GREY SKIES THIS MORNING with a chance of rain this evening. Sounding like the WEATHERMAN. The early hours of the day have stayed above freezing this week so some house plants still remain outside. Not sure where I will house my Coleus when the temps dip lower. I'd like to winter these since I lost my Geraniums to last week's cold snap. I repotted these Coleus from indoors and left them outside.
Perhaps I'll take them to the COTTAGE and leave them in the Kitchen or the Utility room. Better do that before I lose them as well to Mother Nature moving toward WINTER. This AUTUMN has been a beautiful one with so many brilliant colors. Looking out the window, the skies have a great deal of pink to them.
I think it would be magnificent to be able to wake in the early mornings and gaze out across a field to see skies like this without interference of buildings and telephone wires. It's peaceful in the mornings.
Yesterday was a busy one as I woke early doing some household chores then going to Manhattan to Menards to get some trim for the COTTAGE SHED. Hubby is working away and making progress on finishing out the shed. I didn't make it to the DOLLAR STORE as after we bought the trim and placed it in our car, it was sticking out the window which frequently acts as a pick-up for us so off to the COTTAGE we went. Traveling across the Prairie, I drove to the COTTAGE and he unloaded the trim into the shed.
He'd work at hanging it up as I worked inside the COTTAGE. Turning on the TV broke the silence in the room. I went through a box of costume jewelry that I had not worn in 6 years since the fire. The jewelry had been stored in the shed after the house fire. As I went through it this brought back some memories of when I wore these particular necklaces and earrings. Some I have owned 40 years. Didn't lose them in the fire. Instead they need cleaned.
It took longer than I thought it would so I listened to the television as I went through the jewelry. Since we moved the TV from one room to its present location, we get 4 different channels then we did in the bedroom without cable or antennae. I think I like the channels we got before moving the TV set, but for now I actually have TV. I don't get to watch THE CLOSER now. Instead ABC comes in as does a sit-com channel, COURT shows and house hunting in the country.
In the evening at the main house, we watched a movie called THE DUKE which is based off a true story. A Goya Masterpiece of the Duke of Wellington is stolen. There is one sex scene that should have been left out of the movie and it wouldn't have hurt the story at all. In fact, it would have enhanced it.
Sixty-year-old self-educated working class Kempton Bunton appears in Court Number 1 at the Old Bailey, pleading not guilty to charges of stealing Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington and its frame from the National Gallery in London. Six months earlier, in spring 1961, he sends a script to the BBC from his native Newcastle upon Tyne. Soon afterwards he is jailed at Durham for thirteen days for watching TV without a licence. Although he can afford one, he refuses to do so as part of his campaign against pensioners having to pay for it, part of his wider strong beliefs about supporting the common man.
Based off a true story, I learned that in England people have to have a license to watch live television programs or record live programs. I had no idea England did this. umm.
I scrubbed the tank of our KERIG. My hand could feel some scales on the inside of the tank. I managed to get this out of there. Clean water to make coffee and hot tea! Who'd have THUNK IT? Scales in the tank. Not I, but then I iz a hick.
After watching so many Korean cleaning videos, I have a new respect for these gals that clean the way they do. Even the American Homemakers that clean, clean, clean seem to have a knack for cleaning the way I have never had the desire to do. I have enjoyed a clean living environment...true, but I cannot clean the way these gals do for their videos. Like I have said before, when the camera is running that's one thing. Behind the scenes is another. Who actually lives like this? I suppose there are so many people I couldn't count them all.
Which reminds me, my cars need baths. I'd like to take them to this one place that does detail cleaning. I'll check into this. There is always something to clean around here.
Hubs is off to work on hanging more trim in the shed. I'm so proud of him how hard he works. We are wanting to have the COTTAGE property up and going by SPRING 2023. I have packing to do today. I bought 6 more small boxes from MENARDS to help me out. First thing to box up will be photographs...snapshots that reside in the closet. Packing up things a little each day then the boxes will rest until they are moved to our RETIREMENT COTTAGE.
HOLIDAY DECOR items are already boxed in vinyl storage tubs, but need carried from the basement to the Carriage House. That means stairs to climb one at a time carrying tubs to the carriage house. I might use that little wagon I have to help with this chore.
Out of the Main House's basement and Carriage House taking them from this property to the COTTAGE across the river. When the COTTAGE SHED is completed, they will migrate to the shed over there which means loading them into the car taking them over to the COTTAGE to unload and carry into the shed to stack. MOVERS deserve every penny they make as it is harder to gyrate all of this when the body is older. This task will be our aerobic exercise and weight training for days.
THIS SLOW PROCESS AGREES with our old lives as we can handle this speed of morphing into retired folk downsizing and relocating into a tiny COTTAGE to call our HOME. It'll be a fine day when I get to this place.
Before I go to all this trouble, I seriously need to look everything over in the tubs AGAIN and possibly downsize my stash. Donate.
SO......today, I'll go to Manhattan to purchase some things, tweak around in the upstairs JUNK ROOM, AND do a Castor Oil Treatment for 90 minutes across my abdomen to help lower my cholesterol and shrink fibroid tumors. Go through some photos to pack up. I'll need to shampoo my hair and curl it. Tidy on the Dining room.
I suppose this will be my day as I will probably need a NAP in the afternoon to help me get through the rest of the day. TIS THURSDAY. I need to drink an abundance of WATER to flush the sugar out of my system as I ate Krispy Kreme DONUTS and ate Gambino's Spaghetti with meat balls with garlic toast last night. OVERLOAD ON CARBS AND SUGARS.
Horrible me. I ate like there was no tomorrow especially the DONUTS. They were so good I cannot describe the sweetness with raspberry filling.
This is the worst I have done in two years. I hit the wall and fell off the wagon.
Now to climb back on and continue the ride of counting calories and avoiding sweets, breads, potatoes, rice and pasta.
I have no one to blame but myself. This was a BIG CHEAT DAY and I wasn't going to do this until after my November blood work. Why did I overeat? OUR 6th anniversary of the house fire took place and I was overly emotional. Looking for some comfort FOOD and boy did I ever find it in the donuts and the bread. Poor excuse. Dust myself off and continue onward. Pass the water bottle and drink away.
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