The guys worked on the foundation today. The cement truck is coming tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 to pour the foundation. Progress! It will be good to have that done.
The back yard is completely torn up. Kathy said it hurts her heart to look at it. She will have lots to repair next spring.
We went to meet with the funeral home guy today. He knew exactly what we needed done, had the paperwork ready for us and we were in and out of there quickly. He will mail the papers tonight. Hoping we get some sort of confirmation letter from the insurance company in the next month or so. I think that is the last thing I needed to help Kathy take care of for now.
Before we met with the funeral home guy I went to Walmart and got my Covid vaccine and flu shot. For some reason they gave me a Pfizer shot instead of a Moderna. Most of my vaccines have been Moderna. The one other Pfizer shot I got I didn’t have a reaction to. Trusting it will help protect me from a bad case of Covid in the future. We shall see how I feel tomorrow.
Walmart had lots of walk-in people waiting to get shots. I’m grateful I had made an appointment as they took me right back. So far they haven’t billed me anything for them. I have read that Medicare may not cover the Covid vaccine in the future. We shall see if that is true.
I talked to Nicole for over an hour today. She and Geoff had been in Barcelona last week for a work reward trip for Nicole. It was good to catch up with her and hear about the trip. Nicole and I are going to India in November so we discussed that trip too. She is taking care of getting the Visas we need and booking airline tickets and reserving seats. I love to travel with her as she takes care of those details. Nice to be able to let someone else make those decisions for me for a change.
Got another donation for the Love in action project in the mail today. I will need 148 $10 Walmart gift cards by December 12. I have close to 40 of them so far. Crossing my fingers that the rest will come in too. I have funds available if not but it would deplete the funds on hand to fund both the Thanksgiving pizza party and the rest of the gift cards. This little project keeps on going and going.
No plans tomorrow except to watch the cement being poured for the foundation. It will have to cure for the rest of the week before Phil can start building on it. That is when it will really get exciting! Can’t wait to see walls and roof go up.
It was good to see Kathy feeling a bit better today. She managed to go to town this morning and get groceries. She came home wiped out but that is to be expected. She hung in there and went back to town this afternoon to get the life insurance policy thing taken care of. It will take some time for her to completely recover but it is reassuring to know she is on the way.
I’m starting to feel a change in the air, so to speak, around the current national energy. I have a feeling things are really going to get heated over the next three months and then the tide will start to shift. I am having to tune more and more of it out as it feels like distractions more than facts. I read today an article that claimed 25% of what you read these days is made up and not based on facts. I know I have begun to fact check most everything I read regardless of the source and am finding more and more things that appear not to be fact based. Two (or more) realities or just distractions? Not sure.
I rewatched Hidden Figures yesterday. It reminded me how far we have come with race relations but sadden me to think we are going back. Our country has a horrible history in how we treat others that aren’t like us – starting with the origins of this county. Makes me wonder if the collective “we” will ever get it?
Grateful the life insurance policy may have gotten taken care of today, grateful the cement truck is coming tomorrow, and grateful for the privilege of being able to tune out the national “news”.