BOO!

Due to the day/night that it is, Donna and I worked in the church library this morning rather than in the afternoon.  We had a few laughs once again...and came out scratching our heads as to how a couple of things had happened...like three of the same books all with the same accession numbers.  During this inventory we seem to be finding multiples of the same book rather than books that are missing! Let's see...is this a situation of "more is less" or "less is more" or..?!?  Guess we'll figure out the answer to that deep question another time when working in the library.

Woody found a chicken recipe that he thought that we had all the ingredients for that he thought that we should try.  But in the end we didn't have quite enough of one item and none of another.  So while I was working at the library, he walked to Kroger and had all the ingredients lined up on the counter when I got home.  So I put the recipe together and we ate a bit of a late lunch.  That works out well so I can snack on candy this evening!  I think that Woody has been better about resisting the temptation than I!  He is in charge of answering the knocks of the little hobgoblins.  We seem to be having more knocking at our door than other years...and, most have been very polite...remembering their thank yous.

Another Breezy Day!

Woody headed out before lunch for a walk to the library.  I left shortly after lunch to get my hair cut.  This is the view out the window where I get my hair cut...beautiful!  The clouds were so interesting just over the tree line.  Woody just left to walk to church for his time in the prayer room.  I am blogging early this evening as I am about to head out the door to go out to eat with my Sunday School class.

Breezy Monday

Woody waited till this afternoon for his daily walk.  He left shortly after I left for my six-month check-up with my neurologist.  Everything is status quo with my Transverse Myelitis...just go with what I have been doing medication-wise.  I left the house at 1:20pm for a 1:30pm appt. and was traveling home before 2pm.  I like quick doctor appointments!  On the way home I realized that the ginkgo tree was a bit yellower than it was four days ago. Also the little Japanese maple had lost more leaves (small tree with red leaves in the right corner).  I decided that I had better snap another picture or two before all the leaves blow off!  It is really breezy today and only got into the low 50's...so wind chill factor made it seem even cooler.  There is a wind advisory out for our area until tomorrow evening. I guess the wind is the effect we are feeling from Hurricane Sandy.  I'll take the wind over what those folk are experiencing on the East Coast! The smaller photo was taken four days ago and the larger photo was taken today...the Ginkgo is just about at its peek of golden color.  The next amazing thing about this tree is that once it reaches its peek then it only holds its leaves a bit longer and then just about drops them all in one day.  We wish that all the trees in our yard dropped all theirs at once...but, no, ours hang on to some of theirs till new leaves appear in the spring.

Oops!

Oops just about forgot to blog.  I waited for Woody to get home from the evening service to see if he had walked this morning and then when I got my answer (he didn't) I never came in here! We both went to the early service this morning and then went to Sunday School.  Woody taught his 6th grade boys.  We came home and pretty much took it easy the rest of the afternoon. I finished another book last night so started a new one this afternoon. Woody has read and watched sports on TV.  That's about it!

A Chilly Chili Day!

Boy did the temperatures around here change...almost 80 one day and the next it didn't get out of the 40's.  My body prefers the higher temps...Transverse Myelitis doesn't like extremes (and, if given the choice over the extremes...prefers higher).  I was much better a day ago!  Today lots of aches and pains plus can't seem to get warm...even when wrapped up in a warm fleece throw.  Woody put off his walk till later in the day due to the cooler temps.  He walked to and from the library.  I got up and headed into the sewing room.  I am "repurposing" one of my jumpers.  I decided that I would like the jumper to become a skirt.  So I picked  the skirt off of the bodice.  That was a bit of a time consuming job.  I cross stitched this saying many years ago: "You Never Know What You Can Do Till You Try To Undo What You Did!"  So true...it took quite a bit of time getting it taken apart.  By the time that I got it apart, Woody was home from the grocery store and I needed to go down and put groceries away.  Then it was time to make a new chili recipe: Pork and Hominy Chili.  That took quite a while so we had a late lunch.  It is quite tasty and rather spicy...a good variant on our typical chili recipes.  Chili really hit the spot on this chilly day. I also stewed some chicken breasts and made chicken stock. After I got through with making the chili, stock, cutting the chicken up...and cleaning up the kitchen, I was done-in so headed upstairs to my favorite place these days...the recliner in our bedroom.  I rested, read, and listened to some music (using Pandora on my iPad). I listened to music while I cooked, too.  You can choose the type of music and/or artist that is played on this app...I chose music that reminded me of my high school and college days.  Later I went even farther back...Perry Como which lead into some songs from the Big Band Era.  Sort of fun... The funniest thing that I listened to was "Will You Still Love Me When I'm Sixty-Four?"  I guess that I hadn't heard that song in many years...and, it was a little strange listening to that song and realizing that I am now 64!  Sort of like the Christmas Song that says "for kids from 1 to 93"...once Mother was 94, I can remember telling her that I guessed that she was no longer a kid! I haven't had enough energy to get back to my sewing...so "repurposing" will have to wait for another day unless I get an unexpected spurt of energy in the next hour of so! This afternoon and evening Woody has read, watched football, and perhaps a DVD.

