I was abruptly woken up at 6:30 this morning by Lacey the lab barking for her breakfast. Now she hasn’t done this in a while so I thought she had to go out or something, but all she wanted was some food. It must be my fault as I’m normally up much earlier.
I noticed when going out to get the paper (after feeding the dogs) that the windshields on the cars had a thin layer of ice. It’s about 22 degrees outside right now but feels great.
Yesterday the oldest and I ran down to REI to get him some new snow boots as I had a 20% off coupon. He now wears a mens 8 or 9 meaning his shoes and boots now cost the same as mine, he just has a smaller size. We finally found a good pair that cost us a bit over $100! These were about the least expensive we could find. We did buy the 9’s so he should get a few years out of them and then his brother will use them. That’s the only upside to the expense. We then headed to Old Navy hoping to find him some new pants that would fit in the waist and the length. We tried everything they had on but in order to get pants that are long enough, the waist was too huge. Looks like we’ll have to head back to the western stores. We then grabbed a quick sandwich for lunch and headed home.
Mom was on the couch trying to keep her head from hurting anymore than it already does. Thankfully we go to the doc tomorrow but then it’ll be at least a day (probably more) before anyone can get her in for treatment. Luckily the bad drug that was sent to 23 states and used in treatments like hers, was not sent to Colorado. This is good as many people are getting meningitis and some have died. Nice that you can’t count on safe medicine, food or much else these days.
I ran a couple more errands to get some shotgun shells with my buddy as he gets a military discount on cases which is a big deal. I wasn’t going to spend the $62 but his discount coupled with the sale they had going saved me about $60!
Meanwhile the misses made some lasagna for dinner which hit the spot with the cool weather outside. It rained or misted snow for most of the day so both dogs were in for the entire afternoon. Mojo has a habit of running upstairs and coming down with a stuffed animal in his mouth looking all proud. Yesterday he made the mistake of grabbing Pookie, which is the oldest guys most prized possession, that he found in Italy when he was 4 years old. Big mistake, not only was Mojo scolded, we had to wash Pookie right away to get the dog slobber off him. The oldest really doesn’t care about stuffed animals anymore EXCEPT for Pookie.
Today we’ll be watching some football and taking it easy. I do need to try to take the boys to Target for some new pants. Hopefully we’ll be able to find something. The Race for the Cure for breast cancer is this morning and there’s thousands of people running in it to support this great cause.
Friday morning a 10 year old girl was snatched while walking 3 blocks from her home on the way to school. There has been an Amber Alert ever since but no sign of her. What kind of world are we living in these days. It’s just not like it was when we were kids. We really need to get out of the city. Not that things haven’t changed everywhere but in some smaller communities in the mountains, these kind of problems are less frequent.
The youngest guy just came down to join me so time to run. I almost forgot, when I was running errands yesterday, Uncle T and Aunt B showed up with some new sweatshirts for the boys! They’re really cool and both boys love them. Thanks.
Have a great day and cheer for the Broncos over the Patriots today, we need all the help we can get.