Saturday evening, the weather was nice for those who wanted to trick-or-treat. We maybe had 30 trick or treaters. With a few pieces of candy left and some bagged pretzels before shutting down for the night, we eagerly ate the leftovers. No more HALLOWEEN CANDY in the house as NOVEMBER is a new opportunity to eat CLEAN AGAIN. I am working on this. Eat CLEAN.
NOVEMBER FIRST. The months seem to go by so quickly, it sometimes makes me nervous. I have about 7 1/2 weeks until CHRISTMAS. Hopes for having a decluttered cottage well underway. Tis a November GOAL. This is the biggy for the month. Thanksgiving meal will be underplayed this year as we will probably stay HOME and order a Community Meal instead of having a big spread of food with company.
Energies need to go into getting the house civilized. Decorating the exterior of the house with CHRISTMAS GARLAND may start when the weather is tamer for us in November. I'd love to have twinkle lights with green garland and bows on the house.
GOAL. Finishing up the ATTIC at the Storage Unit is a GOAL. The weather will be turning cold and this limits us from working outdoors so we need to work on it when it's not snowing, freezing, raining. We probably will not be done with the cellar, garage or She-Shed until Spring/Summer and that will have to be the way it is. Tadaah. Then if I can talk my Husband into helping me hang lights and garland on the house when the weather is nice, maybe, just maybe we will get some decorating done. It's been years since we decorated the outside of the house for CHRISTMAS. The CHRISTMAS tree might go up as well. That would be a miracle.
Each day, I need to work on this overall project. Try to, but life gets in the way and we cannot always get to it.
As I sat in my chair chatting with my hubby, I saw a grey blob streak across the floor. 🐭 Mouse! It wasn't Mickey. I had said a few days ago that the door needed fixed or mice, snakes, bats could get into the house. eeek. He took care of it right away. Hubby repaired the front door where there was too big of a gap at the bottom. New trim was installed which made me a happy camper.
I've been fasting in the mornings with my black cup of coffee. No Breakfast. No eating until noonish. Amazingly, I have been able to do this and haven't been very hungry.
PLANS. I woke at 5ish, but the time change has taken place so it was 4ish. EARLY FOR ME. I worked on the PANTRY placing canned goods on the clean shelves. I know we need to get some bottled water for safe keeping incase the faucet is turned off due to whatever comes our way. I'd like to get some small batteries, bottled water and beef sticks so a trip to the city is in the forecast. Maybe some canned potatoes. The Kitchen has so much out of place due to cleaning the Pantry. I will get some more MASON JARS for storing sugars and what-nots.
So that's finishing the Pantry, buying a few more items for our Pantry, getting back to finishing the ATTIC so the HOLIDAY DECOR is all together. I need to get our youngest Grandson a birthday card and gift. He turns 5 this month. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. He's having a Party later on and I hope to attend.
Come what may with mid-term elections, I so hope our food pantry is in great shape. The videos I have seen of cellars, basements and pantries puts mine to shame. What we do have on hand needs to be really orderly. I admire the large pantries with loads of jarred produce. I was raised a CITY GIRL and I was not trained to stock pile large pantries in the cellar. Grandma H. did. She canned her garden and it was a lovely sight to see. Grandma G. had a pantry cabinet and so did my Mom. I learned by observing, not by spoken instructions.
Mom was raised in the country and she knows labor. She got married at 16 and a half . Dad and her were country peeps, but got citified doing things differently then they were raised. As I have aged, I have wanted to be more countrified. grins. I think I can improve on how I do things. IMPROVE. May I be a good student and get on with it. Amen and amen.
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