Great Grand Daughter has arrived!!!

Our Grand Daughter Ann has her second baby now.  Both Ann and Kacey are doing well. Ann will get 4-6 weeks off from military duty at Ft Carson in Colorado Springs.

Kacey Ann Leshinski
Born 01/04/2011, 4:44pm (MTN)
6lbs.  14oz.
21 3/4in.

I would love to be able to go help them!!

On the local scene, Katherine is now back in Calif and will fly from SFO to FRA on Weds arriving on Thurs morning. Please let the weather hold off any more snow storms until she can get back to Basel.

I'm doing great this week. I feel almost "normal" although many of you will say that I wouldn't have a clue what "normal" is!!!

One side effect of breast cancer chemo is an aversion to smells, much like during pregnancy. No smells are allowed in the house because it may not be tolerated. Of course something has to happen to make this worse. We have been battling with the refrigerator for days. It has really bad breath. So we had to pull it out of the built in cabinet by inching it out, side to side. Finally we could get the door open enough to get all the shelves and bins out to scrub them. Sure enough there was a puddle of sludge down in the bottom, part milk, part agar, part pure toxic pollution. Said sludge had started on the top shelf and cruised down the rails from top to bottom, getting into every nook and cranny. We had to disassemble each shelf and bin to scrape the agar stuff off the rails and shelves. Then after washing, drying and re-assembling the units we got them all back in place and the food [what was left after I ditched any potentially smelly food] back in the refrigerator….except this one piece of glass shelving we found on the counter. We can’t figure out where it goes!!!! So now I need to dig out the manual that came with the ‘frig and see if we can find a place for one more glass shelf. At least it doesn’t stink like it did. Why the ‘frig decided to go negative at this time is a mystery. It is on borrowed time anyway because it has a door that cuts off the connection between its brain and the ice/water dispenser. Believe me, if that ‘frig were a car I would have traded it years ago!!!!