CATCHING UP

 Hello, friends.  Hope you are all doing well.  I know it's been awhile since I posted.  Life is passing quickly and social media is not that important in the big scheme of things.  But don't give up on me.  I will be here once in awhile.

Basically I have been trying to deal with the intense pain in my knee.  I have another 11 days until I see the orthopedist.  From everything I hear there will be surgery involved.  No driving for awhile.  No stairs (how do I do that in a three storey house?).  I am not a happy camper.  And I think Joe is getting tired of me crying so much.  He says he feels so helpless to do something for me and really he is.

Halloween was...  well... a dud.  I bought 35 snack sized bags of chips for the kids and we got 4 little ones at the door.  Four.  It's a good thing that I like what I buy.  To top it off I didn't even get to see them.  I was laying on the sofa to keep off of my leg.  Joe went to the door and handed things out.  Hopefully next year will be in a new house.

We are still looking but not as actively until we see what is going on with my leg.  The house we almost bought has just sold.  We were thinking about going back to that one but you snooze, you lose.  There are at least two more that I am interested in so we will see.

In the meantime we are getting a new dishwasher.  Ours broke and I have been washing dishes by hand for about a month.  We finally found one that we both agreed on but we can't get it until January.  So now we are going to try to get our second choice in the hope of it coming sooner.  Standing at the sink to wash dishes is not great for my knee.  I can do only a few at a time and they are stacked way up.

In the meantime I am doing what I can to get decorated for the holidays and pack up to move.  Trying to go through everything in the house is so overwhelming.  I have pulled out things and have them stacked everywhere to go through them.  It looks like a hoarding house and I am so upset about that.  But every bag or box or pile I go through is that much less I have to do later.  And it's something I can do sitting down.  You should have seen our trash this week.  Why do we keep so much?  Why did I think I would ever use these things again?  Are any of you like me?

It finally went from summer to fall.  The temperatures have been dropping and Joe was finally able to take the air conditioner out of the window.  We were actually using it the end of last month because the temperatures were so warm.  But I think it's finally cool (cold) for the rest of the year.

And speaking of years, can you believe it's only 56 days until the new year?  Each year I say that time flies and this year really did feel that way.

I've rambled on enough.  Let me show you some pictures before you go.

This is kind of dark so I hope you can see it.  The other day we ordered pizza and chicken from Dominos for dinner.  And because they had the free promotion going on, Joe got two pizzas for the price of one.  He was one happy guy.  And because they did not get it to us in under 30 minutes we got a coupon for another free pizza.

Every time Joe gets up from his chair, Jack runs over and lays in it.  I think he considers it his bed.

We had a beautiful sunset the other night.  I love it when the clouds are all pink and gold.

And that's it for now.  Have a wonderful day and I will be back when I can.

Kathy