Measured With Zillow??

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Today has been a day to try to get ahead.  I have a lot going on this week and have added in the Sunday School lesson.  So today I spent quite a bit of time trying to read the study helps that are provided for Sunday School teachers.  I have gotten underway with them…I guess I have about 1 1/2 of the lesson helps left to read.  But I do have a good start on preparation.  I even got the outline plugged into my iPad Pages app…a very empty outline at the moment…but a start!

I also worked some more on getting things ready for Melany's and my sewing/stitching sessions and our slumber party.  The sewing cutting table is ready for some cutting if needed.  I watched a couple of YouTube videos on how to finish the project that Melany is bringing…something that neither of us has done before.  We have to decide, too, if we might do the Christmas stocking that Melany brought me a while back to finish for her.  I know she sort of wants to learn how to make a stocking.  We'll see what time will allow.

I have had several texts and phone calls about the projects that are supposed to happen around here.  The chimney capping man hadn't gotten in touch with us by 2:30pm.  Nathan asked him to come after 1pm today.  Well, the person who is supposed to do it called him back a bit after Nathan called.  He needed to know what exactly we needed done…guess there wasn’t much communication between the office and the worker.  Nathan explained to him that we needed a new cap on the top of the chimney to keep unwanted creatures out.  He then told Nathan that he had measured and knew what size and how much it would cost. Now I was confused when Nathan said he had measured!  I asked Nathan when had he come and I had missed him.  Oh, no, he didn’t need to come…he had looked the house up on Zillow and knew what he needed to order?  I am confused…as my house is usually totally covered by trees.  Nathan questioned him as to which house he had looked at…Nathan's former house next door or my house.  He assured him that it was mine.  Nathan told him to go ahead and order.  When it comes in he will come do the work. Well, no money has exchanged hands…so if wrong size or he never shows, we're only out the time we have waited. 🙄  Nathan wondered to me why this measuring procedure hadn’t been done from the start…lack of coordination between office and worker?  I am wondering about this whole thing!!!

While waiting for the worker to come to measure, I read things for the Sunday School lesson.  And, I got a text from my handyman telling me he is ready to pressure wash the porch railing…Thursday or Friday…so he can paint next week.  All projects getting underway at once! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Favorite Alaskan Photo

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Saturday

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We did get some rain in the night…enough to register in the rain gauge…around 1”.  That’s the most we have gotten in quite a while.  

I have spent a good part of the afternoon in the sewing room…getting ready for a sewing session with Melany.  She has her Fall break this coming week and she plans to come here midweek and we are going to have a slumber party…she'll come one day and spend the night and then spend part of the next day and we will spend it sewing and finishing some of her needlework projects…at least that is our plan. We'll have fun whatever we end up doing.  While dabbling around in the sewing room, I have been listening to another audio book.  Reading and cleaning…killing two birds with one stone!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

The Flue Guy Has The Flu…

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Tonight's photo shows the view that greeted me this morning when I opened the blinds in the kitchen. And, I noticed as I drove into town today that the upper branches of many of the trees are beginning to show their Fall colors.

Tonight's blog title is Nathan's play on words when he called to tell me that the chimney folk would not be coming today.  So now…maybe Monday sometime after 1pm, if they are well.  My message till then: "Squirrels stay away!"

Once Nathan called to tell me that they weren’t coming today I headed out to Kroger.  I had more shopping to do than usual, as I hadn't been grocery shopping in two weeks.  I had quite a few empty spaces in my refrigerator and pantry.  I came home and first got the cold things put away, then had lunch, and later got the rest put away.  

This morning while I waited for the chimney people, I got Fall decorations put out on the front porch…changed the pillow covers, put up a Fall yard flag, put out a couple of pumpkins on the tables, and put the stacked pumpkin decoration on the front door.  I’ll post a picture another night. I brought the summer pillow covers and yard flag in and washed them.  They are now dry and I’ll get them put away after I blog.  I did another load of wash, too and that is put away.  So I have been fairly busy today. 

I’m ready to sit down and stitch this evening.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Welcome, October!

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Happy October! This came up on my iPad when I asked for a Fall photo.  It was taken in October (a bit later in the month) several years ago.  I thought it was a good one to post to usher in October.  I remembered to turn the pages on my two wall calendars…one in my kitchen and one in my sewing room. I often don't think to do that till a few days into a new month. I will say that yesterday when I opened the shades in my kitchen, I noticed that one of the maples down the street was turning orange…I’ve been wondering what the leaves will be like this Fall, as for a while we had a lot of rain, but for some time now we have had next to no rain.  I haven't been sure if leaves were starting to turn pretty colors or just drying up and turning brown.  But that orange tinge to the tree down the street definitely hints at some pretty colors to come.

