There’s not much new on the home front this morning. It’s still cool outside and the rain continues on and off and will for the rest of the day and part of tomorrow. The Backyard Buffet continues to be busy and the level of food in the feeders continues to drop. I’ll probably have to refill stuff again tomorrow once the rain stops and the sun comes out. 

The big event and news is out on the north side of the house though. Once again the robins are swarming through to the Holly tree in my neighbor’s yard. I have told you of this annual event before. There are literally hundreds of robins swooping in and out plucking the red berries off of the holly tree. I suspected they would be along soon because I was seeing a lot of berries on the ground when I was working in the flowerbed. There is this big holly tree on the northeast side of my house. It actually belongs to the neighbor Then there is another one in my yard on the southwest corner of my yard and then Dan has one at the back of the yard of his property, so these guys get their fill when they swarm or flock through the area. They are a lot of fun to watch\ except that they poop a lot too. So the sidewalks will have a lot of Robin poop on them. Maybe I’m blessed that the rain will help with that. The Lord giveth and the Lord washes away. 

Our two new recliners arrived late yesterday afternoon. They are very comfortable. The only problem is that We are limited on “reclining space” and I can’t go back as far as I would like. But I can go back far enough to get a good nap or watch TV comfortably. We still have two pieces of furniture to have taken out of here, an arm chair and a couch.  St. Vincent DePaul will pick those up on the 16th of November. W have so much furniture around this house due to relatives  passing away and having a sweet wife who never wants to give away anything. I could easily supply some young couple with all the furniture they would need to get started in life and still have more than we need here. I don’t know what will happen to it all and I’m glad that I won’t be the one to decide about it cause I’ll be dead. 

That’s it for today folks. Have a blessed weekend. Take time to attend your house of worship and express your gratitude for a week of blessings. Peace. 

 Rain, rain, go away, we’ve had enough of you today. I woke at 0530 and it was pouring and it kept that up for at least another hour and a half. My super duper weather gauge says we have gotten 1.25 inches so far today. I think that is more than they were expecting and it is supposed to rain on and off through Saturday morning. I really hope it is done for today anyway because we are supposed to have furniture delivered this afternoon and I’d prefer that it wasn’t delivered in the rain. 

I’m sitting here having my coffee and some Pillsbury Cinnamon rolls. I do like those things although my preference is the orange danish. For whatever reason those are hard to find these days. Maybe they are more popular and sell out faster ot —- maybe they don’t sell as well so the stores don’t order them as much. What ever, they are hard to find. But frankly everything is getting harder to find with the supply chain backup. It’s not just the stuff sitting out there off shore, it’s everything. The trucking industry is overwhelmed. People don’t seem to want a job. There is hardly a business that you can name that isn’t looking for workers. Unemployment should be at zero because if you want a job —- there are many waiting out there. All of those people thinking they want socialism are getting their way. It’s very scary. 

I actually heard on the news last night that the CDC is promoting the American public to get a fourth COVID vaccine shot. They say it will be for the “extremely vulnerable”. There is no way you can convince me that the CDC and other gov’t agencies all the way to the top are not in cahoots with the pharmacy companies. The rhetoric last year was all about “saving grandma’s life by getting the shot.” Is there any wonder that people are pushing back and saying “enough”. Just yesterday they approved the vaccine for 5-11 year olds and already only about a third of America is supporting it. And the President’s response is to weaponize it and threaten your very livelihood and monetary welfare if you don’t take them. I think that some night I went to sleep and woke up in a communist dictatorship. Thousands of health care providers are now being fired because they have stood up and said, hold on —- all of this isn’t necessary and are refusing to take the shots. Again, tell me how all of this isn’t about money. Enough ranting about that. 

I guess I’ll head downstairs today and work on my stuff for November 7th. I have the service planned but only about 1/3 of the message written. I might as well take full advantage of a rainy day and do some writing and some study. I want to be done with the message by the time the furniture gets here today and take my nap in my new recliner. 

I hope your day is blessed. Peace. 

 Wednesday already again. I guess it is because I generally take Monday and Tuesday off to do work around the house and yard and maybe do some writing in the evening. But, we used yesterday to accomplish other things like laundry and shopping. And I got very little writing done last night because I was watching the idiot box. It’s Halloween week and all of my “ghostly shows” are on. Yes, yes, I’m a real fan and have several that I liked to watch. Especially the ones where people are actually hunting for ghosts. These people get real excited about bumps in the night. Two of my girls are in to this stuff too. 

