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| Dining room tree |
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| Living room tree |
I hope you are all doing well and staying safe. Les and I are doing okay here. It's sunny and in the upper 40's today. Tomorrow is supposed to be a little warmer.
We went to lunch at Mission Barbecue. Excellent pulled pork sandwiches, but they were huge! We just had soup for supper.
Otherwise, we've just been taking care of things around here.
Please continue to take care of yourselves and stay safe. God Bless America! Life is great!
When I have light in the right place sometime, I'll take a picture of the front door and new wreath. But this is the rest of the front.
This is a new feature with some older ornaments since I had the "new" crate to work with. 😊
It's sunny and in the 40's today. Les planned to play golf and got ready. Turns out it is a lot breezier than expected and he came back home. So after we finished our coffees, we went out and did a few errands. Honestly, that is all I had planned for today. So I am going to go read, and maybe watch some TV.
Take care of yourselves, and stay safe! Life is good! And God Bless America!
Thanksgiving turned out to be just Les and me. Little Miss E got sick at the beginning of last week. Jacquie figured whatever would get passed around with them and she didn't want to expose us to something. Disappointing, but we understand and appreciate that she is careful. I sent some of the food I had purchased and she cooked at their house. I cooked a full dinner for Les and me.
We texted with Jacquie and Pam and checked on them.
After cleanup, and a break, I went outside and did the decorations on our porch and hung the new wreathes up on the front door and the fence gates. I had planned for us to set up the tree in the dining room but I ran out of energy.
Les didn't play golf on Friday so we got both trees set up and I've been working on the decorations around the house. And then doing some cleaning. I'll be posting some pictures over several posts.
Today has been a busy one even though I didn't plan it. The usual morning stuff was done, I cooked breakfast, did the cleanup, we read the paper, and watched a movie. I did a few odds and ends and then started on a pile of desk work that needed attention. Les was on the computer for a while and then went out to gather up leaves AGAIN. I went out and helped for a short time by holding open the bags for the ones he was picking up that he had raked. Then he was out there mowing up the rest of them. Tomorrow is pick up day and we have a pile of bags! And our neighbors' trees still have plenty of leaves to fall! Our trees - not so much. 😬
The last bit of decorating will be for Les to get the outside light set up this evening. Then I am declaring us done!
We've had some cold temperatures, but tomorrow should be pretty nice and sunny and Les plans to play golf. I plan to get out and do a couple errands.
Les' Dad made Fat Santa and Santa and Mrs. Claus many years ago for us. They come out every year. This year they are on the mantle.
First, thank you, Jacquie, for the concert tickets!
I'll be honest, this was our first venture out to an event like this since Covid started. We've gone to movies a couple times, but we go early times and pick our seats for those. Our seats for the concert were good. Masks were required for everyone at all times in the theater.
I'm not exactly sure what Les and I were expecting at "Christmas in Hawaii". But the musicians were very talented and the music was very good! I have to say though, we only could pick out maybe four songs that were Christmas ones. 🎄
The concert opened with a musician named Thunderstorm Artis. He was a participant on "The Voice". Since we don't watch that, we didn't have a clue. But he is from Hawaii and one of eleven children. He played a guitar, and did a harmonica solo that was great, and he sang.
Then Jake Shimabukuro came out with his group. Jake and the other two men with him are all from Hawaii. One played guitar, one a percussion instrument that I would have liked to have a good look at, and Jake played Ukulele.
They played all sorts of songs and talked about famous performers they had performed with. I enjoyed how at the end of an especially good tune they would all jump up and down and fist bump each other! Thunderstorm came out and sang on some of the sets.
It was a very good evening!
Ever since we built our home, we have known we had wildlife around us. We have had squirrels, raccoons, moles, voles, geese, eagles, hawks, turtles, frogs, and more. We have seen reports of coyotes and deer in our neighborhood, too.
