Its been a while since I updated this blog - sorry about that. To catch up, first I'll talk about my Wisconsin trip. This was a low-key trip as the intent was to be with my sister to help out after her shoulder surgery. The surgery went fine and it was good that she had much less pain than last year when her other (right) shoulder was done. Our mother stayed with us as well so our days were spent in one of two ways:
- up in the morning, eat breakfast, maybe a game of Scrabble, work on the crossword from the paper, naps in the afternoon (my mother and sister, I watched TV), watch NCIS with my brother-in-law in the evening, eat dinner and watch more TV.
- on days she had doctor appointments and/or therapy, we would go into town and have lunch with someone, do a little shopping and then back home.

    The Olympics were going on while I was up there so I watched a lot of Olympic coverage (which I enjoyed very much). I can now name most of the alpine skiing events. I also managed to win two games of Scrabble out of the many we played. I like to think that they are so much better at Scrabble because they play a lot more but its probably because their vocabulary is much better than mine and I don't have the discipline to concentrate as much as they do.

    The leisurely schedule did allow us time to visit with friends and relatives. We did lunches with my aunts and a high school friend as well as my sister's friends. I went up to Green Bay to my brother's house for a few nights where I was able to see my nieces and nephew play in their school basketball games. One day my two brothers who live up there came out to the house and we played games all day. (My family is B-I-G into playing games!)

    I got a reminder dose of Wisconsin weather. While it didn't snow that much while I was there (they actually got more snow in Louisville while I was gone), there was a lot of snow on the ground and the windy weather made it very cold and seem like it was snowing. My sister lives in the country behind a corn field. Every time we wanted to leave, my brother-in-law had to plow the driveway from the drifting snow. I did manage to get the car stuck in the driveway one day. We had to do the old-fashioned push-as-hard-as-you-can to get the car out. Makes me remember why I moved to the south. I was happy to see that all the snow in Louisville had melted by the time I returned home.