Good Afternoon, Flowers! Man, did the wind ever blow last night! We dropped 20+ degrees in a matter of hours and the wind suddenly picked up. We had tornadoes touch down around the state but I haven't heard if there was much damage. Our big trees finally had dropped their leaves this past week; DH was going to mulch 'n bag them yesterday but it misted all day long so he didn't get it done. We had hip high leaves in front of the garage door when we got home last night. Mr. Wind blew alot of them across the street into a yard belonging to an older man who had already raked his yard clean for the season. I felt bad but I can't control Mother Nature! They are both outside mowing leaves this afternoon.
Today was 'pledge Sunday' at church; the bell choir played while the congration came to the front to drop their pledge cards into a doll house sized wooden church. There weren't alot of people there but I know some of the snow birds have flown south for the winter.
Speaking of flying . . . Jason's in-laws have invited us to go to Maui with them in February! They have a time-share but rented another unit thinking one or all of their own kids might go again. The kids all seem to be short on funds (and long on toddlers!) so we were offered the space. I need to get more $$ details but it sure sounds good to me!
Maggie -- Our new jail will be in an existing building that the city already owns and is in a commercial zone with a low income housing development across the street. Needless to say, there has been alot of hoopla because they don't want to live next to a jail. There were other commercial buildings and businesses there when the houses were being built 20+ years ago. DH is on the Board of Adjustments and he had to do the tie breaking vote. There are 2 families we know from when we first moved to town and were in Welcome Wagon card clubs together. Now neither one of them will speak to us because of DH's vote! Anyhow, the new jail will have room for juveniles as well as adult men and women so we won't have to pay neighboring counties to house them. The majority of them are Mexicans. Thanks for the bread info -- my grandma was the bread maker but I only remember her making white bread. I'm so sorry that I didn't take baking, crocheting, and tatting lessons from her! She did teach me to play Rummy though!
I hope everyone has a relaxing day! I'm off to the landfill with DH and a pickup full of leaves!
Jean -- from Iowa!