Hello Monday

Well here we are the beginning of a new week and almost the end of another month. October, where did you go???? I love October and it went by so fast. I love the leaves falling it makes me feel like I am in leaf globe instead of a snow globe. What a week and month this has been.

I fully intended to post a Friday Favorites post on Friday evening after I got home from work. But when I got home I realized our internet was not working. Remember I live in the boonies in the woods so no internet service means no phone calls or anything. I tried a few things around the house like unplugging everything and resetting the router, you know all the troubleshooting things to try. Nothing worked. It was almost time for Mark to get home so I drove to the top of the driveway where we do have touch and go internet. I called and told him what was going on. He has an app for our internet service. He checked and sure enough it was a wide spread outage. Internet should be restored before 6:00 AM the next morning. WHAT???? how would we survive?? Just kidding I can survive very well without internet it just makes me nervous not having a phone. I was hoping it wouldn’t be that long and it wasn’t. The internet was back up within a few hours but not enough time for me to post my blog. I will save the Favorites for next Friday and have even more favorites to share.

There are a few things I will go ahead and share about last week. On Tuesday I had quite a surprise when my nephew and his wife and their son stopped by my work to visit me. They are from Jacksonville Florida and had been near our area over the weekend for a wedding. I was so happy to see them and it was a total surprise. I hadn’t seen them in over a year. We had a short but very nice visit.

On Wednesday we had Sister Lunch. If you haven’t read any of my posts about Sister Lunch you can catch up right here: Sister Lunch. My sisters and I started this about fifteen years or so just by going to lunch and then we kept adding people and saying “see you next Wednesday” We always go to a little local restaurant at noon on Wednesday. Through the years the number of people who are able to attend changes weekly. Not only sisters but nieces and nephews and friends and cousins have been to Sister Lunch. We hadn’t met for a few weeks because of sickness, doctor visits, vacations etc so it was great to get back to our old tradition.

We have had very warm days here but the cold weather is coming this week. A ton of leaves have fallen. The leaves have been beautiful but they are really starting to come down.

We have been busy cleaning my father in laws house and getting it ready to put on the market. I know it is hard for Mark to be there and have to clean it out. It’s something that most of us have to go through at some time in our lives.

On Saturday I decided to clean out some of my bookcases and get rid of a lot of old magazines. While I was going through some old books I found a notebook that my mother had started. I am not sure how long ago. She always kept journals but this seemed like a “book” she had started about her and our family. It is hand written in a plain yellow notebook with lined pages. It starts when she is a very young girl and goes until my oldest brother left for the military around 1969. I’m not sure how we missed it when we were going through her things. I have saved several of her journals through the years but this one, if possible, is even more special. I would like to have it printed and bound and give copies to my family. If you have any ideas how to do that or if you have done that I would be interested to hear about it.

I went to visit MIL in the assisted living village. They have it decorated for Halloween and they are giving out candy and treats to the area children and children and grandchildren of the workers and residents. All of the residents get such a joy out of seeing the children dressed up.

I didn’t decorate a lot this year for Halloween. I out up my Spooky wreath that I made last year.

I painted the little orange pumpkins a couple of years ago. They are actually rocks.

Have a wonderful week.

Always remember

Love your day your way!!!!