Greetings, All
Little Sister: We noticed a lot of weather in your part of the country. Hubby has gotten into watching the weather and has discovered new computer programs which allow him to see it. Yours has been worse that ours.
It is a great feeling to remove clothes that you do not like or just don’t wear anymore. It felt good for me. My mother always mended our clothes so I still think I need to do that before discarding them. In reality, my wardrobe when I was a teenager is probably 1/100 of what I have now. I have suits and formal clothes that I should probably dry clean and take them to a consignment store. There is no dry cleaner in our town, so that is an issue.
What bugs me is that DH will wear a t-shirt to bed that is one of his newest and best, while leaving the crummy stretched out ones on the shelf. Then he does not have a good one to wear away from the house!
Old Mt. Woman. My eyes are like yours. I have needed correction in only one eye for decades. Now, with aging, the other has changed a bit. The Opthamologist said he would only do Lasik on the bad eye and not touch the “good” one. Afterwards, I will still wear regular glasses; I like being able t read all the time. I really enjoy the no line bifocals. Yes, I was dizzy for a couple weeks while trying to get used to them, but they are well worth it with the huge range of magnification. I keep threatening to get hubby a nice pearl and rhinestone chain on which to wear his readers.
Mama Cando: I did not like ham gravy when I was small. I appreciate it now. I think my favorite thing to eat is mashed potatoes and gravy. For us, Easter dinner is Ham, with a fruit sauce, German Potato Salad, and Green Bean Casserole. Plus the deviled eggs, and pickle condiments. (The juice, and bone are used for soups!) We only color Easter Eggs when we are with family. But at home, whenever I cook eggs I put vinegar and a squirt of food color in the warm water. That way, when looking at eggs in the ‘frog, I will know they are cooked. It is a bit put-offish, though, when I take out an egg that has cracked and it is magenta in color. Still tasted great.
I hope your niece is doing well. Grieving is a process and one that is undertaken in each person’s own time and step by step. Have your niece look into a wooden box with engraving on it. Our funeral director had someone who would laser engrave whatever we wanted on the wood box. When my son died, at age 34, we had him cremated. His father, sister, and I each had separate portions of his ashes saved from the larger container. They each have a small metal or marble urn, about 3-inches tall, that they have on a shelf where he can be part of daily life. I had his ashes put into a silver, heart-shaped locket and I wear it whenever we have family events. (He had his own house and it took us a year before we could clean it out to sell.)
The funeral director was kind to explain things to your nieces that way. Perhaps, her parents can have a small urn set aside for your grand-niece that she can have when she is old enough to understand. I am sure your niece will be a help to other parents of children who have this condition or have lost their child; and the doctors will have learned a great deal from having your great nephew in this world and his treatment should be written and published in medical journals. Love to the family.
Dystopian books are my favorites. Loved the Jean Auel Series. We have them all. I wish I knew my herbs as she does. Also, appreciate Jerry D. Young. Wish I had the money to set up a compound as he always describes. I always learn a lot from his books. Am currently reading a Kindle version of “Into The End” by B. R. Paulson. More dark psychological than prepper, but promises to have Ham Radio sub-plot.
Granny Smith: Hope your weather stabilizes and sorry about your loss of power and food. I would be devastated if I lost the food in my freezers, even though I pressure can. Good luck
I don’t have the energy today to go outside and keep working in Garden B, or help DH with hauling the cut-to-length pieces of wood from the downed trees. Not health related, but weather related, cold and cloudy. I’ll find something to do.
Stay healthy everyone. Don’t work too hard in the great outdoors.