Thursday November 1st 2012

Beautiful morning even if it is cool out.  The sun came up while I was listening to a tape made by Jeanie, the piano player from Harvest Time.  I turned the tape over and to my surprise it was the Harvest Time Quartet!  I had to call Jeanie and ask her for sure because I couldn’t hear Randy or myself in almost any song.  There were a couple though that I could hear a bass and Randy had a solo.  Our lead singer Cloyd passed on quite a few years back and Pastor Dalmus is alive and well and preaching up a  storm in Rock Falls, Harvest Time Bible Church.  Sure brought back memories and now I have to find a place that will make a CD from the tape.

Well, to work again today.  I am mowing the RV Park today and should be my last day.

The mowing went quite well but the last eight back in sites are terrible to mow.  Just a whole lot of work.

I finished up around three PM and headed home.  Checked to see if I could figure out where the mice are coming in (at home).  Well, I had fixed a few places and haven’t seen any since I fixed it a few days ago.  I think we still have them coming in but haven’t seen any but think once in awhile I can hear them.  Oh well, I left them plenty of  De Con.

I’m tired tonight, I think that the fresh air really makes me tired so I took a nap tonight, well, sitting in my chair, I fell asleep for awhile.

I got a picture of the sunset, just beautiful….

It is amazing how good the pictures turn out with my new camera.  It is doing as good a job as I can hope for with my knowledge of using a camera!

Going to take it easy tonight because I would really like to go to Cape tomorrow to Menard’s.  I like Menard’s.

Time to say Night Y’all…

Wednesday October 31st 2012

Well, today is the last day of October!!  Halloween!  Not my favorite holiday for sure. 

I will work today and tomorrow and should be done for the year.  Will try to get all the mowing done and have the place looking decent for the winter. I am mowing  Russell Street today, shouldn’t take to long.  I have a picture of the tractor before I left…

It took about three hours to mow Russell Street and when I got back I had to call it a day.  I could have done more but I’m leaving it for tomorrow.

Went to church tonight, not many at church but still had a good discussion on the “sower” and the “seed”.  It was interesting.

I looked up a song on the internet I thought was called “Go Down Nineveh” but the name is actually “Go Jonah” by the Cathedrals.  It is a spoof of the song “Elvira” by the Oak Ridge Boys.  There is a song “Go Down Nineveh” by the Blackwood Brothers but nothing like Go Jonah.  I put it on my recorder and played it for Coyita and she remembered it and I think we would like to sing it next year maybe.

I got a weird picture of the moon tonight.  It is in the clouds and I think it is blurry but looks kind of neat.

Does this look like a Halloween moon?  I thought it looked kind of neat.

Well, we didn’t have any Trick or Treaters so I guess we will have to eat all the candy….

Time to say Night Y’all….

Tuesday October 30th 2012

Well, it is cold and windy today and I go into work and will mow, probably the mobile home park today and Russell Street tomorrow.  I should finish work on Thursday and be done for the year.

I dug out my winter coat, it is pretty bad shape but for work it will be OK I think.  At least I’ll be warm.

I had kind of a bad start this morning.  The mower hasn’t been used for two weeks and I couldn’t get it started after getting it gassed up and greased.  I knew something didn’t look right but didn’t pay much attention.  Well, I couldn’t get it started so I charged the battery and finally got it started only to find out the front tire was flat!  I tried to air it up but the bead came loose from the rim so I had to jack the front end up put slime in the tire and get a bungee cord to put around it and finally got it aired up.  I checked it for awhile to make sure it was going to stay up.  I also took a bag of cans over to Kay, she is collecting them and I had a bag and was going that way.

I finished mowing around 4PM but had some other things to do.  Some of the Roundup didn’t seem to work so I used the weed eater to shape up a few places.

Well, not much else happened today.  I am going to call it a “day” and say Night Y’all….

Monday October 29th 2012

Another cool and windy day.  Sparky and I go outside for awhile but it is to cool for both of us.  He will get in my lap when we go in and lay there and shiver.  I finally covered him up and he was happy.

