CHANGES

Things they are a changing for me and Mark. He is no longer a sales manager, after having been one for the last thirty five years or so. He is now a warehouse manager. This change of position with the same company is causing a lot of scheduling adjustments at our house. Mark no longer has to head out of town on Sunday afternoon. Instead, he can enjoy his weekend at home working on one of his many projects. He doesn't have to travel out of town and stay in different motels and eat in lots of different restaurants. No, he gets to come home every evening and get a wonderful home cooked meal. He can then relax for a while before turning in for the night. It is wonderful having him home. I only hope I can get used to preparing a hot meal every night and sharing access to the upstairs TV during the evenings.

I have been unable to blog for a while due to some technical difficulties that my daughter helped sort out. I am happy to say that, even though November is now here, the weather today is absolutely beautiful. The doggies and I enjoyed a couple walks and it could not have been nicer for walking. Yesterday when we walked, I started out by taking the two little ones. I was surprised about a quarter mile up the road by the two bigger ones, as they ambled up beside us. Seems they had made a break for it and gone over the wall. That first walk was abruptly pulled to a stop as I gathered up Riff and pleaded with Pudge to please follow us back home. Seems Pudge has managed to realize that he can jump the rock wall and Riff is more than willing to join him in his great escape. This morning, Pudge and Riff had to be enclosed on the deck while I walked Pepper and Roy. Mark is going to see about building the rock wall a little higher.

The UK football game on Saturday night was really pleasant. Mark and I visited some of his work friends in one area and then sister Pam and I visited some RV friends in their lot. Tailgating is a great opportunity to see friends and family. I'm sure it's no surprise that UK lost another SEC game and also lost the services of our starting quarterback, Morgan Newton. Even though we continued to struggle to score touchdowns, the back up quarterback, Maxwell Smith, did an impressive job after he was called in to take over. We're all waiting to see who will be the starting quarterback for our next game this coming Saturday afternoon with Ole Miss. I just hope whoever trots out on the field for the first snap isn't booed. I don't believe there is any place for booing in college sports.

We had a family gathering last Sunday. We celebrated Christina and Mark's birthdays. We had the party out at our house and we'll again do Thanksgiving here as well. I am so thankful for my neighbor, Jan. As I was trying to figure out how to get three roasting chickens into the oven at one time, I realized that I would not have time nor space to roast the chickens and bake the hashbrown casserole and baked beans. Jan was so wonderful to just let me bring them on over where they baked for an hour at her house while my oven roasted chickens. I can't over state how nice it is to really get to know your neighbors, you never know when you'll need them or their oven.

I've got several loads of laundry drying on the line and I believe that it's time to check on the current load in the washing machine, so I'm gonna close this for now. I'm looking forward to Dancing With The Stars tonight and still celebrating the latest win of the Cincinnati Bengals. I hope you're having a good start to November. Where did October go? No trick or treaters even came up to our house, so I've got lots of bags of pretzels to donate to some good causes. Stay safe and take care, luv, Susan