Window watching

 We have gotten really warm... currently 84 degrees. Wind advisory in effect. Tigger got really involved with the wind noise so Bob opened the window in our office so Tigger  could watch the leaves and branches and listen to the noise!

The early "no excuse" voting sites are still having 2-4 hour lines... We have driven by several times ... saw all the people and headed back home. We will take another look tomorrow... and take along my seated walker . I can't stand that long!! And some bottled water.

Hamfest in Raytown

Bob and I sat all morning at a church in Raytown.  A local ham group was holding its hamfest... ham equipment both old and new, antennas and so on for sale. Bob had been sorting through at his stuff and we brought a table's worth of things he didn't want any more.

He has been a ham since 1958... while he was still in high school. His interest led him to become an electrical engineer!

I kept him company when he wasn't talking to other hams - both young and old! A girl, about 9, went home with a free crystal radio kit! A poor father or maybe a grandfather has a teaching opportunity!

Our table was just about empty  when we went home!! Cash in Bob's pocket!! Plus another decluttering !!

Trying again

 We tried again to vote today... this time we went around 2 hoping there would be less people on line. But no, there were more - my estimate. Bob says less. Who knows which of us is right  but too many to want to stand and wait.

As we were driving to the Fleming Town Hall to vote an emergency vehicle passed us.. lights on etc. I jokingly said that maybe someone on line had fainted. Bob said  he has thought the same thing. As we got close to the voting place... there was the emergency vehicle... than a fire truck showed up with its lights on too! Everybody was looking ( but not leaving their spot online) and as things were brought out of the ambulance.  BTW the temp was 81... hard to stand on line in that heat for a LONG time!

We drove further on and turned around. As we headed back home the fire chief's car pulled up next to the ambulance!

Think we may try another voting place next week...probably the Board of Elections place on Independence's Square.. Bob has suggested lunch at one of the restaurants whether or not we vote!!

Meant to post this  yesterday but we had a huge thunderstorm and turned off the computers!

Today my daughter and son-in-law had the day off so they came over to help bring down more stuff in the attic. Lots more empty boxes and things too heavy for Bob to manage on his own. Plus boxes of china from my deceased mother-in-law... things no one really wants but probably shouldn't go to the thrift store. Two floor fans went home with our helpers.. one still in the attic for next summer.

The attic is a lot emptier now...

no excuse voting

 Missouri's "no excuse" early voting started  yesterday ( or the day before lol). Bob and I decided to go to one of the sites this morning around 10 hoping to miss those who were before work voters. The line surrounded the site building... Bob says 100 , I say more. The fields surrounding the building contained LOADS of parked cars.

We decided to try again tomorrow...though Bob doesn't think tomorrow will be any better.

 

 

better...

Today has been better... We went to the gym and did machines, treadmill and laps! Then off  to the Disabled Vets Thrift Store (Red Racks) drop to leave the latest car load!

When we arrived home we discovered, much to our delight, that the trash guys had taken all our stuff! Including a huge box full of more disassembled boxes. More next week! This is part of our de-cluttering!

Our daughter's first graders had a great day... one of them had chosen to have a birthday celebration with her gifted classmates rather than her regular classroom. So there was pizza, gift bags and all sorts of stuff including the parents! Our daughter said she had never had a birthday celebration before... so  she enjoyed it as much as the first graders and the parents!

Bob and I both had a recliner nap after our gym time!!

so far... not a great day

 Woke up this morning and got going on my usual tasks -- empty the dishwasher and settle down to have a cup of coffee and read the paper ... a paper one thrown to the end of the driveway!  Ever since covid , we text each other  and do a check in. The first text ( from my younger daughter) said my grandson-in-law had an accident on the highway on his way to work. He's fine... the car is totaled. Another text from the same daughter said her husband's work had received a bomb threat and it had closed down. His work subcontracts for the federal gov't..

so... made coffee.... and relaxed for a bit.. read the paper

Then off to Aldi's... nothing bad there thank goodness...

Put everything away and organized things for dinner when our daughter called to talk about the accident and what our grand daughter and her husband needed to do.... not too long later and our grand daughter herself called to talk to Grandpa about what she and her husband needed to do.

How did we get to all this...?

Well.. we are both "collectors". Bob collects antique radios, ham radio stuff, trains,slide rules, and so on. I collect antique bears and stuff for "The Glass Dragon"'s bears - accessories, fabric and sewing machines - dolls..

On top of all this, is stuff my kids left behind and stuff that came back when my son died. And then one adds stuff from both parents and grandparents. It seemed like every visit my sister-in-law made included a car trunk full of stuff from her Mother and Father's estate and Bob could never say no.

We seem to be the depository of stuff.  When the kids left we had a large mostly empty house... but stuff came wandering back...

I've started a new "pile" of stuff to go to the thrift store!