It probably sounds crazy, but I was thrilled to get to meet up with Younger Daughter so that I could buy her a combined Christmas/Birthday gift early: 4 new tires. Not really very exciting, eh? Our outing also included a coffee date while we waited because OF COURSE the best winter rated tires weren't in stock; they had to fetch them from another store. Bah, humbug.
Some people see it and others don't, but we look quite a bit alike. Well, except for her huge blue eyes. :)
We ended up checking on visiting my mother after coffee, then headed back to the tire place, three hours after we'd dropped off her Jeep. They'd told us it would be about two hours for the job. However, instead of her car being ready, they hadn't even gotten the tires yet! Why didn't anyone call? Grrr. Speaking of waiting, remember my brother's sick cat? He had to take her half an hour away to an emergency vet where he waited for 12 hours! He got home at 1:45 a.m. Today John went over to his sister's to pick up his mom; afterward, he headed to his daughter's so that she could spend a little time with her great-granddaughters. Finally, he had to drive two hours to return his mom to her home in Sequim. So, I'm not going to complain too much about our "long" wait for the new tires.
In the meantime, in frigid New York (even the Iowans are bundled up), Little Guy, along with his parents and paternal grandparents visited a Winter Wonderland in the "North Pole," located somewhere in the Hudson River Valley. Grandson looked mesmerized most of the time, and didn't appear very fond of Santa. ;) Perhaps he was just cold! As for the conditions here, I'm no Biblical scholar, but I feel like I'm living wherever Noah's Ark occurred. The Atmospheric River is back. Should I perhaps buy an ark a boat?
