What a sleigh ride …
Last week ended with a snow storm … sort of. We had snow on the ground monday, but I went out to do chicken chores wearing my Berks with no problem.
By noon yesterday I was housebound. It started snowing more heavily about 1000 and by dark there was ~3”. There was an HLA meeting at 1830 (6:30pm). There have been times with this much snow when I had no trouble getting out, but couldn’t get back in so a neighbor (male, younger, with a BIG truck) came and got me and then returned me home.
By wednesday morning we had over a foot on the ground with drifting. I went out to the chickens only once to give them water, deliver the garbage, make sure they had food, and collect eggs … and this time I was wearing boots.
Thursday there was more snow and the schools were closed. I was indoors all day, except for the daily trip to the chickens.
This morning school is in session. Kamille and Paul got out without trouble. Our driveway had been plowed by a neighbor and High Meadow was open. I’ll be going out later for my regular afternoon with Paul. But this week there will be no extra adventures.
Weather patterns are a bit unusual here. We are on the north side of Mt Eddy and, with the weather usually coming in on winds off the Pacific, we are a bit sheltered by the mountain (Mt Eddy, not THE Mountain). When the weather comes up from the south the pattern is different. Sort of what I’ve heard called a crap shoot.
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Weather however wasn’t the only involving event recently.
Wednesday morning I got an email saying there had been a MAJOR change to one of my credit accounts instructing me to go to what was supposedly the bank’s adjustment site. When I tried, it looked right but didn’t recognize my username or password and offered me a couple of numeral usernames and a chance to change my password.
I then went to my account through my usual channel and got right in. There I discovered a payment for over $1,700 of which I knew nothing (I couldn’t have afforded a payment like that anyhow).
To make this as short as possible, I began to feel “fraud” and spent over four hours on the topic. Endgame was that the deposit was to be reversed (wish there had been a way to keep it) and I was issued a new card. It was handled by the bank’s fraud division.
By the time it was settled (although there is one more thing to do since my credit score had been impacted), I was washed out … completely. And that is one reason this week’s blog is late.
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Reading … ??? Of course.
Finished the next Arapaho mystery in the series and reread Alice Hoffman’s “The Rules of Magic”. I need to get a copy of the Hoffman. It is a great source of herbal information. If I get my own copy, rather than the one from the library, I can write in it.
Next up (which I will pick up this afternoon) is the second in the series about the young woman and the aging Sherlock, and another whose name I can’t recall. I may add one or two from the library shelves on the chance that we get more snow and I have more at-home time.
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Plans for Paul’s eighth birthday party are underweigh. I’m not sure what the theme is to be, but he will be asking that, instead of gifts, donations be made to the local animal shelter where his brother works.
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The other big job right now is handling the secretarial stuff for the Landowner’s Association. But since none of you (?) live here, I won’t go into detail.
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To close out … I recenty got into a discussion with a correspondent about charitable giving, tithing, and tzadakis. As a result I found this …
How does tzedakah differ from gemilut hasidim (acts of lovingkindness)? Actually, the Talmud says that the latter is greater in three ways: charity can be performed only with one’s money, but acts of lovingkindness require one’s body, time, or money; charity is only for the poor, but one can perform gemilut hasidim for everyone.
So … ‘til next week