Thursday and…

it is a zip a dee doo dah day.  A cold front is set to come through this morning, hopefully bringing with it cooler temperatures and as much as a quarter inch of rain.  A quarter of an inch is better than no rain at all.  I spoke to my brother yesterday who lives close to St.Louis (Go Cardinals!) and he was telling me that the hail storm that they had about 3 weeks ago  had golf ball to baseball sized hail.  Both of their cars  suffered several thousand dollars damage and the roof of the house and a shed in the back had to have new shingles put on.  Now, I want rain but no hail storm please.

I guess things are straightened out with Comcast  for one month at least.  I received an email from them yesterday.  Quote:

“Thank you for contacting our Executive Care Office regarding your Comcast service. We appreciate your feedback and always invite the opportunity to improve our customer service experience.

Please be assured the service you received is not indicative of what we strive for and we have communicated your concerns to the proper departments to ensure that steps are taken to prevent these types of occurrences from happening in the future.

Our records indicate that the billing issue was resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience and frustration this may have caused.”

That is OK.  I accept their apology but if there is anything the least bit off on my next bill there won’t be any apology big enough to satisfy me.

I am heading out to Bergner’s this morning to check out their clearance sales.  I may do some Christmas shopping.  I also would love to get to Kohls too.

I hope you all are having a great day.  Remember, the grass is not always greener on the far side of the hill.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Monday…

has rolled around again.  It is still raining here and is quite miserable out.  I know this because I had to run errands this morning and it poured down on me.  It is 57 degrees right now and is to get warmer for the next several days.

The funeral for the young man who was killed in Afghanistan was held this morning.   I felt so sorry for the family and all involved as it was pouring down rain at the time.  http://www.pjstar.com/news/x515662424/Family-of-Sgt-Dean-Shaffer-warmed-by-collective-love-and-support

This was the second young man from the same school here in Pekin that was killed in Afghanistan in the last 6 months.  I agree with a comment Joe made on my last post.  I think the polititians should talk more about what is going to happen to get us out of there.  I personally cannot understand why we have to bail out every country all around the world when we have many homeless and hungry here at home.  Just sayin’.  I think charity should begin at home.

That is my rant for today and it isn’t even Wednesday which we long ago declared our official rant day.

I just talked to my brother in O’Fallon a few minutes ago.  They had baseball sized hail there on Saturday.  Not something I want to see.  Quarter size is about the biggest I have seen.

Have a great week.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Quite a weekend…

but I survived it.  We had quite a thunderstorm and hail storm Saturday afternoon.  No major damage except to my tomato plants.  The hail was about nickel to quarter sized and it decimated the tomato plants.




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I will leave the tomato plants another day or two and see if they revive any.  If they don’t I will salvage what green ones I can.  I still have a couple tomatoes from my SIL’s brother and the word is out that I will take all I can get.  I had a bacon tomato for lunch yesterday.  (Sunday)  Delicious!

Sunday was a peaceful quiet day and I didn’t do much as my back has decided to keep hurting.  I have hunted out the pain pills from my last trip to the doctor for my backache and I have taken a couple.

I am not sure what I have planned today.  I should clean the bathroom, a job I hate that requires a lot of bending over, so we shall see.


In the meantime, have a wonderful week.  Stay safe and be happy!!

  Beth