What a day, what a week. Went grocery shopping, which resulted in my monthly cooking spree; a turkey, chicken, two roasts, and a whole bunch of “reduded for quick sale” turkey breakfast sausage, hotdogs, turkey smoked kinda ring-bologna sausage--- it was all half price! Cut up the pineapple and salad fixin’s to be used the rest of the week. Then I had to make soup stock from the bones and giblets. Baked the cookie dough that I made last week. I got word of Alice Roth’s fall and broken ankle, so I had to investigate that information and pass it on to a couple of people. Went to set up my scanner to copy some slides for Kathee, Don’s stepmom, but the lightbar doesn’t want to work, so I can’t get them done for her to take them home for Christmas, I feel bad about that. Did some more emailing. And I just had to read one of my favorite author’s new book this week, so I can pass it on to Anna to read and return! I had to go to the doctor to so he would renew my prescription blood pressure medication. He wanted to do blood work and talked me into a mamogram which will probably cost a fortune cuz of our enormous deductible, but the blood draw was amazingly problem free, not the usual squeezing blood from a turnip. Then I went by mom, who’s brain was actually working—cuz she got a bug in her head and has been refusing to take her medication, but for the same reason she was feeling achy and had a headache. We are at a crossroads with her medication—if we increase the medication she will be able to walk better and move better, but her brain goes on hiatus and she walks rather well into walls and off into never-neverland…. So we have to decide if we should make her use the wheelchair more but have a brain or have to watch her do really random things and not really know what’s going on around her. Actually it was nice to have her actually talk to me like a real person for the first time in a couple of months even if it was to tell me she ached all over. So this I have to discuss with my fine, decisive siblings. I came home from mom’s to meet Vaughn, Don’s friend who is the cause for that really weird post a couple of months ago, Oct 9, “Husbands and their friends”. Vaughn was kind enough to help me—okay he loaded  and I pointed—up all that material I purged from my sewing room. Then he moved all the other stuff around in the garage so I could park my car in it when this snow storm hits and the plow people can have a vehicle-free driveway to snow blow—they don’t use a plow, they have a couple of really nice snow blowers, big snow blowers. It took Vaughn about a half hour and he made it look so very easy—and he did it all for a bag of peanut butter cookies!!! I think tomorrow he will come over to help Don with the mattress—more on that later. Today, with the threat of a snow storm coming I left later than I wanted to, but about 9:30 so I could get home before the snow.  I took the sewing stuff up to Katie in Pardeeville, WI. A nice Amish lady who makes hand woven throw rugs with all this material. It was a beautiful drive of about an hour or so, I talked to her for about an hour, she showed me her loom and how it works and talked about other things. She wants to make a trip out to Ohio and Pennsylvania to visit her suppliers, with a couple of other ladies. She is looking for a driver, with a waterproof trailer, I think they want to go next spring. Actually, it sounds like fun and I am tempted to see if I could do it. As I left her driveway, there were a whole gaggle of kids across the road pulling the same kind of sled we loaded the boxes in for transport to the house, they were pulling them across the field. I wondered what they were doing until this perfectly spaced line of boys on sleds came zooming down the hill!!! A nice long, fun slide but the hill wasn’t so steep that I was hard to walk back up. It looked like fun and there were about 15 kids. Since they were Amish kids, it looked like something out of a nostalgic Christmas card—no bright colored nylon or snowmobile suits, but still they had were kids having fun. So with that picture in my mind and the prospect of driving 6 Amish ladies all over the east, I did kinda pass my turn onto Hwy 16; so I got to drive a couple miles farther than I did on the way up. Nice drive, dry roads, the sun was shining, it was just a beautiful day. I got home did my errands and came home to finish the soups and package up all the other food with the ziploc bags I forgot to buy Monday and picked up today when I went to pick up stuff at the kmart pharmacy. Ya gotta freeze this stuff in individual servings or you have to eat the same thing all week long. I had a butternut squash to use, and found Anna’s recipe that is just amazingly good. Used the left over squash and corn in my turkey soup, boy that added a great flavor to my usual turkey soup. Don came home tonight about 7pm, Whoo-hoo!!! So we had a nice evening together and when he asked me if it started snowing, as I was typing this, so I looked out the window and the road and sidewalk were clear. We decided to get my van in the garage and get all set for the snowstorm. I put on my coat and by the time I get out to the van, it had a thin cover of snow, by the time I get the van in the garage, it has a good cover of snow and you can’t see the road anymore. Don had to get gas, down the street 3 blocks, and by the time he got home, there is at least an inch on the road!!! That all took less than an hour, I am going to bed now, and may make chili tomorrow, and get everything into the freezer and help Don with some of the audio restoration projects that need to be done. Then it’s the sabbath, and I already have my potluck done, just needs to be thawed, leftovers from the Feast that need to be used up! Besides, I don’t want to share my awesome soup!

Oh, the doctor’s office called me as I was gathering my stuff to go to Pardeeville, the mamogram was clear, the anemia is better, but my blood sugar is a bit high. So, as I am terrified of Diabetes, I will be researching diabetes information and now I HAVE to start getting some exercise. The cookie dough will be stored in the basement freezer so that I have to get excersize in order to use it. God is a very smart being, he knows I won’t do it unless I have the right incentive, I think he found it! I didn’t work hard enough at the blood pressure warning, so he sent up another warning flag.  Prayers would be appreciated.