It certainly looks to be cool and dreary there in Arizona. It is very cold in our area; +8 degrees right now with a fairly strong wind.
Walking across from the far end of the lot at the mall this afternoon (your mom forgot her cripple card) was very painful. No hat, no scarf, and a frozen face.
No snow remaining but it is predicted for Christmas Eve.
The church at Signal Hill is very pretty for the holidays. I meant to take my camera and get an inside shot but, alas, forgot.
Dick, Lee, and I helped Rebecca and Jason load the truck for their move to Louisville. One other fellow from Jason’s work helped for about two hours. But it still wasn’t too bad. Took us a little over three hours to complete the job.
Jason and Rebecca left about three o’clock but had to stop in Mt. Vernon. Jason had twisted his ankle (right foot) and it had swollen up so they stayed over at a motel ‘til this morning. They got to Louisville ok sometime after noon.
Your mom and I had to do the money counting at church then made the deposit. After that we went to the mall to finish (hopefully) our shopping.
Schools are out but I will be working the next two days. We have a lot of personnel files to update.
That’s about it for now.
Love from Home Alone
Dad
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hi, All,
I went to the post office today to send three boxes to Arizona. The postal services promised me the carefully wrapped packages (including fudge) would arrive safely in that distant, foreign place. I 'll wait and see. Also sent a few re-directed envelopes.
We are getting rain (some freezing) and a few thunder rumbles.
Jason dropped over tonight. He was going to include a couple of gifts in my shipment but I had forgotten that. Not enough room anyway so I will be the good dad and do his duty for him.
I think I will head for the bed now. It is closing onto 10:00 and I, as usual, have an early start. We are having a potlatch at the office, so I have to get that all set up and also take my dish; green beans with onions, mushrooms, sauce and butter. Simple, easy, and good.
Good night and love to all and big hug (…………………………………………………….)
Dad
I went to the post office today to send three boxes to Arizona. The postal services promised me the carefully wrapped packages (including fudge) would arrive safely in that distant, foreign place. I 'll wait and see. Also sent a few re-directed envelopes.
We are getting rain (some freezing) and a few thunder rumbles.
Jason dropped over tonight. He was going to include a couple of gifts in my shipment but I had forgotten that. Not enough room anyway so I will be the good dad and do his duty for him.
I think I will head for the bed now. It is closing onto 10:00 and I, as usual, have an early start. We are having a potlatch at the office, so I have to get that all set up and also take my dish; green beans with onions, mushrooms, sauce and butter. Simple, easy, and good.
Good night and love to all and big hug (…………………………………………………….)
Dad
Monday, December 15, 2008
Snow day
We did get ice and snow overnight. The accumulation was not heavy but the schools in the area declared a snow day.
I went to the mall for lunch and bought a new sweater vest. Also got a gift for your mom. Had lunch there and used the last 2 dollars on my Starbucks gift card. Actually, I still have 15 cents on the card. Where is the cents key on this keyboard?
Took your mom to work (did not want her to walk on the ice) and picked her up for her doctors appointment; preliminary visit regarding her carpal tunnel procedure.
Rebecca’s mom had surgery today. We haven’t heard anything. Which is good, I suppose.
Not much going on here this week. Oh, yes, I did get the shingles vaccine. No insurance coverage so I had to pay the, gulp, $200 bucks. Looks like my daughter gets the Starbucks card for Christmas. I am certain the shot will be paid for by insurance sometime after the first of the year.
Oh, well. If life were fair it would be called FAIR !
In 3 minutes it will be 10:00PM so that is my reminder that I get up at 5:00 AM. First thing I do in the morning is checking the school closings. If you were to be curious, go to KMOV.com and see what is closed. You have to wade through all the Saints Theresa’s and Saint Peters cause they all close first.
Well, quite enough of this. Love to all and to all a good…wait! Things came in the mail today. I shook them and smelled them and held them up to the light, but to no avail. Your mom said we could not open them. “But they are not wrapped”, I protested. She said it didn’t matter; they will lay unwrapped, in inelegant repose under the tree, in the far back. “Somewhat like a Goodwill Store display”, I haughtily re-joined.
Good night and love to one and all.
Dad
I went to the mall for lunch and bought a new sweater vest. Also got a gift for your mom. Had lunch there and used the last 2 dollars on my Starbucks gift card. Actually, I still have 15 cents on the card. Where is the cents key on this keyboard?
Took your mom to work (did not want her to walk on the ice) and picked her up for her doctors appointment; preliminary visit regarding her carpal tunnel procedure.
Rebecca’s mom had surgery today. We haven’t heard anything. Which is good, I suppose.
Not much going on here this week. Oh, yes, I did get the shingles vaccine. No insurance coverage so I had to pay the, gulp, $200 bucks. Looks like my daughter gets the Starbucks card for Christmas. I am certain the shot will be paid for by insurance sometime after the first of the year.
