Tuesday, December 16, 2025

I so miss Shel. I think of her often and how brave she was in her last days. Do you remember how she made her daughter's graduation party so special? I guess it was one of the last gifts from her.

That was my problem - they wouldn't stick! Grrr.

A few of my neighbors have generators (those who moved from back East or the Midwest) and our community well has a generator, but thankfully, power outages are rare here. Our powerlines are buried. So if the power goes out, it's generally because they're working on something. If it's going well, it's short, if it's not going well, it can last all day. But I happened to look at the power company website the other day and it said it has been 132 days since my last outage. So it's not that bad. The bummer is, without power I don't have Internet, and without Internet I don't have a working phone or any bars to look up the power company website...

Did your brother's success with the sleeve lead to your surgery, or was it the other way around? So glad he had some years of freedom from the struggle with obesity.