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Louisiana "Snow" day and Fried Green Tomato BLT's

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We were supposed to be on a plane to Copper Mountain today, but mother nature had other plans for the Gary's this Mardi Gras. We had our trip all ready, clothes borrowed and packed up, and the dog was taken care of. Then a blizzard started to make its way across the south. Our flights kept getting changed, then canceled. Instead of losing days of our vacation trying to make it there, we postponed the entire week to Easter week. So, we are now stuck at home on a very cold, snowy/rainy day. I felt a little nostalgic and got out my camera for some non-work photography! I hadn't used my camera just for fun in a while and need to get it and myself out of work-mode. Here is what it looks like outside today! Marielle and I went out there together so she could jump on the trampoline while it was full of ice!  I took some more a few hours later. Ice on the surfaces is getting thick! Aliza made a tiktok slicing all the icicles off all the surfaces.  Before the freeze, Jon brought in all

Bell's Palsy

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I just updated my Facebook page with a post about my Bell's Palsy and it might be my last post. I wanted to save all my posts about it somewhere and thought this old blog might be a good place. Just in case I wanted to go back and relive it all one day. 😳😥 October 30, 2017 The last 24 hours have been challenging, to say the least. I woke up Sunday morning feeling a bit weird, and figuring out that I have Bell’s Palsy. I would not have known what was going on had it not been for a friend that had this many years ago. It started Friday night. My neck and behind my ear was really sore and kept me up all night. I thought I just slept funny, was tired and a little stres sed due to a busy weekend, so I ignored it. Then on Saturday, my lips were twitching a lot. Like they wouldn’t stop twitching, so much that it was a little alarming. Still, I ignored that. Saturday night my neck was hurting again and kept me up, and my tongue felt numb. I couldn’t sleep and when we got up in the mor