Fabulous Fall Friday!

The leaves are falling fast and furiously around here.  It doesn't take long for an area that has been raked or blown to be leaf covered again.  Woody headed out on his walk this morning a little after seven and didn't get back till almost noon.  He walked all the way to Motlow College and back.  He picked up a lot of cans on this walk.  Later in the afternoon he walked to the library as they had called to say that they had a book for him.  He is a bit disappointed...he started reading the book and realized that he had already read it!  He thought that he had checked his book list...but either didn't or missed the fact that it was on his list (on my list too).  As soon as I got up I went to work on preparing letters to go out from the church library for overdue books.  I left them to be folded,stamped and licked by Woody when he got back from his walk. He got that done before the mail carrier came today.  I needed an address that Kathy had so I called over there at about the time that I usually call for Elijah to come over for school.  While I was still talking with her on the phone, he showed up!  He's "trained" for the phone to ring around 9am for him to come over here for his school time (even on days we don't have school)!  He played for about an hour over here, while I worked on cleaning the dining room.  I hadn't done much cleaning since I had been sick so decided it was time to do a bit of vacuuming and dusting around here!  The dining room got a pretty good cleaning including getting a big spider web out from between the screen and the window pane.  I even washed the lower pane inside and out of that window.  I didn't do the top section as it would mean taking the curtains down and I just wasn't  quite up to that much cleaning today!  I do like being able to get to both sides of the windows with these new windows. I vacuumed all the floors downstairs (except for the living room as that was where Elijah was playing).  And, that about did me in!  Elijah came over after lunch and asked me to come over to see the leaf house that Graham had raked for him.  After I looked at it, I raked him a garage for his little car and bike...that's the most leaves that I have raked in a long time...what we won't do for our grandchildren!  After I got his "garage" raked, I helped Kathy and children find leaves for an art project that they were going to do.  They were going to get to paint.  I'm sure that they were all excited...especially Elijah to hear that they got to paint! This afternoon Woody and I got a treat...getting to look at the photo scrapbook of Kathy and Nathan and family's "Yellowstone" trip.  They had such a great trip. I have read and rested this afternoon and don't have much more than that planned for the rest of the evening.  I did buy a Christmas present today...guess realizing that yesterday was just two months from Christmas made me realize that I had better start getting ready! Woody got some DVD's and a couple of books when he walked to the library this afternoon.  So he has been reading and watching DVD's. We've had another beautiful Fall day...once again quite warm for this time of year.  That is supposed to all change as a front comes through sometime over night and temps are supposed to drop...may not even make it to 60 tomorrow.

Ginkgo Glory!

Woody got up super early this morning and walked twelve miles.  Elijah came over for school, followed by Esther, Joy and Graham.  After I finished with my little school charges, Woody and I headed off to vote.  Woody wanted me to see the Ginkgo tree...though not at its full golden splendor.  I did take a few pictures.  We also stopped at the church as I wanted to get a picture of the steeple with the maples in their glory.  We came home and had lunch.  Then I headed up to read...having all these books is a draw to my recliner and a restful afternoon.  Joy joined me for a while.  She said that she wanted some peace and quiet...she wanted to work some on her cross stitch project.  Esther arrived a little after Joy got underway with her cross stitching. After a while, they both went into the school room and did some art projects while I continued to read.  After a while, Elijah joined them and did a little art too...though he did want to paint...I convinced him that today it was just markers, crayons and pencils!  I guess I "need" to break the paints out for him before too long...as "art" to him is "paint!"  I have almost finished one of the books that Woody picked up at the library yesterday...it's a book of short stories by an author that I enjoy.  Short stories aren't my favorite reading material...but some of these were pretty good...and, others...well, not so great!  Woody just came back from a short time of "kid sitting" next door.  I guess we are settled in for a quiet evening.  Can you believe what two months is from today???!!!  Oh, my...I've hardly thought about Christmas yet this year.