It's 7 degrees and windy right now (right now is 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday). We had an extremely windy day Monday with lots of threats of power outages but nothing like that happened in Hawkeye. Wow were we lucky. There was a tree down across the hardtop but someone got to it before I did and moved it out of the road.
I spent several hours with my cousin (on my mother's side), who came from his Vermont home for a visit. He's a very nice, gentle man who's had a complicated life. His brother died of cancer before he was 30, then John got cancer twice not many years after his brother died. He's now nearly 60 and worries a lot about his future. His lungs and heart have been damaged by the radiation treatments he had many years ago but he works hard at staying healthy. We don't have a lot in common but he likes to keep in touch, my sister, mother and I are the only members of the family he has left (his parents died within the last few years). He's married and has 2 nice sons so his life is good but he's anxious and I feel for him. Anyway we had a good visit and he skied down to camp and across the lake and enjoyed that a lot. I declined the offer of a snowshoe outing with him--I think he probably had more fun taking off on his own.
After he left I went to Plattsburgh for groceries, I needed more than the small store in AuSable has to offer. Isn't it a wonderful feeling to have enough money to shop for just about anything you want to buy? Food, glorious food.
I have a cold, this seems grossly unfair because I already had one cold this winter. It's not a bad cold and I'm not suffering, just all plugged up. Given the health scares and states of some of my friends and relatives I feel pretty darn lucky. and healthy.
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