I think I'll let the pictures talk tonight

Enjoy the fall color in the back yard.

Nov. 4

The day started with me going to vote. I had about a 30 minute wait to get in but at least the line wasn't out the door like I saw at other places later in the day.
Jay went at 9:30.
I came home and did 20 minutes work on the sewing room and then went to my water aerobics class. I am now pretty sure that something in that water is making my ezcema worse. I got in and started itching!
Came home and just had time to eat before I took Jay to the dentist. He was really relaxed with the drugs this time!! VBG While he was in the chair I went to the dollar store and good will.
Then home and Jay went to sleep off the the drugs and I try to keep quiet while he does that.
This evening was movie night. (we'll hear all about the election for days so why worry about it tonight??LOL) We watched Narnia - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's the second time I have seen it and I still enjoyed it. I want to watch part of the second disc with all the extra features before I take it back to the library.
And now we are watching Big Break 10. And I am getting my post in for today!

What I did today

and it isn't exciting! LOL
I did more on getting Christmas ready for Dec. And that is about it.
So guess I'll talk about yesterday and getting all the windows washed. Now I know, that's not exciting either but it sure is nice to have clean windows. And I once again learned the validity of my father's opinion that if you are going to do a job, do it with the tools that make it easy. They may cost you when you get them for the first job but after that they are there when you need them! After watching the pro, I went and bought one of the mico cloths to put the water on with and a squeegie to take it off. If you have both of those, it really doesn't take that long, nor is it that hard to wash windowns. Also used a water, vingar and Dawn mixture. Don't think I will every again use Windex and a paper towel. Lot less streakes with the squeegie!

I'm a day late

Ok, I had not hear about NaBloPoMo until I read it in Sarah's new update. which by the way I love that post. Raley is so proud of herself at the end. Almost like a performance, Started on cue and ended with a bang!! LOL (sound like anyone else we know Jenna????)
So here I am one day late on starting but that's ok. We'll see if I have enough news to get on here every day.
Today we are working on cleaning the last of the windows.
And as of 10:30 (feels like 11:30 for some reason VBG) I have all the Fout and Holtry Christmas sorted out AND WRAPPED!! yep, ready for their trees so I know where it is and what it is and it doesn't get packed or end up in the wrong box.
I am also listening to Christmas CD's that I got out of the library but I think I may have to get into the four boxes of CDs in the garage and find my own! It's time to work on gifts in the sewing room and that needs music!
Ok, enough for today.

A quiet weekend

Sunday made 34 years of happy marriage for Jay and I! And we did NOTHING special to celebrate it! LOL I got up feeling all stuffed up and achey. So I went back to bed and slept till 1:30. Then it was watch sports and Amazing Race.
Today Jay had another dentist appointment and that means drugs. He slept most of the afternoon after we got home. I however, did some Goodwill Christmas shopping and am quite pleased with my finds. One is for me. A china bank that is blue and white and looks like a wind mill. The bottom says "hand painted Delft." Thought it should come home with me for $1.99!!

Pear butter 1

Ok, here's one of the activities I got done this week. It took longer then I had thought it would because of going north but I'm sure happy with the finished product. Dick, the neighbor next door, gave me the pears so other then buying three container for the freezer this was free pear butter and you can't find that to buy anyway!!
Jenna, you inspired me.



Here they are. the pears from Dick's over achieving tree. I only got about a peck but it was enough to get them ready! My hand didn't like that much time with the knife!

Here they all are, cut and seeds out ready to be cooked down.

I only had about an inch of water when I started. All the rest of the juice is from the pears.

I had help with the sieving. We kept alternating bowls and in the next post you'll see just how much we got.
I also added some sugar, clove, all spice, nutmeg to the mix so it is a spiced butter.

Pear butter 2

Here is the crock pot, full of the pulp, ready to cook down. Little did I know just how long that was going to take!

Out of everything in the pot when we started cooking the pears, this is all that was left when we got it all sieved. Pretty good idea of why they went to the work of doing all this if you really got that much out of the fruit!

Here it is starting to cookdown. We started this on Wens. and let it cook all night. It didn't get very far so we ended up putting it in the fridge while we went north for Poppa D's birthday. Came home and let it cook all night on high.

And this is what we got! That's it. that's all the pear butter but boy is it good. the little one is in the fridge just to be eaten adn the other two are in the freezer for later!