It has finally gotten cold; our first hard frost was on Tuesday - no more photos of beautiful orange leaves until next October.
The cold weather continues to make it necessary to cut back/dig out/clean up plants.....as happened to the banana trees with the help of Dad's newest landscaping assistant, Jude. To make sure this was a safe activity, Jude only 'sawed' with the machete, he never 'hacked'with it.
The Impeachment Hearings continued this week - for three whole days, and I pretty much watched the whole shebang. I thought it was fascinating! In my opinion Trump abused his presidential power....but was it impeachable? We'll have to wait and see. People think that the House will indite him but that the Senate will find him not guilty. This photo is of Lt Colonel Alex Vindman and the counsel for the Republicans.
Jessica is experimenting with little pumpkin pies, and we were the beneficiaries of her efforts.
With the cold weather Dad wanted to start the gas fireplace insert, but it wouldn't work!! So frustrating, especially since we had it totally serviced last fall - that $300.00 should last for more than just one season. So Dad went to work and replaced one of two things that may be broken The replacement of the first "thingy" didn't solve the problem. The second "thingy" wasn't in stock at HD, so now we have to wait until it will be delivered by Amazon.
Guess who is going to be Santa Claus at the Ward Christmas Party this year.
I have joined Planet Fitness and have been going there 3-4 times per week. I usually do 30 min on a rowing machine, then 30 minutes on various weight machines and end with 30 minutes on an ARC elliptical. Every day I have sore muscles....so I must be doing something right.
The Stake Christmas Concert will be on December 15th, and the first orchestra rehearsal was today. Five members of our family are in the orchestra.
If the frost on the car window wasn't a sure sign that the cold season was upon us, then surely the retraction of our shade cloth was. Camille was Dad's ladder assistant.
Saturday night we watched the Oregon State vs Washington State football game. It was a GREAT game- which we lost by only one point in the last five minutes-so that was sad. But the action was great and the leading score switched back and forth for the whole game. For both teams, winning this game meant a bowl game. The big game is next week between Oregon and Oregon State. Oregon is the Pac 12 leader and goes to a bowl game regardless of the outcome of the civil war game. But I am militarily optimistic that Oregon State will beat Oregon. The photo is of the OSU quarterback
I have started to take Holland to Nursery because Waren has to go to work and Whitney is the Primary Chorister. Holland DOES NOT want to be separated from her mom or her dad and heartily cries. So, I had to take her out of the nursery and we sat in the foyer on a couch until she cried herself out and fell asleep.
Sunday night we celebrated Gretchen's 8th birthday with a pumpkin pie. Her actual birthday is on Wednesday.
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