Let's Have a Look-See

Since I retired, I have spent most days with Scott. He was working from home and then he quit to be a Substitute Teacher. No one could have predicted that the district would have such a slow hiring process. But Scott worked every day this week and I was finally alone.  It was glorious. He is very easy to work with, but I love hanging around the house by myself.  I finished my Christmas decorations.  We had a beautiful sunset one night.  The cat loves the Christmas tree. We went as a family to buy for Toys for Tots and then came home and watched A Charlie Brown Christmas.  I took my dad's beautiful cousin to lunch. She celebrated her 97th birthday this week. She is my hero. We can talk for hours about politics and education. I want to grow up to be like her.  And I received my Betty ornament in the mail.  So darn cute.  I also delivered a donation to a non profit bl...

I guess June had it right when she stood by the window and said, It's going to snow. I know it's going to snow.'  It didn't start until 6:30 am, but it came down fast and by noon there was six inches. This is the Kansas Turnpike. Lots of slide offs and crews trying to keep up, but a very messy drive to the airport.  The airport was mess. There were many delays and cancellations making for unhappy people. We boarded our plane at a pretty good time but there was no crew to load luggage so we sat on the tarmack for an hour before we were able to take off.  So we missed our flight in Salt Lake.  I found a hotel and figured out how to use the Lyft app that Callie had helped me install when I went to North Carolina alone.  The next day we waited around for an 1:30  flight in a very quiet airport. We finally got home about 3:00. Long , long trip home.  On Sunday, while in Kansas I was asked to sub on Wednesday a...