🙂 Our snow and ice all melted on our 40- and 50-degree days.
😦 Now we’re back in the 20s with more ice and a tiny bit of snow, and it looks as though we have plans to stay here for a while.
😦 My husband would seem to have that illness that has been going around. He is on his fourth antibiotic in three months, finishing his second in a month (this one a four-times-a-day for two weeks one that has me staying up till midnight every night so I can wake him), and so it would seem to me it is viral. But he is tired and discouraged and so am I.
🙂 I got an editing project offered to me yesterday, a mid-size one, and that almost never happens in January. We need the income, so I am happy.
🙂 I have a nice bound set (Folio books) of Jane Austen’s novels that I have had for years, and I thought I had read all the books when I first got the set. As I read them, though, I realize several are new to me. I have been enjoying most over the holiday season, and am now ready to start the one I left for last, Emma. Whether or not I have read this one, I don’t remember.
😦 He reports the roads are still icy. That is likely to mean I won’t get to church this weekend, as I highly doubt he will be able to go, and I don’t “do” ice.
😦 Today’s actual and feels like temperature is the same. -38.2ºF.
🙂 We finally had our furnace fixed
😦 It cost almost half of what new furnace would be – if we had know that I think we might have just gone with a new one. But… we didn’t know and it was not the temperature to pull out and replace a furnace.
😦 Care goes in to the shop this week for another expensive repair – I’m starting to feel like Donna and all her home repairs adding up
🙂 Thankful for jobs that will, eventually, pay for all this
🙂 Thankful for a furnace that keeps us warm
🙂 I have a young friend with 2 toddlers who has cabin fever and is coming over this morning to get out of their house and have a change of scenery. I’m glad she thinks of me – her kiddoes are quite sweet.
😦 Husband hasn’t ploughed the driveway and yard yet after 8 inches of snow, it’s just so cold. Machinery doesn’t work well and neither do people 🙂
🙂 I get in the car at 10 and drive for an hour to meeting junior high friends at an art gallery. We’re being sophisticated old ladies and viewing a photography exhibit about Julia Child. Then to fancy lunch.
😦 Except that hip.
😦 I drive an hour home–
🙂 😦 planning to come through some back country that got scorched in the October events–
🙂 to meet my husband and his sister, to go to dinner with another sister.
😦 A 90 minute drive away in San Francisco.
I’m excited, apprehensive and wish my hip/back didn’t ache when I sit down.
Cheryl, it must be nice to still have unread books by Jane Austen or any English classic for that matter. I read all of Jane Austen, along with Dickens and the Brontes, in my teens and now I have very little left to enjoy. I still have some unread books by Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. I have read all of Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles, and all but two of his Palliser novels, so there is little left of his best work to go. I have read the gentler and more pleasant books by Hardy and Eliot, like Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, Silas Marner, and Adam Bede, so there is nothing but the tragic and depressing ones left to read. I know they are tragic because they make film productions of them, and I know they are depressing because I have attempted to read several of them – I just don’t say I’ve read a book unless I’ve read all of it. I doubt I will ever read Thackeray, since every time I’ve made the attempt, I find it dull and pretentious.
heavy rain here this morning. Perhaps I will drive down the hill to church instead of walking. The rocks and mud can be difficult and the hill is steep. Also, I am out of shape!
Wandering Views 
Bob is teaching tomorrow.
We had our SS class luncheon yesterday. Bob was there, he will teach.
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🙂 Our snow and ice all melted on our 40- and 50-degree days.
😦 Now we’re back in the 20s with more ice and a tiny bit of snow, and it looks as though we have plans to stay here for a while.
😦 My husband would seem to have that illness that has been going around. He is on his fourth antibiotic in three months, finishing his second in a month (this one a four-times-a-day for two weeks one that has me staying up till midnight every night so I can wake him), and so it would seem to me it is viral. But he is tired and discouraged and so am I.
🙂 I got an editing project offered to me yesterday, a mid-size one, and that almost never happens in January. We need the income, so I am happy.
🙂 I have a nice bound set (Folio books) of Jane Austen’s novels that I have had for years, and I thought I had read all the books when I first got the set. As I read them, though, I realize several are new to me. I have been enjoying most over the holiday season, and am now ready to start the one I left for last, Emma. Whether or not I have read this one, I don’t remember.
😦 He reports the roads are still icy. That is likely to mean I won’t get to church this weekend, as I highly doubt he will be able to go, and I don’t “do” ice.
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😦 Today’s actual and feels like temperature is the same. -38.2ºF.
🙂 We finally had our furnace fixed
😦 It cost almost half of what new furnace would be – if we had know that I think we might have just gone with a new one. But… we didn’t know and it was not the temperature to pull out and replace a furnace.
😦 Care goes in to the shop this week for another expensive repair – I’m starting to feel like Donna and all her home repairs adding up
🙂 Thankful for jobs that will, eventually, pay for all this
🙂 Thankful for a furnace that keeps us warm
🙂 I have a young friend with 2 toddlers who has cabin fever and is coming over this morning to get out of their house and have a change of scenery. I’m glad she thinks of me – her kiddoes are quite sweet.
😦 Husband hasn’t ploughed the driveway and yard yet after 8 inches of snow, it’s just so cold. Machinery doesn’t work well and neither do people 🙂
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😦 Hip/back still very sore.
🙂 I get in the car at 10 and drive for an hour to meeting junior high friends at an art gallery. We’re being sophisticated old ladies and viewing a photography exhibit about Julia Child. Then to fancy lunch.
😦 Except that hip.
😦 I drive an hour home–
🙂 😦 planning to come through some back country that got scorched in the October events–
🙂 to meet my husband and his sister, to go to dinner with another sister.
😦 A 90 minute drive away in San Francisco.
I’m excited, apprehensive and wish my hip/back didn’t ache when I sit down.
Life is never dull.
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Michelle, are those friends from your junior high days or friends who are now in junior high?
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Junior high days. Everyone needs an editor. 🙂 Thanks for keeping me understandable! LOL
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Cheryl, it must be nice to still have unread books by Jane Austen or any English classic for that matter. I read all of Jane Austen, along with Dickens and the Brontes, in my teens and now I have very little left to enjoy. I still have some unread books by Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. I have read all of Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles, and all but two of his Palliser novels, so there is little left of his best work to go. I have read the gentler and more pleasant books by Hardy and Eliot, like Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, Silas Marner, and Adam Bede, so there is nothing but the tragic and depressing ones left to read. I know they are tragic because they make film productions of them, and I know they are depressing because I have attempted to read several of them – I just don’t say I’ve read a book unless I’ve read all of it. I doubt I will ever read Thackeray, since every time I’ve made the attempt, I find it dull and pretentious.
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heavy rain here this morning. Perhaps I will drive down the hill to church instead of walking. The rocks and mud can be difficult and the hill is steep. Also, I am out of shape!
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🙂 Only 5 littles in the toddler room today with 7 workers! What a fun morning! Time to play with each one and time to actually visit with co-workers.
🙂 Also a good time cleaning up after “Soup On Sunday” with friends. I think I burnt my fingers on the hot dishes as they came out of the dishwasher 😦
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