November Challenge Day 27

The challenge today is that I’m supposed to tell you something that I look forward to. Oh my, there are so many things I look forward to. I am also trying to enjoy every day in the here and now because I don’t want to wish my life away. 

I look forward to the day when I can walk into a grocery store with no mask on and wander the aisles to my hearts content. The same thing with Hobby Lobby. I’m not a big shopper, but I do miss those two places.  I want to walk up to my best friend and give her a big hug. We always hug when we see each other and we can’t do that anymore.

I can’t help but look forward to Dennis‘s retirement. I think that is our biggest goal now. It could be as early as this coming spring or it could be a year later. We still don’t know. It depends on what happens with the sale of his company.

I look forward to being able to see Mandy and her family whenever we want to visit them. I look forward to living close to Dennis‘s mom so we can be there for her when she needs us. I’m looking forward to being closer to my brother and sister and all of our nieces and nephews. We’ve been so long without family, that I have these grand dreams of what it will be like. Silly me. I know that everyone else has gone on with their lives while we’ve been out here in the west, but I’m still looking forward to being near all of them and I hope that we can fit back in somehow.

Another thing that I look forward to, if this Covid crisis ever ends, is traveling again. I can’t wait to jump on a plane and go visit Alex and Tara and see their home. We want to take our RV and travel around the country. I think it would be wonderful to meet many of you on our travels.

I wonder. What are you looking forward to?

I finished all 25 mini socks!  Jenny has graciously offered to put something in each stocking for me. I gave her some money and she’s going to fill the socks. She didn’t want to take the money, she just wanted to fill the socks,  but I said absolutely not. After all, I asked her to do this. What kind of friend would that make me?  (Here, I’m asking you to do something that will cost you money, but do it anyway).🤔 I’m excited, because I didn’t want to fill them myself. Where is the fun in that? There would be no surprise at all. I have had very few Christmas stockings in my life, so I’m really looking forward to this advent calendar with its little surprises.

I found some tags that I already had, so I numbered them and clipped them onto the top of the socks. I’m planning to crochet a chain and hang the socks on the chain with wooden clothespins.

It was such a beautiful day today. It got up to almost 45°F! We decided it was a great day for a drive, so off we went.  Most of the snow has melted in the valleys but the ski areas have mostly opened up in the mountains.

Here you see a fresh dusting on the top of Mt. Spokane. Sorry about the bridge in the bottom of the photo. By the time I got my camera turned on we were already going under the bridge. I just thought the snow against the blue sky looks beautiful.

We also drove up to where we used to camp at the lake. It’s only 30 minutes from our old house and about 20 minutes from where we are now, but the change in elevation allows there to be about 8 inches of snow on the ground there, as opposed to none here right now.

An update on our friends and Covid. Neal and Jenny both tested negative. Hallelujah! Jeremy, Alicia and the boys are much, much better. Alicia told me this afternoon that she can taste a little bit again and is starting to get her sense of smell back. She said the boys were only sick for about two days and Jeremy was almost 100% today. Covid confuses me. How some people who are healthy and get so very sick with it and others don’t have any symptoms at all and still test positive. Like Jeremy and Alicia and the boys have had fairly mild symptoms, which I’m very thankful for, and are better quickly. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason as to who is affected. In my mind, that’s what’s so scary about it.

I hope you’re all having a good weekend and for those of you that had a big Thanksgiving dinner, you are enjoying the leftovers. Jenny & Neal gave us a care package of turkey earlier today when I gave her the socks and I had a wonderful turkey sandwich for dinner.  They had a lot of turkey left over and said they would never eat it all. Jenny practically begged us to take some!  Yum. Turkey!  We were happy to help.😍

See you again tomorrow!

Blessings and love,

Betsy