. We started seeing flurries about an hour south of our town... then it started getting thicker and thicker on the sides of the road & in the trees... at the mid-point of the state, people were building snowmen. We drove on another hour or so, the roads began to get more and more icy... and then-- BAM -- traffic STOPPED completely and we actually turned back and came home!
The thing is, no one is prepared here. They will bring out some trucks and sprinkle sand and salt on bridges across rivers (on MAJOR highways) but otherwise, it's every man for himself. Snow plows are unheard of. And a lot of times, we get as much or more ICE than we do snow, which creates more dangerous driving problems.
The reason it's so crazy though, is that it NEVER lasts more than a day or so, and I'm pretty sure dh has never been "stranded at home" for more than a couple of days. If he sees one idiot on the road, he thinks he can drive too, and off we go. I think once, maybe twice, in my memory we have lost electricity and been without for more than a few days because of winter weather. When a storm rarely lasts more than 24-48 hours, there is really no need to go buy up all the milk, bread, and toilet paper in the county, you know? (We were without power for about a week a few years back when tornadoes came through this area. That was rough.)
Anyway -- it's not so exciting when you're already out of school b/c you're retired, but it's interesting to watch and see what it going to do. They are predicting possibly a few inches here.
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Nancy -- did you call the pharmacy? Glad you're doing okay, but maybe you should check w/them before future doses?
Good gracious, I caught the donwannas and I wasn't even online!
Dgrands were here all day -- dh kept them while ds & I attended the funeral visitation @ 11:00 a.m., and then they stayed all afternoon b/c ds & my uncle were trying to fix a shortage in ds's truck headlight. He came and got them and stayed a while, and they went home around 4:30 or 5:00.
So much I need to do, but I just lost my motivation completely!
I did manage to clean up the kitchen after we ate. Dishes are still drip drying though... need to put them away.
I can't believe y'all have gotten to five pages before I even had a chance to check in! I am WAVING TO ALL!!!!
Dmom called and she is going to try to finish up her mouth first, before the feet -- the oral surgeon today said her mouth was definitely healed and ready for the "studs" -- I'm not sure what they call the -- anchors for the lower denture plate. She is sooo hoping this will end some of her discomfort and disappointment with the fit of the dentures. And she discussed a few other options that remain for her before she would throw in the towel and just give up on dentures entirely. I will have to drive her to and from the appt to have that procedure done, maybe within the next two weeks.
She also said some of the swelling had gone down in her foot and she had managed okay today, although she did not have to walk far at any time, so it wasn't like she had been on her feet for any real length of time.
Retired teacher's meeting is postponed for a week -- because of the weather. I'm glad of that -- I need tomorrow at home to get caught up on laundry. That just did not happen today.
DDIL called to tell us when she had scheduled swimming lessons for both dgrands this year. As y'all might expect -- dh is disappointed b/c it means dgs can't accompany us to one of the bigger festivals we always go to with ds. I am just shaking my head... I'm thinking, it might be a more restful trip without him, you know? * sigh *
DH just doesn't feel well AT ALL so I am trying not to let his mood affect me. If he is upset about anything emotionally, half of it is caused by his physical state.