Catching Up

Here I sit with a thousand things running through my mind and I have nothing to write. This past week was a blur and went by entirely too quickly. All of the RIFed investigators have returned their company owned equipment and materials and it all passed through my hands and was inventoried. It was a big job. If the company choses to shut the contract down completely, rather than just a stop-work, next week will be more of the same. Management has promised help for me. I hope so.

Last year, I visited my friend Donna in Missouri. I had the pleasure of strolling through her pasture, meeting her horse and dog and seeing with my own eyes places she has written about over the past five years or so. It was one of the most enjoyable vacations I ever had and hope to repeat it. While there, her husband Cliff took the picture below, of us standing below her cabin in the woods with the Missouri River bottom in the distance.














Recently she mentioned the snow that had fallen in her part of the country and I told her I'd like to see that view in a winter scene and she obliged.

Equally as beautiful














Today I had planned to go to the 8:15 at church. When I woke up I knew I wouldn't go so there was no sense kidding myself. I have a really nasty headache and want to knock it back to salvage the day. I have a date with my nephew and his wife at 11:30 today to exchange our Christmas gifts. We're meeting in a restaurant whose ventilation system allows very little cigarette smoke filter over into the non-smoking section. So I should be able to endure.

By the time I go to brunch, I hope to have done my grocery shopping. After that I need to get to cleaning my house. I've been putting if off and it's awful, which makes me nervous, so I better get to it.

So you see, there was very little to catch up with. I've made the decision to skip this trip to Russia and the trip to Spain at Christmas. I think I'll revisit the option of going to the Dominican Republic for BJ's wedding. It wouldn't hurt to check it out.

God bless you all.