Can't let February end without at least one more entry!

Greetings to all!!

Domino set a fine example to begin the month, but guess being a short month, it was difficult for all of us to make time to blog on.

Used the snowblower for the first time in about 6 weeks last Saturday afternoon. I waited until about 4PM and worked until just dusk to deal with the 7/8 ". Glad the machine remembered to start on the first pull!

The month ended with here with some morning snow and ends with cold, but blue skies and sunshine. It also ended nicely for us. In a phone visit with Mark on Thursday we learned that Capri was to be in a play on Friday evening and this afternoon.
It was a musical adaptation of Robinson Crusoe for young people coached by an itinerant staff from Missoula , MT which is contracted by the Jefferson County Arts Council to offer a week long workshop which includes these performances. The Gehred-O'Connell children have been involved in earlier years and it has to be fun. After auditions on last Monday, Capri was chosen to be Robinson and a flock of other young talents played a variety of characters. We were pleased to join Mark and Monica for the performance and to have visits with them. Calvin was working at the Fireside so we did not see him.

It has been a busy week during which Mom has had good phone visits with Kevin and Michele. Learned from Kevin about a visit Domino had with Magdalena at Mount Holyoke and Declan's weekend musical gigs in a location near South Orange. Shorter visits with S and J have let them know if we are to be doing any travels like today. They are busy getting ready for Spring Break in Colorado and Michele is busy preparing for their arrival!! Got more details on David's school schedule in another phone visit.

We began the week with our Monday evening Bible discussion lesson--only three more to go. Much of the day was devoted to TurboTax and sorting records and preparing responses to the Scripture discussion topics together.

Tuesday was a heavy duty day with early Bl0od Center
appts. Our iron was OK, so we were both able to give. Then it was back to Waukesha in the afternoon for our haircuts and after supper I drove to the Sienna Center in Racine for adult education series program which featured a WI persons who is with the Madison Capitol Times and the Nation Magazine as a political feature writer. He is John Nichols and is frequently on NPR. His topic was "A Moral Foreign Policy" centered on his hopes and expectations that one will be emerging! Good.

Three Ash Wednesday masses made it necessary to do some extra sacristan duties after we attended at 8 AM. An almost spring like day made an afternoon errand and visit with a friend at a Muskego Nursing Facility quite pleasant.

Mom helped with a funeral meal on Thursday and would have had one today, if we hadn't gone to see Capri.

Friday morning we were at the Ophthalmologist at Great Lakes for Mom's yearly check-up. She was told that the macular degeneration was stable and that she should locate a local
doctor for cataract surgery as he was being transferred and could not schedule it there before he leaves. He believes that this procedure will improve her vision substantially. She has an appointment on Monday 3/2 with our primary care Dr. to
discuss the findings and recommendations of Dr. Murray so plans to ask him for recommendations for the recommended eye surgery. The next visit with Dr. Murray is in about 3 weeks when she will help with an evaluation of the use of Aricept.

We appreciate that Tim has been sending some suggestions and tips on mental exercises that Dr. Murray recommended for Mom. We've worked a little on Sudoka--I'm am getting a little comfortable but still rely on paper and pencil for some prompting. Perhaps we will have to have an open Scrabble game we can return to for a short time each day. TurboTax has some elements of brain challenges!!

Mom has had some phone contact with the Dubuque O'Connells and the Vandermillens this week.

Mom's Boise birthday pictures have been developed and we plan to get copies sent west this next week. We took them to Ft. Atkinson today .

Mom has already gone to bed, so she won't be adding anything tonight. Hopefully, Happy Spring and happy traveling/visiting

Love and prayers, Mom and Dad