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IT'S FRIDAY, MY FAVORITE DAY!!

I guess the good news to share is that Dave passed his PET scan with flying colors last week. He is cancer free!! We went in last Friday for the tests, a biopsy on his bone marrow and a blood lab test. Everything looked good but we still won't know about the biopsy for a couple of weeks. But the doctor is optimistic and we don't have to go back again. Dave is feeling more like his old self again and started physical therapy this week to get some strength back in his legs and arms. They even canceled Dave's appointment for the following week. It seems strange that we have been nurtured by the nurses and doctors for so many months and all of a sudden, it's "good-bye". It is like being thrown out of the nest. So now we can get back to our "normal" lives again and that seems strange right now.

I also attended my high school class' monthly luncheon. A bunch of the members of our graduating class get together once a month at a restaurant in Hillsboro and sit around and chat. There are a lot of members that are still living in the area and I try to make the luncheons whenever I am around, which isn't very often. Since we had our 50th reunion four years ago, we decided not to have any more class reunions (we had one every five years) but instead just meet for lunch once a month.

Other than our good news about Dave, not too much is happening down my way, unless you count the wind and rain storms we have been having all week. Since the weather kept me indoors, I decided it was about time I tackled the office. It was getting out of hand with papers covering most of the surface area and no room to do much work. The first thing I did was go through the many notebooks that we had lined up to see what was there. I dwindled the notebooks down to the necessary ones and started eliminating the others. I found a box full of old agenda papers from the last five years of City Council meetings that I persuaded Dave that we didn't need and then began shredding papers. It took me most of the week to shred everything and ended up filling about 8 huge plastic garbage bags. I wonder if Lara needs them for the Guinea Pigs she has? They use the shredded papers for bedding material. We can probably furnish her with enough bedding material for as long as those Guinea Pigs live! While I was in the mood, I got the necessary documents for the taxes ready for the tax man. We have an appointment with him on the 18th of March.

Between shredding papers and finishing a really good book, "The Boys in the Boat", the time went by pretty fast. If you haven't had an opportunity to read this book, I highly recommend it. It is about the rowing team from the University of Washington that ended up going to the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Also this week, I attended my final three hour class at the Master Gardener's so I can get re-certified. I am required to take 9 hours of class time each year. This week it was a refresher course on weeds. There is so much to absorb when I take these classes the first time that it is fun to go back and take some of them again. It is amazing how much I pick up the second time around. While I was attending my class, Dave went over to the Tillamook Hospital and had his PICC removed from his arm. Since he's done with chemo and transfusions, he figured he wouldn't need that tube anymore and he was anxious to get rid of it. When he finished that, he waited for me to finish my class and we stopped at Freddies for some shopping before we headed back home.

We are headed up to Seattle this weekend. The annual meeting of the Northwest Steam Society is Saturday. We will to up on Friday and stay with our friends Tom and Marge Kane who live on Bainbridge Island (and who loaned us that great book) and go to the meeting with them. After the luncheon we will drive back home. Dave and I will take turns driving as it is a good five hour trip one way.