6:22 AM-Saturday in Day to day life from a woman that turned 60 in Oct 2014 and who lives on a farm and Retired on January 2, 2016. I plan to do more sewing, work outside in the yard and just enjoy my retirement.

Been up for a while. Not too early though but long enough to know it is raining outside and the radio station that I listen to 1st thing in the AMs went off the air for some unknown reason. I like to listen to the local news and weather but I know it is raining and it is above freezing so I guess I know all I need to know about the weather. heh

You can’t tell I had Christmas decorations up inside or outside. Everything is put up even the big nativity scene fixtures that go outside made it to the attic this year for storage. They didn’t last year. My new tree was so much easier to take down than my old one. 3 sections, the limbs fold up, put back in the box and you’re done. Love that!! Took all the outside lights down, timers, extension cords and connectors and stored them in a bin on a shelf in the garage. That way I can get to them next year if I choose to without climbing up in the attic. I didn’t purge the ornaments like I thought I was going to cause I never know how carried away I’m going to get with decorating. I still have several boxes of new lights so didn’t shop for the clearance lights this year again. I’m so relieved that everything is not only down but put away until next year. The attic was chilly but not as cold as I expected. That is good when you’re climbing up and down those steps.
I did leave the beautiful red wreath that my best friend made and sent to me up. I have it above the fish tank and it looks festive, but will be perfect to stay until spring. I have room for it in the big bin in the garage when the time is right but want it to admire for a bit longer. I have it where I can look at it from my recliner. ;)

The garland that Owen put on my tree this year shed a lot of glitter and other pieces of themselves so I vacuumed the LR extra then swept the kitchen and hallway. I will vacuum my bedroom and my bathroom today and since my sister in law posted a little video for a dish carrier I may even try that today. However, I would really like to get all my photos and documents transferred either to a disk or send to myself in emails today. I “thought” I had burned all of them to a disk but it didn’t work. The desktop computer is pretty old and I hardly even turn it on anymore but I really would like to be able to get that stuff off of it. When I do I’m going to do a swipe of everything, get into the inside of it and try to do a little maintenance on the fan motor. Since I’m not gifted at this task, I best save everything I want cause I may not even be able to get it to come back on when I get done pifering with it. Hope not but one never knows.

I had already gone to bed last night when the house phone rang. It was my dear friend of many years from work and her dad passed away on New Year’s evening. She is an only child, never married, and until she had to put him in the nursing home, she lived with her dad. When she called last night she seemed to be at peace with his passing. He hadn’t been doing well since October and she spent many hours at the nursing home with him. Work allowed her to come in when she could and if she couldn’t so be it. I will say our boss is good about supporting us when it comes to our families. I just hope she doesn’t become a 24/7 work addict now that she doesn’t have her dad to take care of every day. It would be easy to just submerge yourself into a work place since she has no one to go home to. His service is Monday afternoon and I will be there. I may call her later this afternoon just to check on her and see how she’s doing. She made the arrangements yesterday evening and now it is wait for the service. Blah that is horrible.

Owen will spend part of the day today with me. Not sure how long, but I “thought” this may be a kid free Saturday since Dude didn’t ask me to watch their kids. Not to be. Just one isn’t bad as long as he isn’t whiney. He can get “little” on me and I hate that. It must work on his mom though as there would be no reason to continue with the “baby acting” if it didn’t. Only child, single mom, dirt bag dad part of the time. God Bless him I’d probably be “baby acting” at times too.

Since I can’t think of anything else I want to right now, that is a good sign it is time to quit writing. Take care, stay warm or cool depending on where you live and God Bless