2008 ~~~Sigh~~~

My brother and I share a birthday, 08/08 and we were kind of excited because in 2008 we would celebrate on 08/08/08! We had heard that young couples rushed to reserve that date to be married on because they felt that it would bring them luck. I hope these couples fared better than I did.

Well, before 08/08/08 rolled around, I had become a widow. The creek on our farm became a river and flooded our barn and living area, all the rugs had to be thrown out. A few weeks later we had 2 feet of snow there, with heavy freezing rain on top of the snow. When the weather warmed slightly, the snow/ice slid off of the roof, taking everything with it, including the gutters, and taking some shrubs and trees along on it's journey when it finally landed.

I adopted Joe's barn cat,BG, who is a gentle soul, but hey, she was raised a barn cat! When she moved to town with me, I had to entertain all kinds of varmits that she brought in, including a baby skunk, who marched boldly across my bedroom floor! "Oh, that is what cats do", you say? Well to get these unwelcome guests into the house, BG had to drag them up a drain pipe to the front deck and then through the sliding door (which I stupidly left open for her). The live snakes she brought up the pipe in her mouth, I handily removed from the premisis with a chopstick! Some of her offerings, I could not quite tell what species they came from. "Mystery Meat".

When we added to our bedrooms quite a few years ago, the contractor included a strobe fire alarm which he handily installed on the ceiling directly above my side of the bed. Well after hubby was gone, this darned strobe started going off at intervals, two nights in a row! The first night, I slept with the pillow over my head, thinking that everything would be okay "later". The second night, guess what, I got strobed again most of the night. Ever try to SEE with one of those things in operation in the same room?! I finally got out of bed in the middle of the night, found my handy "kitchen stool" climbed up and yanked a wire that mysteriously stopped everything! Keep in mind I am not supposed to climb ladders, it could mean the death of my lovely knee replacement!

There's more, but you can get the drift. Farewell to the year of 2008!