Busy Day in Livingston and Bozeman

Jean and I went to Livingston and Bozeman Wednesday, January 5.  We had several projects in mind.

Since my four-wheel drive has been undependable lately, I had better snow tires put on my car.  The other tires were supposed to be all-season tires, but their treads aren't very deep and I've almost gotten in trouble a few times.  I'm sure that when I did a couple donuts on the highway a couple months ago, the tires were part of the problem.  As well, when I have been in a little trouble, I've probably worn down those treads a bit.  No one can yet diagnose my four-wheel drive problem because I can never get anyone to look at my car when the problem occurs!  Hopefully we'll be able to get the problem diagnosed sooner rather than later.

I went to a chiropractor also.  It's been a couple years since I was last seen.  My neck's been bothering me a little bit, and hopefully we'll be able to get a course of action going.  Nothing serious--just annoying.

Jean and I ate lunch at the Homemade Kitchen.  They have some yummy meals there.  I've never been disappointed with anything I ate there.  I like how everything is so fresh tasting.  Their recipes are pretty darn good!

We attended a care conference for Betty at Evergreen.  They all agree that Betty continues to steadily decline in health.  Her falling has significantly diminished.  She needs to stay in a wheelchair when she wants to move around.  They have given her a wheelchair that is low to the ground so that she can scoot around with her feet because she is so short.  Over the past year she has lost about 1/10 of her body weight.  They were mostly concerned with occasional vomiting.  For two days she vomited once in the morning.  Hospice was able to administer some medicine to deal with the nausea and that seems to have relieved the problem.  She doesn't appear to be coming down with a cold or flu bug.  I don't know how long Betty will last, but she's continuing to hang on.  Occasionally she'll say one or two words.

For the rest of the afternoon Jean and I went to Bozeman and window shopped and looked for things we liked for home improvement.  We did buy a couple of pieces of furniture for our living room though.  The price was right!  It's time that those old pieces of furniture go away. :-)

That evening I was hungry for a burger.  I hadn't had a decent burger in long time, so we ate at Fuddrucker's.  Though a bit expensive, they do give a burger to order!

We went home completely wiped out.  Thu. Jan. 6 we didn't do a darn thing.  Unfortunately that night Jean became sick and was badly off.  She seemed to be doing alright Friday morning though.

This week we've had a lot of animals in the area.  The weather has driven the bison into the Gardiner area.  I've actually had to be careful of driving at night because there have been bison in the road!  Bison look like a shadow in your headlights.  They don't look at your car like elk or deer, and I hope I never hit one of those!  I've had bison in my yard.  They left their calling cards behind.  I could tell that a herd of elk had been in my yard too from the way that the yard was grazed.  Also a bit unusual is that we have had a whitetail doe and fawn in our yard.  This area typically only has mule deer, so when I see a whitetail, it's a bit odd.