Getting Ready for Golf Season

As the captain of my golf league, this is a busy time for me. We have 16 people on the league this year, so in addition to making sure all have sent their fees in to the organization, I put together the rotation for our 16 weeks of play. Then I circulated the roster to all so we know how to contact each other during the season. It is all very exciting, really, and makes me very anxious for the season to start. It is especially fun to do this on a day like today, while I watch the winter storm developing outside my window!

Modern Day Cleaning

Spring cleaning involves so much more than closets and drawers these days. Since I am on vacation this week, I planned to get a jump on my spring cleaning. Today I spent several hours deleting old emails on my computer. After trashing over 500 of them, I hadn't even made it through 2009. They sure seemed important when I saved them. Oh well, I will continue when my eyes can focus again.
As an alternate, I began on an upstairs closet. It happens to be where I store old photos and slides. Now I am knee deep in sorting slides and preparing them to be converted to DVDs.
Life was sure easier before we became so electronic!

Flat Tires

Yes, that's plural. I was supposed to spend Valentine's Day at a romantic dinner and concert. We were on our way when the Hubs hit a gigantic pothole on 14 mile. Instant flat tire! So, we pulled over and waited for AAA to send someone over to change it. While we were waiting, three more cars, with 4 flat tires total (one lost both his right tires...front and rear) pulled into the same parking lot we were in. It was a busy night for towing services. We ended up taking so long that we missed both our dinner and the show, and the tire store was closed by the time we reached it. So we went home.
Today we set out to get the tire fixed. We had traveled about 1/2 mile from the house when the spare went flat. So, we spent another hour waiting for a tow truck. When we finally got to the tire store, we discovered the original tire was completely destroyed (side blowout from the impact of the pothole), the rim of the spare was bent (but fixable) and the whole front end was out of line. Tomorrow I have to spend some time composing a serious letter to the Macomb County Road Commission.

Church Bells

My new office allows me to look out a window. That is a real pleasure after working in the basement for over a year. But, I have found something even more delightful. I can hear the church bells from the nearby catholic church. I sit at my desk early in the morning and listen to the familiar westminster chimes, while sipping my first cup of coffee. They remind me of my childhood, when the bells of Precious Blood church were a part of every day. Amazing how such a simple thing can bring back so many memories.

The Pancake House

This morning we indulged in one of our favorite guilty pleasures. We went to the Original Pancake House for breakfast. I may have mentioned it before, but this place has the best pecan waffle ever. Match that with a side of bacon, lots of hot coffee and the morning paper, and there is just about no better way to start the day. On the way home we did the weekly grocery shopping. Then I spent the rest of the day inside, catching up on paperwork and watching the Phoenix Open. A good start to a great day.

A Day Off

This snowstorm was very strange for a number of reasons. First of all, I woke up last night to a thunder storm. In February?? Yeah, that was a first for me. The weatherman was calling it "thundersnow" this morning. Until I heard him say that, I was wondering if I had imagined the whole thing.
Then I didn't have to go to work today. This was the first "snowday" I have had in many years. I have always been the one who had to show up because I had subordinate staff depending on me to be at the office. Today, though, my boss thought it would be a wiser choice to just close the practice for the day. That is no small decision, since we see about 500 patients per day, but I appreciate his concern about people trying to travel in this weather.
So, I spent the day doing what I would normally do with "found time". I knitted, cleaned the house a bit, baked some blueberry muffins, and generally enjoyed myself. Tomorrow it's back to the office, but I sure am more relaxed than I would have been driving in this blizzard.