Does anyone wonder what we did before computers/cell phones/tablets? We wrote letters! I did get nice handmade thank you notes for Christmas gifts from grandkids. Loved seeing the envelope addressed to Nana and Papa.
If you have Forever stamps in your drawer, they work for whatever the first class postage is currently. It will say “forever” somewhere on the stamp. Most of the stamps anymore are forever stamps.
Dan tilled my garden today. After he finished, we sat out on the back deck and drank a beer. Kim turned on the air conditioning in the clinic today. Topeka set a high for 70 degrees. That broke the record of 66 degrees set on this date in 1931. Just thought I should document the warm conditions here at the end of January.
Long time friends we met the first week we were married were here for dinner on Saturday. Afterward, we all went on to Manhattan for the KSU/OU basketball game. Disappointing outcome but great visit!
When will I learn? Don’t make a new recipe for a covered dish dinner. However, I warmed the leftovers over for lunch and it was pretty darn good. What’s that about?
This warm weather is making me have wonderlust. Is a roadtrip in our future? Certainly it is tempting to bring the pickup camper out of the barn and head down the road.
I’ve mentioned before that we have a feral cat. She is actually fairly tame anymore. Dan can pick her up if he is very careful—not me, though. I don’t think if an animal is born wild, it can ever be totally tamed. Laura (cat’s name) “hunts” the birds that are enjoying the sunflower seeds at the bird feeder on the back deck. These feeders are on top of the railing but she somehow makes a flying leap and gets them. Dan has taken to throwing a pop can at her. She then makes a flying leap off the deck. Still, she likes him better than me. Probably because he feeds her—not enough, I guess, because she eats those birds after she gets them.
Have a good ‘last day of the month’ tomorrow. Maybe I’ll get the Christmas header off my blog by February 1st!