Happy Halloween

 Happy Halloween everyone. Nothing creepy here today just cute stuff. I brought Duke back wearing a Halloween themed bandana 

A neighbors house years ago

A stack of pumpkins a couple years ago in my front yard

And we'll end it with pumpkin Gibbs

Just plain rude

Again with the rude parking people. I looked out the one day and saw this vehicle hauling a trailor parked across 4 spaces. That left one empty space in front of our office

 When I looked out no one was in the vehicle and I have no idea where they went. He came back later but I didn't see where he came from. He sat there on his phone for quite a while then a woman pulled up and parked in the last available spot in front of the office. She got out and they talked for quite some time before they finally left.

The other rude one I didn't get pictures of. I watched as one of the homeless sign holders stook next to the street. She had a bottle of milk that she was opening. As she pulled the wrapper off the bottle top she threw the garbage on the ground. The next morning when I got to work her empty bottle was sitting on the ground where she had been standing.

Laugh

 I already told you about my touch of Vertigo. Here's a few pics from when I was waiting. Not great but I liked the sign  she had up

Here's a closer blurry look at it.

They had a little bit of fall decorations up

On that post Pam left a comment that made me laugh. She said:

I have a dear friend that I used to tell "one of these days I will hit you and you will fall apart all at once." I started to fall apart in my late 20s. She waited later. She is mid 70s now and all is going at once. It's really unfair, we work so hard to get to this point in life where we can enjoy more things but you can't cause you can't stay well or you have to keep bending to pick us other part and usually then you fart

Drawings year 3 week 17

 

Shopping with Amanda

 Saturday 10/17 Amanda and I went to Hobby Lobby and then to the last Farmers Market of the year in our small town.

The Farmers Market wasn't very impressive. We got there when they first opened and most people were just starting to set up. There wasn't much to see and the Amish people with their donuts weren't even open yet.

Hobby Lobby was a success for Amanda though. This was my backseat after we got done in there.

And this was all the stuff she bought. She's got lots more room for decorations now that she has a whole house. 

I only bought one pack of paper, no picture. I did take a couple pictures in the lobby though

After Hobby Lobby we stopped at Burger King for a quick lunch

Signs of fall

 It's showing more and more color all the time. It won't be long before it's all gone and we're living in our winter look. 

These aren't the best pictures but they do show some of the fall color

I should have gotten some more when the sun was shining and the colors were really quite spectacular.

Chocolate covered

 Amanda and her friend stopped at one of the Amish stores not far from here. I asked if she got anything and she said she bought some chocolate covered espresso beans and some chocolate covered cranberries. 

Imagine my surprise when she brought me some of each

Both are very good but the chocolate covered cranberries were my favorites.

Monday Monday

 It started out as a good Monday. It was Columbus day and I had the day off which gave me a 3 day weekend. 

Then I ended up breaking my favorite mug. I went to set it on the counter and it was too close to the edge

I had an audiology appointment that day too. I would have preferred to stay in my pajamas all day but my appointment was at 9:30

Thankfully it was quick and then I made a stop at Walmart for a few things I needed then headed back home.

Drawings year 3 week 16

Lets continue with the alphabet

D is for dog

E is for elephant

F is for fish

G is for grapes

H is for house

I is for igloo

and J is for Jacko lantern 

 Next time I'll start with the letter K

Amazon gift

 I was sitting here the one day and saw an Amazon delivery person walk up to my porch and leave a packages. I figured it was delivered to the wrong address because I hadn't ordered anything. To my surprise it had my name and address on it. This was inside

The box itself was intriguing enough but inside....

A tote bag that you can color yourself. 

Thank you so much sweet blog friend Grace.

Dressing for Halloween

 Amanda's house is all decked out for Halloween. Her and her husband have joined the inflatables craze. She said he added another one since this picture.

A look back

 I went back in my archives to look at what I had for October photos. All of these were taken in 2016. I found a few that were edited so I thought I would share them here. This one was taken next to a auto garage. The trees at the edge of the property were so pretty.

This was taken on a walk. I remember using this one for my Facebook header for a while

Finally a picture of Gibbs enjoying the beauty of fall through the living room window

No pics just stuff

 As if the current health issues haven't been enough. I've now added a touch of vertigo to the mix. I woke up at 2am Sunday morning and went to the bathroom. I got incredibly dizzy and things were spinning. I tried to go back to bed but then felt like I was going to throw up. I spent the next hour in the bathroom.

Finally got back to bed and had to lay on my back with a couple pillows. Fell back asleep till 6:30. I spent all day on the couch. I'm ok if I don't move my head real fast or bend over. But I'm so incredibly wore out. 

I'm writing this Sunday night and hoping that I feel better in the morning. I have a loan to close at work and don't know what I'll do if I can't make it. I'm the only one in the office on Monday. 

Right now though I'm going to finish writing my posts for the week and then go back to the couch until it's time to go to bed.

Wildlife

 One Saturday morning I let Gibbs out and sat down with my computer and cup of coffee. He started he usual barking craze which always makes me crazy. I went to the door to bring him in before the neighbors got annoyed. That's when I realized what he was barking at. 

Three deer were running through my back yard. They stopped in the empty lot next to my house and turned around to check us out for a minute. Of course my phone was sitting inside and I knew I wouldn't have time to go get it.

Later that morning I took a picture of the empty lot 

Then I asked AI to put the 3 deer in it for me.

They weren't really that close. They were closer to the road but you get the idea. I was amazed that they were running through town. In all the years I've lived here I have never spotted them in town. 

Men at work

 That's rather questionable because I only saw one of them measure something on the ground which took all of a couple minutes. Then the group stood around for a quite some time talking

The funny thing is that they will talk about how women sit around gabbing but these guys could definitely give any woman a run for her money in the gabbing deptartment

I never did see where they eventually went. Apparently I was actually working while their little gab session ended.

Again with the food

 I told you before that I do food prep on the weekends. My latest was to bake some blueberry pancakes in an 8x8 pan

I used a pancake mix and threw in some blueberries. I can't remember how long I baked it for but I know it took longer than what I had originally set it for. I cut this into 4 pieces. I took one to work and microwaved it for 45 seconds. The other 3 I put into freezer bags for another day. I probably could have cut this into smaller pieces because a 1/4 of this was a lot and I was stuffed by the time I finished it.

A surprise from Amanda

 So I was sitting at home on a weekend evening. I'm trying to think of what I'm going to make myself for dinner. It may be peanut butter and jelly because that's pretty much all I have the ambition for.

Then in walks Amanda and she says she brought me something. 

Chili on the right and homemade apple crisp on the left.

Well the peanut butter and jelly was definitely put on the back burner and this was dinner. I was tempted to eat the apple crisp before the chili but I showed a bit on constraint.

Such a thoughtful daughter. Thanks Amanda.

just stuff

 I'm scraping bottom of the barrel with these but I'm going with them anyway.

This is definitely the time of year for road work. I do the night drop at the bank and then head to I-79 and take that to the I-90 exit. There is construction on both but the work is being done in the evenings and at least the part I travel has any lane closings taken down when I go through.

I-79 is a different story. I get on and it's usually ok. I even can make it to my exit most times without a problem. Some days however, the traffic gets really backed up and even at a stand still.

You can't tell from this picture how many cars are ahead of me but in this one you can see the string of cars behind me in the side view mirror

And on a different note, the sea gulls have been dropping feathers again. 

Yes those are water drops on that feather. We had rain. Can't tell from the picture and it wasn't raining that hard but it was coming down enough that I needed the windshield wipers.