That date is a big one here... it's the date when I picked Bob up at a Halloween get together my freshman year at Syracuse.... yup 63 years ago!!
He was wearing a dark aqua shirt and the baggiest tan corduroy pants! Me? I was wearing a madras plaid shirt waist dress... oh well.
Next February will be our 60 wedding anniversary...
Harper loves to chew and to get out... and combines the two. First she chews on the bottoms of the cedar vertical boards ( which go to the ground) and when she has chewed enough she digs under the fence.
Bob thinks he may have a solution..... a horizontal board screwed into the bottoms of the vertical boards going from post to post. If Harper can't chew she won't be able to dig!!
Fingers crossed.
This last time she got out she wandered down the road with a line of traffic behind her!
So far this day has been a gray one with mentions of rain for the next few days by local weather people.
Gray means I can't take bear pictures ( for my online bear shows)... my flash does nasty things to the bears colors so I prefer natural light. I have to find other things to do.
Did... finished a new bear and made a big pot of chicken vegetable soup for dinner and leftovers.
Bob received a text from our daughter... Harper ( her large hound type dog) had managed to escape again. Would he find out where and do a repair? I went with him.. to keep him company etc. Harper had dug under the cedar fence gate and chewed the wood to boot. Bob screw new boards across the chewed ones and placed heavy concrete blocks too. There was more he did... but one would have to look at the fence!
Saturday we are going to see what else might need repairing...
There are days when I'm not sure what day of the week it is. Our days are pretty much the same..but today had some different things. Our grand daughter called ... just in case.. her apartment smelled of smoke and since the complex has a history of fires, she called the firemen. She did check all over and the phone call was if she needed help getting things ( including her cats) out.
The firemen came... they checked all over and found the smell was coming from the HVAC's fan. They turned it off and told her to call maintenance and not to turn it on ! They admired her artwork while looking around! She's an artist and art history major!!
After she did what they told her she called us back again to report and to tell us she didn't need our help !
Dinner turned to to be a good one... salmon with home made cranberry sauce, mashed butternut squash and scalloped potatoes...left over raw veggies and dip too!
The numbers of protesters is amazing.. They are saying there were 7,000,000 marchers ( my daughter and her family were part of that!)
Kansas City's official tally is 18,000.... the biggest protest numbers ever!
Aside from this..
Today is much cooler. It is only 58 early this afternoon. I went to the grocery store earlier and was shocked at how cold it was. I wore just a T-shirt... not enough! I wanted to pick up a few things for the new soup recipe I had found... a creamy cauliflower! Plus wanted to pick up a few more things from the 3 day sale. We now have 16 cans of Progresso soup stockpiled. That's an easy peasy dinner with grilled cheese, tuna fish, or egg salad sandwiches and so on!
Finally made cranberry sauce from the berries I had bought the other day. It really turned out well and it is so easy. I think I may buy some more cranberries and freeze them. Currently they are quite cheap.
Green Dirt Farm https://www.greendirtfarm.com/.. about an hour west and north of us... makes wonderful cheeses from their sheep. and hosts chef cooked dinner events.. We had an email from them today saying they had decided to take the wool they had sheared from their sheep and have it processed and turned into wool pillows and duvets. Oh so tempting... They also have a store in Weston and one in KC.
