THINGS TO DO DAY and FIRST COLD SNAP

MONDAY
11-10-2014

Wow. Can you believe it? Already mid-November. Where does the year go?

Snow on the garage roof this morning, snow on the deck! A very light dusting, but WTF?

Got up at 6:30, turned on the fireplace, then went back to bed. Lil Bit jumped out of bed and tried bothering us, but later got back into bed and slept longer with us until 8:30. We were lazy.

Made cheese eggs for dogs. Made egg sandwich for hubby.

Started dishes.

We got dogs ready for a walk. I had already warmed up hubby's latte from yesterday, so he did not stop for a drink today. Went to the park and walked them around the water tower. Of course, some idiot hunter had to drive thru and bother us again!

Then we came home and dumped off dogs. Hubby got the tire off my car & showed the nail in it that had caused the slow leak. We loaded it up on the truck and went into Rathdrum to get lattes, drop off tire, make a deposit at the bank.

After that, we drove to Post Falls purchased pelled stove pipe at Ziggys, I walked Ben afterwards, and then we stopped to get a part for hubby at Advance Compressors.

Drove to Lowe's to get lightbulbs & a thermostat for the pellet stove. Saw Vera there. She was looking better but still was wired & could not talk well. According to her doctor, she can get the wire removed in 2 weeks.

We went to Fasteners to check on a drill bit for hubby which they did not have. Ben & I waited in the truck. Drove to Big R to pick up dog food & burlap bag for our tree. Lots of people wanted to pet Benny. One couple cornered me and asked questions about him & rescue.

Deposited checks at Horizon bank, picked up dog burgers at Wendy's. Made a BIG mistake in going to ULTA. WHY do I not learn? They are rude, never had the advertised Sale items, and I always regret going in. I wrote an email to complain about the Coeur d'Alene store. The women there are SO rude.

Hubby picked up a transmission and then we drove back thru Rathdrum to get the tire. Picked up another latte.

Raced home before dark to get the fish transferred inside. We had to clean out their tank. Some of the tank things were so filthy, we will have to throw them away. Impossible to clean off the algae. Hubby unloaded his transmission and let Mark inside the shop to pick up some tools he had left here.

We were cold, exhausted, & wet by the time we got done with the fish. Whitey looks really bad. His poor little cyst on his left fin is HUGE and he can barely swim. I think it is time to euthanize him peacefully.

Watched TV after we were done. Hubby had to get warmed up because he had been trying to clean out the tank in freezing 27 degree weather.

The arctic cold from the Alaska Hurricane has pushed a cold snap down to us. Weather.com and television weather people had been predicting rain thru the rest of this week, but it dipped down & we were besieged by snow!

Went to bed at 10:00.