Oh, well. If life were fair it would be called FAIR !
In 3 minutes it will be 10:00PM so that is my reminder that I get up at 5:00 AM. First thing I do in the morning is checking the school closings. If you were to be curious, go to KMOV.com and see what is closed. You have to wade through all the Saints Theresa’s and Saint Peters cause they all close first.
Well, quite enough of this. Love to all and to all a good…wait! Things came in the mail today. I shook them and smelled them and held them up to the light, but to no avail. Your mom said we could not open them. “But they are not wrapped”, I protested. She said it didn’t matter; they will lay unwrapped, in inelegant repose under the tree, in the far back. “Somewhat like a Goodwill Store display”, I haughtily re-joined.
Good night and love to one and all.
Dad
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sunday night,
Well we had a good time with the Stolles and with the Sorgeas last night.
Your mom made hot beef sandwiches and lasagna soup. Everything turned out ok.
Jason and Rebecca came by this afternoon. Jason had to go to work and Rebecca was headed to Louisville.
Your mom is feverishly wrapping gifts. I usually get to make the December 23rd trip to the post office. Maybe just maybe, I will do it a little earlier. As you can tell by the picture, I am looking forward to to that.
You are lucky that packages left for you will stay dry. All the delivery services here love to put packages where they can get wet.
Looks like we will get a little ice in the morning but not as bad as earlier predicted. Less than ½ inch on the trees so that should be ok.
Well we had a good time with the Stolles and with the Sorgeas last night.
Your mom made hot beef sandwiches and lasagna soup. Everything turned out ok.
Jason and Rebecca came by this afternoon. Jason had to go to work and Rebecca was headed to Louisville.
Your mom is feverishly wrapping gifts. I usually get to make the December 23rd trip to the post office. Maybe just maybe, I will do it a little earlier. As you can tell by the picture, I am looking forward to to that.
You are lucky that packages left for you will stay dry. All the delivery services here love to put packages where they can get wet.
Looks like we will get a little ice in the morning but not as bad as earlier predicted. Less than ½ inch on the trees so that should be ok.
I will be helping Jason load up next Saturday. They do not have many friends here anymore, so I am going to try to recruit Lee and Dickto help.
That’s about it or now. Love to all. Dad
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Here in south central Illinois, we are waiting for an ice storm. As a reminder of what it looked like last year, here are a couple of pictures.
We had a lot of fun with the video cam last night. Savannah is an excellent tour guide. I am going to do some upgrading to my computer to, hopefully, make it a little faster. I'm sure the speed is limited somewhat by the cable connection.
We have a busy day ahead of us. We have company coming tonight to have hot beef sandwiches and a soup made from a recipe your mom found on the net.
Jason and I went to the Dandy Inn for wings on Thursday night; two ponds of whole wings for $7.50. They are good. No sauce.
Route 50 in front of Sonics in O’Fallon is experiencing severe mine subsidence fro the old St. Ellen Mine. Several businesses were forced to close temporarily. Water main has broken three times in a week. And the main sewer line is a disaster.
Lots of Illinois news around the world. A salesman told me once that there is no such thing as bad publicity so long as word about the product is getting out.
We think the Governor has lived beyond his means for so long that he cannot afford to resign and lose a paycheck. It is unfortunate that some folks would like to tie Obama into this in some way. They do not realize that it is critically important for Obama to succeed as our president.
Your mom likes to talk at length with Sally almost every night. So I have bought her a new cordless phone with a nice headset and microphone. Hope she uses it.
Jason and Rebecca plan on staying here from Christmas Eve for a couple of days. That will be nice. Then on to Louisville and their new life. I hope all this works out. Right now, everyone is so vulnerable economically.
The banks are the biggest danger to those who are just getting by. They are in some cases doubling interest rates on credit cards even for good, reliable customers. Another trick they are using is abruptly lowering a cards credit limits, sometimes below what is currently owed, then charging over limit fees and boosting the interest to 29%. An the taxpayers are bailing these criminals out of thir own mess.
Then letting the domestic automakers go down the tubes. The southern states are proudly anti union and have attracted a lot of foreign car makers. Of course the southern senators will gleefully let the big three die. It is in their own political interest. (WORD just scolded me for using a reflexive pronoun (say what?))
Ha ! I am going to leave it, so there.
Well enough of this,
Love you all
Dad
We had a lot of fun with the video cam last night. Savannah is an excellent tour guide. I am going to do some upgrading to my computer to, hopefully, make it a little faster. I'm sure the speed is limited somewhat by the cable connection.
We have a busy day ahead of us. We have company coming tonight to have hot beef sandwiches and a soup made from a recipe your mom found on the net.
