Friday, November 23rd, 2018…... Black Friday!! Although we have all of the
required ads to look through, we didn’t have to go out super early this morning
to shop for anything. The stores here don’t get the hysterical shoppers like
SoCal, and there aren’t too many that even change their hours. Of course, a lot
are following the new popular notion of being open on Thanksgiving, so that
helps as well. Plus folks (including us) are doing a lot of shopping online. I did find an ad for a Werner 6-ft. step ladder on sale for half price
($35.) at Home Depot so I went and got one. It’s so much easier to have several
ladders so I can put them in the garage, workshop, shop garage, and rv garage. That way, I don’t have to lug them around too far when I need one. I needed two of
them today to use on the porch and the eaves on the house to put up our
Christmas lights. Yep, today is the day! As I said before, Lydia won’t let me
up on this roof so we are decorating the posts and the windows and I am putting
the icicle lights on the rain gutters. I can get to all of those with a couple
of ladders. I got some of them up today but ran out of daylight, so I’ll go
back out tomorrow. Last year we only did the projector laser lights but that
wasn’t enough, and we figured that since we are now here through the holidays,
we would do it right. That was pretty much it for the day. We ate leftovers and
relaxed and watched tv until bedtime.
Saturday, November 24th, 2018…... Rylee let me sleep in a few minutes later
today! Yaay! Lydia even got up and fed her. But while she was doing that I got
up and got ready and then I took the white tornado out for her walk. My sister
was here but she was out in the west forty with Q, so I took Rylee up the
street. Monster puppy loves to run in the drainage ditches and now more than
ever since they have some water in them! I got her back without too much damage
and found my sister was coming back in. I let Rylee loose and she went out and
played for a long time with Quincy. I went in the house and later, Penny brought back in
a big ole wet white dog covered in dirt! So, I had some cleanup to do while Quincy
came in to eat. They left for the day, Penny having packed up some leftovers to
enjoy at her place later today. I tackled the lights again. The weather was
nice today. It started out in the high 30s but got up to the mid 50s so it was
pleasant outside. I got everything done, but I stopped several times to take breaks
and lunch. Lydia went over to my sister’s house to help her with some of the medical bandaging she needed help with. When she got home, I had her help me with the
icicle lights. Turns out they went up pretty easily on the rain gutters,
although, we had to repair a couple of them as we installed them. I made all of
the electrical connections and we were done with the outside! I got the stars put up in all of the windows and we got everything put away.
Next up is the
tree and the inside stuff, but that’s for another day! After we rested a bit,
Lydia made dinner and we watched tv until it was time for bed.
Sunday, November 25th, 2018…...
Absolutely
nothing on the agenda today. Lydia made omelets and I cleaned up after. After breakfast, we just did a few things
around the house. I brought in the fall decoration bins and Lydia put all of
that stuff back in so I could store it away. I was going to get down the
Christmas tree and the rest of the decorations but I need to move the tractors
so I’ll get to that tomorrow. So, it was just watching racing and football for
me and catching up on taped shows for Lydia.
This is the view we have of the
back yard:
Took this
picture today through that sliding door. That’s a good size buck!
Lydia had
decided that today was bean soup day. She used the big ham bone we had left
from Thanksgiving and had that going most of the day. Here she is dishing it up. Monster puppy is 'hoovering' around the floor hoping for spillage!
We ate
the tasty dinner while getting some more episodes of Guy’s Grocery games
watched. Still not caught up!
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