THURSDAY THOUGHTS

LONG DAY.  We traveled to the courthouse in a different community to drop off a payment for this years car tags.  Tis different this year as one cannot enter the courthouse due to Covid 19.  Dropped the payment off and then the tag sticker will be mailed to us.  Doing things by mail these days in so many ways.  Tis doable just like in the pioneer days by mail and stagecoach.  Love it knowing that we can do this.  

The scenery is so green and lush this time of year.  Our little car was acting up so when he looked under the car, Hubby said there was an oil leak.  We traveled HOME and switched cars to find out that under the hood of our good car a packrat had made a nest.

PACK RATS will destroy your car.  A PACK RAT.  They are something else.  Get them out of the hood of the car.  The nest was cleaned out and we left for our next stop.   

We journeyed to TOPEKA.  Nice day for an outing.  We went to TUESDAY MORNING looking for new 96" curtains for the French doors.  Adding some privacy for us in the evenings.  We wore our masks and gloves.  If my shopping is quick I do alright, but if I stay longer than 20 minutes, I have trouble breathing and fogging up my glasses.

I had read that the TUESDAY MORNING stores in my area will be closing.  I could cry.  I sure like these shoppes.  Whaaaah.  We get our thin ginger snaps there.  I have purchased everything from bedding to curtains, rods, make-up, dishes, china, clothing, crystal, toys, soap, candy, food, to stationery to you name it and I have purchased it over the years.  Rugs, carpet, suitcases, toilet bowl cleaning brushes, decorations, dolls.  My heart sinks a little bit as I type this.   

Walking through the store knowing that this will probably be my last visit to this particular location made me sigh.  HUBBY checked us out so I could go cool off in the car waiting for him.  We had a nice shopping experienced.  Cooled off and went to SAMS.  Mask back on and gloves.  I headed for the coffee pods, cups and bottled water as HUBBY went to select vegetables and a little meat.

We met up, checked out and went home.  Had supper and now I am exhausted.  Have to rest.  Think I will journey via computer back to COWTOWN in WICHITA.  I love the MURDOCK HOUSE.  

While surfing on the computer and Hubby watching a movie...it happened.  Earlier in the day he took the bat repellant box that was in the screened in porch and relocated it to be by the good car to ward off PACKRATS.  Welp...we had the French door open to let inside fresh air.  A bat had entered the porch and well hello there appeared a brown bat flying about out living room.  I jumped up saying, "Jesus, Help us."  He did.  My Husband ushered the bat back into the porch area.  He shut the door and I stood there shaking.  Makes me weak in the knees.  A deep sigh.  I HATE BATS.  I didn't sleep the best.  I didn't sleep.  This is the time of year that the bats come looking for places to nest and have pups.  I'm not a fan.

So our day was challenging.  Oil issues and wondering if we'd get home.  Packrat under the hood of our good car.  Shopping with mask.  Ended the night with a bat flying around the room.  Never again.

Blessings to you,

d  

A Date With BATMAN

HELLO from Small Town America.

I continue to DOWNSIZE.  There is so much more to do that I am feeling it in my sore body.  A large load of dishes made their way to the THRIFT SHOP.  It was easier to turn loose of my boxed stuff than I thought it would be, but my lungs hurt from screaming.  I had a date with BATMAN.  More to follow.

Sitting on the sofa thumbing through and throwing away OLD CHRISTMAS cards, letters and pictures that I have managed to keep for umpteen years was a way of downsizing and lightening the load.  I decided to group all my cards together from relatives and friends, thin through them only keeping my favorite ones and doing away with all the rest.  

TIME slows as I reread most of the cards and reread what they had handwritten in their yearly messages.
TIME seemed to stop as I had thoughts about that person.  Especially if they are no longer alive.  I just about can't pitch these away knowing I will no longer receive future mail from them.

I did what I had mentioned earlier about tearing some of the cards into, keeping the front of the card to use as postcards.  Some I will keep for a tad bit longer and thin out later if ever.

Took a break from this as my day became THURSDAY NIGHT.  Husband was asleep on the sofa...a common occurrence as he was extremely tired.  I sat on the other sofa having computer time as I noticed something dark flash past the corner of my eye.  Thinking it was a bird, I watched as it flew through the room. 

Asking myself, "Was that a bird?"

Quickly I knew it wasn't a bird, but a BAT.  LOUD soprano SCREAMS came out of my mouth as I was taken a back that there was a live one flying in my house.  HUBBY startled awake and I cannot get this image out of my mind how he responded to my screaming.....hahahahaaa.  He woke up and started asking questions in a high pitched voice as to what was going on, what's happening, etc.  He was still partly asleep and had tornadoes on his mind.  When he heard me screaming he became a Soprano himself.

The day was a storm filled one with tornadoes and very threatening weather.  We had the cellar door opened in case we needed to make a MAD DASH to the basement.  Tornado Sirens went off through out the day.  So we are not sure if the BAT got inside the house through the cellar or somewhere else.  

The BAT flew right on upstairs as if he knew that he needed to get away from a SCREAMING WOMAN and a STARTLED MAN asking questions in soprano.

We have never experienced a BAT in the HOUSE and I never want to experience this again.  I found a new shower curtain packaged and waiting for use as Hubby stapled it to the opening where the stairs lead upwards.  We were sure that we had him contained upstairs.  Later he decided to fly into the plastic shower curtain and attempt to come back down to our Family room.  Deciding on how to capture him, he somehow managed to make a hole and make his way out of the upstairs and get into the main floor of the house. 

It would take awhile to find him, but find him Hubby did.  Welding gloves were worn as a wet towel was thrown on top of this creature.  Still not sure why GOD created these things.  Don't get it.
Mister BAT will not be missed.

I had a DATE with my HERO, my HUSBAND...the BATMAN

extraordinaire.

Too much excitement for this old Lady...not the date, but with the BAT.  Take a deep breath and don't faint.
I rather like time with my HUSBAND.

Blessings, blessings, blessings,
d