Domestic Saturday

Today, I pretty much just stuck to doing things around the house. I cooked and did a few things around the house all the while listening to another audio book.  So I added another book to my list of books read…though I had already read it years ago.  It was an Agatha Christie mystery.  I will say that I did remember the premise of the book…but not the outcome.  I did make gingerbread and since I made something sweet (I don't make a lot of desserts for just me.), I made a vegetable medley for my supper…trying to be a little healthy! But never got around to doing any sewing…did things downstairs and my sewing is upstairs.

I have read through the Sunday School…to see if it makes sense…sometimes when I plug things in (copy and paste) things into the IPad Pages app, they don't always land where I mean for them to…also sometimes the typos can be quite confusing when I try to share a statement and it no longer says what I meant it to say…and have to think on my feet as to just what I had meant it to say.  I think that I have added, fixed, deleted what I needed to and it is as ready as this lesson is going to be.  I will read it over again this evening or in the morning…just to have things planted in my mind as to what I hope to convey!  This will be my last Sunday to substitute for a while.  

This coming week I will be getting ready for Marie's and my trip to northern Georgia.  I’m looking forward to planning for another trip.  Got to get my cameras ready.  I do hope that we will see some color…not a lot of color around here at this point…wondering if we will have much color since it has been so dry these last couple of months. Anyway, my suitcase will come back out this coming week.

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

Accomplishments

There are three major accomplishments that I can report tonight…I voted, as I will be out of town on Election Day, the painting on the door, both inside and outside, is finished, and I have the Sunday School lesson is ready for a final perusal…that might mean some changes, but it is "all but" finished.  And, I know that if something happens that I can't do any more work on it, there is plenty on paper to share on Sunday morning.  

I did make a quick to Kroger after I voted.  I needed a couple of things for a recipe and then shopped sales for this week.  I actually bought some non perishable items that I will use in holiday baking…items that were on sale this week.  So some Thanksgiving and Christmas food items have been bought and are ready when the time comes!  

I was getting ready to put away a recipe book and I was turning the pages in the notebook and saw a recipe that made me hungry for it.  It is my gingerbread recipe.  I guess it is Fall…gingerbread just goes with Fall!  That was one of the recipes that I needed an ingredient.  I "think" I will make it tomorrow.  Since my Sunday School lesson is about ready, that frees up my day tomorrow…time for some cooking and maybe do a little sewing on the Christmas ornaments, 

I finished listening to another book today.  I think I will stitch and watch a FlossTube or two or…this evening before I head upstairs.

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

A Little Bit of Everything

Today has been one of those days when I have worked some of several things around the house.  Did some cleaning.  I bought a long-handled scrubber for the bathtub/shower.  I got it put together and decided to see how it works…hoping that it will help me since I can't very easily get down on my knees anymore to scrub.  I think that it will am going to like it…I think it did a pretty good job on my shower/tub.  I will do the guest bathroom when I have my next spurt of energy!!! I will say that since the temperatures have cooled down, I do feel like I have more energy.  I had one last load of wash to do so did that this afternoon…I still have to take them upstairs…they are either on hangers or folded ready to be brought upstairs.  My door did get some more work done on it today…an attempted fix to get the door hanging correctly in the frame…at the moment the deadbolt opening on the frame doesn't line up if the metal is around the opening.  He thinks he has figured out a fix, easier than his original plan.  He took it off the hinges and painted the hinge edge of the door and also did some touch up on the door.  He plans to paint the panels on either side of the door tomorrow afternoon.

I have done a little more church library work here at home today.  I have gotten underway with the Sunday School lesson…have it outlined and have started plugging in things in the outline.  I hope to be able to draw it to a close tomorrow and, as I say, put it to bed before I go to bed.  Which means that I hope to have it printed out. The kitchen got a little attention paid to it…dishes put away, counters wiped off and the floor dust mopped…just usual routine stuff.  

At this point in the day, I am ready to stitch and listen to a book.  Listening to books is helping me catch up with my lagging goal of a book a week…that would mean 52 by the end of the year…so far I have read or listened to 31 books this year…so I doubt that I will make it to 52 since the weeks left in 2026 are some of the busiest ones of the year!  

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

Nothing to Update

Nothing to update about the painting going on at my house.  I had hoped to be able to posit a photo with at least some of the final color on tonight's blog.  But my painter had to cancel coming today! As a task at his real job took longer than he thought it would.  Oh, well, I keep telling myself…at least it is a functioning door…keeping the cold air and bugs out!  The painting will be finished when it is finished! 

I ended up not taking the meal to my friend as they have an abundance of food at the moment.  I cooked the meat and have frozen it in the container that I will take to their house when/if they need it next week.  

I did do some library work at home.  I got the new books for the library designated as memorial books and then wrote a note to the family informing them of the memorials that had been placed in the library in honor of their loved one.  

I read some more of the teacher helps for Sunday's lesson.  I plan to read the last teacher helps for in a few minutes…then I will be ready to start tomorrow  outlining and writing down things to share with the class. 

