Morning! The temperature has finally climbed above zero, but it’s not going too far above! And, Monday night, it started to snow, and it is still lightly snowing now at 15 degrees. Yeah, I’m looking at the forecast; we aren’t supposed to get over 24 degrees in the next ten days. Wonder what happened to global warming?
Yesterday, Cathy P, Liz, Emily, and I went to Fairbanks yesterday for some appointments. Since it was snowy and slick on the drive home, we spun out on Tenderfoot; I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my life. A trucker (Vlad from DIS) had also spun out near the top of the hill, and he’d stopped to chain up. I was going to pass him when I reached him but oncoming traffic appeared right as I was going to do my pass. I had to stop. Once I stopped, I couldn’t get friction on the road to get going. I had to back down the hill in (with my precious cargo and with snow blowing) while hoping that no one would come along. I finally got the van to slide up the hill in order to pass that trucker without incident. Ugh!!!!
Jim and Bonnie took Irene to the hospital last week but were able to bring her back home. She seems to have a lot of fluid around her heart, her heart is very weak, and she has to be on oxygen around the clock. Yesterday, Jim and Bonnie took her into the hospital again and she stayed overnight. I’m not sure what the prognosis is now.
On Saturday, Rich started having trouble with the big farm generator. He worked on it all Sunday to no avail. The farm had bought a back up generator for this very reason, but Rich has been having trouble getting it hooked up with the right settings. In the meantime, we’ve been using a smaller farm generator that doesn’t pull our various loads very well. Yesterday, Rich went over to see Steve Selveggio at Whitestone to get some help. Our other mechanics are Tom, Brad, and Tony, and they are in Wasilla still. Anyway, things with the generator are not right still, but hopefully that’ll work out soon.
Gosh Chris Toby is out with the horses clearing the roads around the farm. Andy says it only snowed two inches, but it sure seems more than that in all it’s fluffiness. Besides, we’re supposed to be having puddles right now, not more snow.
Kimberli is due any minute now; so is Grace Marshal from Whitestone. My niece, Kelsey’s baby has turned into his proper position; let’s hope and pray he stays there. Jennifer and Kelly and others have gotten the nursery cleaned and freshly painted for the new babies.
Steve Squires fell earlier this winter and hurt his wrist. He’s been wearing a brace, but since it continued to hurt, he went to have it checked out. The wrist has several fractures, and if it had been caught earlier, a surgery would’ve been in order. Now, it has started healing so hopefully it heals well soon and correctly.
Thomas said they are doing well on their land clearing job for the railroad right of way. He says that although their road “as the crow flies” is 6 miles, the way they have to take due to land forms and such is really 7 miles. And that even though there are lots of little creeks and ponds and lakes all around, the one leg span width of a creek that they are working by cannot be touched in any way by their heavy equipment. They have to do all this fancy foot work (with huge machines) to do their job. And… they are supposed to be hauling logs to a log yard that the company they are working for has yet to build. Sounds like fun. Other than these things, they are getting their job done in the right amount of time and without too many breakdowns.
Joey was home for a few days; now he’s gone back to work.
We’ve had a violent 24 hour flu bug going around among some folk, mostly the younger kids. L And Kerri has tonsillitis again.
Gosh, I had more news but it has flown from my head. I’ll save it for later, I guess. Take care!
My Valentine's pigmy rose bush Pat bought me, is finally blooming!...yaaaiii
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