Thursday Thoughts

*There is a drop off at the village store for supplies to be sent to Long Island for Sandy victims. I think a town resident must have family there and will taking the donations down this weekend.
I don’t know why this requested item surprised me—heavy duty garbage bags. Of course! East coast dwellers are facing massive clean-up chores. All kinds of cleaning supplies must be needed before they can get around to putting homes back in furnished order. I am going to put together a bucket of cleaning supplies and drop it off today. You can check out our country village store here.here.

*I have to say that I am very disappointed in secession petitions. This doesn’t seem to bode well for the idea of coming together to solve problems—and, let’s face it, this country is facing a few. We all take turns living with election results we may not have liked. We whine and cry for a while; then we put on our big girl pants and deal with it.

*The local library was buzzing yesterday. There were four volunteers there for the afternoon to help the librarian. I was covering new books in plastic and some one else was bar coding them and entering them in the computer system when he wasn’t busy checking in returns. Someone else was taking care of shelving the returns. Best of all—a woman who was a professional organizer for corporations in the big city recently moved to town and she is making a huge dent in the freeing up of the general neatness and flow of the place. I came home exhausted, but I really do enjoy that little library. I have found that I really do need that little bit of imposed structure to my week.

*I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is only one week away. We will head to Connecticut for some family, food, and fun.

*Both the writing group and the card-making group made plans for a lunch get together for today. My social calendar is so busy. I will be with the writing group today. We are visiting a book store and then having lunch. It sounds like a good way to spend a chilly afternoon.

It's TIme

It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own

New Furniture

We went shopping for a new couch. I liked this one, the first store we went to. Of course it would be an impulse to buy the first one so we trekked around to other stores -- something we liked more, a better deal? No surprise that we ended up going back to that first store the next day and purchasing that couch for our living room. Also a matching love seat for the den where we watch TV. Because I had replaced my old love seat with two recliners. We couldn't keep three households worth of furniture after all. Well, my recliner was not big enough to accommodate both Levi and me. Poor boy had to watch TV from his bed on the floor. There! This is much better! Spoiled much? The little tail on the floor belongs to his toy squirrel, Buddy. It's like having a toddler with the need to be picking up toys or risk tripping over them. But his very favorite play thing is that bathmat that can be found anywhere but the bathroom floor.

Walking

I have always been a walker. Now that I have a high energy dog there is no excuse for not getting out there. And the weather is not an interfering factor here. Early morning and early evening are our preferred times so even when it gets hot we should be okay. We can get quite a long walk going around the neighborhood, greeting neighbors out working in their yards or walking their own dogs. But the landscape changes quickly just beyond the confines of the housing developments. It could be described as natural Florida or as sites of future housing developments. I do prefer the first option. And I really enjoy being out in natural areas so I often opt to head to a nature setting. I would have liked to put a picture here. Unfortunately my iPhone has made a unilateral decision. It will no longer be sending my photos to my computer. Why? I have no idea. However, we may be walking along happily enough -- me listening to the birds or trying to identify wildflowers and other plants while Levi

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