I am bored this morning, to cold to go outside so I looked around and found a package of pinto beans and decided to make them.  They had a special way to soak them quick.  I boiled them for two minutes and let them stand for an hour, drained them and put them back in the pan.  We had two containers, three cups, of pork drippings so I added that and water plus a seasoning packet from the package, an onion and two cloves of garlic.  I also made some corn bread for lunch.. I thought it was good…

The cornbread wasn’t the greatest but the beans were very good.

Well, guess that is about all we did today except watch the Frankenstorm on the East Coast.  They are going to get hit hard it sounds like.  Glad I’m not there!

I will now say Night Y’all because I can’t think of anything else to say!!!

Sunday October 28th 2012

Linda still is a little under the weather and is probably best she stays home and finishes getting over the “stuff” she has.

When I got to church John said his special music person either forgot or wasn’t going to be there and asked if we could do the special.  He picked out a song I had never sung before and I tried it but I sure need more practice than just one day on this song.  I picked out another song, “I Want To Be Ready” which is a song I new and wouldn’t mind singing it.  It actually went quite well for the first time singing it as a quartet.  Pastor Randy still isn’t feeling very well and this really wasn’t very good for his voice.  We are going to sing the other one tonight, I recorded the music so I could practice at home and we, well, we sang another one tonight also. This morning went a lot better.  I messed up both songs pretty bad, sure could have used a lot more practice.  I guess people thought it was OK.  Beverly wanted us to sing “Elvira”.   There is a song, “Go Down Nineveh” that I think is based on the song Elvira, could be wrong though. Coyita said she is going to get the music for it so we can sing it when we get back, sounds like fun to me!

Well, that pretty well took care of today.  I did take a picture of a rain cloud, in fact two rain clouds.  Forecaster said there was rain on the radar but no one called in saying it was raining, don’t think it reached the ground.

I thought this was a pretty neat picture, it is rain but you can see where it stops and the clouds are so small I’m not sure how they held any rain at all!

Ok going to say Night Y’all….

Saturday October 27th 2012

It is cool again this morning which for the end of October is not unusual. The wind is blowing and it isn’t nice to stand around outside or do much of anything else.

I got a note from Destiny about the picture of the sunset, or maybe the sunrise, I’m not sure, I have taken a lot with my new camera and I have posted some but what I am trying to say is I’m glad someone is reading my boring blog!!!  This is more of a diary than an informative narration of all the exciting things we have done!  I can go back a year or two and see when we did things and where.  I have a really big problem remembering things we did a year ago, give or take, and it is nice to have it written down. I am hoping I can save this to my external hard drive for safe keeping.

This afternoon I went to Morehouse to the Gospel Opry at the First Baptist Church.  I want to see the local talent.  I wasn’t disappointed, in fact I was pleasantly surprised!  They had some really good talent there, not sure how many were local but they were really good.

Saw Bill and Phyllis there and also Lloyd.  I left a little early, all the local talent had done their thing and the Haney’s from Salem Illinois were singing.  They are good but I had to go home and get my supper!

This may seem like a weird picture but Brenna got us some Snuggies and these on my feet are Snuggy  slippers, nice and warm, thanks Bren!

Time to say Night Y’all…

Friday October 26th 2012

The weather man was right, it rained and the wind is blowing and it is really chilly outside.  This is the weather I don’t like!

Sparky didn’t want to go out and I don’t blame him, it isn’t really raining but it is really chilly and I think that he doesn’t like the cold weather.

I stayed inside playing with the recorder and the CD that Joe and Coyita made for me with fifteen songs on it.  I recorded them all the the voice recorder and it worked out quite well.  It took awhile to figure out the CD player and then the recorder but I got them all recorded!

I would like to be outside but it is cold and I am going to stay inside.  I figured I would get our loose change and roll it… Took awhile…

Took awhile, if I counted right I wrapped up $125 in loose changed.  Have a little left over and also have about $20 in quarters we will take to Texas for laundry.  This took awhile but I was happy with something to do!

We didn’t do much the rest of the day, just tried to keep warm.

The clouds starting clearing out around 5PM I think and the sunset was gorgeous!

I am really happy with this camera and the telephoto lens.  Can’t get over the awesome pictures it takes.

Watched a new show tonight, the Munsters.  I don’t think I will watch it again, it was pretty gory even though it was kind of funny.  Just a little to much “stuff” in it.

Guess that is about all…Night Y’all…