The World Keeps Spinning

We have "fallen back" time-wise here -- and I have to admit, I have a very hard time with that. I hate it being dark so early and meanwhile Lizzie, who tells time with her stomach, starts nagging me an hour earlier for her daily bread. The day of the time change we had a huge windstorm. It was so windy that even though it was a sunny Sunday, Rick didn't ride his bike. And THAT is almost unbelievable! Later the sky looked like this.

And as pretty as this is, I saw a lot of photos on my FB feed taken a bit earlier or later that were drop dead amazing. I had no complaints.

I love looking at Facebook and seeing a surprise -- and I was delighted to see that Friends of Theatre posted an announcement about naming me as Friend of the Year! I knew I'd received the award, but the announcement made me smile! The post included a lot of things I'd forgotten I'd done over the course of the past ten years -- but then it rarely felt like work! So, I thank them for that!

The art sale is over and went well. 

I always look forward to it and I'm always relieved when we're done!

We had a good turnout and I was pleased with my results! And finally, I'm getting things tucked away at home -- back where they belong!

One of the highlights was a visit from one of the college friends we called as one of our unofficial sixth roommates! We had a great catch-up visit and he's even going to help me find a good printer for my book after the first of the year! 

I'm hoping to put some things that are available here on the blog or by request but recent events may be slowing that process down. But, if you're in the market for notecards or felties, watch this space! The notecards make good little "thoughtful" gifts and the felties are ornaments, though most can "free stand" if one prefers.

While I was at the sale, Rick took the weekend off and went to Detroit for some riding and to see the kids. He came home with a lovely piece of art, now firmly attached to my refrigerator. (The boys call me Deet, which is a family name! Eventually the letters will get turned around -- he's only five!) 

The garden (if you can call it that) is pretty much put to bed for the season. That's another thing that's a relief when done. I feel like we were granted an extra reprieve with beautiful weather, unusual for November. So, no excuses.

I bought a Christmas tree -- 7.5 feet tall, used only once or twice and $65. It's currently in three plastic bags in the garage but I'll probably set it up right around Thanksgiving (the day after) just to make sure it's all they said! If not, there will still be time to get another but I couldn't resist.

My last year's tree (above) was bent beyond use when I sort of threw it down the basement steps after last year. I won't do that this time. I just hope everything fits on the new one. I suppose there's still time to buy a different one if I don't like it.

I've added a few late fall accents to the house. Not much. To be honest, after all this fall, I'm a little tired. My Halloween was scaled back and late fall is too. But hopefully I can do Christmas proud. (Although I suspect Rick would be happy if I scaled that back, too!)

Meanwhile, slogging through physical therapy and wondering why it doesn't seem to work faster when I'm doing all the right stuff. I suppose things didn't develop overnight and I can't expect them to heal overnight but it's frustrating. I'm still on the fence as to how well the cardioversion worked. I think it was pretty successful but I do feel like I'm going into afib still, just not as much. So when I have my follow-up, we'll see. Meanwhile, anytime Rick says he wants to make dinner and it's his delicious pizza, I won't say no!

Our gloriously warm, unseasonable weather seems to have said farewell with a huge temperature drop over the weekend. I'm glad most of the outside is cleaned up neatly but I didn't get to the garage as I'd hoped. There's still much to do out there but it looks like it will be more in short spurts than a marathon! I can work with that!

That said, I'll be slowing down a bit. The bad news is that my MRSA in the lungs is back and I'll be starting treatment again soon. It's always something. 

I leave you with a photo of the Ditch a couple of weeks ago. How I hate to see fall leave!

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