November Challenge Day 14

Today’s challenge is to tell you about my average day. Well, weekdays and weekend days are different.  During the week I usually get up with Dennis about 5:15 in the morning and let Chloe outside and then after he leaves we go back to bed for an hour or two. Then I get up and get dressed and take Chloe for her walk to the dog park. We come home and I do whatever housekeeping needs done around the RV. After that I check blogs and spend time working on whatever project I currently have going.  

Chloe and I usually take a couple of more walks during the day and I talk to Dennis at noon every day. Piper will usually call in the middle of the afternoon for a 30 minutes to an hour or so, for my art and writing lessons.  By then it’s time to get dinner started and take Chloe for another walk. After dinner we usually watch a video or read. Usually I will knit or crochet.

On Thursday nights we have Bible study. We have had Bible study on Thursday nights at our house for the last 40+ years. We have had pretty much the same group of people ever since we moved to Spokane 27 years ago. They have become very good friends. We have been meeting via zoom since April. We had hoped to be able to have our annual Christmas party and potluck this year to celebrate being done with the virus, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.

And that is my normal day. Of course sometimes things change with doctors appointments or errands, although I don’t have many of those anymore. With the virus, like most of you, I don’t go out much.  Most nights I don’t go to bed until 11:00 or midnight.  I have had trouble sleeping for the last several years.

I have a few more decoration photos for you. This candle on the left was a gift from Teresa a few Christmases ago and the one on the right is one I’ve had for a while. The candles were lit, but it was too light and you can’t see them glowing.  I’ll try to remember to take a nighttime photo soon. Nita gave me that pretty little lantern in the middle. It has a battery operated candle in it.  They sit on top of our printer. In an RV you have to put things wherever you can! 😍

A few more snowman live behind the stovetop. On the left is a salt and pepper shaker set and the picture is actually a card that I framed.  My mind has just gone blank but I think it was Debbie who is Araignee on my sidebar who made the card. If I’m wrong, somebody let me know down in the comments.  I apologize, I have such a horrible memory.  The backsplash is a peel and stick vinyl that I put up last fall. It was plain wallpaper and I was afraid of grease spatters or spaghetti sauce or something getting on it. This just wipes clean and it adds a bit of color too.

We had a very quiet but busy day today. We talked to a realtor about a house back home but it turned out to be something that we are not interested in. Then we both took a long walk with Chloe. I’m trying to get at least 45 minutes of walking in every day.  The bloodwork came back from my physical and my cholesterol numbers were not good. Last year they were perfectly fine, but this year they were pretty bad. I don’t know what has changed except I am less active and it’s been a stressful year. So I’m working to get them down.

Then we took the truck through the car wash. It’s touchless so we didn’t have to be near anyone, we just stayed in the truck and rode that little track through! We got diesel fuel and headed home. I made homemade burritos. They were really good and hit the spot. Did you know beans and lentils are good for lowering your cholesterol? I didn’t. Ha!

I’m working on in knitting a pair of boot toppers for my rain boots. The tops really hurt my legs when I walk because they are made of a very stiff vinyl like material. Especially when it’s cold. We are supposed to have a lot of rain over the next week and I’ll have to walk Chloe during the day. I thought knitting a pair of toppers to go over the top where they hit my legs might help. I’ll take a picture for you tomorrow when it’s light out.

Take care and I will hopefully be back tomorrow. Please stay safe and well, all of you.

I can’t remember if I shared this verse with you before, but it was my mothers favorite verse in the Bible. I thought we all could use a reminder, with the everything that is happening around us. 

Blessings and love.

Betsy