Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. Staying in and staying warm here.

Eyes

So my eye appointment on Tuesday did not go as well as I expected. I do not have a little retinal bleed that will go away on its own. At the office I got to do some eye tests I didn't know about. I got pictures of my eyeballs taken. That is quite trippy. Colors are wrong after that for a bit. Light is pink. Interesting. Anyway I have a form of macular degeneration in that eye. Yeehaw for me. There are two treatment options. One is a form of laser surgery which if successful would keep my eye right where it is. The other form is medication in the eyeball. And that requires a thin little needle (or so the doc says). If that is successful I may get some of the sight back in that circle of blurriness. And then he tells me he would like to do that as soon as possible like xmas eve day. Nope. Don't think so. Need time to think about that. So I have an appt. on Friday for my little shot in the eye. Everything I have read says up to three shots in the eye. Can you tell I am just so excited about that prospect? I am not liking all the things that are happening to me since I hit the 40's.

Mishka Said

That Minnie is getting all the glory. She wanted her picture posted on the blog too, but she was not going out in the snow.

Whiteness

We are now over 12 inches of snow altogether. It does appear to have stopped for the moment. Minnie has been having a blast playing in the snow. She likes the snow better than the ice. We caught the picture of her with a leaf on her nose and thought it was cute. She looked at us like why are you looking at me.

I got a snow day from work. Still waiting to see what happens for tomorrow. I do have a retina dr. appt. in the afternoon as long as they are open. I am sure hoping that the opthamologist was right when he said he thought I just have a little retinal bleed that will eventually go away. But this blurry spot in the middle of one eye is getting pretty annoying. But something that will go away without surgery sounds pretty good to me.

"White Christmas"

Dave estimates that all together we are at eight inches of snow. It isn't snowing right now, but we have more freezing rain predicted. It is beautiful. The only casualty so far, is the gazebo, that completely collapsed. Dave is now tearing it apart. We were talking about replacing it anyway, so I guess that works out all right.
Elizabeth and I were suppose to go to another symphony today. There is just no way we would make it over to Portland. So we are hoping that they reschedule it. If not we will just plan another activity soon.

Mica is a silly cat. Doesn't seem to mind the snow at all. Doesn't she know she is a cat and is not suppose to like precipitation?

Easily Amused

It is snowing here. Not a great amount, but enough to make our road a little interesting. We live at the bottom of the hill. So we have no problem getting home. There are quite a few people who live up the hill and we have been having a great time watching them make their attempts to make the hill. Looks like it is taking four-wheel drives or chains to get up the hill. I imagine in the morning there will be plenty of people parked on our road.

A Monday Afternoon Drive

Myk had a court date this afternoon in Stevenson. He needed a ride so I got off work early to take him. Now our weather is cold and there was snow yesterday. So I decided it would be best to drive up I-84 and cross at the Bridge of the Gods. No problem whatsoever driving. There wasn't even any moisture on the road until we crossed back over to the Washington side. Turned out Myk did not have a date today as the new dates were set for the first of the year. He felt it was a wasted trip and yes it wasn't productive. But we saw frozen waterfalls which are really cool. Then as we crossed the bridge back to Oregon two eagles flew out in front of us and up the river. I almost never see eagles. And the best part is there was almost no traffic on our drive. :)