Al and Frances left for Winston this afternoon. It has been a nasty day with cool temperatures and a steady rain for most of the day. JoAnne and Jeff came by to pick up the canning jars, caner, and dehydrator and the two solar panels I will not be needing. Al did some more household type chores for me.
It’s a cool, drizzly day in Sparta. Bob had a shelf in the food room for all his prepping stuff. That was his domain and I basically left it to him to stack and store all his prep stuff. That translates into…I have not idea what was down there. Frances and Al helped me go through all that stuff this morning and sort it. I will keep most of it but needed to see what was in bins and boxes.
We then moved to the lab. I needed to so some cleaning up in there, which I kept that area organized anyway. Bob had bins for the forensic kits up high since we did not sell many of those. Al helped me move those to some lower shelve so I would not have to climb the ladder everything to grab a bin. While we are out of a few chemicals for the chemistry kit I am looking to see if I have all the chemicals in stock for the biology and forensic. If so, I can build a few of those at a time.
I am reading Hard Truth by Nevada Barr.
Frances and Al arrived late this morning. I had a load of stuff ready to go to Alleghany Cares in Al’s pickup truck. He also helped me get some stuff up to the attic.
Bob passed away last night around 9pm at the rehab center. I posted yesterday that he was talking better but still coughing up a lot junk. The nurse suctioned him last night and asked him if everything was okay. He nodded yes. She went back in a few minutes later and he had stopped breathing. EMS came and did all they could but he was just too weak to survive another another code. I knew in the back of my mind his lungs were not going to recover after battling those issues for 6 weeks but there was always hope until the very end.
Al came up this morning at 1am to cover the home front. I came up later this morning after meeting with the funeral home. Thee will not be a service. Frances and Al are hosting an open house for our local friends to stop by in a more relaxed atmosphere than the funeral home. I am heading back to Winston this afternoon.
Needless to say I am devastated. I lost my best friend for 34 years. Hayworth Miller will be posting his obituary sometime later today or tomorrow. RIP my love.
Warm, sunny, and windy today. I left for Winston around 9:30. The roads were fine all the way down. Bob was having a fairly good day. His speaking at most times was strong and understandable. Still coughing up a lot of junk. The respiratory therapist said she was seeing some improvement with that.
The winds started howling last night and continued into mid-day today. This morning when I took Colin out it was 12 degrees with 20 to 30 mph winds gusting over 50 making it anywhere from -5 to -15 degrees. As expected I had snow dunes on the driveway. About two inches by the garage door but this time about a ten inch one right in the middle of the drive. I waited until this afternoon when the winds died down a little to shovel those back off.
The sun is out and the temperatures have made it up to 32. Tonight is to be cold so whatever melts on the roads will be a mess in the morning.
We woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground and still falling. The original amounts for us was 1 to 3 but it looks like we might get at least 3 to 4 by the time all is said and done. From the radar it looks like it will all be out of here later this afternoon. Cold tonight with a low of 10 degrees but 40 mph wind gusts. I will shovel off the drive this afternoon to keep the snow from pilling up at the garage doors.
Colin has been out a couple of times to play in the snow. I pulled out a jigsaw puzzle of NC lighthouses and friend gave me for Christmas to work on.
