Christmas shopping for the 4 great-nephews & 2 great-nieces is DONE!! Woo hoo!! I was really stuck on my nephew’s 2 boys (4 & going on 2). I rarely see them & don’t know them hardly at all (plus they’re ‘city’ boys) so it’s tough coming up with something - no junk, educational at a minimum.
Now, I need to wrap everything up for delivery to their parents at our family Thanksgiving feast. I also need to get busy doing some canning so I can give the parents & my brothers their Christmas canned gifts.
Looking at mom’s emails, a friend from Ohio is going to be visiting relatives nearby & wants to stop in for a visit. She lost her husband earlier this year - her husband was actually a distant relative of my dad’s (thus me, too) & they met at a family reunion and have stayed in touch. I don’t think they’ll spend the night, but I’m sure I’ll be cooking at least one meal. I believe their departure date from Ohio is Nov. 6 (yikes!) so they could be here probably early to the middle of next week.
Progress: today was the first day I went without a bandaid on my mandolin mangled finger! No glove needed for washing dishes, taking a shower etc. - so nice to have my ‘hand’ back after almost 3 weeks.
We got soaked last night. (In more ways than one, but I’m gonna have to fight hard to not be depressed about the election results.) Anyway, the whole area looks like it averaged about 3x rain vs. the forecast. That’s actually good for the most part, but, the system being so strong looks like it also means a freeze Sat. and maybe Sunday nights. DRAT! Especially because we’re then set to warm up again, maybe until Thanksgiving. And I still have lots of slowly growing tomato fruits, lots of vulnerable flowers going strong...