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

Irritations: Spams and Scams

I have a blue door, again!  Tomorrow the creamy color (Name of that paint is French Pastry…I like the name!)will be started. That is the last color of paint in this project…the only reason to open up the taupe or blue will be if touch ups are needed.  What is left to paint is the surrounding panels of the door and the porch rails…still quite a bit left to paint. 

Now to explain tonight's blog title.  The spam is in reference to phone calls that come in especially on my landline. They are often identified as "spam risk" on the screen on my phone.  I refer to them as my new best friend = Spam Risk.  We all get these annoying calls.  I rarely answer my home phone these days…unless it tells me a name that I recognize.  But this morning I got a call that said my Credit Union was calling.  Well, I debated about answering, but decided that I had better.  Well this person identified himself and said that he was calling about possible fraud activity on my account…that something had been charged to my card by someone in Memphis TN.  I told him that I would look at my account.  I told him I saw nothing about such a charge.  He said that was because they had blocked the charge from happening.  He recommended that I change my card and that they would issue me one that would arrive tomorrow.  By this point I was telling him that I would just go to my Creddit Union and get things taken care of.  The only phone number that he had was my home number and he mentioned texting me something for my virtual signature…or something like that. (I was done with him at this point…plus he couldn't text me anything to that number.  I told him I was going to go check things out at my CU branch.  I was going out anyway so just made that stop when I was out.  They checked and said that there had been no activity from Memphis at all Target and that no charges had been blocked.  She congratulated me on putting a stop to a scam.  Oh, and, the number that showed up on my phone was the actual Credit Union 800 number.  Things like this are just so aggravating!  I’m just glad that I am leery about just about any call except those from friends.  What a sad state of affairs we see ourselves in not being able to trust most situations. 

I have worked on making photo cards because I need to write some notes.  I also worked on some new library books…getting ready to do the first step prior to processing them into the library computer. Donna and I didn't work in the library today because my painter was here at our usual library work time.  I am working on some books that are going into the library as memorials. 

I didn't get as far as I had hoped because I was planning on also working on Sundays Sunday School lesson…but that didn't happen this afternoon…maybe tomorrow while my painter is here? I may do some more reading on it tonight,

I did go to the grocery store this morning after my Credit Union stop. I needed a couple of things to go with what I am making for my friend's meal.  I have it all ready to prepare tomorrow morning so I can deliver it early afternoon as they asked.  The only thing is that I got a call today that they might not need the meal tomorrow…so I am to call and ask in the morning.  Things are sort of up in the air! 

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

One of Those: "Always a Good Day!"

If you have followed my blog for a while, you will know that tonight's blog title means that it was a hair-cut day.  A good hair cut makes it a good day for me!  I started working on the Sunday School lesson this morning and did a few little jobs around the house.  I also made some plans for what to take to a friend who has recently been in the hospital and then had a death in their family over the family. Our class is trying to help them out by taking some meals to them.  I struggle these days making food for others…my diet is so different these days that I’m just not comfortable cooking for others.  Also this friend has kidney problems so is trying to restrict her diet hoping to keep off dialysis…that meant that I needed to get Woody's recipes out…not a pleasant memory. I think that I have come to a decision for what I’ll make.  

I had fun looking at old digital photos…back to 2011…looking for photos of my great nephew and niece. I make photo cards to send at Christmas, birthdays, and other occasions.  Lately for the grandchildren and now for my niece and nephew, I have been putting baby or childhood photos of them on the card.  The grandkids seemed to enjoy them, so I hope Corbin and Julianna do, too.  I left early tonight for prayer meeting so I could drop the cards off at the Post Office…I didn't have the cards ready to have my mailman pick them up and I was afraid if I wait till tomorrow that they might not leave Tullahoma tomorrow unless I took them to the P.O. Julianna's  birthday is Friday…and, it may not make on time anyway.  Corbin's should make it as his is five days after his sister's.  And, I think that takes care of all the October birthdays…6 family members's birthdays this month!  

My trip to northern Georgia is coming up soon.  We did a little planning for that today…texts among the friends going and then Marie and I talked about it a little just a few minutes ago. We'll be there in two weeks if all goes as planned! Got to get the suitcase back out soon!  I am hoping for the days to stay cooler, as I want to be able to pack some of the tops that I got for my Alaska trip! I’m not asking for too cold…nor too rainy…nor two rainy…just nice Fall weather!  The first year that I went on this trip we had to leave early due to a hurricane.  

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

A Sunday Visit from the Birthday Girl!

Abigail and Payton paid me a visit this afternoon.  Yesterday was Abigail's 23rd birthday.  I couldn't go to the family party for her, since I was waiting on my painter.  So she said that they would stop by after they went to church today and get her gift from me.  We had a very nice visit. It was good to get to visit when there wasn't as much going on around us…three vs twelve or more with four or five conversations going on in the room!  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ABIGAIL!!!