Christmas Eve, 2014.  I'm without immediate family this year....for the first time ever.  Terry and her family took the train to LA to spend the holidays with my son-in-law's family.  I'm glad my grandsons have the opportunity to meet their new cousin and see their aunt and their grandfather again.  I spend several days a week with them.  Jimmy's family only sees them on rare occasions.  I'm the lucky one!  We will have Christmas together after they return.

So, I am going to volunteer at a couple of our church services later today so that others can have more time with family.

Tomorrow I go to my sister-in-law's for dinner. 

We have no snow in the forecast for Washington, except in the Cascades.  That's fine with me.  Our roads, our citizens, and our transportation department are definitely not able to handle snow very well.  Good thing it is a rare treat!

And now to do some cooking for dinner tomorrow at Joan's.

Merry Christmas!

Tahoe June 2012

It's nearly time for my annual spring-cleaning trip to the cabin.  I'm looking forward to some warm weather and some cloudless skies at the lake.  There haven't been a lot of renters at the cabin since my last trip there in February, so I don't expect to find too much out of order!  There's always plenty of yard clean-up to do, however.  Three vacant lots of trees manage to dump lots of needles and many branches over the winter.  And cleaning the carpet is a given.

Cataract surgery

I will not have to wear glasses all the time any more....just for reading. I'll have to learn how to not loose track of them! It will be so much easier to put on eye liner!

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Cataract Surgery on October 7th
Wow, what a difference! I had no idea what a dim world I was living in...now I cannot wait to get the other eye done. My left (new) eye sees a much greater tonal range. Whites are blue white. I can distinguish details in the shadows looking at the trees. I'll have no problem sorting dark socks now! The other eye sees everything through a yellow haze.