This morning I studied, and worked on undecorating the Christmas tree. It is very cold. My friend Tina Allen took a picture of the temperature in her car this morning when she left for work. It was 13 below zero. At noon today in Phoenix it was 38. I think the high here was around 20. I am so sad to say that our fica tree in our front yard in Chandler froze. It did that once before and there were dead leaves everywhere. James cut it back and it grew back to be the beautiful tree that it is. Here we go again.
I went in to town today to make a deposit and to do some shopping at Walmart. On the way home I was intrigued by the sky, To the right, toward's the mountains behind Vernon it was totally overcast and looked like it was snowing. To the left it was sunshiny. I took several pictures. And then I fell in our ditch and Churck Crane had to come and rescue me.
Just before Hunsakers.
On the sunny side of the street.
On the edge, sunny and cloudy.
More clouds coming.
The cabin is always right on the edge.
In the ditch.
I called James and told him what happened. I was so embarrassed to call the Crane's. He said he wanted to come home anyway to check out the gas leak and the broken heater. He had worried about those things all the way to the valley. I called Kathy Crane and asked if she could take me to my appointment at Rosie Lauritzen's at 4:30. She said she would but that she was going to call Chuck and have him come home and get me out of the ditch, which he did. I told James he didn't need to come but he came anyway.
I had a nice visit with Rosie and Rick Lauritzen. I noticed my car was shaking and the "tires" symbol came on my dashboard. I told James about it when he got home and he knocked a huge chunk of ice and mud out from under my car. I hope that was the only problem.
It was nice to have James home. We watched The Mentalist.
