If I remember correctly, there was a big kerfuffle about the Patriots using underinflated footballs a couple of years ago -- that may be the "cheating" you guys are thinking of. Although I never understood why letting some air out of the ball would give an unfair advantage to one team or the other, since they're all playing with the same football, unless they found a way to swap out the ball during the game. :?
I'm partial to the Green Bay Packers myself, but I see they lost out (badly) to the Vikings last month, so I guess I can root for the Eagles this year. :wink: Don't know if we'll watch the game -- my husband is into church on Sundays, not football, but I'm sure we'll hear about it on the news. We have some friends who used to do a big Superbowl watching party every year, but they haven't been up to it for the last couple of years due to caring for aging parents, etc.
It's sad to lose aging parents and grandparents
, but sometimes it's a blessing in disguise when they're finally not suffering anymore. My father-in-law had been in a nursing home for about 3 years, and his quality of life was pretty much gone. He was lucky to be in a place where the staff seemed to really care about him, and they did their best to make him comfortable, but his body and his brain were just done. As one of them said, we like to think that he went to "the big bird watching place in the sky."
Glad to hear that you're inland and high enough up to be reasonably safe when one of our Alaskan earthquakes shakes the water in the "bathtub," but I guess you still have to deal with the windstorms. We've been lucky enough not to have had any really bad windstorms so far this year, just alternating cold snaps with relatively warmer temperatures -- freeze and thaw. Makes for really "interesting" road conditions. :roll: I'm ready for spring too. Just a few more months -- at least the days are getting longer.
I think OCD can actually be an advantage sometimes, especially when it comes to things like keeping things sanitized or even sterile. It's been a little over 3 years since Puff tested positive for adenovirus and he was pretty sick for a while, but seems to be holding his own now, although I'm not sure how much of his tendency to be a couch potato is due to the adenovirus and how much is just because he's getting older. I think the reason people are so afraid of it is because it is contagious and there's no cure, but our reptile vet says that it's not necessarily a death sentence. We don't know if the strain that Puff has is specific to bearded dragons (the test results just said "reptile" ADV), so we tried to take reasonable precautions when Squirmles was alive, and as far as we know, he never caught it -- but we're assuming that it had nothing to do with his death. Necropsy results didn't look like it.
It's good of you to adopt Jamie -- probably the best possible home she could have, with you for a "mom" and a vet for a "dad."