A Frightening Experience

I had a frightening experience today. I drove home from work at lunch time. Our home is the third house on the right from the intersection.

As I turned on my turn signals and prepared to turn right into my driveway, a car came speeding through the intersection without stopping at the stop sign, and to keep from slamming into the back of my car, he flew into the other lane and slammed into a pickup truck that was parked in front of the house across the street. The speed and force of the crash flipped his car over on its top in the yard of that neighbor and he was trapped inside.

It all happened so fast that I could hardly imagine what happened. I parked my car, grabbed my cell phone and called 911. They immediately sent out an ambulance, several fire trucks and the police.

The car, which wasn’t a large one, had to be turned back over to get the driver out. The amazing thing is that he walked away without injury. If he had slammed into the back of my little car at that speed, I think I wouldn’t have walked away.

The neighbor’s pickup was considered totaled and was later hauled away on a flatbed truck.

The police car was parked in the street in front of my driveway, right behind my car, and it took quite awhile to get all the paperwork done. He finally moved his police car forward so that I could get out of my driveway to go back to work.

God certainly protected us both from serious injury.

The driver couldn’t have been intoxicated or the police wouldn’t have let him leave. I wonder if he might have been talking on a cell phone and not paying enough attention to the street.

Wednesday morning

I woke up at 3:00 and got up and put a plate of food down for Calvin. I thought he had waked me up, but he didn't come out for his food so I went through the house looking for him. I didn't find him anywhere but you know how cats are. They can disappear, then appear out of nowhere. That's what happened.

I was checking mail at the computer and all of a sudden he wandered through. By this time it was too late to go back to bed and get any sleep before my alarm goes off, so I just stayed up. I'll probably take a nap through Jeopardy and the news this evening in the recliner. I usually do that anyway.

Sis has been working at the Chamber of Commerce for the past week and a half. The job will probably last through the rest of this week.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

According to this evening's news, our low last night was 23 degrees. It warmed up nicely today and was sunny.

We got into the Christmas mood and went out and got a Christmas tree at the nursery, brought it home and decorated it and the house. Of course we both ended up with backaches, but that will go away. The house looks pretty nice. Calvin was very curious about all of it. I hope he doesn't try to eat the rosemary.

We also got a little rosemary tree for the kitchen.

It is only expected to get down into the low 40's tonight.

Coldest Morning in Two Years

It was 26 degrees when I got up this morning. The weatherman said it is the coldest it has been here in the past two years.

New Picture

We didn't get any snow after all - unless it was a few flakes. It is, however, expected to get down into the 20's tonight.

It is almost 10 p.m. now. I fixed steamed vegetables with pasta for supper and we had some of the leftover cranberry salad from Thanksgiving.

I've been doing laundry all evening and have the last load in the dryer finally. When that gets done, I'm going to go to bed.

Friday morning

We may get snow today. That is very unusual here. It is 39 degrees right now at 6:15 a.m. but is expected to go down rather than up during the day.

I have had a headache for several days and it is still here this morning. It isn't a severe headache, but it sure is annoying.

Sis has been working at a temp job this week.

I made goulash for supper. I made up a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese and stirred in some fried-out hamburger and a can of diced tomatoes and reheated it together. It was very good.

Tonight I plan to fix chicken and vegetables.

Solution to computer problem

I figured out that my computer problem was the monitor. I had an extra monitor that I had bought used from a church member awhile back. I got it out and hooked it up and now my computer works fine.

After I got off work this afternoon I went to Wal-Mart and picked up my prescription. I stopped at their deli and got two large chef salds for supper.

Back in Control of Baking Mixes group

This has been a rough week in some ways. I'm still struggling with a cold although it is mostly the coughing now. My desktop computer at home is not working and I can't figure out why. In the meantime I'm having to use the laptop and that isn't as easy to type on.

But compared to a lot of people's problems, I can count many blessings, so enough grousing and complaining.

Yesterday and this morning have been much colder than usual. The sun is shining this morning and it looks pretty.

Back in 2000, I started a list on Yahoo Groups called BakingMixes, for recipes for Bisquick-type mixes and recipes using those mixes. In 2001 I deleted one of my email accounts and didn't realize that it would also cancel my owner/moderator privileges on that BakingMixes list. I tried to contact Yahoo to see how I could solve the problem but never got a response from them. So for the past 8 years I have been unable to control the list and it had deteriorated to spam being posted daily without me being able to stop it.

Finally the other day I contacted Yahoo again. It took 4 or 5 messages back and forth to get them to fully understand my problem, but finally they transferred ownership of the list to my current email address and I was able to exercise control over it again. I immediately "cleaned house". I deleted all of the inappropriate messages in the archives and put everyone on moderation. In that way I will be able to approve or delete any messages before they get published.

I also deleted all members whose messages were bouncing or who were signed up as "Special Notices only". I went from 139 members to 31 and am now ready to try to rebuild the list in the way I originally meant for it to be.

If anyone who happens to read this wants to check it out, just send a blank email message to bakingmixes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.