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 ...

Life Goes On

There is nothing like a visit from the grand children to remind one that life goes on. I spent Friday night at my daughter's and then brought the kids back home with me. I did not get to see so much of them this past summer and it was a birthday gift to my daughter (who just turned 40!) to have a couple of days to herself. She probably spent them in her son's room playing Lego StarWars. Dane tried to teach me how to play this video game--a hopeless task if ever there was one. "Concentrate, Grandma! You have to concentrate!" I do have a hard time with sustained concentration lately, but in this case I had no clue what it was that needed concentration. He finally took the controls away from me (thank-you!). It's amazing how long he can amuse himself at my house being out side on a scooter or helping me in the yard, especially if it involves a hose. Inside, they both sit and draw or craft for hours. Just before bed, Dane did say, "N...

Morning Coffee

As a rule, I drink two cups of coffee in the morning. Gone are the days when I drank coffee all day and even had a cup after dinner--and never decaf. When I was a working mom, the sleep deprivation made it kind of necessary in order to function. These days, if I had a cup of coffee after lunch, I would be awake all night. But I do like my morning coffee. Now I mix regular and decaf. I can't quite seem to kick caffeine entirely. Wednesday morning there was no milk, no white stuff of any kind. Thursday morning my sone left a note on the coffee maker--carafe was cracked. Desperate times! I was not able to find a replacement carafe. At least I was not able to dedicate my entire day to finding one. So I bought a Mr. Coffee--a little five cup one for around 15 dollars. I was thinking that I never drink more than two cups so why not. What I forgot about is that the manufacturers of coffee makers definition of a cup is, at best, ha...

Confessions of a Grandma

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