Winter's Revisit

We are getting ready for old man winter to come for another visit. The forecast is calling for possible ice Thursday night or Friday morning. If there is one thing that southern drivers don't need, it's ice on the roads. If at all possible I avoid driving when the roads have ice. Thank goodness the forecast is for only a short period of time for the conditions to stay.

Our security system is up and working. We are still waiting for the dinning room door to be repaired.

The Santa is packed away and is no longer standing guard by the door. (Little good he did).

Undecorating

We are still in the process of taking the Christmas decorations down. C.L. came by the house the other day and started taking things down before I realized he was here. He had passed by earlier in the week and decided it was time for us to get the thing down. I told him that I was waiting for it to get warmer--like spring.

Today we got the Christmas tree out of the house.

We got the van back from the shop yesterday. It looks as good as new. The total repair was $2700+. I'm glad that the guy who rear ended us had insurance. Now to get the dinning room door repaired.

The situation in Haiti sounds very bad. The earthquake killed at least 50,000 people and many more who are trapped in the rubble will probably die before they can be rescued.

Winter in Forrest City

It has snowed a bit more today. And it is still too cold for me. I believe that the temperature is supposed to get above freezing sometime tomorrow. And I am ready for it.



We haven't taken down the decorations, yet. We were gone to Texas for several days and then it has been too cold. Also, Lynda heard the forecast for snow and wanted some photos of the house with decorations in the snow. Maybe next week . . .

Well I started writing about the use of nauseous to mean feeling sick to the stomach, but in checking the internet it appears that the usage has changed from what I was taught back in my school days. My American Heritage dictionary gives the definition of nauseous as causing nausea and nauseated as feeling sick to the stomach. But it seems that most people use the word nauseous instead of nauseated to mean feeling sick to the stomach.

This is an example of the way in which the language can change within a generation or so. It can be very annoying (nauseating, even) for somebody who has painfully learned a distinction between words to find that usage has changed and their knowledge is out of date. Think of it as language evolution in action.