It has been so cold at the ranch and Saturday was no exception. We awoke to 27 degrees and more snow this time, not hail. It stayed cold all day and I stayed in all day, alternately knitting and working on my laptop. I finally got Windows to run on my Mac so I could run the recipe program that has all our recipes on it--Living Cookbook. I baked cookies because we thought we might be having company. They didn't come so Mom, Dennis and I had the dinner we had planned to have for lunch with our company:  Tortilla soup and sandwiches on small buns. It was good. For dessert we had--guess what? Cookies!

Oh, hail!

 Seven miles away in Boulevard they got quite a bit of snow. But here we only got a bunch of hail. Oh, hail!

50-50 at work

50-50 found a warm spot between my laptop screen and the telephone on my desk. She was "helping" the Mac tech work on my Mac devices yesterday.

Rain Again

We could be in for some weird weather: rain, snow, and most definitely wind. Right now we're having a light rain and slight breeze.

He's Back!

Yesterday was a busy, busy day. First, of course, was the cat chores, inside and out. Then some computer work until 9:20 a.m. when I went to the barn to get Doc ready for our lesson. Betsy arrived around nine, bringing Flash with her. He'd been at the office or somewhere and followed her to the barn. We warmed Doc up with some walking around the arena while Flash did his Border Collie rush at us and around us. What a pain! Finally we all walked up to the office and Joanne enticed Flash into the office and shut the door so we could continue our lesson.

After the riding lesson, the Mac tech arrived and we got to work on making all my Mac devices sync so I could have the same contact and calendar information on each of them:  the iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad. Egads. It took some time to get everything straightened out. It was the iCloud that was confusing me mostly. Plus I have too many email addresses. In any case, we are good to go.

As I was walking the tech guy out to his car, Sammy came running up all covered in dust. I was overjoyed to see him when I had thought he was dead. Oh, boy. I am a happy camper now that Sammy is back. I really care for that cat. We have some kind of bond and I missed him very much when he failed to come home the other day.

Yea! A very good day.

Sammy

To be honest, I can't remember anything outstanding about Sunday or Monday. But today, I took Mom to a doctor appointment in Santee and then we did some grocery shopping.

Everything was quite ordinary until I went to put the cats away at 4 p.m. Three of them popped in the window--and I shut it after them. I assumed Sammy would come around the other way as he usually does. But when I went to find him, he wasn't in his usual spot in the cat tunnel nor was he on the roof as he sometimes is. I called him and he didn't, for once, come running. I've been checking all evening but he hasn't shown up. I am very sad.

Movie Friday

Dennis won't be here Tuesday, so he and Mom and I went to the movies on Friday. We saw Jack Reacher. We all have read the entire Reacher series and I've been rereading them from the beginning. The best thing about getting old and losing your memory is that you can reread books and they seem brand new. I have yet to remember anything.

I spent the first part of the movie being mad that they chose Tom Cruise to play Jack Reacher. Reacher is 6' 5" tall, a giant compared to dinky Cruise. Yet, as the movie progressed, I began to enjoy Cruise's performance. We liked the movie, but all of us agree that Liam Neeson (6'5") or Jim Caviezel (6"2") (Person of Interest) would have been a more likely choice.

This morning (Saturday) we met Angie, Gary, Danielle, Bryan and baby Morgan for breakfast at Cafe 67 in Lakeside. We had a nice visit and were happy to see that Dani, Bryan and Morgan looked healthy and happy (well, Morgan cried a little).

In the afternoon, I took Flash for a mile walk around the ranch while Dennis stayed in town getting my car serviced and doing some errands.

Tonight we are watching the premier of Merlin, Season 5. I started knitting a scarf so I would have something to do while watching TV besides work on my computer. Yet, here I am doing this.