Jason and I went to the Dandy Inn for wings on Thursday night; two ponds of whole wings for $7.50. They are good. No sauce.
Route 50 in front of Sonics in O’Fallon is experiencing severe mine subsidence fro the old St. Ellen Mine. Several businesses were forced to close temporarily. Water main has broken three times in a week. And the main sewer line is a disaster.
Lots of Illinois news around the world. A salesman told me once that there is no such thing as bad publicity so long as word about the product is getting out.
We think the Governor has lived beyond his means for so long that he cannot afford to resign and lose a paycheck. It is unfortunate that some folks would like to tie Obama into this in some way. They do not realize that it is critically important for Obama to succeed as our president.
Your mom likes to talk at length with Sally almost every night. So I have bought her a new cordless phone with a nice headset and microphone. Hope she uses it.
Jason and Rebecca plan on staying here from Christmas Eve for a couple of days. That will be nice. Then on to Louisville and their new life. I hope all this works out. Right now, everyone is so vulnerable economically.
The banks are the biggest danger to those who are just getting by. They are in some cases doubling interest rates on credit cards even for good, reliable customers. Another trick they are using is abruptly lowering a cards credit limits, sometimes below what is currently owed, then charging over limit fees and boosting the interest to 29%. An the taxpayers are bailing these criminals out of thir own mess.
Then letting the domestic automakers go down the tubes. The southern states are proudly anti union and have attracted a lot of foreign car makers. Of course the southern senators will gleefully let the big three die. It is in their own political interest. (WORD just scolded me for using a reflexive pronoun (say what?))
Ha ! I am going to leave it, so there.
Well enough of this,
Love you all
Dad
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Decorated for Christmas
Your mom is done decorating. She wanted you to have a look see.
I hung wreaths out side. Several houses in the neighborhood went all out but I decided to go simple.
12 degrees this morning. Supposed to warm up to a freezing drizzle in the morning.
We went to church this morning then to Bob Evans for breakfast. Rebecca was at O'Fallon this weekend but we did not get to see her. I guess we will be hosting them for a couple of days over Christmas. That's good.
We enjoyed your last post. Keep it coming. I print them out and your mom keeps tyhem in a folder.
Well that's it for now. Love you one and all
Dad
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Minutia
We went shopping a couple of times on Saturday and Sunday. Stopped in at the furniture store to look at recliners. We want a leather one; medium sized. But as usual, we could not decide.
We may never get one.
Your mother continues decorating the house for Christmas. I did my part by doing some outside decorating.
It continues to be busy at work. We are short of drivers We fired one, one has an injury from a car wreck and has quit, and another one has found love in Atlanta and is leaving us in two weeks.
Then someone did an anonymous call in to the paper, which prints any anonymous crank call. We think it was the one who got fired (made a threat of violence against the boss). We think the ‘new bus driver’ part was an attempt by the one who was fired to fool us into thinking it was someone else. She was the most malcontented and disruptive employee in the office.
Morale drops low
I am a new school bus driver for First Student in O'Fallon. The morale is very low here. The employee break room was taken away in September. In addition, the company has canceled the Christmas party to save money. All parents should be concerned if they have a child who rides on a First Student bus because low morale can create an unsafe environment. Many of the experienced drivers are leaving. Your paper needs to do a story on any other companies that are canceling their Christmas parties.
We may never get one.
Your mother continues decorating the house for Christmas. I did my part by doing some outside decorating.
It continues to be busy at work. We are short of drivers We fired one, one has an injury from a car wreck and has quit, and another one has found love in Atlanta and is leaving us in two weeks.
Then someone did an anonymous call in to the paper, which prints any anonymous crank call. We think it was the one who got fired (made a threat of violence against the boss). We think the ‘new bus driver’ part was an attempt by the one who was fired to fool us into thinking it was someone else. She was the most malcontented and disruptive employee in the office.
Morale drops low
I am a new school bus driver for First Student in O'Fallon. The morale is very low here. The employee break room was taken away in September. In addition, the company has canceled the Christmas party to save money. All parents should be concerned if they have a child who rides on a First Student bus because low morale can create an unsafe environment. Many of the experienced drivers are leaving. Your paper needs to do a story on any other companies that are canceling their Christmas parties.
Oh, well, I am sure this type of person is honored in her circle of friends.
Well it sure looks like you are statistically improving the Arizonan Tourist Indices.
What is on your next weekend’s agenda?
Katy is in from California and visiting Sally in Sterling. I am sure your mom would love to go up for a visit. I don’t mind when she does that.
I tore the fence down between this house and Sorgea’s old house. The wind had partially wrecked it so I gave up on working with old stuff. I’ll put in a new one across there in the spring.
That’s about it from Home Alone…
Be safe out there, Love to all
Dad
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