Early this morning we had a dusting of snow.  However, that didn’t last long because it changed to rain.  The ground is now oversaturated, it is still raining, and my yard is rapidly becoming a swamp.  I half expect the Koi to leave the pond and go exploring.  The dogs weren’t interested in too many outings today, poor dears.  Yesterday was a lovely day but they didn’t get to enjoy much of it. 

     Dear Hubby is coming down with something and it has aggravated his MS.  Yesterday when I woke up and came downstairs, his balance was so far off, that he told me he felt like a marionette with a drunken puppeteer on the end of the strings.

     DH was also running a fever and seeing double.  Our doctor has a walk-in emergency clinic so I drove him over there.  It seems that everyone who wasn’t out shopping was in the waiting room.  With that many people ahead of us, I began to wish that I’d grabbed my Alphasmart when we left so I could do some writing while we waited.  Luckily, I always carry a notebook and plenty of writing implements.

     One and a half hours later, a nurse called DH’s name and we followed her back to the exam rooms.  After another thirty minutes, we left with two prescriptions for him and instructions, one of them, that he should drink plenty of fluids.  Since we had to pass near a grocery store on the way to the pharmacy, I ran in there for stuff for him to drink.  I think the same crowds from the doctor’s office were in the store. 

     Our next stop was the pharmacy and if we wanted to wait for two hours, we could get his prescriptions then or wait until today to pick them up.  It seems the throng had beaten us to the drug store too.  By then the sun had set and the dogs had spent a long time alone so we opted for picking up his medications first thing today.