Journal

Five weeks from today is Christmas, six weeks from today will be January 1, 2010...where did all the years and time go?

It was supposed to warm up today, well by this week-end but we ended up being a few degrees cooler today then had been the case in recent days even though it has clouded up  and we've even gotten a wee bit of snow..

Yesterday Winter and I made a trip into Anchor Point for chicken food and cat food..on the way home I was looking around and thinking how odd it seemed to be so close to Thanksgiving yet have almost no snow.  We still have very little snow although it has snowed for several hours, most of it the very tiny stuff that my old eyes can barely even see.  Toward sunset the snow did get larger and looked pretty.

Of course with the snow I didn't get to have my time online this afternoon, I missed it but did enjoy my nap...

Well Winter is supposed to have the next two days off work , I hope she actualy spends some time at home resting.  She sounds like crap and can't seem to get well no matter what medications she takes or how many days off she has.  Maybe she'll actualy get some rest since Justin is up in Anchorage, not sure how long he'll be gone but it will give her a break.  She got a bit mad at me, when we were in town we ran into Justins cousin Matt and while talking I voiced my view that Justin is a whiney drama queen.. Winter told me she didn't like me telling people this, I told her I didn't like her living with him when he IS such a whiney drama queen.  that and I do have a right to how a I think and feel.

Well nothing new here, same old same old, walk the dogs, split the wood, feed the cats and fill the wood box.

Well it did warm up a bit, we didn't get down below zero last night, stayed at a balmy +7* over night and we hit a high of 15* today...and it was sunny again which is just grate in my book.

The day was going on pretty well until this afternoon when I was online using solar power, all of a sudden my left eye went "nuts" on me...by that I mean I perceived a large area that was a bit over half circle in shape where everything was all blurred and squiggly, not sure how to explain what it was like, but think looking at a reflection of something in water when the water is disturbed enough to move it, wiggle it, but not so much you cannot tell what it was.

This thing lasted over a half hour then eased up and for awhile my vision was fuzzy then cleared up but there was discomfort in the eye still, now my vision is totaly normal but the eye still hurts some and feels dry and scratchy.  I probably should try to see the eye specialist but hate to waste that money if my eye has recovered.  Yet my vision is so important I hate to not see him if there is danger to my vision.

Today Wintr had my car so I couldn't just take off and go, course with my vision all messed up I couldjnt' just take off and go anyway, no way I'd want Neal driving me there, talk about stressful...

Winter is supposed to be off tomorrow, will talk to her when she get's home and let her know what happened today and that if she has to go to work I may keep the car but would rather she be home to drive me if needed.

Outside of my eye problems the day was pretty uneventful.  I did my normal chores which included splitting wood today, seems I need to do this every other day now that the weather is so cold.  On the plus side wiht it being so cold the wood splits very easily.

Dinner was quite nice tonight, chinese bar-b-qued pork, shrimp in thai peanut sauce and mixed veggies..later tonight we'll  have chocolate pudding wiht fresh (frozen) raspberries...I'm really looking forward to that.

I am really enjoying my laptop, being able to relax in my chair and watch the movies while being online and of course it does not take the same power but there are times when it also drives me totaly freakin insane.

I am having a horrible time navigating from place to place...there are times when I need to really thump hard on the cat pad to get the computer to send me to the chosen site...then other times just sliding my hand across the screen, via the cat pad, sends me all over the place and not just on the damn site I'm at....I can be working away on facebook and suddenly find myself at Yahoo, or I'm at my home page and then I'm at someone elses and did not think I'd been anywhere near a link to them.  At times the more careful and gentle I try to be the worse this seems to get...then other times I can be thumping away and know I'm using a lot of pressue and have not one bit of trouble.  Arrrrgh.

Well Ed told Neal he has the part for my desk top so we can convert it to wireless too, he has some work to do on his electrical system before he can do the computer.  When he does this I'm also hoping he can install my old hard drive into that system too,  it has all my pictures on it and he thinks that will be easier then tryng to put everything I want on a disk and then upload it here...I hope he is right.  Hope I find out soon...there are times like tonight I could be over there doing things.

Winter came down last night and got her laptop hooked into my wireless, it worked great for her, not sure if she'll be able to pick it up at her house, she thinks there maybe something wrong with her laptop as she hasn't been picking up the signal and she should ahve been able to.

I have not been here at DS  very much the past couple of days, Ive been busy over on facebook visiting with friends and with some of the Native American causes I'm involved in such as tryijng to free Leonard Peltier, provide shelter for some displaced people, prevent animal cruelty and other such things.

On facebook are many of my close personal friends from our local area, I find myself visiting with them on there much more often then we see each other in real life.

I also have a group of friends there that have been online friends for over a dozen years and which I've "traveled" with through several different boards and many of whcih I have contact with offline as well as online.

Then in my offline life things have been pretty much the same.  Clean some house, walk the dogs, split some wood, walk the dogs, fix some food, walk the dogs...I can see a pattern developing here and it definately involes cold walks with the dogs, LOL.

I haven't been outside for several hours so not sure what the weather is doing...the skies have been wonderfully clear and star filled over night but tonight will be a great metor shower so if experience tells me anything we're libal to get clouds and maybe snow tonight, but if not I'll be watching the skies sometime after 1 a.m. when things are supposed to be quite wonderful.

Well we have been getting down below zero the last few nights and since it was only 4* the last time I looked at the thermomator I'm sure we'll get there agin tonight unless those clouds come in and warm things up.  I am actualy hopeing we'll get some snow, I'd like to see about a foot to give all my plants a very nice protective cover.  On the years when we have deep freezes with very little snow cover I lose many of my perenials and those that survive end up coming up very late the next summer and are never as nice as when they have good cover.

It is hard to believe we are only a few weeks away from winter solstice...this is one of my favorite times of the year...of course the holidays are a big part of my enjoyment but watching what nature does, watching how quickly the days grow short now and how fast they will reverse this process after solstice is a never ending wonder for me.  Getting to put up decorations, fix holiday meals and visit with friends only adds to the whole process.

It will be interesting this year to see how I end up cooking the holiday dinners.  My oven isn't working and when I was up to Winters yesterday I discovered they had taken the door off that oven, not sure why and I know they are looking to replace that stove wiht one designed to heat not cook, if they do that it will get interesting.