Nothing much

I'm just trying out my brand-new computer. Christina ordered it for me on-line and it was delivered to my door a couple of days later. That's the simplest sort of shopping trip and one I can relate to since I was in the kitchen doing something else while she was taking care of business. She talked me into getting a speaker and I'm glad she did. Beth sent me a singing turkey in honor of Thanksgiving, plus I received a very beautiful picture memorial to the victims of the hurricane and it was set to music that was just perfect. She was quick to point out that I would have missed both of those messages if I hadn't listened to her good advice. (I don't know why I try since I have never won an argument with her in all these years.)

I spent an hour with my insurance adjuster this morning. It's taken a long time for him to get here, but I was in no hurry. He's putting me in for a new roof on my house and also on my separate shed. I was surprised at this because it looks perfect. He went up on it though and told me flying debris had gouged it in many places on two sides. He thinks I should get a whole new roof though because it's so hard to match shingles. I also need new gutters on two sides where the tree knocked them loose. I have a very high deductible, plus a displacement advance of funds, and I'm just hoping the final estimate will go beyond that so I won't have to pay any of it back!

Katie and I saw a movie called, "North Country," about the coal mines in Virginia, Minnesota, this past weekend. It was good but I think they made it a little rougher than it really was. I can't believe Minnesota men would behave so crudely just a few years ago, early 90's. (The men objected to women miners and did a lot of nasty things to dissuade them.) We had to drive to another town to find a theater. I spent the night at Katie's because Robbie was having a lunch next day, and then I spent a second night so I wouldn't have to drive across the bridge at night. I had the girls with me and they did fine. Katie's Max accepted them easily which was nice. He's not much bigger than they are (a little wider is all) but he's ten times faster and they didn't know how to cope with that. Now that I know it can be done, I might be inclined to do it again.

I'm having another tree service in a few minutes. I've had three bids, widely disparate, and the adjuster accepted the highest bid to send forward to State Farm. I was grateful for that, but I need to talk about the root ball with this one today because the others didn't include that. They said someone else would have to take care of it. The adjuster said I could send in a request for an additional amount later, but it wasn't clear to me that it would be paid.

I don't have a spell check here so please excuse misspellings. Also excuse extra spaces between words. I've tried to correct that, but know I must have missed plenty. I hope that's just a settling-in sort of problem because it's really hard to catch.