Off to the Post Office

 Six boxes are too many to leave on the front steps for our mailman to pick up... so we will be headed off to the PO later today!

I also need to go to Michael's to get a few things to finish up that last order.

Bob filled the bird feeders for the first time this winter and soon needed to refill them... looks like I will have to bring out the Birds of North America book to refresh my mind!

Our daughter will drop by to pick up our "bags" for our senior adoptees.. She will take them to Phoenix Family's office so that they can be delivered !!

 

More needed Price Chopper things

The online bear show is ending tomorrow. I have only order to finish so it is time to work on the Christmas "foodie" items! So off to Price Chopper we  went with my list of "needed" items... plus the weekend always means the end of the three day sale!

I came home with Italian pasta I found in a clearance cart, 8 cans of Progressive soup, candy canes, 3 lbs of butter ( on sale), a pair of socks with the rubber dots ( no slip) for our senior adoptee  and  regular list items!!  The store was busy and our cashier was delighted to have Bob be her bagger!! Bob came home with the first huge bag of bird seed for this winter!!

On our way home I told Bob some of the recipes I was planning to make. I think I may turn him into my assistant...

spent the rest of the day puttering around 

 Tried a new recipe for dinner... went over well

Another day of computer watching

All the sold bears and a cat have been boxed up... some already gone with the mailman.. More boxes to go tomorrow! There are three left.. will they be bought? The  show ends Monday evening, so it's possible.

A buyer liked my felt gingerbread ornaments but wasn't quick enough to purchase either box and so she emailed me with an order for six. Of all the felt I had... I only had red, white and rose colored left. She was ok with two of each...Now my felt supply is gone!

 

 

Sitting by the computer

 Here I sit at the computer waiting for the online bear show to open...

I spent some of the time adding more of my retiring bear maker friend's fabric to etsy. I am surrounded by the smell of moth balls ( I have been storing fabric in totes with mothballs). 

I am looking forward to giving my friend a check for the recent fabric sales !!

Looks like the mailman will have boxes to pick up on Monday !! Hooray!! 

 Bob and I have started bringing down the Christmas stuff totes... Tigger ( the orange cat) was delighted to get into the attic area and thought climbing up to the landing overlooking the lobby was great fun. I had visions of him falling since he's not as agile as he used to be. He got down when I turned off the landing lights!! 

Another one of those days

 I had an appointment to get my haircut today and Bob had errands to run .. since we have only one car, we combined things He dropped me off at the "salon"  and went off for his errands, He went to Habitat for Humanity, the gas station, the PO and then walked into the salon just as the stylist finished. Perfect timing.

We went to Aldi to pick up a few things plus a GC for one of our senior adoptees...

Then it was home where I found another sale at etsy. I've boxed that up , did the paperwork and it will be out to the mailman tomorrow!

BTW ..it was 15 F in the car!! It did get somewhat warmer... it's now 26F.

 

Crazy up and down temps

It looks like the snow will have a chance to melt today. It better ,since the temps drop again tomorrow... but then back up. So far no precipitation is forecast!!

Went for my annual eye exam yesterday at Discover only to find that it doesn't accept our Cigna Medicare. So I did a self-pay.. not too bad with the discount Discover applied. I have a year to figure out what do do. But the good part was nothing had changed and the glaucoma figures are stable and no problem. I don't even need new glasses.

Nothing like trying to get home with dilated eyes  and super sun! Luckily Bob had gone with me and drove!! Finally, by bedtime my eyes were back to normal.

Spent today just piddling around... finished up a few things... the online bear show starts Friday morning!! 

BUT SURPRISE... went to turn off the computer and get ready for bed when I found I had sold another 3 pieces of mohair on etsy for my retired 94 year old bear making friend! I boxed them up.. did the etsy paperwork and added a click and ship label for the PO. Hurray!!

turn off the computer and head for bed!! 

Winter

 On a bathroom visit this morning around 6 , there was no snow to be seen. At 7.30 everything had a light covering and it was still snowing. My daughters both had problems... one only made it 7 miles in 45 minutes and so decided to go home and would work from home. The other's 45 minute trip to her school was over an hour. Would her school district do an early closing? Around noon it was decided yes.. but the buses had such problems that the elementary schools still had students waiting for an extra hour.

Other school districts decided earlier and went virtual instead of trying to open physically.

Currently we have about 4 inches of snow... we went nowhere! But I did have "work" to do ... boxing up another piece of mohair from my etsy store and a bear from my online site!!

Daughter talked her way home  ( in the car) ... I think it helps when the way home is bad for one reason or another. We can all celebrate when she pulls into her driveway!

After dinner we turned on the fireplace again and settled into a night of streaming ending with an episode of "Great British Baking Show"

The snowplows haven't hit us yet (?) ... Bob is waiting till tomorrow to take out the trash bin ( will the trash men come?)  I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. What will things be like ? Will I have to cancel??