Busyness

 In 2019, we bought tickets to see a concert up at Red Rocks in Colorado.  The artist was a group from Norway called Wardruna.

Unfortunately, my scans that October revealed a return of the cancer (which it seems to have done every 2 years or so, pretty reliably).  An MRI was needed, and was scheduled for the day of the concert in Colorado.

We tried to sell our tickets, but no one wanted them.  We lost that money.

Then, in February of 2020, they announced a return to the US, that would take place in Dallas, TX, in October.  

We went ahead and purchased another set of tickets, with a package deal that included a room at a hotel adjacent to the venue.

Then Covid happened.  The event was postponed indefinitely.  

We were told to keep our tickets, which we did, however, when we asked the hotel for our money back, they refused.  We lost that money.

Some time in 2021, they announced that the concert had been rescheduled for November 10th. We booked a hotel.

But... then, we looked again, and realized that it was rescheduled for November 10th of 2022! 

 Fortunately, that hotel allowed us to cancel.  We tried to get them to just change the reservation, but they could not do that a whole year in advance.

SO, finally, last week, we went to Dallas for the Wardruna show!  It cost us a lot of money to get there, HAHA!  

We took a vacation day for Thursday.  My office always closes for Veterans' Day, and Dave took an additional vacation day, so we scheduled ourselves a 4 day weekend.

About a month ago, we got a room about 6 blocks away from the concert venue, and, when the day came, it was warm and damp, but  the weather was good enough, so we walked.  

Stopped in a really good Italian restaurant for dinner, and enjoyed a night cap at a bar on the way back after the show.

It was really good, all the way around.  The show was wonderful.

On Friday morning, it was POURING rain, so we took our time getting downstairs for breakfast, and getting checked out.

Then, because there is an IKEA store nearby, which we had visited many years ago, we had planned to go there before coming home.

I found kitchen gadgets and a replacement cotton blanket for summer.  It was fun...and we headed to the highway.

Where we got stuck in traffic for almost 2 hours of stop and creep, stop and creep.  It was AWFUL, and we got home so much later than we had wanted to, and totally exhausted....especially Dave, who does all of the driving.

As we traveled north on Friday, we drove into a cold front, coming home to substantially colder weather.  It started to SNOW just a few minutes after we arrived, and got the plants put inside the shed in advance of the hard freeze on Friday night.

Thankfully, we missed that on the highway, as there were slick spots, once the snow started.

Yesterday, I had an eye check up (I'll be getting new glasses for the first time in a long time), and Dave did the grocery shopping, but it was a pretty low key day....we needed that to recover from the whirlwind trip to Dallas!

The half inch or so of snow melted by afternoon, but it stayed pretty cold, and was in the 20s again last night.

Now, we are done being busy for a while, and our Thanksgiving tradition is stress free, so that will be nice.  We've done it so many times, it's easy.

Tomorrow afternoon, I have my annual "well woman" appointment, and the forecast is calling for more "meaningful" snow.

It's been an abrupt change.... we needed the air conditioning last week, it was 75 and balmy in Dallas on Thursday, and now, we have full-on winter weather for at least a week.

The ass hole neighbors have moved out, and left one of their cats behind.  We have found a home for her.

If the weather doesn't interrupt our plans, kitty's new mom will be here Monday afternoon to collect her.  She's such a sweet kitty, and clearly not an outdoor cat.

Unfortunately, she's been on the street for a year (they moved in December of last year, and the only time I ever spoke to one of the tenants was because she was out looking for a kitty who "ran away."  She ended up leaving said kitty outside to fend for herself---meaning for US to take care of).

That being said, kitty will probably need to be indoor/outdoor at her new home....but they live up in Guthrie on an acreage, so that will be perfectly safe for her.  Much better than the city!

I am off to make flapjacks for breakfast.  No set plans for today.... Dave needs to run another errand, and he wants to make two more winter shelters for the feral cats, and I need to do some work on the course I am taking.  It should be an easy-ish day.

Enjoy your week!