Rainy Voting Day

Woody got up and walked eight miles in the rain. Though he carried an umbrella, it never rained hard enough to use it. The harder rains came later in the morning...just about the time that we decided that we would go vote. We voted (three names on the ballot and we were to vote for two of those names for alderman of Tullahoma...certainly not a confusing ballot! It took more time pushing buttons to get the ballot up on the screen and then pushing them to eventually finish the process of casting the ballot than the two clicks it took to make our choices. After we left the polling place, we stopped at the pharmacy so Woody could pick up a prescription. The rest of the day we spent at home...until a little while ago when Woody went next door to sit for a while with eight children while the parents went on a date...Thursday night is date night. Today being the first debate of the upcoming presedential election...we "might" have been able to learn a little more about the way our government works...but we are "shut out" of the debates due to not having cable. Someone told me that we could watch them livestream if I downloaded an app on my iPad...but one has to be subscribed to a cable network...or so I have surmized in checking around on the internet. I guess we will probably learn "more than enough" tomorrow with all the clips that will surely be rerun on the networks that we do get. My little job of the day turned out to be doing some ironing that had piled up on the end of my ironing board...so that cleared a little bit up in the house. I went into the school room, but just to get some books to read to Isaac. "Maybe" I'll get started on the school room tomorrow. I did cook Rosemary Chicken for supper using some of our fresh rosemary...pretty good. We hadn't had that recipe in a while...so much better cooked with fresh rosemary than store bought dried. We also had some yummy home grown watermelon. When Alex was here earlier in the week, he brought us a 40 lb. watermelon that his other grandfather grew. We had put it next door in Nathan and Kathy's extra refrigerator...they kept part and brought part over to us this afternoon. It was really cold and really good. The best watermelon that we have had this season. I think the rain has left us as the skies have cleared. Thanks to the rains, it hasn't gotten out of the 70's here today...rare for August. But from what I hear, the temps will be on the rise once again over the next couple of days...August hasn't forgotten how to be "Dog Days"...at least I'm pretty sure that is true!