Boy,
Am I Glad This Year is Over!
2015 wasn’t the best year I’ve ever lived
through. For one thing, I was sick during most of it. For another, I lost a
beloved dachshund, Bella, who was murdered by Jazzy and Cookie, two of my other
hounds—or part-hounds, anyway. And lots of expensive house problems erupted
during the year. Gah.
The wieners of UNSETTLED SPIRITS (paper copy)
are Holly Huff, Flo Kojima, and Peggy Baker! I’ll send your copies as soon as
the snow melts. Right now I’m snowed in. Besides, if I could drive anywhere, I
might possibly be able to get to the post office, but none of the grocery
stores have food in them. Roswell is 200 miles away from another, larger city.
We haven’t had newspaper or mail deliveries since Saturday, December 26. It’s
now the 31st, and the FedEx guy (who did manage to get through this
morning) says even he’s going to pack it in because the streets are so
treacherous. Roswell doesn’t have snowplows. Sigh.
Anyway, all is not horribly bad. In fact, I’m
really happy that my daughter and son-in-law, Anni and Razmik Avanesian, are
here, and they’re fixing up my house! Well, they will continue to do so if the
snow melts enough for them to get to Home Depot. And if Home Depot has anything
in it. They went to a grocery store yesterday, and there were no potatoes of
any kind, no meat, and no green onions, which I wanted for a chicken dish I’m
making today.
Piddle on the snow. My dogs have been
piddling on the snow, for sure. At the moment, it’s kind of a block of ice out
there. It’ll probably melt a bit and then freeze again. According to the
weather gurus, the air is too cold for the snow to melt, and the air is cold
because there’s so much snow on the ground. And there you have it!
Interesting story about Razmik (I don’t think
he’ll mind my telling it). He’s an Armenian from Iran. Armenians are culturally
Christian, and when Iran because a Muslim theocracy, it ceased being a good
place for Christians to live. Therefore, Raz and his family had to learn how to
do everything, from building buildings and repairing stuff to cooking over open
flames. Eventually they all got out except for one of his sisters, who still
lives there.
Personally, I don’t want to live in a
Christian theocracy any more than I want to live in a Muslim theocracy. Our
Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they chose to separate the
church from the state.
For the month of January, 2016, I’ll be
giving away audio copies of THANKSGIVING ANGELS! Whee! If you’d like to win an
audio copy of THANKSGIVING ANGELS, please send me an email at alice@aliceduncan.net.
And here, for your visual pleasure, are
pictures of our snow! This is more snow than Roswell’s ever had in its life. Go
figure.
Please visit my web page at www.aliceduncan.net, and if you’d like to be Facebook friends, here’s my
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Thanks!
Wow that's a lot of snow!! Hope you get some food in the grocery store soon!!
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