5:25 p.m.

Didn't get out for a walk today, but here's some pictures from one afternoon this week. The animules are pretty active, as you can tell by their tracks in the ditch (above). Lately the deer have moved from the flax and oat fields, which weren't harvested in the fall because the rain never let up and the snow came too soon, to the hay bales on "the hill" just outside the farmyard. So yesterday the dog flushed out two of them when we headed in that direction and I got to see two does close up, running past me. Naturally I didn't have the camera along, as its batteries were recharging.

~ another kind of animal tracks ~

Grandma needed to go for some tests at the hospital today. I met with my lawyer right after lunch (I have to apply to the courts to be made Emil's legal guardian now that he's 18 and considered an adult), then did the postoffice/library/grocerystore/hardwarestore thing before going to pick her up. When I got there the residents were all playing bingo in the dining room so I said I'd come back later. To kill time I went shopping and bought a nice orange shirt with lace around the bottom, and picked up coffee and doughnuts for Scott and the guy he's working with. After a little sitdown at the workplace and a tour of the new house, I got Grandma, drove her the half-block to the hospital (well it's really slippery with the wet snow coming down an inch at a time this afternoon), and had her back in her room within a half-hour. Just enough time for her to lay down for a short rest before supper.

Picked Everett up from his piano lesson and came home. Road pretty slippery. Time to make supper but I never feel like it when I walk in at 5 o'clock. Oh well, best get to it. Egg foo yung tonight, I think.

~ looking out the window,
a.k.a. putting off making supper ~

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