2/22/22

This is the easiest post title!

So I barely survived the 4 days my coworker was out last week. It was rough, but I was not charged with homicide or any other sort of violence.  I came close, tho.  And damned if she won't be gone again 2 days this week!  She & her husband are getting ready to retire and are house hunting in Florida.  They had an offer get accepted while they were down there last week and have to fly down for the inspection.  They haven't even seen this house in real life yet!  We'll see how I make it thru this time.  

I don't know what's worse - getting a bunch of worked dumped on you all at once, or getting one bit, finishing it, getting the next bit - finishing, getting the next bit, etc, etc, etc. Either way - it was insane and I really wanted to throat punch anyone who asked if I saw a certain email.  NO!  I'm doing something else and haven't looked at my email in an hour.  Then they'd verbally tell me some info and because I was doing 12 other things, who knows how many things I forgot to do!  We have instant messaging just for this reason - IM it to me!   

February 5 was the Journey cover band concert. 

I learned exactly how many Journey songs I know - and it's not many.  So I spent most of my evening people watching.  It was entertaining!

Last Wednesday was the second time this has happened!

Unusually warm weather, then we got slammed with a storm.  

It's hard to judge how much snow we got, since it started out rain/snow and then turned all the way to snow.  It was a mess to drive in. 

We wanted to get to the park before the storm hit, so I put Chuck into the stroller so LittleMan could walk.  But he felt the need to have Chuck stomp in puddles, too!

Ice drifts on the Spouse's car

Happy Belated Valentine's Day from the Spawn & GrandSpawn!

We never go out on Valentine's Day.  You'd think with a last name like our's we'd go all out.  Nope.  I got flowers Sunday when we were at the grocery store and the Spouse tossed them into the basket.  He's so romantical!  We waited until this past Friday to go out to dinner, just the 2 of us.  It was nice.   

OH!  In my last real post, I mentioned the call out my search & rescue team was getting...of course I can't share details but I can tell about other stuff!   I hurried home from work that day and changed clothes and made sure I had all my gear, then took off.  The local police department had contacted another SAR team, but they only had one guy available, so the lady in charge of them suggested they call us.  We've done some urban training but mostly we concentrate on rural areas, so this was a novel experience.  Especially since this isn't the nicest town and each team that went out had several police officers with them.   8 of our people plus the other one were already out in the field when I and our newest guy arrived.  I was hurrying to get my ski pants on when Jeff walked up.  He asked if I was all geared up and ready to go.  I grabbed my hat & gloves, closed the door of my car and said yup!  And he said good!  Take it off.  They found him.  GRRRRRR!   So we went and climbed into the fire department utility truck that was being used as staging and we got filled in on all the deets.  Then everyone else showed up and climbed in with us so Jeff and I at least got to hear the debriefing.  Then the driver popped in and asked if we were all ready to go?  So at least I got to see the scene.  The outcome was not one we like to have, if you catch my drift.  So we're all standing out in the road, next to this house that was all taped off.  7 police cars, a state trooper were there and a fire department ladder truck rolled up. And we're wondering *why* they brought us back there!  Come to find out - they needed the utility truck, not us!  So we had to walk a short distance thru ankle deep snow back to the parking lot.  It was worth a laugh anyway. 

My sister who is also on the team wasn't able to make it, since she wasn't available until later and they had told us they weren't going to search after dark.  So I was keeping her filled in and she told me when I was done, to come over her house and we'd go have dinner with our *other* sister who was dropping her dogs off at a nearby kennel so she could go on vacation. 

So even tho I'm not having this go live until 0222, it's now 22:22 (10:22pm) and it's time for bed!

I did read back thru this and I realize it doesn't "flow" well, but I'm tired and just want to hit that publish button!

Later!

BabyGirl is a meanie!  Here she's got him by the hair with both fists and was trying to bite his head.

Am I bad for laughing?