Until today, I was not able to clean out the upstairs bathroom drain. I tried out our new little sink plunger but pulling out the stopper by brute force really did the trick.

Jett and I went to Tractor Supply for a bag of his food. I picked up oregano and onion powder at Job Lot.

I ordered his monthly med yesterday and mailed the prescription today. Hope to get it in a week.

Truck is ready to be picked up. The metal fabrication shop found another problem. I made an appointment to bring it in to Toyota next Thursday.

Did a bunch of edits for the school. Continued to work on Orders for Remedy. My next challenge is to make order records editable.

Sent a copy of our latest oil company invoice to the Salvation Army. It’s part of our application for fuel assistance.

Finished drying laundry from yesterday.

Ron had intestinal distress yesterday. I seem to be doing much better taking a dose of apple cider vinegar in water.

Dropped off the truck at L&G in Bennington. Jett came with us.

Did some troubleshooting for Remedy Hall and saw Andi. Same for MRS, went live yesterday.

My bike pedal exerciser from Nations Benefits arrived today. Got to try it out this evening.

We exercised Jett twice, me in the living room and Ron in the yard.

Truck needs work but first must repair the frame.

MRS went live. Couple of snags but got an enrollment anyway.

Bad work dream last night, this one about favoritism that troubled me so much that in the dream, I quit in the first week.

Peter’s going back to work on the tenth and I hope he’ll be okay.

Very cold: 2 degrees.

Changed sheets. Shoveled the square part of the deck. Frozen pizza for an early supper.

Ron lost a crown. Not sure which dentist installed it, but he got an appointment for tomorrow with our dentist to fix it.

Finally broke down and turned on a small heater in my study.

Did some troubleshooting for Ron. He wanted to upgrade his iPhone OS and his iCloud account. Luckily he had his password.

Made a rich soup for lunch. Added cheese, broccoli and small boiled potatoes to a can of Progresso vegetable served with fried onion pieces. Ordered soy curls from Walmart.

Looks like temps may be going up slightly next week.

Set up a Free File Fillable Forms account with IRS, user name code01267 https://www.freefilefillableforms.com

Ron and I hung the green drapes in the living room. They look nice and I hope they’ll provide some insulation.

Neither of us have been out much over the last several days: too cold.

This year I’ve found that it takes a long while to warm up after being out in the cold.

Today I really missed having a nice dessert so made a cobbler from canned peaches, a box of cake mix and a stick of butter, all from the Pantry.

I made some minor pricing edits on MRS but found that I’d inadvertently uploaded my local web.config so none of the database connections worked. Easy fix, glad I caught it.

Pain for hours last night. Stomach didn’t feel normal until I drank cider vinegar and ginger this morning.

Emailed with Andi; she suggested I stay put, said she’d send me some info for data input.

Didn’t do anything else today and supposed to be very cold tomorrow, below 0.

Yesterday I was a mess. Napped after lunch until Ron woke me up with the snow blower around quarter of five.

Noticed that it’s getting lighter in the late afternoon.

Today I ordered food from Walmart, met another friendly and helpful delivery driver. Did some chores and made a big salad and one of the Walmart pizzas for lunch.

I finally did a shower and washed my hair, went to Remedy to borrow the computer to check out the work Andi did. Also picked up shampoo at the Dollar store, mailed a check to the oil company and dropped a book off at the library. Salad for supper.

Poor Jett had piles of trump stuck to his rear. I got most of it off; it was pretty awful.

We got anywhere from 9 to 13 inches with some big drifts on the deck. It’s almost 5 the day after and it’s still snowing. Ron is shoveling. Peter messaged that they had 10-12, not too different from us.

Preite delivered oil early today. The driver said he had 30 calls; we think there was at least one other on our street.

Even though it hasn’t been single-digit cold since this morning, Jett has not wanted to stay out for long.

We watched the Patriots’ game in Denver. In awe of their fortitude: it started to snow heavily around 3 so they played much of the second half in challenging conditions.

I’m changing the sheets and doing laundry.

Yesterday Jett did a giant mucus-covered trump in the living room and unfortunately, I stepped in it. The soles of my poor Timberlands are still not completely clean.

Triple A has stopped replacing and/or testing vehicle batteries in our area. Hasn’t done so for years. We got a jump yesterday from the same tech who was here earlier this week. He recommended O’Reilly Auto Parts; they don’t charge for installation.

The manager at O’Reilly replaced the battery for us. On the way home, I loaded up on groceries at BIg Y because we had a $4 credit. Saved 16% overall, but still shocked at the money I’ve spent on food this week, even with donations from the Pantry and Salvation Army.

It was 4 degrees this morning at 7:30. Expected to stay in the single digits at night for the whole week. Snow predicted to start late tomorrow morning and continue through Monday. I have an appointment Tuesday morning to investigate a leak under the truck bed.