MORNING ROLL CALL! ! ! OCTOBER -DECEMBER 2020 CLOSED

Good Morning!

A new week. A new day. New possibilities and new discoveries.

Advance with eyes wide open!  You don't want to miss the good stuff!  

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Good Monday morning to everyone on the Front Porch! It was a great weekend for football here in Wisconsin with both the Green Bay Packers  and the University of Wisconsin winning their games. 

It was a cold weekend whether wise with rain and high winds again. This week we will have temps in the low 40's and warming to the upper 50's by Thursday with little chance of rain. 

Mary was not happy with the rainy weather over the weekend as she did not get her day walks in. She is all ready to head out after lunch. 

Time for another mug of coffee.  Be safe and be well!

It is still quite beautiful here in NW Ga,  sunny days and cool nights.   Looks like we picked our last batch of peppers for the season yesterday.  Nice long growing season this year. 

Last week was marred by an unforeseen trip to the dentist for a broken bonding on a veneer.  Should not complain,  it did not hurt  but it was expensive.   Trying to recover from vet expenses for doggie eyes.   She managed to get a superficial scratch to other eye.  Cortisone shot give to keep from itching and looks like she is on the mend.

♫ All the leaves are brown, and the sky is blue [right now it is].

I've been for a walk [with the furkids] on a windy day. ♫

(Apologies to the Mamas & Papas.)

Nippy, windy day here in VA.  At least the wind is blowing most of the leaves off my deck.  Other day, I was driving down the road leaving a veritable trail of blowing leaves from the back of my pick-up.  🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁  (Surprised I didn't get stopped for littering or obscuring vision of following vehicles. 😉)

Been decorating the town/shopping centers for Christmas.  Not that many centers this year and nothing new; just those already locked in on budgets/contracts.  Small crew.  All outside work.  Overnight when everything is closed.  Rarely in proximity with one another.  Yet all of us wearing masks.  Some concern on whether we will be able to do teardown on schedule depending on where we're at in this pandemic and what is considered essential business, etc.  But, everything all sparkly and Christmas-y for what businesses remain open.

Good Thursday morning to everyone on the Front Porch! We are deeper into hibernation here in Madison, Wisconsin in some areas and yet in some areas like my hometown I hear that mask wearing is a very low percentage of the people. Our Hospital Covid-19 areas are full in our three hospitals here in Madison. Our state legislators are challenging the Governor's power to extend the mask wearing mandate in the State Supreme Court.  My thoughts go back to the stage play I saw " Stop the World  I want to get off " in the 1960's. 

The Drinking parties on the States colleges and university campuses in early September created hot spots around the state. The UW Madison's football team had to forfeit a couple of games because of a Covid-19 outbreak among the teams players and coaches. 

So much for being the biggest whiner on the Front Porch this morning! Please be safe and be well!

Good morning, Peepers!

It's been a topsy turvy weather week here.  Early last week we were having temps in the 60s and  low 70s.  But those temps were fast fleeting.  Afterwards, we surfed between the 30s, 40s, and 50s.  So when we went back up to the high 60s on Friday, I went out and mowed my backyard--mowing all of the leaves I could reach and raking the rest.  It took me about two hours to get that job done an by the time I finished, it was dark.  I intended to attack the front yard with the same fervor the next day--Saturday.  But when my eyes opened that morning, my body met me with anger and resistance.  It said "No more today!"  And so all I could do was literally roll out of bed to the bathroom, then to the kitchen for a bottled water and two Aleve pain relievers and then back to bed.  I slept and slept and my body moaned even while in sleep.  Maybe next year, I will hire a yard service to do that job like you @catwoman500.  I do so enjoy working in the yard.  But maybe the fall clean-up would be best left to the professionals.😊

Late Saturday night it rained and rained.  And then Sunday it snowed all day long, but when I looked out this morning I was happy to see barely a dusting of snow on the grass and the rooftops.  Ahhhh, the wonders on fall in the Mitten!

Enjoy the day, Everyone!  It's that time....

Lydia

Good Monday morning to everyone on the Front Porch! It was not a good weekend for football here in Wisconsin with both the Green Bay Packers  and the University of Wisconsin both lost their games. 

It was a cold weekend weather wise with temperatures in the upper 30's and windy again. This week we will have temps in the low 40's and warming to the upper 40's later in the week. We have a good chance of rain/snow tonight. 

@DaveMcK , at least Packers are hanging on to a fairly solid 1st place in the NFC North and only one team with better record in the entire NFC (Saints).

@catwoman500  can take solace the Eagles still maintain 1st in the East by ½ point with their 3 wins and 1 tie.  Football Team, Cowboys, Giants tied for 2nd (or last) with 3 wins.  Guess what I'm doing (watching) on Thanksgiving? 🤣

Most of the leaves are down and the wind is 'sweeping the floors' into various concentrated piles.  Although some of those 'piles' seem to be concentrated in the kids 'watering holes' like that old hubcap under the old oak tree (can't imagine why 😹).  Time to go skim.

Good Tuesday morning to everyone on the Front Porch! This Tuesday morning will usher in our first measurable snow fall of up to three inches! So what better way to great the morning than with a batch of fresh waffles, some sausage patties and a pot of chocolate turtle coffee to round out our morning breakfast.

Good Wednesday morning to everyone on the Front Porch! We are facing an abnormal way of celebrating a traditional American Holiday in this abnormal 2020. Mary and I will be having our Thanksgiving dinner in our Retirement center apartment which will be delivered to our door around Noon. None of our family will be having dinner as a group. Our oldest daughter Michelle will be fixing  a dinner for them self and taking part of the dinner to her sister-in-law's apartment to leave there. The other daughters will be at there homes. 

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2020 occurs on Thursday, November 26. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

Thanksgiving at Plymouth

In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing a village at Plymouth.

Our Thanksgiving dinner table a few years ago at the house!