Seth’s Sightings

Our early January plans were kaput. The colds that laid us up had us keeping close to home. We missed the Farm Show, we missed hockey games. I missed a meeting with my surgeon. All in all, not a good week. Our ailing had us a bit low. Instead of displays and critters and contests I listened to music and watched YouTube videos, then turned in. Among the various YouTube discoveries was a sci-fi series – Andromeda, from the early 2000s, and musically, a fantastic Swiss yodeler Melanie Oesch, and her family. Add to that episodes of All Murders in the Building. We are hoping to watch the new Night Court starting this weekend.

Sunday was a bit hard, but the medicines were beginning to battle the infection. I spent Sunday and Monday inside. Tuesday morning I had mainly a head cold, with stuffiness, along with the results from the Covid/ flu test negative and negative, and I began to venture out again.

There’s not many sightings to be done from inside the house.

The missed trip to Philly now means a delay in my surgery. This prolongs my anxiety about the operation.

On Friday, the 7th, we attended the funeral of good friend of ours, a fellow newspaper publisher who passed away before Christmas. The service was in Wynnewood. The interment was in the historic Woodland Cemetery in the shade of an old cherry tree, not far from the University of Pennsylvania. In accordance with his wishes, a New Orleans-style band played before the burial, then afterwards at a luncheon.

The event ended just ahead of when traffic out of town would be the heaviest. We completed our ride up the Schuylkill in an acceptable amount of time and with no scary incidents. About halfway to the Turnpike, we had to navigate around an out-of-state tractor trailer whose driver was NOT enjoying what appeared to be his first time on the Schuylkill Expressway. Folks were polite for Philadelphia in allowing cars to go around the truck, which was going about 35 mph a white-knuckle ride for him.

Our dogs have been missing their favorite cookies. For some reason there is a shortage of these particular peanut butter treats. While the dogs are not getting as many treats as they usually do, they are not hungry just less spoiled.

I attended the Eagle Shows gun show at the Split Rock Resort on the 14th. I did a little shopping more warm weather gear and browsed

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the antique and modern weapons on display. They’ll be back here for another weekend show March 18 and 19.

In sightings, one evening as the sun set, we were driving along a cornfield with the sun setting behind it, and there was a herd of deer. What we saw was a spectacular set of silhouettes. It would have been a great shot IF I had the right camera, and the deer wouldn’t spook when I got out of the car…

Due to our colds, we didn’t sight much these past few weeks. I have been seeing confused vees of geese flying over White Haven, heading west before sunset. But why west?

We are healthy again just in time for some job work to come in that will take us around the Poconos. It’s fun being busy.

We plan to attend some home hockey games in Wilkes-Barre with the WBS Penguins, including Saturday next week and a game on Wednesday, February 1st.

I’ve been cheering on UConn Lady Huskies basketball as the team earns more wins as they get healthier. There was a big game for them versus Seton Hall this week (a solid win). Coming up are some regular Big East games and a match versus Tennessee on the 29th.

NFL football playoffs have been fun, with the Giants upsetting the Vikings. I am cheering for the Eagles, and for the 49ers.

A big hoo-rah to the South Dakota State U’s Jackrabbits football team who put on a show in the FCS Championship beating North Dakota State handily 45-21 in front of a full house in Frisco Texas. That ‘other’ championship game of Georgia vs. TCU was a dud, though kudos to Georgia. Penn State’s Rose Bowl win was far more exciting.

Here’s another sighting: We’re fans of comic Jeff Foxworthy. He has a routine identifying behavior that “might make you a redneck.” We were outside of Bloomsburg on New Years’ Day and saw a young man using his child’s plastic Playskool wagon to bring garbage bags up to the curb for the next day’s pickup. That is a redneck.

Here’s to all the warm days because it took most of the warm week to melt the ice off of our sidewalk after the frigid temperatures in late December.

As usual, wishes of good health to you all.