Tuesday afternoon and I'm just getting around to writing my blog. The sun is shining not quite directly in my eye but close enough to make me rearrange myself in my chair. I have the Bose playing Celtic Woman's Christmas Album at a volume that Ms. Kate would not approve of were she home. What can I say, I like my music loud or at least some of it. Ms. Kate will be home tomorrow night and I will take the volume back down; but in the meantime I'm immersing myself in music as I eat Nutella on breadsticks. --- See how I run wild when not monitored?? I do the same thing on my keyboard. I wonder if the neighbors heard me last night??

This morning early I had to be at the church to meet with a couple of the St. Paul's council people and  the fellow that needs to give us an estimate on either repairing or replacing four of the doors to the church. After listening to him, I'm hoping we will get by much cheaper than we had thought we might have to pay. It may be that he can simply replace the glass in the existing doors and change out some of the hardware. That would save us a lot of money. We hope to have an estimate by the end of the week.

I hadn't been home more than a few minutes from that  appointment when I got a call from the fellow that was to come work on our fireplaces called and said that he was on his way. I actually had him on my calendar for tomorrow but I had a feeling that I had put it down for the wrong day. We changed our fireplaces over to gas several years ago. Mine downstairs is unvented and Ms. Kate's in the family room is vented. For whatever reason we weren't able to light them this year so I called the company and they sent out their service technician. He repaired a couple of things and now we are up and running again. We need to consider getting some new logs for Ms. Kate's as hers are getting brittle from so much use.

One of my smaller bird feeders is missing --- again. That tells me the raccoon has been back and stole it. I'll most likely find it out in the bushes someplace. I had to go out and fill the bark butter paste feeders again. Most of the sunflower feeders are still okay. But the smaller of the peanut feeders is missing.

I talked to Ms. Kate for a while and she is ready to come home. We've found that seven days out there in Vegas gets a to be a day or maybe even two too long sometimes. When you've been to your favorite casinos and you've eaten at all of your favorite places, then it just gets to be repetitive. She said it has been really cold there too.

The sun is almost below the trees now and the evening birds will be coming in. Time for another cup of coffee and then sit and enjoy the blessings that God sends my way. Have a blessed evening.