Today being Wednesday means it is bulletin day at the churches. I’ll go up after lunch and get that done. Ms. Kate is still not up to going with me, so that means it will take a extra time. I hope we have gotten the new toner cartridge by now at St. Lucas. That machine prints so much faster than the one at St. Paul’s because it prints double sided. I generally kill extra trees trying to get it right. 

Ms. Kate is making a dish of jello. We go through stages where we will make mellow for a month and have it all the time to periods like now where we haven’t had any in a long time. She wanted to make black cherry but all we found was black raspberry. I reckon we’ll see how that turned out. 

So, this it for today, I have to get away from the IPad and get my day going. Have a great day. Peace. 

 The sunshine is certainly a welcome sight this morning. The leaves are fairly still so that tells me there isn’t a lot of wind. Yesterday was a really windy one and it was blustery type of cold. But today and tomorrow are supposed to be good weather days before the rain moves back in for a couple of more days. 

Good morning to you. I hope your day is starting off very well. I hope you have lots of things to smile about in your life today. Life goes so much better when we can honestly smile at the world. My ugliest at the Backyard Buffet are having reasons to smile today because I filled the feeders, or at least part of them yesterday afternoon. Silly old “Stretch” came running down the tree as soon as I walked away from the one feeder. I think he must have been parked up in the at tree just waiting to see if I was ever going to come out and feed him. I often will have that happen; I start filling feeders and right away some bird or two will fly in and check out the feeder, then off it goes and starts telling the neighborhood. It’s pretty neat actually. It isn’t as neat when the feeders are empty and they set on the branches out side of my sunporch and stare in at me. It almost disturbs my nap. LOL

Today is “get some chores done” day. Ms.. Kate has a grocery list ready for me. Sop, as soon as I finish my blog I guess I’ll get cleaned up and go do the shopping. I don’t mind it at all, in fact I could almost say I enjoy it. Since I’ve gotten to know my way around the “Neighborhood Walmart” store I can fairly well find what I want. And if I don’t know, I just ask one of the folks that are filling carts for the “on-line” shoppers. They have to know where everything is. So, I just take my time, check my list and get what I need. I don’t go to the big Walmarts, but the ones that are primarily groceries are fine. If I don’t find it at Walmart I’ll go to Schnucks but their selections generally aren’t as good and they are higher priced, although I usually don’t pay a lot of attention to price unless it seems ridiculous. But, everything has gone up. 

While I’m shopping, Ms. Kate will get the laundry started. Ill carry it out to the washing machine, she can load it and start it. By the time I get home, I can transfer it over to the dryer for her. I do that because she’s too short to reach the bottom of the washing machine basket without getting a set of tongs to pull the stuff out. We do make a pair that’s for sure. 

Ms. Kate’s health status today is classified as “not feeling too bad — yet”. I’ll take that as almost good. She generally is this way until afternoon when the stomach and intestines start to hurt again. She has found that if she doesn’t go stretch out then, she will really suffer for it. I just pray we can get some treatment for her soon. We’re almost at a month of this. 

Time for my shower and then head out to Walmart and look for “Walmart People”. Fortunately we don’t see a lot of those here. Have a blessed day my friends. Raise your head and listen for the voice of God. Peace. 

 Happy new week. Welcome to the last week of October. Do you have your Halloween costume ready to go. Are you going out or are you going to stay home and pass out the goodies. So far the weather projection for Halloween is quite tolerable. I’m not sure what we are going to do. It depends on how Ms. Kate feels. We didn’t go to the Halloween party at our St. Paul’s church last night because she wasn’t feeling up to going out. That’s really too bad too because she had planned on either making and talking an apple pie or a freezer of homemade ice cream. Next Sunday is the party at St Lucas and it will be at about the same time as all of the trick or treaters come out. I don’t know what we will do. Again, it depends on Ms. Kate’s health. 

Speaking of Ms. Kate’s health; she finally did talk to the nurse practitioner at our doctor’s office. The nurse set her up with Deaconess Hospital to get a CT scan done but the first appointment she can get is the 9th of November. That’s 16 days away. That just isn’t acceptable that she has to deal with this pain for another 16 days before she can even be seen. She does have a doctor’s appointment a week from today but I’m letting her call the shots on this. In the meantime, I’ll just do whatever I need to to help her out. 

We had low attendance yesterday at both churches. Probably only 53 between the two services. I never know what makes people decide to skip church or attend church. And, with us having our service taped and presented on Facebook, and on You Tube, I never know who watches later because they had something else going on at church time. I pray that if they aren’t there in person, they are at least watching it at some point later. Good news for St. Paul’s is that we finally, after two years plus, got the new copper anchor cross installed on the steeple of St. Paul’s. A storm ruined the original a couple of years ago. It was hard to find anybody to makes a new one and it was harder to keep that person interested in finishing the job. But, it is up and it looks beautiful. I’m very proud of it. I especially appreciate a couple of the guys staying on top of the guy to get it done. 

