Hello on Tuesday

Dear Friends,



Linda and I worked our butts off from 8 AM until 4 PM. I took care of setting up every outdoor decoration that we planned to put out including the deck. While I was doing my thing, Linda was working in the house. She removed all the fall decorations and replaced them with the winter wreaths. She did notice that she is shrinking. When she went to hang certain wreaths, and Christmas items, she had to get a step stool where in years past she didn’t need one.

I have the front and the back on these dusk to dawn timers, but set for 8 hours. They worked to perfection last evening. I had Linda go out and check my lighted decorations and she said that I did a great job. I didn’t put lights in every bush in the front of the house so that means that I shouldn’t have a electrical problem like I have had in the past. Linda has to finish what she started on another day. I have to dig out the Christmas linen buckets and locate the Christmas pillows. She could put out more decorations in our house, but since neither of our sons will be here fro Christmas, she is really trying to cut back. Yeah Right!





By the time that we decided to quit working our bodies were going into paralysis mode. I though that a good night’s rest would make the aches and pains go away, but I am hurting more right now then I did yesterday afternoon. It is like the second day of high school football practice after taking the summer off. All the dormant muscles in your body start to ache after the first day of calisthenics. My back is aching again today, I think that I will just chill and read a book while Linda is at her Tuesday Mah Jongg session.



In anticipation of being tired at the end of the day, I put a boneless beef pot roast in the crock pot. I used a slow cooker McCormick beef flavor packet which had all the spices you need to put in. Some potatoes, carrots, and some onions made for a wonderful meal. I even baked one of those Pillsbury breads in the oven so that we could sop up those good juices formed during the cooking process.



Politics – The Wiki leaks has sure gotten the United States in a good deal of trouble. This is another example where computers do serve a useful purpose, but it could get you in a whole bunch of trouble. This is why Linda won’t let me get on Facebook. It was one thing for my daily blog people to respond to my comments, but when the world has access to my thoughts, ramblings, Liberal ideas, etc., I could be a marked man.



Weather – The rains move on in later today, and they will fall during the day on Wednesday. They are talking about us getting 1 to 3 inches of rain. After the front moves through, we will have several days with highs in the 30’s. I called up a 10 day forecast, and we could possibly get snow a week from this Thursday. Of course, it is too early for that forecast to be accurate.



Last night our cars ended up in the driveway. Both bays of our two car garage are filled with buckets of fall and Christmas stuff. My first project of the day is to make the garage totally functional. I don’t want our cars outside during rain, sleet, or snow.



Observation -- Are all of my readers prepared for an all snow event? Of course, the Curley’s are completely prepared!

If the rain over the next few days was snow, three inches of rain would translate into almost three feet of snow. I know some of you hate this thought, but Linda and I would love to be snowed in. If the electricity ever went off for a day or so, would you be able to survive? This happened many years ago when our children were small. It was like we were camping during winter time. I have all kind of grills, and an extra gas tanks, a freezer full of meat, beverages. The only heat source would be our fireplace which can burn wood or fake logs.

I was wondering if any of my readers have a home emergency kit just in case we have a natural disaster. We don’t have an official one like our government recommends, but we have enough stuff to survive for at least a week or so. I do hope that we don’t have to go through an emergency like the people in the hill towns who were caught in that Ice Storm that we had a while back. They did have to survive for over a week before they got their electricity back on. I had friends who had to survive that crisis, and they said that it was pure hell. One friend had their own well, and when the electricity got knocked out, they had no running water in their home. A wood stove kept them warm, but they had to use their town hall facilities for bathrooms, taking a shower, etc. This was the same storm where every town except for Pittsfield got damage from the ice storm.



Well, I have to finish my morning routine, and get to work in the garage. I might have to wait until Linda directs me as to what Christmas buckets have to be taken down from the three shelves in our garage. Every year I hope that we can decrease the number of buckets (35 to 40 buckets) that we have in the garage, but it never seems to happen.



Have a great Tuesday.

Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad