It would be a beautiful day, if it weren’t so cold. The sun is shining, and it’s just lovely. Unfortunately, it is cold, though it’s a whole lot warmer than it was when I got up this morning. Still, it’s colder than I like it to be. I really need to go to the store today, seeing as I have no idea what to expect the weather to be like tomorrow … and we have no snack foods. We could probably survive without snack foods, but I don’t really want to do that. Snack foods are almost an essential for life. I’d also hate to run out of Dr Pepper and hot chocolate. I’m already out of apple cider, and I need hot apple cider when it’s cold! So at some point today, I will have to leave the warm comfort of the house and venture into the cold. Well … at least it’s sunny!

I also need to go out to the garden and get ready to cover things this evening. I’m not looking forward to doing that either, but the expected temperatures are quite low. I’m pretty sure if I don’t do something to protect the plants I will lose some of them. I wonder if HEB sells anything like plastic drop cloths? I doubt it. I have a large plastic tarp and a plastic shower curtain liner, but I need one more large piece of plastic. I did notice I have a roll of wide bubble wrap in the Box Room, so I may end up using that too. Should work. Maybe I should stop in at the dollar store and get more shower curtain liners. Whatever I end up using to cover the poor dears, they do need to be covered. Some of them look like they are doing really well (broccoli and cauliflower).

And I’m pleased to announce my ear seems to be whole and almost healthy again. Hearing has been restored 100%, swelling is down to just about nothing, all signs of the infection are gone, and my only remaining complaint is a small amount of pain associated with the few spots in my ear canal that had gotten quite raw and now need to grow new skin. Why, last night I even got to fall asleep in my favorite right-side-fetal-position and flopped around on the bed all night in my usual floppy way. Yeah! Oh how I have missed being able to sleep on my right side.

I suppose I should begin putting on warm clothes and getting ready to go to the store. It’s probably as warm as it’s going to get today, and I’d really like to have some cookies and hot apple cider tonight. That’s not going to happen if I don’t get up off my butt now and go get what I need at the store.