Friday Morning

Well it's down right nippy this morning with temp's down into the low 40's and a wind of 18-20 mph out of the north, Brr!!!

Thursday was a rather wet and cloudy day. After the usual morning routine I headed out on the bike to the rec for some pickle ball around 7:45 and around 9:30 it started to sprinkle. There were 4 of us and then 2 more came so we had a good group and got in some really good play before skies opened up. My shirt was completely soaked as it was still warm and humid. There were a couple slack periods of rain so I high tailed home and managed to not add too much wetness to the shirt.

Nancy was meeting up with Amy at GG's for lunch then they were going to help clean out GG's cupboards as she is having her kitchen remodeled the first week in February. I stayed home, read and ate some left overs for lunch. I'm still managing to reduce the spare tire by holding my portions down as well as limiting my processed foods intake like breads, crackers, chips etc. Nancy called around 2 PM, after that job she and GG went appliance shopping once again and got back here to the house around 4 PM. I picked lettuces and then made a big toss salad that would go along with our marinated grilled chicken breast and parsley taters' for supper.

On a sad note my aunt Nancy in Virginia passed away after a long illness. She was in her 80's and now all of the sisters have died in the family leaving 3 brothers. One of our dear friends in the mountains who is in her early 40's with 2 children was diagnosed with toxicity of the bone marrow and there is nothing they can do for her so she was sent home to die.  Pray for Sherry Maxwell. Her former husband was the football coach at Allegheny High School for a few years.

We also learned where the area in the mountain received a tremendous snow along with rain, ice and winds. Much of the area was without electricity last evening as we spoke to our "mountain mom" on her car phone. The weather there has been spring like for a week or so and now what a change as did our weather from the a/c on to now the possibility of heat. The sun is shining brightly so the cold won't last all day. It's supposed to get up to the 60's today which is tolerable.

 Nancy spoke with our mountain neighbor Jodi who is planning a trip to their cabin today and over the week end. Hopefully they can get in the road and up the hill and they have some juice in the wires. Gerald has a couple wood stoves so they will have heat. We hope they can take a few snow photos for us and if so we will share them on FB. Well that's about it for a Thursday, LATER