Yikes! tee.  That's a pretty strong earthquake!  Hope everyone is okay.  I'll have to go watch the Weather Channel.

Wow, that is a scary thing to wake up to, teeitup. 

I like to go to yard sales, not so much the swap meets or flea markets.  I just bought a portable Scunci steam cleaner for $5.00 it looks hardly used and it seems well made.  I have been having fun with it cleaning up the hard to clean areas.  I think my next project with be to clean the exhaust fan by the stove.

Wendy...I like your new avatar.  Baby bear trying to look so big and tough for the fawn.

 

Yikes stusue! We had our first measurable snow a week or two ago, but it didn't last.  I'm glad we haven't had more because we really have a lot of leaves on the trees.  Snow plus lots of leaves usually means power outages.  Not for me because our lines are underground.  Can you close some heat vents in rooms you don't use (or almost close them) so you aren't heating empty space?  I don't have my heat very high, 16 Celsius,but I'm comfortable.

ETA:Oops!  Thast was supposed to be 18C

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Snow already.    Yikes!  What a contrast to the gorgeous weather I'm getting.  Was in the 60's yesterday so husband & I went for a long walk(4 miles and legs are sore today).  Took a jacket with me and halfway through felt like I was melting, so carried the jacket the rest of the way. 

Fall foliage was magnificent this year and seemed later than usual for the peak time.  Usually it is early October and this year was around Halloween.  Mid October we went took a ride to  the mountains and it wasn't quite the peak of colorfulness yet.

stusue...Vents are looking clean as a whistle.  I love using that little steam cleaner.  Fun to use and makes yucky jobs much easier.

I haven't been posting lately 'cause I haven't been playing much.  The last six and a half years have been stressful to say the least, first with my mom and dad and then my oldest son staying with me.  Things have really been rough for him this last 6 months and on top of everything he has been dealing with, he was diagnosed with tongue cancer (smoker) the first of this month.  Between picking him up everyday at 3:30 pm and driving him 30 miles to work (got a job, finally, at Whirlpool-fabrication tech) and picking him up at 3:00 am plus preliminary Dr. visits, have mostly been doing x-stitch in my free time.  One bright note, though, he is living in a Sober Living Home (3 months sober) and I have my peace and quiet at home back .

Another bright spot for me, finally, is I'm leaving early Thursday morning to fly to Maui with 9 friends for a whole week.  I've never been and about a year ago, a friend who is a big Okla. State basketball supporter told us they were playing in a basketball tournament Thanksgiving week in Maui and anyone who wanted to could go.  I knew my parents' probate would be done and this would probably be my only chance to go, so am going to treat myself to one of the items on my bucket list.  So excited I can hardly wait.  Will board my dogs for a week and be back late Thanksgiving aft.  We've got a luau planned and a sunset dinner cruise and I may go to one of the games (they will be playing 3 days) but plan to just soak up the beautiful sun and scenery.  My brother lived in Honolulu for 3 yrs in the 70's for part of his residency in Urology and loved it.  Never got over there but my folks went twice and both my boys took honeymoons there so decided it was momma's turn to have some fun.