Helen, I'm sorry that your husband isn't able to tolerate the long drive to the funeral. Do you think there will be family members there (sometimes they are a form of family reunion)? Are there any other methods of transit that would involve less sitting? A train or flight?

Our competing temperature extremes this week are challenging northern and southern hemisphere Mudcatters. The Texas power grid is supposed to be more robust after the 2021 catastrophic failure; even if it is in good condition along my side of the street we all have our fingers crossed that freezing rain doesn't take out limbs in the trees along the right-of-way where the power lines run (along the creek behind our houses, where they never go in to thin out the risky trees in the way they do along streets).