This morning as I was cooking breakfast, I had a view out the window and something caught my eye. At first I thought I was seeing the back end of a really large dog and I went to get a better look. It was a deer - a young buck deer with some antlers! He was standing there looking at our fence gate.
I called to Les and as the deer was running towards the back of our yard, Les went out to open the gate for him. The deer ran back and forth across the back of our yard and made it through the space between the end of our fence and the sound wall. Our neighbor on that side doesn't have gates, so we hope he made it out and over to the golf course.
Of course, this all happened so fast I didn't have a chance to get to my phone and get a picture of him, but he was beautiful. This picture I found online is close.
Notice the early morning jet trail on the left side of the picture. We had our first bit of frost overnight; it was 33 this morning.
Les is watching the Browns game now. I am going to go see if I can corral and bag some of the many leaves that are coming down. 🍂
Take care and stay safe. Life is great! God Bless America!
Cutie Girl and Little Miss E got their first doses of Covid vaccine this past week. No problems other than the stress for Jacquie. Second dose in three weeks.
Take care of yourselves! If you haven't already done it, get the Covid vaccine. Protect yourself and others!
We finally made it to see the last James Bond movie, "No Time to Die". It was a very good movie, even though we didn't care for the ending. But we both knew it was Daniel Craig's last one. It's a long movie and it tied up several story lines. And the popcorn was great! And only ten other people in the theater!
It was 46 this morning when we got up. It's 64 now and sunny. Nice out. Les is playing in a golf tournament today.
I did the usual morning stuff and then did a couple errands.
Sometime this next week I need to go to the Laundromat and wash our Anniversary quilt. It's time. So I got out our Winter Holiday one that Pam made. Here are pictures to show how that went. The furry boys love when I get out a "fresh" quilt.
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| Just got it on the bed |
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| You can't see Angus in this picture, but he is the lump under the quilt behind the pillows. Finnigan is just taking a break. |
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| Angus still behind the pillows and Finnigan is now there under the quilt on the left side. |
And to my Veteran, I'll love you always. 💓
Please remember our Veterans who have worked for our country and sacrificed for the good of us all.
God Bless America!
I recently realized I hadn't shown our new chair for upstairs. First time we've ordered furniture from Wayfair. It was delivered as scheduled. It wasn't too hard to put together and it is pretty good to sit on. 😊 And it unfolds and makes a single bed. If we need more bed space, we have the large air bed that Pam has left here.
I was right about the time change and was awake around 4:00 a.m.. Dozed a little bit after that. We're just having a quiet day. Les is watching football right now. I've done a few odds and ends. it's cool, sunny, and breezy outside.
Life is good! Take care of yourselves and stay safe. God Bless America!
Halloween is over for another year. Chris and Jordan took the little ones around their neighborhood last evening to a few of their neighbors' homes. And they got to do the Trunk-or-Treat on Saturday, so they all had a good time. It was quiet here in our neighborhood. Our Kiln Creek Community was promoting their Halloween/Fall Festival and encouraged each neighborhood to participate in the Trunk-or Treat that was being done there.
I have packed away our Halloween decorations and gotten out our few Thanksgiving ones. It is starting to look and feel more like Fall here; it was 47 this morning. There is some leaf color around. And we have lots of brown ones falling all over. 🍂
I did all the usual "morning stuff" here at home and then went for my Starbucks. Les is playing golf. I also went back out and did a couple errands. I have now mailed/shipped all of the Christmas things that we needed to send. 🎄 You know the news reports keep telling us to do all this early this year due to the shortages and shipping delays and increased costs. So I did! 😊
Tomorrow Les and I will go vote and then go to breakfast; his turn to pick where. Thursday we will get our Covid boosters.
Doing any yard work was delayed for me by a really bad muscle cramp and spasm in my leg. That happened during the night and lasted all the next day. So I decided any yard work could just wait. Crap happens.
But Life is great! Stay safe and take care of yourselves. And God Bless America!