That wraps up today. I hope your week is fully blessed. Peace. 

 Happy Friday the 22nd of Oct. Cool, cloudy and a breeze today. Sounds like a fall day doesn’t it? And —- it looks like one. 

I know I’m a fairly predictable person, kind of “in a rut” of my daily activities, I didn’t know it was so much so that even my IPad knows my schedule and prompts me with it. LOL I sat down in my recliner earlier, (yes, like I do every morning) and I had two messages posted on the front as suggestions. The first said; “Check Accuweather, based upon time and location.”  The second one said “Google Chrome; based upon time and location.” So, my IPad knows where it is setting and knows that at a specific time I check the weather report and I set and write my blog. I think maybe that spooks me out a little. What else is Artificial Intelligence keeping track on about me?? But, here I am; —- it is 52 degrees and I’m working on my blog. (“I will obey, I will obey, I will obey)

This morning I’m taking Ms. Kate etc the doctor to see if she can get a handle on what has been causing her all of this stomach trouble. We both believe it to be diverticulitis but if that is it, maybe they will start her on some antibiotics and start the healing process. She been sick long enough to really be worrisome. Wish her luck with a prayer. 

I fished up another big portion of the front flowerbed yesterday by cutting back the last of the four-o’clocks like I had hoped to do. I have one more section of the front to do hopefully today, if it doesn’t rain. That will probably take a couple of hours to clean that part up. Then I can move around to the north east side and finish that up. From there I’ll move to the south side and I think I’m going to try to just pull up everything everything in the garden and get that all cleaned up. The tomatoes are still green, but the fruit hanging on them does not seem to be turning. And the okra keeps putting on but we aren’t doing anything with it. I might as well get it winterized. There is a spot that I want to transplant a peony to that currently has the okra in it. That peony really needs to be moved from the north west side of the house to the southwest side. I had moved all of the others that were out there but I missed this one. It and several others were plants that I moved from my mother’s field many years ago, so it is an heirloom plant for us. 

Time for me to get myself ready to take Ms. Kate for her appointment. Enjoy your Friday, Enjoy your weekend. Shalom. 

 

 It’s another beautiful morning and warmer than it has been for the past few. 66 degree this morning and I think it isn’t supposed to go up or down much from that all day. But it is a breezy morning so that will make a difference, and there is a cloud layer overhead keeping the sun out. 

We are waiting this morning for Habitat of Humanity Restore folks to come pick up a couple of the chairs that we have in our family room. We bought them a few years ago from a really nice second-hand store and they have served us very well. They are still good chairs but they sit a little low for us now\ and we have a hard time getting in and out of them. So, I called the Restore and offered them up to them. We also have a couch that we got when Kate’s mom passed and we have a chair that we got when my mother passed that we wanted to also donate. When I called the Restore folks they had me send pictures of the furniture so they could decide if they wanted it or not. I did  and they said they would take the to family room chairs but not the others. I said “okay” even though I think it is a bit “snooty since all of the pieces are in good shape. Anyway, they will be here this morning to pick up the two chairs. I also called St. Vincent DePaul and asked if they would want the couch and the other chair. They said “yes” right away and set a pick up date for November 16th, no questions asked, no pictures required. It kind of makes me wonder about the difference in the mission of the two stores. Is Restore in it for the money or to help folks out. It’s obvious where St. Vincents sits on that scale. 

I had a good afternoon working in my front flowerbed yesterday afternoon. I got he peonies cut back as well as some other stuff too. I still need to Get the Four-oClocks trimmed back on that side and that’s gonna take some work. I really wish we didn’t have those plants but there is no getting rid of them. They drop hundreds of seeds every year so it is an on-going battle. Beside, the Papa John’s pizza delivery dudes know our house as “the house with the good smelling front porch”. LOL I wouldn’t want to deprive them of that pleasure during the summer. Our trash collector hauled off six of those large Lowe’s yard waste paper bags this morning that were stuffed as full as I could get them. So much to do!!!

Can you believe it is Thursday already?  Where has the week gone. As a matter of fact where has October gone? Three weeks of October have passed already and November is only ten days away. Halloween is coming next week, Thanksgiving 27 days after that, Advent starts, then we go on vacation, then Christmas arrives ——— Time flies when you are having fun. 

Now it is time for me to go have some fun and carry the mail out to the mail box. That’s my exciting life. Peace.