Oboy, we moved again! I like the new location, but aren't we a little CLOSE to the tracks? I mean, one of my Yellowstones would take out the kitchen with the overhang, LOL!
Phil: Prayers for your wife and son, I hope that their surgeries go well.
Jeff: Best wishes for your salve, also. I like the weathering on those cars of yours.
Well, Mother and sister left last Friday, and my sister's radiation treatments seemed to have gone very well. Time will tell--it's going to take somewhere from 2 to 4 weeks to see exactly how successful they were, but her eyes are much improved. Hopefully, if the treatment takes, she'll not need corrective surgery on them. Saturday was a very strange day, I didn't have to 'wait' on anyone.
Played Vespers on Saturday, which was a kinda/sorta weird 'trip' for me, since the Mass was the first for All Saint's Day, and I had to come home to what I thought would be a boatload of Trick or Treater's. Oddly enough, I only had about 10 the whole night. Our neighborhood doesn't have too many children anymore (even though there's a grammar school right over my back fence), and we didn't have the typical "Let's Bus The Kids In From Other Neighborhoods" that we've had in the past, so I ended up with a freezer full of mini-Milky Ways, Three Musketeers and Snickers. And before anyone goes PC on me with "Healthy Halloween Treats", my answer is that it's the only legitimate Holiday of the year for a Major Sugar Rush. So there, LOL!
Woke up Sunday with a sore throat, which carried over to today, so I phoned in sick for school. Had to. We've got an iron-clad rule this year, what with the Swine Flu scare. You have any symptoms, even if it's a minor cold, you STAY HOME! Still a little sore, and I've got the sniffles, so I've been scarfing Dayquil and OJ all day. Luckily, tomorrow's my usual day off (I only teach 3 days a week this year), so I'll hopefully be in shape for Wednesday.
One of my bosses, Fr. Wanser suggested I have a couple of rum and OJ's. He told me that he didn't know whether it HELPED a cold, but after the third one, I wouldn't care if I had a cold or not, LOL! But then, this is a man that will send a Harvey Wallbanger back to the bartender if it doesn't have a small 'haze' coming off of the top of the glass.
So I spent the day at the kitchen table sniffling and 'tweaking' a couple of brass locos (supervised, of course, by Spooky and Uff-Dah). Spooky's my chief critic, if the loco sounds a little noisy, she'll spit at it. Uff-Dah just sits there and watches the wheels go around.
I've decided that my big Viking, though handsome and sweet, just isn't the Brightest Light in the Harbor, sometimes, LOL!
Well, that's it from SunnyCal (as usual, sigh). We DO have cold mornings, though. Supposedly, there's a system out in the Pacific that might grace us with some rain by the weekend. I just hope it's not another one of those errant typhoons that have been slamming into the Far East. If it's THAT kind of weather funnel this year, we're really in for it!
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom