GOOD AFTERNOON MAGNONLIAS
The rain is on hold and it is sunny now in the 50's.
WOW ~ we have been without electricity for the past 10 hours. Lots of folks been out around here ~ the whole valley and beyond. It got rather chilly during the night but we have lots of comfy bed covers. We have a nice little electric heater that keeps the place as warm as we want it. We do have a furnace but to use it we would have to start up the generator and then who could sleep through that racket. Our fridge is 3 way so we don't lose that. Anyway we are back up. The rain has stopped and the hills and mountains around are nice and white. We went into town to eat because it was so cold in here I didn't want to cook. Found the electricity on in our favorite eaterie so had a good OP meal. Instead of getting one of their wonderful high point breakfasts I ordered a cup of their tomato based pasta soup and a dry piece of sour dough bread toast and a slice of ham. I had a filling 7 point breakfast with coffee and creamer. I made a sandwich out of the ham and toast. I feel good about it.
FAYE You are the walking queen. I am so proud of your doing that, especially in this weather. I know how you love it when the pool does open. You have some rude neighbors. I do hope Jack has a good session with the doc and gets a good report. I am not a great Wal*Mart fan per se but they do have lots of stuff we need at the lowest price we can find around here so that is where we buy them. It is a store that hasn't gone trashey all the way and the parking lot is clean. We have found that if a town has two of the stores one is really clean and the other one is trashey. In our travels we would go across town to the clean one.
SUSAN If you don't get your SS soon you may want to call an Ombudsman if you have one in your area. Sometimes that is what it takes to get your money started coming regularly. I have heard some horror stories about SS and am so glad that I was able to opt out of paying into it when I was working. I am now on what they call "safety retirement." (I have been retired since I was 45) I am only allowed to make up to $400 a year ~ or they do some adjustment ~ but I don't plan on having a job. My money goes a lot farther in the South then it does here in California. So when we travel I get more bang for the buck. I hope you can get your situation straighten out soon.
JEAN So glad you are feeling more chipper. But don't over do it and have a relapse. You may find that Walgreen charges 20 to 25% more than Wal*Mart does for it's products. At least that is what is happening out here. Those big drug store type chains ask top dollar for lots of their things.
I made a pot of chicken noodle soup last night and am so glad for It will be a wonderful meal today. I love soup. I get those wide noodles like I used to make at a shop in town. They are dried like I used to dry mine so are really like home made. This coming week one of the large markets in town is getting in lots of those LQ mushroom pizzas that FAYE turned me on to. They will be selling them 10 for $20 which is a saving of $1.49 per pizza so it is such a deal.