Saturday January 29, 2022

Just 1.5 days left in paradise! Massachusetts is getting pelted with snow. The news from home is that Justice is absolutely refusing to go out in it even though DS shoveled a flat spot for him. Poor little Florida dog, LOL.

No engagement yet for DD, but they did get safely back home in the snowstorm this morning thank goodness.

Mike and I are off to Hanauma Bay in about 15 minutes. He shifted into Arizona planning this morning though and is a little crazed because they changed our Tuesday flight last night and now have us sitting separately (one seat in front of the other). Hopefully someone will switch with us.

Have a safe and healthy Saturday!

Greetings all

Another sunny and fairly warm day here. Stilll watching the new people move in with the sea turtle south dakota truck. Its been there for days now: not sure why it takes so long to unload.

Ok, here is the mind **** du jour:

My mom's former nurse is helping my SIL sort and toss all these tons of pictures and such from my mom. My brother was going to sort them but never got it done before he died. So nurse was texting me about this and that and then texts this "Karen is going crazy - we found the divorce papers from your dad and his first wife". WTF, we had no idea there had been a first wife. Divorce order was in early 1946 shortly after wwII concluded and my dad had served in the navy so we suspect it was a mistake made by young people in the time of war. But here is the weird part: It said the divorce was granted on the grounds of extreme cruelty committed by this woman against my dad!!!!!! Geez how weird is that? I guess my mom knew because this stuff was in her papers but they never told us. Now that I know I will find out a little more and then chalk it up to "everybody does goofy stuff when they are young". Of course I called my remaining brother and we had a good talk. He is doing well with his weird illness.

Other than that, not much new. I am making a pot roast win the slow cooker. I like this old cooker because its settings are "low and high". I cant seem to handle the electronics for more modern kitchen devices. Like our new toaster oven that does not have an off button. I am a dinosaur. I would like an instant pot but I would need an instructor. Nephew tried to teach me the air fryer.

Hey Peps you are one tough dude judging from your work out. Keep it up.

And DD get some rest. We all need to regenerate from time to time.

Shirley sweet calves.

Safe travels Liz.

DianeO, glad you got your soon to be ex served. Onward.

Stay safe everyone in the path of the big storm. I feel spoiled rotten to not even own a snow shovel (though DH likely has one somewhere)

I cleaned out my bathroom drawer and cupboard. Ended up with at least a shoe box full of bandages and stuff like that. No clue I had all that - no need to buy any again ever. ditto on half used little travel sized stuff. Also found an amethyst ring I had forgotten about. Bathroom people come monday supposedly and it will be interesting to try to cram all this junk in our other bathroom. Which is already crammed with similar stuff even though I cleaned it out a year ago. Preparing for chaos with the three wild dogs but I am already lusting after the grab bars I will have. And I can always go to the gym/pool and use showers.

Cheers for now.

Diane S

Wow! That is an amazing story. I have a friend who found out that he and his brother were adopted when they were in their 40's and their Mom died. They found the adoption papers when going through her things.

Diane, that story is crazy! It is no doubt what you surmise, a war wedding that turned out to be an impulsive mistake. But it makes the brain spin...

Liz, so good to be in paradise not in the middle of a bomb cyclone.

We woke up this morning at 8am, but lounged in this very comfortable hotel bed until almost 10am. It was wonderful. We met son and his gf for brunch, after that we went to a deliciously indoor tropical conservatory. They have a coat rack in the foyer, so when you step into the greenhouse, you can immerse yourself in the tropical atmosphere. Some shopping and dinner, and i am jammied and back in bed by 10pm, so all in all, a very good day.

I don't know where the term Bomb Cyclone came from! New England has had storms for years but I just started hearing that term over the past year.

Our place at the Cape got somewhere between 12-18 inches but the wind made it blow and drift like crazy. Mike's home lost power but mine didn't (the generator didn't have to start at all). The max was in Stoughton where Mike's sisters live where they got 31 inches with 6-7 foot snowdrifts.