Frosty Morning

November 7th - Sunday - Overcast 23 degrees low

We awoke early this morning, as is Lou's habit of turning up the heat and then coming back to bed until the house warms up, he came back to bed to tell me he wanted me to see something and how glad I am, as it was a fairy wonderland outside. Jack Frost had once again turned our property into a winter wonderland.

This has been a week of a more relaxed life style, Lou has found out it is taking a little time to recover from his recent hospitalization, so we have taken this time to enjoy our life together. As our friends, Lew and Joanne told us, we have enjoyed coffee breaks more frequently.

We have been amazed at the different birds we have seen at our feeders and for some reason we have an abundance of House Finches, along with the regular birds that we see on a daily basis. Yesterday when I feed the birds, I brought a feeder closer to the kitchen window, and now can stand at the sink and watch the birds as I do my duties that surround the kitchen sink. The feeder had visitors by the time I got back into the house.

Last evening we drove to Big Flats to a dinner sponsored by the EAA, was a good time for us to renew acquaintances from the flying world. The speaker was Earl Luce, and he has recently hand built a Buttercup plane and he told his whole story of the aircraft and how he drew all of his

own plans .Built the plane and successfully flew it to Oshkosh and received an award for doing so. He now has other men building the same plane with his hand drawn plans. All in all it was an enjoyable evening.

Lou spent one whole day shelling the Kentucky Wonder beans that we grew and dried. While he was doing that I set to job of baking Ginger-Bread Boys. I put a whole in the top of each and when they finish drying I will use homespun fabric to tie them on our Christmas tree. I am planning on an old fashioned Christmas tree, we want to string cranberries, and use some other dried fruits.

Our hobby room is full of items drying and awaiting the next step.

This week promises to be a busy week, Lou has two doctor's appointments, we have square dancing and a demo at The Green Home, and we are supposed to have two very nice days and we are in hopes we can get the motor home out and get it packed up while it is warm and store everything in his house until we take delivery of the new RV. We were going to transfer everything when we pick the new one up, but think this will be more orderly and perhaps warmer.

How about that Penn State Game, pretty thrilling!!!