I managed to bring a cold home from the Philippines with me. It was bad enough last night that I got very little sleep and consequently ended up working from home today. The good part of that is getting caught up on my work e-mail and there was a bunch of that! It seems that we had a lot of family out of the country the past week or so. My son-in-law Ty was in Singapore, my sister Eileen (blog coming soon!) was in India, and I was in the Philippines. We’re definitely an international family!

My brother Perry had another double-dose of chemo last week. On those days he gets a dose of one drug on Tuesday and then goes back in on Thursday for a dose of a second drug. As a result, he took the week off from work. We made arrangements to meet at my parents’ home in Soda Springs on Saturday, Perry and his wife Chris drove to Soda Springs on Friday evening. Since Harbor Freight was having a sidewalk sale, Perry, Chris, and my dad came to Pocatello on Saturday morning to go shopping. Since they were going with dad, that meant that mother could stay home (a red letter day for her! Harbor Freight is not one of her favorite places). After that we all met in Soda Springs for the rest of the day. Perry brought his turkey cannon and a turkey over which was cooked on the BBQ grill out on the back deck. I was very pleasantly surprised at how good the turkey tasted. The cannon works very well and the bird cooked in a little over two hours. During the day I took some pictures with my new Sony digital camera so check out the “pictures!” link on the right sidebar. And, of course, I left my laptop computer and computer bag at the house in Soda Springs, so I made a quick trip back on Sunday afternoon to pick it up. The weather was very nice for both trips. We might be closing in on spring!