Currently...

The sun is shining and at 65 degrees it feels more like September than the 8th of November. I don't think I ever remember us cutting the grass in November before, but here we are. It's supposed to be nice for a few days this week. Indian Summer?

I'm listening to... Jasper purr in my ear (he likes to sleep on my shoulder) and from somewhere in the neighborhood I can hear the buzz of a mower. 

I'm reading... No Ordinary Christmas: A Mistletoe, Maine Novel by Belle Calhoune. Local boy-turned-Hollywood-star, Dante West, is coming home to make his next movie in Mistletoe and everyone in town is excited...except the town's librarian, Lucy Marshall. When Dante took off for Hollywood without warning or even a goodbye, he broke Lucy's heart. Dante is eager to help boost his hometown's economy and to finally start making amends to the people he hurt when he left. Can the magic of Christmas help him do that with Lucy?

I'm watching... Hallmark Christmas movies, of course! And also a lot of the other shows streaming on frndly TV. Tim's enjoying the old cop and cowboy shows and I've been watching Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, We Bought the Farm, and Mountain Mama's.

I'm celebrating... a negative result on my Covid test!

I'm worrying about... our daughter and her husband and, of course, the grandchildren. It seemed Megan and Cody were on the mend, but today they seem worse again. A neighbor who seems to have had it in the same way they do said her doctor told her to expect it to take up to 6 weeks to recover. I am praying Cody is able to return to work next week. They really can't afford for him to be off as long as he has been, let alone longer. 

I worry about Colton and Leah, too. When the kids seemed to be on the upswing, I sent the little ones home because Colt was pretty congested and doing a lot of coughing. Now that I've had a negative test, I don't want to risk getting sick. I will if Megan and Cody absolutely can't manage, but so far they are doing okay. 

I had fun... watching Colton and Leah play in the leaves yesterday. Tim was cleaning up the leaves in Mom's yard. They must have seen him and came out to play (we stayed socially distanced, but oh, was it hard). Tim used the leaf blower to pile the leaves up for them and they had a ball!

I'm enjoying... Jasper. Now that Daisy has quit barking at him non-stop and the kids haven't been chasing him, he's coming into his own and making himself at home. That usually means he's either harassing Daisy, crawling up something he's not supposed to be crawling up with his claws, or cuddled up on or beside me. A cat tree was delivered today. I'm hoping that draws his attention away from the furniture and curtains. Little stinker! I'd be mad at him, but he's so darn cute. His stripes are starting to come out more, too.

I'm cooking... lots of easy comfort foods. With everyone sick or busy and stressed it's been the way to go. Soups, casseroles, pierogies, etc.

Making me laugh... 

You can have your coffee and be buried in the can!

True of most men with most sicknesses.

Now that's the truth.

Yep. I would be Baby in Dirty Dancing walking into the party and saying "I carried a watermelon" when introduced to the hot guy.

True, but I'm more interested in a world where there are no snakes because they eat themselves. That is my kind of place! Snakes...ewww!