<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>hey, Rich, great story! I hope you and Janet have a wonderful Thanksgiving too. And I hope all of you on this list has a great day. I'm going to my cousins in Watertown and looking forward to it. Take care all of you. Esther<br><br><br></div><div><br>On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Richard McGaffin via Ct-nfb <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div>Good morning friends, just wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving, and share adventure with you all.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Yesterday I recieved a call from my older brother discussing the snow. It's usually the two of us who shovel out my parents' when it snows. I'm happy to say this is not on our to do list for this morning. being along the coast we got nothing on the ground.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">On to my adventure, my brother had told me that it was extremely icy out there, so being the paranoid fool that I am. I began to wonder about Janet's safety coming home from work. and I felt a guilty about her having to clean off the car, scraping the windshield so I put my work boots on and headed out. Much to my surprise, it really wasn't that slippery, but there were a few icy spots. Although I have a little usable vision, I sometimes get confused when my sight works. However with the gray sky's and rain/sleet coming down my usable sight was not. So naturally my cane kicked in. Of course I had no problem I know the way to stop & shop like the back of my hand. Yeah it's about a mile away. I must admit. It's kind of fun wondering around in crummy weather. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">It was kind funny to greet the different people I knew at S&S, and their surprise to see me a blind guy daring to venture out in the poor weather. This of course is not the first time I went out walking in storm, but still it's a great mobility test. Of course I know that most of you who are great cane and or dog skills, probably travel during all kinds of poor weather.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">So the next time you're bored, and it's pouring rain, snowing, or just a crummy day. Grab your white cane and head out for a walk. Of course if you are a dog user, it would be cruel to force them out. Because they don't have the weather equipment that we do. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Enjoy your Thanksgiving folks</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida
Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Rich <br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ct-nfb mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">Ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ct-nfb_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ct-nfb_nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Ct-nfb:</span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/ct-nfb_nfbnet.org/elevegnale%40sbcglobal.net">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/ct-nfb_nfbnet.org/elevegnale%40sbcglobal.net</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>