Not so cold tonight. It got up warm enough today to turn on the fan . Instead of doing that tho I just dressed cooler.

My movie for today was not spooky. Instead I watched "Breaking The Surface," a story about Greg Louganis the diver. A very good movie.

Hope ya'll have a good night.

By 10:00 p.m it was down to 34F but it's not supposed to get too much colder. And tomorrow!! Well, what they are predicting is close to record highs. Very hard to believe, especially when we are supposed to be socked with snow by Thursday. These weather swings are really hard on an old crock. Not that I am one or anything!

I'm sitting here waiting for JTG to get home. Rather crazy -- he's been gone for 4 months (just 18! my baby!!) and he is coming home briefly, before heading out to wander God knows where this time I know, I know, what can I expect - he has my genes. I was never this brave though!

Anyhow, after two days on the bus he was going directly to the Bob Dylan concert. He and his girlfriend (!) will show up here after that. The waiting is killing me! The suspense, and well, -- I'm nervous! It's almost like waiting for Mark to show up at the door, but this is my own kid, so I shouldn't be so keyed up! LOL!

I don't know what to expect. I know how even a few days of travel can change a person. Four months at 18??? I wonder who he is now.... This is going to be a late and long night

KK, hope you did not have to wait too long and the wait was worth all the anxiety.

He got in at about 10 to twelve. We were all pretty zonked. The kids had spent 34 hours travelling to get here. The joys of Greyhound. I'd been up since 5 a.m. (the clocks changed, but my body didn't) and I didn't get to bed until 1:10 a.m. this morning! I suspect I will be pretty useless today. Going out tonight too, to dinner and a concert

The lad looks fine. He speaks. He smiles. He's grown an little goatee. His face has matured. High cheekbones and all, so he is getting a craggy look.

We'll see how the day goes. Everyone is still sleeping...

Thanks for the good wishes Ann!

SO glad JTG made it home safely.... Have a good time with him, while you can! {P.S. What do you think of the girlfriend? }

kk I'm glad your son is safe and sound at home.

Temps were perfect today can't complain at all. Tonight is a bit chilly tho.

Hope you have a good night all.

Sure am tired tonight it has been a long day. My homemade soup turned out delicious. There's more for tomorrow. It's a beautiful night not cold at all.

Have a good one.

Long day at the polls.I spent about 90 mminutes for myself and then I took my parents. About 100 minutes waiting and then another 20 minutes helping each of them vote seperatly. I did my turn for the cause.

Have a restful night all.

Beautiful night and I have been watching "Romancing The Stone" for the upteenth time. I love the movie. Not much else to do around here. LOL

Hope ya'll have a great night.

Winter storm watch in effect. Sigh. Well, it had to come. Rain turning to sleet, ice pellets and snow over the next 24 hours. Driving is gonna be nasty for awhile, until we all adjust to the conditions and get used to it again for another year.

Still in the 40s at the moment, but the wind is picking up. It IS going to be a cold night of November very shortly.

Another busy day here in suburbia and the Land of Domesticity. I truly don't know how you women who work outside of the home do it. I felt like I was just running all day, and my only outing was to physiotherapy. The rest was "I-got-my-degree-for-THIS???" type of chores. Mind you, the pumpkin was cut up and cooked up, a fresh punkin pie was made and the rest of the pumpkin frozen. There are fresh raisin-chocolate chip cookies, I made dinner, 3 loads of dishes, 3 loads of laundry, reset the anchors on the cover for the patio table, tended to over 60 indoor plants (I really need a greenhouse... stuff...

Anyhow... now turning into a mindless slug for the rest of the evening.

Ah, kk, 60 plants?! If you don't have a greenhouse, then where do those guys live in your house?! I'm impressed!

I am so pitifully proud of myself. I have two indoor plants that I barely have kept alive this year - a bug problem. Although I must say that I am quite proud of those two plants. I've had them for at least 10 years. They are Oxalis (Shamrocks) and I replant them each spring in the flower bed. They go nuts! Anyway, I think my bug problem was cross contamination with soil from my garden. Sigh.

Nighty-nite, kids!

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Originally posted by Marty:
Beautiful night and I have been watching "Romancing The Stone" for the upteenth time. I love the movie. Not much else to do around here. LOL

Hope ya'll have a great night.

Oh Marty I'm so jealous, that is my favorite movie of all time. I too have watched it so many times that I've lost count. I didn't care for the sequels though.

Lisa - I have a white oxalis and a pink one. The white one is struggling at the moment. I think it got over watered before it came in for the winter. The pink one has gotten lanky due to the low light, but is still alive. It us from a plant my maternal grandmother had. We have a lot of "heritage" type plants.

Where are my plants? In front of pretty much every window in the house. I have several 2 tier shelf-stands, and the bay window in our bedroon has a hanging plant, and plant on a table and plants on the floor. Most of the plants are ones that I over-winter and they go outside during our all too brief summer.OThers are tropicals whose names I've long since forgotten. The really silliness are ones in long planters that take up way too much space. I looking at one at the moment that has 30+ amarylis in them.

In this roo, I had one of my summer hanging baskets in here that hasn't snuffed it yet. Bacopia nad petunias. Then the tray of amarylis(amarylisis? amarylii?) and then two pots of some undentified tropical thingy that I married into. In the kitchen: a spider plant, two baskets of plants (one given to my mum when she had a stroke, one given to me after my mum died as a result of a fire -- those baskets mean something to me), 6 violets, 2 more amarylis, a hibiscus, a mixed pot of a geranium and some sort of vine, an English ivy, and a hoya (have no idea how to spell that one. In the dining room there is the the Chinese elm the 7' Norfolk pine, and a coleus. On top of the china cabinet, I have another spider plant and 5 different vines whose names I don't know)

In the front window... well, you get the idea. There's the banana plant, cacti (my Christmas cactus is startinfg to bud by the way ), various geraniums, dieffenbachia, grapefruit tree etc etc Most have stories behind them. Most things around me have stories though, don't they?

Lol, and I have, like TWO plants. They are both "pocketbook" plants...one is really special, even though it's looking pretty scraggily too, and that's because it's older than my oldest daughter! My Mom gave it to me when I was pregnant with her. So, it's over 26 years old! Amazing, as I pretty much kill anything else that comes in the house...

Two plants would be much neater and much saner. I'm a sentimental slob though, and most od the plants are either family-history plants or were gifts. Hard to just throw out for me. I have plants that have been in the family for literally decades. The pink amaryllis came from southern Ontario with my maternal grandmother, and there was a story that she got it from HER grandmother in England. JTG and I planted a seed from our morning grapefruit when he was about 5 or 6, and that's the grapefruit tree now. The "apple blossom" geranium was something my paternal grandmother hand, as well as those luscious tomatoes I've talked about before.

For most of the winter the plants all look pretty sick as they struggle for that thin light. Like I said, I really need a greenhouse! Way too expensive to run in our winters, for a little "farmer" like me