I was so sorry to miss Friday's Fave Five last week. It's the first time in ages I've missed. I wrote a family update to share that we'd had layers of sickness and happenings. Thankfully, we're doing better, though we're still not 100% healed.
I'm glad to share again with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story.
1. Hot water. Our hot water heater died on Jan. 3. The new one didn't arrive until Jan. 14. But with snow and ice that next week, Jim wanted to wait to start work on it until he was sure Home Depot would be open and accessible in case he needed anything while working on it. It was finally successfully installed last Friday, the 19th! I'm thankful we had a camp shower, but even more thankful to have a regular one back. Plus it's nice to wash our hands in warm rather than freezing water.
2. Safety in snow and ice. It's unusual for our area to get almost ten inches of snow. It's even more unusual for it to stay around for more than a week. But single-digit temperatures not only kept the snow, it turned it into blocks of ice. We have trucks that put salt and sand on the main roads, but otherwise we're not equipped to deal with ice and snow since we don't often have it. School was out for more than a week (though they probably had online classes). Mail trucks didn't run those days, either, at least not in neighborhoods like ours..
I was thankful that none of our family lost power or had pipes break. In fact, I didn't hear of anyone we know of experiencing that.
3. Normalcy. I didn't lose my sense of taste with Covid, but certain things regular things just didn't have any appeal or hit wrong (that may have been due to illness or medicines as well). My taste is pretty much back to normal and my digestive system is getting there. It's been nice to get back to normal energy levels and routines. Two of the four infected wounds that set off cellulitis are healed; the two biggest ones concern me because they still look infected. They are improving steadily, though, if slowly. (I'd appreciate your prayers for that to heal completely.)
4. My dear husband took care of me, did all the errands and grocery shopping, heated frozen entrees for himself when all I could eat was canned chicken soup, and figured out how to install a hot water heater, all while he wasn't feeling well, himself. He's doing better and tests negative for Covid now, but still has a lingering cough and congestion.
5. A picture of my grandmother. One of my cousins sent me some old photos this week. I asked if he had any of our grandmother, particularly one that looked like it was for a church directory. I'd seen it but somehow never had a copy. Within minutes he messaged it to me. That's such a treasure. Previously, I'd only had one old blurry one of her on a beach and another about thirty years ago when we visited her on our way to see my family in TX.
I hope you're staying warm and safe and well where you are
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