Shopping and Shots and Slicing

I've always been a little bit of a gear junkie but have not indulged myself for a very long time. I like to wash my dishes by hand. Makes those arthritic fingers happier. I tried various dish drainers and stuffed things under them to make them drain in the sink without success and they aren't dry by the next day. Then I found this. Not cheap but I love it and truly since I've been avoiding stores I have plumped my budget up. It drains into the sink through that spout on the bottom and dishes dry right away. Yahoo. Does't take much to make me happy.

 

I also got my second Pfizer vaccination last Saturday. My experience was the same as the first one. Slightly sore arm and slept most of the day Sunday. The real positive side effect was that a cloud of anxiety lifted. My life won't be changing much except now I'm not paying S-way a fortune to deliver groceries to me and I'm back to picking out my own vegetables hooray.

My eldest lovely Grand-girl who is remodeling her home managed to nearly slice her index finger off with a saws-all last Friday. Shattered the bone clear through. I've been shuttling her to the doctor and yesterday in for surgery on her hand. I didn't even know we actually had a hand surgeon here. Hooray! It looks good, I saw it without the bandages, healthy skin color and no infection so far but they can't guarantee the survival of the end of it as yet. She can actually feel the end of so I'm hopeful. It brought back memories of my grand-dad who was a shingle weaver in a saw mill.  He'd lost the ends of three fingers by the time I came along. When we asked him what happened to his fingers he used to tease us and say maybe they fell off and set us all to looking under the furniture for them, all anxious to be the one to find the missing digits. I'd be embarrassed to admit how many times I fell for that. 

I usually avoid political stuff but I'm very disappointed that our government and new President are doing an "oh well" and not pushing for some justice for about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder by the Saudi's. If you have any interest this is the NYT's opinion column today The Murderous Monarch

Here's hoping for a quieter week and good healing for my girl. I'll see her later today. Be safe everyone.

Oh The Weather Outside...

This is unusual. It started Thursday and hasn't really stopped since. I've lived here 22 years and this is the first time it's been this bad here. I sound like an old lady, oh wait, I am an old lady. This piece of natural art on my patio table is 11" high and frozen in place. As is our parking lot. Our snow removal company showed up about 8pm last night drove through once and left never to be seen again. I suspect the city has them working the streets for us. Nothing moving here. I expected to get my second vaccine shot today but that's rescheduled for next Saturday. I know it's worse elsewhere BUT this doesn't happen much here at least not in this quantity. We are not prepared for it, don't have the equipment etc. and it's a balmy 16°.  I traded my sweatpants for my old fleece ski pants. I did go to the pharmacy at Safeway late Wednesday for a RX and in an usual spell of caution I picked up another three bags of groceries. At least I won't run out of coffee, half and half and oatmeal, ha ha ha. Hope you are warm and the electricity stays on. 

Added to the décor, have a lot of big grandkid toys.

Vaccine, Grapenuts and Snow

All the groceries stores here are out of Grape Nuts.  I called and the Safeway store manager said Post cereals is having supply chain problem. I found 2 boxes at BiMart and took one. I am back to cooking oatmeal in the mornings. It's a favorite too with dried cranberries. Still can't get Clorox wipes for love nor money but I live alone and soap and water works just fine.  Are you still finding some things hard to buy?

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman (she's on Facebook also).

I have my second vaccine (Pfizer) shot appointment this coming Saturday at 8:30am.  I was was very tired after the first one and slept most of the day Sunday. That was all.  My MD said it will most likely happen again this time. She also told me not to take antihistamines or analgesics for 48 hours before the shot. Apparently those items interfere with the effectiveness of the vaccine.  Now four out of five of our family elders are vaccinated plus my daughter in law Heather who is medical personnel. She's the one who took us all to the vaccine clinics and several other stray elders she located. She is a very stand up   young woman. 

I will be comfortable enough to go shop up my own groceries at one of two smaller and less busy grocery stores here. Their produce is much better than the major store brands here deliver. The big store apples and tomatoes look like they had to walk all the way here.

A snow storm is coming in tomorrow maybe 14" over the next week. Ugh. But last year at this time we had a nasty flood. People lost their homes and farm critters. It also damaged three bridges in our small town. Mill Creek runs through the center of  downtown Walla Walla. So a slow melting pile of snow is an improvement. February - crikey.

February 07, 2020 Mill Creek, Walla Walla, WA

Stay well and warm everyone.