A Wacky Week

It's Sunday already.   Amazing.  Another "Downton Abbey" tonight.  The first day or so after an episode it seems like forever before the next one and now it's here!  It's a rainy day today after a week or two of  weather extremes.  Around the holidays it was cold and wet and we were into hats and coats for walking the dog.  Then last weekend it warmed up and we had three days in the 80s before the temps dropped again to what is normal winter weather here.  The big thing is that it is no longer freezing at night and our furnace isn't running constantly.   Southern California really needs this rain and last night and today it has been pretty steady but light.  Hopefully it won't cause any flooding in the burn areas and will soak in instead of running off.  The next week is supposed to be nice again and dry.  

It's been a wacky week just figuring stuff out.  We haven't done anything of note, really, but keeping up with the post office issues and the credit card debacle has been entertaining to say the least.  We got a box of mail on Tuesday - mail that our neighbor had pulled out of the postal box for us.  It was mostly solicitations for money, some Christmas cards, even one piece that had a forwarding sticker on it, but no credit cards.  We did get a terse email from someone in the Sparks post office that said they will be forwarding our email and that they were sorry for any inconvenience.  We haven't yet seen any forwarded mail since that note on Monday.  

The nice thing the box brought were the Christmas cards.  A few friends  I haven't heard from in ages sent cards, so I immediately wrote some emails to acknowlege the cards and catch them up on our life.  (Apparently they don't read the blog.  Bummer.)  In an exchange of emails I've now caught up with their lives and added a player to "Words With Friends."  It's been very nice hearing from them and I hope I can keep up a decent correspondence with them.  I've still got one more person to connect with to complete my end of things.

I did find patches for my flannel shirt!  Yay!  It's still in commission!  I couldn't bear the thought of losing it.  In the meantime I've discovered why my elbow went through one sleeve and not the other.  It's the way I sit when knitting or crocheting - with my right elbow balanced on the arm of the chair.  I'm going to have to start checking my other shirts for worn spots on the right sleeves.

After a hoop-jumping-for-security-reasons session with the credit union A  (the one that shipped the cards we never got), we've convinced them to send new cards directly to us.  In the meantime I still can't pay credit union B because I have no idea what the account number is.  Supposedly we should get new cards and that info this coming week.  I'm not holding my breath.  We are probably going to have to do what we did with credit union A and sign our lives away showing we are legit and they can send us the cards here - but that would mean canceling the ones in the mail and changing account numbers again.  I  have a feeling this saga will continue for a while.  

Stephanie and Pierce are coming to visit next weekend!  They will come Saturday after Steph gets off work, spend the night, and then go home on Sunday in time for Pierce to go to work.  We are very much looking forward to the visit.  They are quite enjoyable to be around.  

Another family member will be having major surgery this month and a loved one who had surgery last month now will start chemo.  We had all hoped she wouldn't have to but, unfortunately, that didn't turn out to be the case.  Roger's sciatica is easing up and he has been able to walk one loop around the top half of the park with me and Maggie.  I drop them off at the RV and then I go on for another lap.  Progress on that front is a good thing.  

We dog-sat last night for a couple of hours and that got kinda crazy.  First, just to confuse things, the dog's name is Maggie.  She is a puggle and is about 30 pounds to our Maggs' 20.  She is rambunctious and wants to play.  She's also vey vocal which we are not used to.  After they did their Tazmanian Devil routine running from one end of the RV to the other for about 10 minutes - Maggie chasing Maggs - they pretty much settled down.  At one point Maggs got up on the couch and just turned her back to Maggie probably thinking that if she ignoredher she would go away.  Poor Maggie, though, spent most of her time here sitting at the door looking for her owners. David and Eileen had a very long evening planned and didn't want to leave her in their RV for the entire time, so after we had her for a while, We took her out to pee, and then took her home.    She Was ready   to go - she did her business and then headed straight for her place.   We often talk about getting a second dog to keep Maggs company.  No, don't think that's gonna happen.  

Rog couldn't stand being cooped up any more today so he put on his raincoat over a sweater, got his iPod and is sitting outside under the shade canopy listening to his audio book and watching the rain!  I'm doing this and trying to come up with an idea for dinner wishing I had put something in the crock pot this morning.