Snowing Tonight!

Walked to first chain turnout on Camp May Road (does anyone use those chain turnouts anymore??). Mused again on bright light highlighting snow and dead grass at Memorial Corner.

As I stepped from behind bush on FR2998 (answering a call of nature on the way down), I saw a small car pulled onto the snow and ice covered forest road. A female jogger stepped out, trying to decide if she wanted to run on ice rutted FR2998. She thought I had walked on it but I confessed that I had only stopped to use a bush and was glad she was a female! I advised against running on it but don't know what she decided.

Picked up grandson at Activity Center around 2:30pm. We walked behind the AC to Ashley Pond to feed them bread heels (spouse believes these are inedible and has spent a lifetime tossing them - I freeze them) to the ducks. The ducks were out in the middle of Ashley Pond, penned in by ice but I did see an appreciative raven eyeing the bread crumbs. It looked like it was already snowing on Pajarito Mountain. Grandson wasn't much interested in throwing bread to ducks but was intensely interested in throwing stones onto the ice to see if he could break it.

We then went to the library where he scored an Internet computer and played games on the Bionicles website. The kids are only allowed a half hour on the computer but I think he got more because there was something goofy about how that particular computer tracked time. I checked one time and it said 8 minutes. Five minutes later when I checked again, it said 9 minutes. I eventually had to haul him off because another child was waiting to use it. The central machine that tracks how much time each kid has wasn't working either.

Then we went to the medical center to get his allergy shot. We were early, his Mom wasn't off work yet, so I got to sit with him in the doctor's office while he held an ice cube on his arm to numb it for the shot. He wanted me to hold the ice cube and freeze my fingers but I declined and told him he'd manage which he did. His Mom came and then had to sit in the doctor's office with him for 1/2 hour to make sure he had no reaction to the shot.

Swine flu vaccine shots are available to everyone now. I would like to try to get one.

I asked my doctor's office if my test results were in but nothing yet.

I haven't heard yet if the WI have anything planned for tomorrow. It's snowing tonight so perhaps they'll just stay home. Did they take me off the list (so eager!) because I didn't show up for the hike and birthday celebration in Santa Fe? Or do they not hike the Wednesday before Christmas? I couldn't go anyway because tomorrow, if roads are driveable, I'm going to take grandson to the movies after the holiday party at the Activity Center.

Confession: Daughter brought over some Christmas cookies, fudge and brittle that she made for spouse. I normally don't eat cookies and candy. However, in the interest of protecting the extensive (and expensive) dental work of spouse (ha, ha!!), I ate the brittle! I figure it can't kill me since I don't make a steady diet of it. It was good but a bit scary for older teeth!!