Our household ‘snake’ got it, after Jane disassembled the plumbing. Not one clog, but three. The sink now runs and dishes are being washed. Dunno but what 8 days of really cold weather helped create the situation. But it is now dealt with. Got bottles of weird stuff sitting all over the kitchen counters, from undersink, but at least—we saved a plumbing bill.

I, meanwhile, am gimping about. Day before Christmas, I backed up, caught the edge of my robe with my heel, and went backwards onto my backside…really a pretty good fall, dislodging a chair, a table, and breaking a glass, but no damage done. Backside is fine, but I apparently turned my foot weird and pulled a muscle in the backside of upper leg, go figure.

Fortunately my prezzie from Jane this year was a new pair of muffies—remember I said they help sciatica—and I knew instantly the old ones had gotten pretty worn. So I had been getting some aches from the hip—but the new muffies, with a new, properly positioned inset, cured that. So I traded one ache for another. 😉

Cold here, today: bitter cold. The rest of the country’s got warm, but the icebox door is open up here in the PNW. 10 inches of snow on the ground.