Well, no show for my chimney cap workers.  When they hadn't shown up in their two-hour time slot, Nathan gave them a call and asked what address he had given.  He gave his old address…which is the address right next to mine.  But we don't think that they came…number one, if they had gone to the house next door and said my name those neighbors would have pointed them my way.  Then when they called Nathan back they said something about not being able to get over here today…but will come tomorrow between 9&11am. 🙄 So another two-hour time slot to wait.  I have to stay close to the front of the house as one of my doorbells doesn't ring and my other one is off the door frame until the door gets painted.  So I can't be in the family room or upstairs or really even in the kitchen, as I won’t hear someone at the door. So today I sat on the couch in the living room and read for most of those two hours…in the end stayed there for no reason…but I did finish another book…so since last weekend, I have finished three books…two audio and one e-book.  My books-read list is getting longer! And instead of what I like to average = one book a week…at this point I am averaging two books a month.  Not many months left in the year!  Can you believe how far into the year we are?

Nathan did pay me a visit on his way home from the BCM today which meant that I got to see him and Isaac and Joseph as they had spent the morning at the BCM with him.  Nathan was the squirrel remover once again as I didn't want to leave it in the chimney any longer.  So no squirrel intruder…dead or alive…in the chimney for now.  Now…if the chimney cap folk will just get here and place the cap to prevent future trips down the chimney for the squirrel population in my yard.  I don't think that they will cap it…whenever they show up…they are just evaluating the situation and going to give me a price to have it done.  So there is no telling how many more drop-ins I will have before the job gets done!

I did get a grocery list made so I can go to Kroger in the morning…of course now…I will be waiting for the chimney people so, I guess I will have to wait till after they leave.  I could go when Kroger opens…7am and get done before 9…but feel uneasy leaving "in case" they should show up early. So will probably stick close to home and hope that they come at the earlier part of the two-hour window.

I haven't done any stitching since last night.  I could have stitched while I waited this morning, but my magnifying lights are in the family room and my bedroom…and they are very HEAVY so not portable.  So I chose to read.  I will probably read again in the morning.  I just hope they come tomorrow!  I'll let you know tomorrow night!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Bidding Farewell to September!

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I guess after my running around on Monday and Tuesday turned my Wednesday into a very lazy day.  I have done next to nothing…enjoyed reading, listening to a book, stitching a little, a little cooking at lunch (cooked some rice to go with the chicken and shrimp gumbo that I thawed and reheated. Taking advantage of the meals that I have in the freezer.) I did unpack the first order of books that arrived today.  Did some paper work for the library due to the order.  So maybe I did more than I thought!  I have just gotten home from Bible study at church.  I am going to move some things off the hearth…in case the chimney folk decide to remove my unwanted critter.  I haven’t heard any noises coming from the chimney so far today. I look forward to the time when the cap over the chimney is repaired or replaced…and, I have no more unwanted drop-in visitors! This evening I’m going to eat a late light supper, then stitch and watch TV…or listen to my latest audio book.  

And, lastly tonight I will bid farewell to September…seems like it has only been a blink in time!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Terrific Tuesday?

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It has been another pretty day. It did get quite warm this afternoon, but still nice.  We're still waiting on rain.  Today was a pretty blue-sky day. Donna and I worked in the church library.  We did the little maintenance that needed to be done and then worked on a book order.  We will have a nice stack of new books to enter into the library once the order arrives. 

I talked to Nathan this afternoon.  He had texted me the dates we will be celebrating Joy's and Abigail's birthdays.  October is a busy birthday month for me…two granddaughters, my niece, my great niece and my great nephew.  They are spread from the beginning of October til almost the end. 

Back to talking to Nathan.  I told him when he texted that I needed to talk to him.  He called right away.  I’m sure he was thrilled to find out that I have another unwanted guest in my chimney!  But what I wanted to talk to him about was finding someone who would put a new cap on the top oh the chimney.  I had two places that I had found and asked him to see if they could do what needed to be done to stop these unwanted drop ins!  I meant to do this after the last squirrel fell to his demise but didn’t get around to it before another unwanted visitor dropped in. So getting right on it this time.  Nathan’s gotten someone to come Thursday to evaluate my problem! So we will see what their solution is. My chimney has seemed like a magnet for squirrels this year…I have lost count…but think it is between 8-10.  The last time set a record…got two that time! 🙄

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!