I'm sorry to read about the shingles, Patty! I've had the vaccinations against them and hope it works, I remember my mother having a terrible time with them.

This non-stop dog world stuff and company and cat sitting whatnot is killing me - I haven't been to the gym in a couple of weeks and my knees really can feel it. And the vet is out of town for an emergency so yesterday's appointment was pushed to Friday and now pushed further to next Wednesday. Maybe he's out there somewhere trying to fly on Southwest Airlines.

I'm changing out the shirt on Pepper every day or two and washing them after a long soak in a detergent to hopefully sanitize the fabric. I had a dentist appointment today that involved taking four 500mg Amoxycillin 1 hour before the cleaning because of the knee replacements, the prescription is for this purpose. I still have four pills left in the bottle and they are identical to what Pepper is getting, so I'll add my four pills to her four and she'll make it to almost that appointment on antibiotics.

This year I'm going to do a dry January. It just seems to make sense after the excess of calories from the holidays. I don't drink that much, but none will be good for a while. Another thing for the new year is to unsubscribe a bunch of the newsletters that arrive via email that I never get around to reading. And maybe turn off a few Google alerts.

How is it weatherwise for our northern declutterers? Have you had to shift a lot of snow, or had someone with a plow dig you out (again)?