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I voted in the VA primary today

Hubby stayed home again today, he’s feeling a bit better, but still grumpy!  He didn’t get much resting done though because the insurance representative finally showed up and he left in time for us to head downtown and to vote in the Potomac Primary.

We got a bit of snow last night which caused the schools to close and it has been snowing and sleeting a good portion of the day.  We froze our butts off while standing outside for close to an hour with the adjuster, ended the appointment with a nice cup of hot chocolate, Hubby would have, I’m sure, preferred a beer.

Can’t wait to hear the results of the voting that went on today.  The voting location that we use wasn’t crowded in the least, but then we were only in there for approximately 10 minutes.  This was actually the easiest and quickest time yet that we have experienced. 

Time to watch the evening news!

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Monday, ugh….

Had to stay home from work today, Hubby is still ill and we are having the coldest temperatures we’ve had all winter, think I’ll light a fire in the fireplace tonight. Got a call first thing this a.m. from the insurance company and they are sending a claims representative out today to check out the fallen tree in the back yard.  I’m not looking forward to going outside to the backyard in this freezing temperature withe him, and poor Hubby insists on getting bundled up so he can join us and ask questions also.  Looks like I will need plenty of chicken soup to get us through this one, hot chocolate for me though!

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Oh the weather outside is frightful

The wind is howling so hard and so loud that I barely heard the knocking at the front door, we have a doorbell just for that use but people around here tend to only knock.  A neighbor from a few houses down, came by to inform us that she had heard a loud noise outside and noticed that a tree had come down in our backyard.  So with that sudden news, Hubby as quickly as he could, climbed out of bed, we all threw on our warm clothes and went out back to check it out. 

Oh the horror of it all! It seems that our next door neighbor now has one of his trees in our backyard.  What a mess it is.  The tree has landed right in our beautiful back part of the yard that we have been working so hard at making it a nice sitting area for us to enjoy.  It didn’t get our garden, though it did take out a few of the lawn chairs, plus the fallen tree also clipped the back of the garage, took out the old satellite dish and there are now pieces of tree everywhere and boy is Hubby hopping mad.  We have had several talks with this neighbor concerning several of the old and rotting trees in his yard that we were afraid were going to come down, right where this tree is right now. I guess talk time is over.

A call to our well paid insurance company has been made and it looks like we have our work cut out for us for the next few weeks.  Hey, on the lighter side of it all, maybe we will get some firewood out of the deal, the cost of heating oil is killing us this year.

 

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Hearing awful news down Tennessee way

Am worried today about my sister and her family that live in Tennessee.  The news is now saying 48 fatalities and I can’t seem to get through to her over the phone.  The T.V. is saying that a lot of lines are down so I’m not too surprised about not getting hold of her. 

It is rough having family members living in so many places south of us that are always dealing with some kind of severe weather issues such as North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida.  They are all such beautiful places but I’m glad once again that I live in Virginia, we rarely deal with such disasters.

Guess I’ll just keep trying to reach her.