This week I was planning to write a sweet, positive post but then everything went sideways again.
ELBEE Apparently she didn’t get the memo about a historic storm on the way.
It started raining Thursday night. The dogs had been walked and we were all snug at home so it was pretty cozy. It kept raining on Friday. Then the wind picked up and it looked like a hurricane. Tree branches were coming down everywhere.
Friday night at around 11:00 the power went out not to return again until Saturday at midnight. Oh, and in the midst of it all, I came down with a cold, first one in years. Good news is that it wasn’t Covid.
ELBEE She should have called this post “Whining.”
The dogs were the best therapy. They followed us from room to room. They curled up at our feet. At one point Stanley lay down next to me on the bed and gently rested his head on my chest.
There were only two problems with the dogs. The first was that they got soaked every time we took them out. We went through so many towels and had no way to dry them. My friend Mary, realizing the towel issue, even offered to drop off some extras.
The second issue was that, being part Poodle, the Doods barely shed but they do 
get knots in their hair if you don’t brush them out. I was their personal hair and makeup person.
ELBEE There was no makeup involved although it wouldn’t have hurt.
During breaks in the rain it was so clean and beautiful outside, it seemed the perfect time to take photos of the dogs.
ELBEE Told you she should have done makeup.
It’s also been very cold while all of this weather has been happening. I’ve been taking out warm clothes that I rarely get to wear. The only problem is that I still have the cast and bandage on my broken finger so it’s hard to fit into a lot of sleeves.
ELBEE Oy!
On the bright side, it led me to the back of my closet to find a very warm, very fabulous coat with wide sleeves. It was from my eighties glory days.
ELBEE There is a fine line between fabulous and frightening.
