We returned from Florida to discover that the seat controls on the driver’s side were not working. That meant that I had to drive home from the airport. It also meant that I had to drive to the wake and home in the rain that night. And, it meant that I had to drive in the funeral cort

Dear Husband is down with a cold. I’m not surprised. He’s shaken hands and been hugged and kissed by hundreds of people in the past couple of weeks, so he was bound to catch something. Our little granddaughter has a cold, so he might have even caught it from her.
They’ve recently announced that cough syrups are not efficacious, but antihistamines are. It’s a measure of how he feels that he was willing to take aspirin and an antihistamine last night as he went to bed. This man does not do drugs!
He was in bed for easily twelve hours last night, and is resting now, so you can tell he needs to recharge. When he’s ill, he just wants you to leave him alone. He doesn’t want his pillow fluffed, or to be drowned in cups of tea. Just Leave Me ALONE!!! is his motto.
Other than tempting him to eat occasionally, I think we’ll give him the quiet he needs. Soups and chili are on the menu for the next few days….just simple stuff. Even I could use some quiet time.
So, no visitors at our house for a bit. We’ll resurface when DH feels better.

I’m SO confused! What’s with the weather? In the past three weeks we have gone from dangerously cold, icy, snowy weather that is unusual for December in this area, to weeks of monotonous, leaden gray, to bright sunshine and fifty degrees. January usually has a warm spot toward the end of the month, but this is early, and is projected to be around for a while.
Mother Nature must be taking a vacation, because it seems that no one is minding the store.
A member of my herb group who lives in this area wrote to say that her thoughts had turned to planting because the weather was so warm. Of course, anything planted outside prior to the end of April is likely to be killed off in the final freeze. Generally, May 15th is our “safe” planting day for half hardy plants and annuals.

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