Almost here

It's almost time for us to leave.  I am always anxious - anxious to get there, but anxious about leaving, too.  I wish we could take all of our friends and church family with us.  Thank goodness that Pastor's sermons are all online now.  I'll at least feel like we're still here!  I'll really miss SU events with Juliene, BRT with the group, Sunday evening service and choir!  And then there's sorority and PEO, too!

Tomorrow we see what all will fit in the car.  I think some of it will have to stay, but we'll see.  Dave's planning to take a bunch of his fishing gear and some tools.  The nice thing is that all of that stuff will stay there and won't come back home.  Tomorrow's going to be really busy!  Hope we get everything done!

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Gloomy Day

When I woke up this morning at 7:30 it was still dark out.  It was raining cats and dogs, lightning and thundering!!  It was wonderful!  Then the sun came out later and it turned humid.  It was nice for the football game, though.  Unfortunately the good guys ended up on the short end of the stick today.  We played really hard, but just couldn't move the ball at the end.  I thought maybe we were going to get the upset.  I don't know why we can't be the "luckiest team in the nation"!

Bryan and Erin are here.  We had goulash, lettuce salad, homemade French bread, apple cream pie, and Graham's ice cream.  Now I'm stuffed!!

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Friday!

Yesterday I thought it was Saturday.  Today I thought it was Saturday!  I wonder if I'll got to church tomorrow, thinking it is Sunday!!  I keep thinking I'm going to miss the football game this weekend!  Since it starts at 11:00 I sure hope I remember!

Today I have 75 Christmas cards in some stage of completion...2 are 99% done...44 are 50% done, the rest not so much!  Hopefully I'll get to work on them tomorrow, but with the ball game and Bryan & Erin coming, I doubt that I will.  We'll see!

The girls of '66 (some of them) called me today to say that they missed me.  I sure wish I was with them, but I'm sure that staying here was the best choice.  I'm feeling lots better today.

It's raining outside right now.  We need rain so badly!

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Beautiful Day!

On days like this, Florida seems like a long ways away!  Why would we go to Florida when it's this beautiful here?  At 5:00 it was still 73 and just perfect.

Dave and I worked on straightening up the house today because the cleaning lady came at noon!  It really doesn't get too bad - just around Dave's chair!  Oh, and my craft studio!  Plus right now, the dining room is our staging area for everything we want to take with us!!  In fact, it's so bad that she just gets to skip that room!

I got ambitious today and got a start on my Christmas cards.  I've got them about 1/3 of the way done...hopefully by this time tomorrow evening, they'll be at least 1/2 done!!  I've still got to get my secret sister gift wrapped and taken to Judy so she can deliver it.  Plus I've got to make my phone calls to the utility companies, etc.  I suppose I'd better get busy tomorrow - heck with the Christmas cards!

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Productive Day

Pretty productive day for me.  I got a few more things packed, placed all of our Stampin' Up orders, printed out the invoices, got a SU order ready to deliver, finished 10 more cards and even got to play a little!

Here are the three cards we made last night in class.

Love this little mummy!!

Chocolate chip and very vanilla for Christmas - that's really different but striking!

This card is using a reflection technique.  It's a little difficult, but can be mastered relatively quickly - even if you have shaky hands like I do!

Of course, as usual, all products are Stampin' Up!

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Good class!

We had a good class tonight!  We had 12 sign up but 14 showed up!!  Good thing we made card supplies for 15!  Everyone really liked the cards!  I'll try to get everything unpacked and upload my 3 cards tomorrow.

I feel a little better tonight.  My cough is definitely looser, but that usually means I cough more!  Today Dave and I went through our closets and took clothes to the Klassi Kloset, so that's a big job done!  I also started pulling clothes to take to Florida with me.  With all of Dave's fishing stuff, I'm sure glad we have a car with a big trunk!  There may not be room for my clothes!  Now that we both have Kindles, we don't have to carry books  back and forth, which saves a bunch of room.  I'm starting to get excited now.

Yesterday, Dave and I went to the Ottumwa Park to see the pelicans.  We're a regular stop  for white pelicans every year.  I was able to get some good pictures.

As you can see, there were hundreds of them.  They really made us think about Florida.  Although, we don't very often see white pelicans where we are, pelicans are definitely a southern bird in our minds!  Thanks for stopping by O-town on your way south!

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Meds!

I called my doctor's office this morning and was able to get in at 11:30 to see MY doctor - I didn't have to see a PA or one of the other doctors!  So, he's doctoring me for pneumonia.  If you could hear me cough, you'd know why!  The pharmacist said this medicine should make me feel better right away.  I sure hope so, but it hasn't yet!!  I called today to cancel my reservation for Wisconsin.  At this point I'm just wanting to feel well enough for the trip to Florida.  I hated to do that, but I didn't want to get better and then have a relapse from being too tired, plus I didn't want to give this cough to anyone else.  Maybe next year!

I only got to go to a little bit of Bible Reading Time.  I had to leave about halfway through just to get to the doctor's office.  The rest of the day I slept.  I woke up at 5:10 just in time for an Evangelism meeting.  I came home from it, ate a bite of supper and then watched DWTS.  Man, is this ever a great season!

Since I don't get to go to Wisconsin, this gives me a few more days of getting ready to go south.  My biggest challenge is knowing what to take with us.  Tomorrow I'll start making a list - if I can stay awake all day!

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