✔️I VOTED!!!
Check that off of the to do list.
Having a ballot mailed to me allowed time to check out what people on the ballot believe in before I voted. This is the first time I was able to check out all the candidates for their beliefs before marking the ballot. It was actually very convenient to be able to do this in the comfort of my HOME.
Personally delivered my ballot instead of mailing. Nor did I have to stand in line to vote with so many other people waiting as well. Took a lovely AUTUMN drive to the Court House in a different community and delivered my ballot.
PAUSE. Sigh of relief. Tis done. Mission accomplished. Peaceful VOTE. No riots. No waiting. No crowds. No standing in line for hours. Saved my back.
I did my homework on all the candidates. This truly is the first year I put so much thought and research into all the candidates. At 65, I feel like I did what I could and voted my conscious.
A pleasant drive back to our new HOME TOWN then continued on over to where we have a small cottage in a different community. Stopped in at the ANTIQUE MALL to look around for fun. I did purchase a $6 small Demitasse Blue Willow Tea cup and saucer. Charmed. Silly me... did not noticed it was OCCUPIED JAPAN until I was HOME unwrapping my purchase. Got a super buy. One cup with two saucers.
I eye balled some antique china. I just might have to go back and purchase what I eyeballed. Tempting.
We ordered out some Mexican Food for supper. Ate at the Cottage before vacuuming and wiping down trim.
Hand delivered Halloween candy to daughter and family. All the kids/grands have their Harvest treats. We will not be handing out candy to the tricksters this year. Made the decision to not do this due to covid. We'll just light some candles, watch a movie and be at peace. I think we have made the decision to not attend a November family Thanksgiving dinner this year. The month of November will be spent cleaning the house and decorating for Christmas. Playing Christmas music and writing out cards.
WEDNESDAY was a productive day for me. It was chilly, but there was no snow, ice, wind or rain. Able to drive over to RETIREMENT COTTAGE and work some on the clean-up preparing for making an exercise room so I can walk on the treadmill on a regular basis inside away from the elements.
More vacuuming and wiping down the walls and trim. Making headway. A few days ago a huge sectional sofa was taken apart and relocated to a different room. This was a work out for two old people to do. We did it!!!
The area where the treadmill is going to sit is now ready for the big shuffle. Preparing for an exercise space has taken thought and now muscle. Sweat and time. The treadmill has to come out of storage and be maneuvered to its new spot. This will take some doing as it is a extremely heavy piece of equipment.
Hubby is arranging for the muscle power. The space it's going to go in is clean and ready for the equipment. Praise the LORD and thank you, Honey. I will be walking on a schedule come the first part of November.
My exercise bicycle needs cleaned and transported over to the cottage as well. This will be easier to move than the treadmill for sure.
I will have a radio and stereo to listen to music as I walk. Hopefully a small tv will be located with rabbit ears to where I can watch some tv at the cottage later. Sometime this WINTER the small cottage bathroom will have a remake.
REMODELING THE COTTAGE BATHROOM: Tearing out the old fixtures in the bathroom, removing the old melamine wall board, laying a new floor (possibly tile), replacing the fixtures with different ones. We have already rearranged the plumbing spots where the new fixtures will go. It will be an old fashioned bathroom when we get completely finished remodeling the room.
An old clawfoot tub that we bought umpteen years ago waits to be placed in the bathroom. What is in there at the present is an old oversized Jacuzzi tub in the wrong spot under a window. The tub will be taken out and the clawfoot tub will run along the side wall instead of under the window. The toilet will be removed from behind the door and relocated across the room. Where the toilet is now, a pedestal sink will replace it and the door will be reworked to where it swings out of the room inside of into the room so it won't be hitting the new sink.
Then after I exercise I can bathe and freshen up before returning HOME. I have hopes that by next Spring the bathroom will be completed.
MAIN HOUSE KITCHEN: I continue working on organizing the KITCHEN in the main house. Today I hope to make more progress on it. The Pantry is up and going. The countertops aren't. I have to deal with the vintage BOOPIE GLASS as well. The glasses will carry over into November because there are so many to deal with. With all that aside, I will hopefully have the rest of the Kitchen looking good.
NEW TV ROOM: We figured out how to get our recliners upstairs into the new TV room. Two recliners are up there as of today!!! This is a thrill for me as I have waited a year. A YEAR. It does my heart good to have this taken place. Hallelujah and a half.
DAILY CHORES: Laundry will be running this afternoon. Paperwork will be worked on. Bills written out ready to go for the month of NOVEMBER. Supper fixed. Clean up. Time out to rest and relax.
SPIRITUAL: I have had TIME to give more thought into simplifying my HOME and how to decorate, downsize some more and clean more efficiently.
I voted. Next week will be interesting as November 3rd arrives. Seriously, I think this election will be very different from others as I do not believe we will know who was elected President for a few days after the 3rd.
I think Gasoline prices will shoot up in price and some shenanigans happen involving rioting. Food supplies run short this Winter. A Winter like I have never seen due to who is elected.
Even if President Trump is re-elected, I believe there will be things he does to draw us closer to a communistic country. With the debt he has, I believe he will do what he can to be excused from the debt. He's like that. Over 400 MILLION dollars he was released from paying which means many he owed money to he did not honor his debt and he left them holding the bag. Not a hero to me. Dishonesty has a price that goes with it.
Coming due soon is $1BILLION of personal debt for President Trump. How he gets out of this will be interesting. Very interesting.
That's a wrap for today,
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