Wednesday Status

You can "like" or "dislike" my status today.  All it takes is clicking on the button-----if you can find it, that is.  

For non-Facebookers, the preceding comment is a "you have to be there," so don't worry if you don't understand, and for heaven's sake, don't go looking for the button.

I haven't decided whether I "like" my status yet today.  

So far, Bill's still ill.  I do "like" that, not that "Bill's still ill," but the words work well in a literary sense.  

Bill is now downstairs reading the paper.  He was well enough to report to Debbie this morning that,  in the past 36 hours, he had slept 34.

Debbie came with dogs earlier than usual this morning because she has an early meeting in town with a potential scout troop leader at 8 a.m.

Our official morning meeting at the Lovestead was not only early but short.

And, we had one guest; that would be Bill who's usually long gone to work by the time our morning meetings begin.

In today's meeting, we talked about my friend Rick and reminisced of past times spent with Rick and his wife Ann.  One of those experiences was the trip to New Orleans a few years ago with the Gehrings and our other friends,  Tom and Sharon Walton.

We were talking this morning about Rick because we learned yesterday that while he and Ann were on another trip---bound for the Panama Canal and waiting in Palm Beach for their departure---Rick suffered a massive stroke.

Since then, the emails have been flowing from Florida to another mutual friend,  Kathy, who's in California and passing along the word to the rest of us.  

We have learned through this correspondence that Rick was in the best place he could possibly be for dealing with a stroke.  His doctors at the trauma center are among the best around in stroke-related treatment.

So, we're keeping our fingers crossed and saying a few prayers that all will turn out well for our longtime friend and highly respected math teacher at Sandpoint High School. 

Such moments serve as constant reminders to appreciate every day of good health.

This Wednesday-morning status also includes a moose sighting.  After chores, I spotted our visitor,  standing in the clearing out in the woods south of our house.  

It stood there for quite sometime and seemed somewhat fascinated with the whistling and crazy comments I directed its way---from a safe distance, of course.  Finally, having enough, it calmly trotted on into the woods, headed west. 

That's the only moose we've seen around these parts this winter, which indicates it hasn't been too tough on the big critters.  

During those two 'steen-feet deep winters in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, we were encountering moose at any given time in the driveway and on the roads---any place that was plowed out.  

Unfortunately, during both of those winters, many moose made bad choices,  using the railroad tracks to get from one place to another.  

On a more positive note, I read Annie's early-morning Facebook status and rather than clicking the "like" button, I left a comment for her to have a good time.  

She's headed with colleagues to White Pass for snowboarding----one of the great perks of her company.

Don't know what the rest of Wednesday holds, except that I'll still work on avoiding those flu germs.  And, I'm almost finished drafting a letter for the paper, calling for nominations for this year's Women of Wisdom.

I'll probably stop by and visit Mother today and will watch plan some of "American Idol" tonight, now that we have the local Fox channel back.

So far, the activity plate for the day is far from overloaded, and that is a status I don't mind one bit.

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