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Hello All,
I know that it has been over a month since I have checked in. I read the board every day, and your posts have kept me from feeling too sorry for myself. We decided to get the new siding on the north wall of the covered patio before Thanksgiving. Our 2nd daughter, Susan, and her husband Terry, came to help us. They have decided to buy the house from us when we are ready to sell in 2 or 3 years. We had the materials delivered, and stacked "out of the way" on the patio with plenty of room to go around them. I lectured Bob about not going out on the patio without turning the light on because I didn't want him to trip over them. We started on it on the 5 of Nov. by tearing off the old siding. They all griped about Bob building things to stay. Then on Friday They put the new siding on. I was just in the way, so I got the bright idea that I would replant all the daylilies that I had dug up. I started by getting a pitcher of water to put on a couple of rosebushes I had planted earlier in the week. As I rounded the corner of the siding, I tripped over a box that Bob had set at the end of the siding. My face hit the edge of the siding and glanced off and hit the concrete floor and knocked me silly. I also fell on my left knee. I had a small but deep cut just to the left of my eye and several scrapes down the left side of my face. When the dust settled, My face was bruised from my temple, across under the eye and down the whole left side of my face and around under my chin. My knee was bruised from down the front of my leg and around to the back of my knee. It was swollen and sore, and by bedtime, my left hand was hurting and swollen. By Thanksgiving, the bruises on my face had faded pretty good, but my knee is still swollen and bruised. My knee only hurt when I touched it, but never when I walked. My daylilies are still in a box on the patio. The most painful of it all was my hand. It hurt when I tried to use it. They finished up the siding on both the north and west side below the windows. It sure looks nice.

We had a nice but quiet Thanksgiving. When I went to bed on Tuesday night, I was really feeling good about being almost ready for turkey day. I only had to mop the floors, and bake my turkey breasts, ham and 2 pumpkin pies. On Wednesday morning, our oldest daughter, Carol called to tell us that her husband, Terry, had died in his sleep sometime during the early morning hours. He hadn't been feeling very well for a few days, and she was planning to take him to the doctor that morning. She doesn't know yet what he died of. He would have been 62 on the 6th. She came for Thanksgiving (Susan, Jimmy's wife brought her and her grand-daughter). We had 29 for Thanksgiving. All 5 of our kids were here. I am really proud of them. Cindy and Jimmy spent most of the day on Wednesday with Carol. They have grown up to be wonderful adults. Terry's memorial service was on Tuesday, Dec 1 in Arlington, TX. I was exhausted when it was all over. I have done absolutely nothing all week.

Now, Christmas is just 3 weeks away. I guess I will get the decorations out tomorrow and go from there.

I am hoping to try to get in here more. We had a gutter put on the south side of Bob's shop building, and installed a 365 gal. rain barrel. A couple of days later, we had a 3 inch rain and the barrel ran over. Now, we want to get a couple more barrels for the house. It started raining again on Thanksgiving night, and we got 4.75 inches . It will be interesting to find out how many plants we lost to the drought. WE have a bumper crop of pecans...probably about 200 pounds or more, and they are still falling.
I still have to do a bit more before I go to bed, so I will close now.

Ann