Friday, April 4, 2008

Power Out

The power went out at our house on Wednesday evening and when it came back on the DSL modem was blown out so I've had no internet service for several days. So I have not blogged for a few days. I'm working on borrowed time right now, using the never-reliable Neighbor-net. 

The frontier repair person is due at our house tomorrow (Saturday) between noon and 4 to fix us up and then I will be able to do a proper entry. 

Until then, hope all is well.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Trivial Tuesday

Not too much to report, but now that I look at the title of this entry, anyone I mention, may think that they're trivial. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just don't think any of this news (if I can even call it that) is earth-shattering. So here goes....

Corey called to report that his latest blood work all came back negative. Once again that is a good news, bad news situation. It is good that he doesn't have mono, but bad that we still don't know what is causing his weeks old sore throat and overwhelming fatigue. He is taking a week off from running to see what that does for him. 

He did send me a really funny birthday card, which is a bit insulting to Tucker. Tucker, I will share it with you when you call sometime!

Thanks to all the people who left comments or e-mailed me or sent cards with birthday greetings. I had a great birthday.

I guess since it is April Fool's Day, I should have started this post with some outrageous statement that would have made you say, "What the heck?" But I didn't. I didn't even get many little kids doing stupid April Fools jokes to me. There always seems to be an abundance of kids who try to tell me my shoe is untied or that there is a spider on me, but today I only met up with 2 joksters! What's happening to today's kids? 

I was going to do a double-header tonight, going first to Yoga class and then to rowing, but just before I left for Yoga I got an e-mail from our coach canceling rowing because of really high winds. So I did Yoga and then did the rowing machine at the gym. 

Our high temps, 60ยบ, are being blown away with wind gusts up to 40 mph. Tomorrow the temps go back to the 40's.

Jim is in Toronto this week for a big J&J sales meeting. He is working long hours, 8 AM until 10 PM each day and has told me that he is not crazy about these marketing and sales get-togethers. He is truly more of an R & D kinda guy. His biggest concern is finding time to get his daily run in. 

Here is a photo of a dishcloth that I knit in less than 24 hours. It is a gift for a friend who is hosting us at their house on our Maryland trip. I like the pattern and may make one for me.
When the wind is blowing like it is right now, FOX channel our TV comes in very poorly, with the audio breaking up with static. I hope to be able to watch American Idol, but the sound may drive me nuts. Maybe David Archuletta will sing early in the program and then I can turn it off. 

That's all.

Hope all is well.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Happy Birthday to Me!

A beautiful day for a 50-something birthday! Whenever I have a sunny day on my birthday, I think of it as gift from Mother Nature. Both Tucker and Corey called to send along birthday greetings and  it is always good to talk to them. Gram and GrandDad had us over for a birthday dinner and Gram made a strawberry whip pie for dessert and it was yummy!
Tucker sent some photos to us from his recent backpacking trip. Here is one from somewhere on Comb Ridge, Utah.
Yesterday, before the basketball started, we went to the Maple Grove Farm in Holley, NY to see what they were doing for Maple Weekend. The maple syrup producers in NYS got together and organized a weekend celebrating the flow of sap from the Maple trees and have been advertising about Maple Weekend on the radio. They have a website which lists the participating sugaring spots, so I chose one not too far from home. We drove west to the Maple Grove Farm and got a tour of their sugar house and read the interesting history of this farm. The Boy Scouts were doing a pancake breakfast (we did not indulge), and there were maple products for sale (we did indulge). It was a great day to be outside and we enjoyed our short walk through the woods to get to the sugar house. 
Last night we went out to dinner with Karen and Bob, who were Odyssey parents, and people we got to know real well through our kids, cross-country, and musicals. We spent 2 hours at Davinci's catching up with each other's family. 

Did some spinning yesterday and a fair amount of knitting. More on that another day.

Did you watch the Davidson vs. Kansas game? It was soooo exciting! I was rooting for Davidson, and they almost pulled it off. Now I have to root for UNC, because they are the guys that I have winning it all. Basketball resumes on Saturday.

Hope all is well