Friday

Hip, hip, hooray!  I got my hair cut today and it's finally even on both sides!  I also got the newsletter up to the office for printing so I was busy this morning.  We went to the Legion for lunch...they've got a whole bunch of new rules.  It was pretty busy today...there were about 17 of us from the Ranch there.  Fun times on a beautiful day!

Tonight I played cards.  We had 10 ladies and there were 9-10 poker players too.  Betty and I won, but just barely. 

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Thursday

I stayed up pretty late last night watching the Cubs.  It was a good night - the Cubs got their bats going, finally!  Now if they can just do it again tonight.  I sure hope they can win.  Before watching the game, I watched the final debate.  I just can't imagine how anyone could vote for that bully!  Yet, probably the nicest lady down here told me last night that she voted for Trump.  Another lady said she did too, because she didn't like the fact that Hillary didn't divorce Bill for his indiscretions.  Hmmm...

I went for two bike rides today - one around 4:00 (about the hottest part of the day).  My muscles are a little lax - I can sure tell that I didn't ride much this summer. 

We got the curtains up today and I finally got all the cupboards in the kitchen washed.  Tomorrow we're going to the Legion.  They have some new rules, so hope we can get served. 

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Tuesday

We finally got back home today.  On Sunday we got through Iowa and Missouri and ended up staying in Dyersburg, TN.  Monday was a longer day - we drove thru Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and stayed in Perry, FL.  This morning, we only had about 4 hours of driving.  Our home is good - it weathered the summer well.  All of our flowers made it except for one.  We've got most everything put away.  We even took a bike ride!!

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Saturday

The car is loaded.  All we have to do in the morning is pack our computers and Kindles and we're off for day one of our trip to Florida.  Now we're watching the Cubs...Cubs win!  Woohee, that was a playoff game!

Beautiful wedding today!  Icky drizzly day, though. 

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Aidan's birthday party

Today was another day of cleaning and finishing up last minute things before Sunday.  Tonight, however, was for Aidan.  He loved us singing to him and he loved his pizza and his birthday cupcake!  He and I played with his farm stickers and he even let me read to him a little.  When we got ready to leave, he even gave me a real kiss and an Eskimo kiss! 

I miss him already!!

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Happy birthday to Aidan!

Our little Aidan is 2 years old today.   He's a cutie, with such a good personality.  We're going for pizza at their house tomorrow night.  They have foster kids this weekend so Aidan can't open his gifts so again we won't get to see him open his birthday presents.

We're making good progress on packing for our trip.  I think I've got everything done except for calling Mediacom, cleaning the refrigerator and cleaning the house.  Yay!

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Cubs win!!!

You snooze you lose.  That's not always true.  I gave up  last night in the 8th inning of the Cubs game.  I thought with it 2-5 with us behind, there was no way the Cubs could win.  But they proved the old adage wrong.  I snoozed, but they didn't lose!!  Earlier in the evening, we went to Kyle's.  He's letting us store the camper for the winter in his big barn.  So we took pizza out and ate with them.  That was fun.  Blaise is feeling better and he really likes pizza.  Both of us got to play with his farm animals and I even got to read two books to him.

Today I got most of my clothes ready to go.  I also made ham balls for lunch and this afternoon, I went thru all of our CDs so we could take some with us.  We love southern gospel, so we have a bunch of those to listen to while we drive.  Then tonight, we went to the Cattle Congress to hear a wonderful speaker:

Great speaker...the  only problem is we stood the whole time - 3 hours total!  He was worth the pain, though.  Unfortunately we had several protesters who were escorted out and then got back in somehow.  He handled it very well.

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