Hello February

My last post ended with Bye Bye January so "hello February" is here even though it is mid Feb already! As retired people, we have managed to stay busier than ever even though we get to decide what time we wake up and when to eat our lunch break :) I am so very thankful I am retired at an early age but I can see how the many years I worked have made lasting impressions in my life to mold me who I am today.
This February we have already been to a church retreat where we endured frigidly cold wet weather but left Shocco Springs not necessarily on a high but with a frame of mind to KNOW God's grace is always surrounding us. Some of my favorite friends were there and we also made some new friends among the 70 people at the retreat.Jack and friends, Marilyn and Rob Thomas
our friends the Plumbs and new friend, Kathy (Peggy's sister from Virginia)
Madge and I - we ate a lot of snacks since everyone brought goodies to add to the flavor of the weekend :)I'd rather eat snacks than a meal, how about you?

This week, Jack and I were able to take my 90 year old father to a vascular procedure he needed in BHam and we had a rather interesting experience during our waiting room time. Daddy was to be gone 2 hours in the procedure and the nurse told us to feel free to wander and leave if we wanted to. We saw a Panera Bread in the complex we were in and gave her our cell phone # in case we were needed and walked up through the complex to get a cup of coffee. We heard some sort of broadcast throughout the parking deck when we arrived but had ignored it in the midst of getting Daddy settled into the Doctor's office. Well, that broadcast was coming from the floor above Daddy's surgery area and it was the live Rick and Bubba Show (famous well known DJ's and radio talk show performers in our area of Alabama). One can see them performing from the glass walls right there in the complex.


Kind of funny to have your father being surgically worked on right below and being waved to "come on in" by Rick and Bubba themselves on the floor where you thought you would just get a cup of coffee at Panera Bread!
Sure enough Rick and Bubba waved me to come on in as they saw this crazy woman out there getting her friendly camera ready. They were extremely nice and welcomed me to take any picture and they wanted to talk "Auburn talk" and all that too.

You just never know what lively encounter you might have, folks, so my motto is have the camera ready at all times!
In conclusion before I go out to play in the snow a bit (it is coming down pretty solid now and we are excited to see it), I must add that Daddy did well and as you can see even at age 90, he was hobbling in his very proud Alabama slippers and with a cane to see him through this healing time. He is yet amazing at how he ages so well.Of interest to me and maybe to you is that he still loves new gadgets and has no reservations to go out and try something new if he is able. He told me to come into his kitchen and see his new smoothie machine!
He loves this gadget called the "magic bullet". In fact he sold me on it. Now I am going out to get one as soon as the snow lets up and the roads are safe!