Super busy workday… This retirement is not any easier than not being retired… The only differences I’m not getting paid for it yet… I’m working to pair down what I’m doing now all my jobs to make the free time I am craving… That’s it I’m pretty excited about all the new stuff I’m doing.

The most exciting thing today though was carving pumpkins with Finn. After gorging their selves on I halloween orange macaroni and cheese the three of us… Me Diane and Finn carved pumpkins. ‘Diane went for a heart eyed Beauty… I found a variation on the normal to the pumpkin… And Finn found a really scary “scream and “image. We trace them out on the pumpkin chop them out and put on some candles. It was super satisfying !

nite all, nite sam

-me

“This page intentionally left blank”… That’s a phrase you frequently see in very old IBM manuals… It indicates that someone actually intended to insert a blank page. I never understood exactly why anyone would want to do that… Moreover I don’t know why anyone would need to take a blank page to see if it was a blank page…

Anyway… Tuesday October 26, 2021 Was a day that was intentionally left blank… I don’t really recall what happened that day… But I’m hoping it was a good one  🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

crazy busy day. hard keeping track because my ibm calendar no longer syncs with my phone .. yikes !!!

tonight diane and I ran a 3 hour parking advisory council

meeting at town hall. it felt good to be doing our civic duty

nite all, nite sam

-me

we had our first hard frost today.. it’s nearly a month late . it’s the latest date on record for a killing frost . the wold

looked magical and sparkling.

at the same time .. many of the plants would not survive

I went up

to take a walk with my good friend tim . we both needed to be outside

it was good to be out with tim . we both needed it

diane and inworked around the house winterizing the rest of the day. we got a ton don.. cleaned the garage , cut the grass, top

dressed the rita from the painters lift, put up the storm windows , sort of cleaned the garage , cleaned out the dryer vent .. took down the trampoline , cleaned the front entrance way..put up the wood rings

we are now ready for winter !

later that night Momand his wife Judy came over. Mo is writing a history of our house and another schoolhouse which used to be in richmond but no longer exists . it was so fun answering his questions. he showed us pictures of our house that we had never seen

we are gathering up some docs for him no

it will be fun to learn more about these two buildings!

note all, nite sam

-me