Another quiet day at home. I baked two pumpkin pies this morning and we ran them into town this afternoon. I saw Ellexia for a hot minute when I dropped off their pie but I was good and resisted hugging her. I left Jason’s pie on his front deck.
I have a ham baking in the over along with some potatoes for dinner. I’ll fix some green beans to go with it and dinner will be ready. Have steaks thawing out for tomorrow night’s dinner. That was easy!
Have worked a bit on getting Christmas cards ready to go out. Still need to do a bunch more but at least they are started. Then I need to get serious and decide what to get the grandkids and others for presents. I am not a good shopper and gift buyer. It is almost painful for me to shop for someone else unless they tell me what they want. Not a task I enjoy.
Laid down for a while this afternoon but didn’t go to sleep. I didn’t sleep very well last night. The wind was in a hurry and blowing hard most of the night. Things felt restless outside and inside me. The wind finally slowed down this afternoon and the clouds disappeared and the sun came out. There is a beautiful sunset going on right now. I love this time of the evening. There is a full 360 glow around the rim of the earth tonight – beautiful!
We are going to Zoom with Jim’s sons tomorrow afternoon. We haven’t had a chance to meet Thomas’s partner so it will be fun to get to know her a bit better. Both sons will be on the call so it will be a fun hour or so. May ask my kids if they want to Zoom sometime over the weekend. Not at all the same as being together but you got to do what you got to do to get by these days.
The stories coming out of the hospitals are scary. Most hospitals are running out of beds and space and staff. I wished there was something I could do to show the staff how much I appreciate their work and effort.
I called my insurance agent and priced adding Jim’s cars to my policy. He will save several hundred dollars by switching to my plan. It is nice to have that task done as well as his medical insurance decided on and forms submitted. Jim doesn’t like tending to things like that and tended to ignore them. I learned sometime ago how important it is to keep those things up to date and to review them annually.
My insurance agent is an EMT as a side job. We had an interesting conversation about COVID and what she is seeing. She has been working lots of extra hours transferring patients to bigger hospitals. She told me her daughter’s boyfriend, who was a very healthy 40 year old, died from COVID just three days after his diagnosis. It is like Russian Roulette when you get it as you never know how bad it is going to be.
Still feeling a bit sad about tomorrow and not having the kids over for dinner. Then I read the news and hear about the hospital situation and know we made the right decision. It still hurts though.
Tomorrow morning I am going to bake Jim a pie. Not sure if he wants pumpkin or pecan. I had a bit of pumpkin filling left over so I baked that in a dish so I might make him a pecan pie tomorrow. I will miss having a piece of pecan pie tomorrow morning. My mother would come over and help me fix Thanksgiving dinner. We would take a break mid-morning and have a piece of pie. It always tastes better before you eat a big meal than afterwards. I miss that tradition with her.
Wonder how many people will be out shopping tomorrow? You couldn’t pay me to go to a store over the weekend. I really wonder what the case count will be like two weeks from today. The highway was really busy when we went to town today to drop off the pies.
Feeling grateful for all that I have today. My life is so rich in so many ways. I have great friends and family and a beautiful place on the prairie to stay safe. Sometime in the distant future we will be able to gather again and enjoy face-to-face time.
Grateful for the smell of pumpkin pies baking this morning, grateful for the smell of the ham baking now, and grateful for the beautiful sunset tonight – Mother Nature knows how to paint the sky.