Ups and Downs

Good news from one sister and scary news from the other. I sure hope Dave is okay, Pati. Winter driving is bad enough on the highways. Winnipeg streets must be awful. I did get started on my house cleaning yesterday. By noon I was thinking it must be 5pm!!! Jim worked on the Rec Room while watching curling, so I won't have to do much there. I bought myself I 360 Swiffer Duster yesterday. I used it this morning on my ceiling fans. Obviously I have never dusted my ceiling fans before! I was even able to reach the one in the entranceway by standing on the stairs and extending my arm as far as I could. Today will be the bathroom and washing floors and then sorting stuff. (Maybe... maybe not...) Even if no one else can tell I will know that I have cleaned. It may still be messy but the underneath is what was getting on my nerves. I made it out to the garden shed yesterday. The snow was up to my crotch. I would have liked to have been watching myself lunging through the drifts! I got my bedding trays and then coming back I tossed my shovel ahead, then gave the trays a push forward, and then lunged forward myself. Reached the trays and shot them forward again. And so on........ I bought potting soil, though. I had some in a big pail in the shed, but there was no way I was moving that through the snow. Flowers here I come. Jim has been having pains in his stomach the last couple of days. With everything that has been happening to him lately, I am making him phone the doctor today. Hopefully it is just because he eats potato chips and jujubes instead of real food. (You'd think his wife would feed him, wouldn't you?)