When Things Go...

Boy, November flew by! I was just complaining about October and before I knew it, it was over!  And it never got posted!! But...

Things have been busy around here in October...not that anything important has gotten done (except knitting) but time has flown by.  Today the To Do List has gotten several items checked off:  
   The white Forester came home Saturday (10/19) night looking better than ever...and below budget, too! (Jeff was back in business with the trailer in no time at all! We had picked out a new snow blower and he was able to pick it up...assembled!  And do a test run on Thanksgiving to adjust the deck !) Today (10/22) the windshield was replaced on the Forester by Safelite while it sat in our driveway.  Took about 45 minutes and looks perfect. Now that cost a little more than I had expected but the entire restoration of the Forester was $638.78. Not bad for restoring a 'totaled' car, huh?
   Jeff had another back treatment  yesterday
(11/12)...this one was done by the same doctor but at the clinic in Hartwick Seminary south of Cooperstown.  Seemed to take hours to get there and no time at all to get home! He feels a little sore afterwards but that seems to be from the all the injections (one each for pain killer and steroid) he got. Hopefully, these procedures will work and he'll be pain-free. 
   The funeral home that handled my mother's cremation called just before the end of the month to say that they are able to bury her ashes this fall instead of waiting for spring, so the ashes were placed on top of my father's casket on Saturday(10/26).  I am going to have to wait until Spring to have a stone installed.  It's just too cold to pour concrete. (I had scheduled and paid for a 'Month's Mind' (11/20) for my mom at St Anthony's but when I went there for that mass there was a note on the church door saying mass was cancelled for that day. Wonder why? )
   On the knitting side of my life, I finished a 2nd pair of socks for...ME!  Don't know if I want to do another pair or start a pair for Jeff? Or maybe start Christmas presents?  One of the adult size baseball hats sold over the weekend so maybe I'll do one of those.  And the boy's 50's vintage sweater set in navy and tan sold last week, too, so I could start one of those. There's a skein of pink for another "Pretty in Pink" set sitting by my chair, too, so....
   Seems like more happened in October/November than that! Jeff actually had 2 procedures done on his back...(the 2nd was  done on 11/26 ...and this time I asked some questions before they started and afterwards Jeff came home and watched TV for 2 days with no work. The doctor actually said he could do whatever he could... at waist level...no bending!!...) both were successful, and I worked in the shop 3 times so that meant 5 trips to Cooperstown...enough to last til Spring, I hope!  We have been cutting and stacking wood.  The porch has been stacked...and emptied...3 times, and the wood shed finally got it's 2nd hump (hog panel) but is still not quite full.  It's not that we don't have the wood...there is a lot to be cut but those back procedures...especially the steroid treatments that go with them...slow Jeff down. Hopefully we'll get some more done this week while the temperature's near 40. And maybe even get the plastic on the greenhouse!
   We decided to have ham instead of turkey for Thanksgiving ...I got to cook my first bone-in ham...and Jeff made split-pea soup the next day. Fanny got the ham bone and had a ball!  My cousin Ed came over for dinner and we all watched the dog show...even Fanny who growled and whimpered her opinions of the entries. She actually sat in front of the TV and watched! We were all glad the American Foxhound won Best in Show.(It looks like a big beagle to me!!) 
   Hats have been selling in the shop so I did a couple more yesterday...Downton-inspired vintage ladies' hats.  Hope they sell.  Next week when we make our regular monthly trip to Chanatry's Market in Utica I think a side trip to JoAnn's Fabric for yarn will be in order. I need sock yarn, something nice for a hat/scarf set and who knows what else will catch my eye for Christmas presents! Just as long as I have yarn to keep me busy!! Maybe winter will go as fast as Oct/Nov did??