Happy Saturday morning to you. It is a bit warmer this morning as we await a coming storm pattern for this afternoon and maybe even a bit over night. Maybe we need rain by now, I don’t really know. Most of the growing season is over so I don’t really have a dog in the fight. What we don’t need is a severe storm and I think we are maybe under a watch for that. 

So, a Saturday blog as opposed to a Friday blog. Yesterday was filed with stuff to do and by the time I got around to it, it was late and I was tired. Or, maybe I was just lazy, I don’t know that it makes any difference. This morning I had to make a run to the bank. We had three CD’s mature today and I wanted to “roll them over”. Interest rates have dropped some since I purchased them. I bought the old ones at 4.5% and today I was only able to get 3.95%. I doesn’t a huge difference because we will roll them over again next April. I have two more coming due in December and I do hope the rates nudge back up. There may be places that pay a little more but I’m a loyalist and will stick with my bank. I know people that jump around each time they think they can get a little better deal whether it with their interest and cable company. We’ve been with the same cable company since we moved here in 2001. They have changed names etc three times I think but we just stay the course and press on. 

I finally the flower beds by the street yesterday. And I mowed my backyard and mulched up those leaves. There was a lot of leaves. We have only had the one weekend where a bunch of leaves fell. But the grass was getting long and the backyard looked bad. I had to take the big John Deere to the backyard to do the work because “Bambi”, (the smaller John Deere) had a dead battery. I just put a new battery in “Big John” (the larger of the two John Deere’s) two weeks ago, I think, or maybe it was last week. Time to get out another $100.00 bill I reckon and make Bambi healthy again.  I wonder why batteries are so expensive???

My oldest garndchild, Joshua, and his family are moving to North Carolina today. They left New Hampshire yesterday. I think it is going to be interesting to watch them acclimate themselves to “the South”. They have lived in New England their entire lives, living in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Josh has at least traveled and is used to other parts of the country but his family are definitely New Englanders.  I love North Carolina and they are moving to Raleigh but life is going to slow down for them. Their daughter is still in high school. I offer prayers for their success. 

Okay, I need to go fire up the grill and cook some pork chops before the storms come in. This is the weekend; —- God’s time. Take the opportunity to go to your house of worship and give thanks for another  week here on the planet. Peace.