Fascinating. How many do you know?

This could really be a great game but I don’t think it’s my style.

OYB!

Always great to have Ashley time!

Everly enjoys climbing on the rocks by the Walmart gas station.

Metro Diner for breakfast.

We saw a dead fox on the way home. We stopped for closer inspection. Sad and gross.

Deposited checks. We had a major donation that really helped us.

While we were getting gas, I showed Everly how someone had stolen an ATM machine. I’ve heard about people doing this, but had never seen evidence of it.

Walmart has good prices on gas. It’s actually a Murphy gas station. I’m a member there. I insert my number and it tracks the gallons I get. After x amount of gallons you qualify for a .10 price reduction for that fill up. Kathy and I both get gas there. I also like that there are hardly any people there. I used to always go to QT, but that place is PACKED with people. Plus, with the Chic Fil A on that corner, the traffic is whack.

Colors!

Checked the fluid levels. Usually that means oil and wiper fluids.

Beautiful sky.

Everly made me some tiny play dough owls.

Español!

Everly likes to help me clean the birdbaths.

We checked out my collection of carnivorous plants. I have them outside in a protective plastic box. They need the light and temperature changes to have a proper dormant season.

I found a penny today that had seen better days.

I love Penelope’s art. She has such a vibrant style.

I enjoy hanging out with the grandgirls so much,

We ate at the Buford Highway Farmers market.

I get several texts, emails and direct mail about wanting to buy my house every week. That’s a good sign that our property is valuable.

Helped the kids at the mission.

Always more words and clarification of those words!

Gorgeous clouds.

True!

Dali is one of my favorites!

So many people think like this.

Funny!

OYB!

New work week starts! I’m still feeling sick, but at least my back turned out to not be all that bad. Amen.

Love my girls!

I have to admit, I like being able to drive to Global Mall when it’s light.

Saw a big red-tailed haw this morning.

Studied Spanish.

Everly and I had a nice nap after breakfast. Neither of us are feeling all that great.

I got the new bag of bird seed in the container.

We picked up Penelope at the bus. We had a fun lunch at Taco Veloz.

They ate great.

Helped the kids with their homework.

Beautiful sunset.

Mas palabras.

Harry!

It’s nearly Ashley’s birthday! Woot! Her birthday card from my Mom.

Went to the office to pick up checks. One really big one! PTL!

Ordered more checks for my personal account.

Reset the clock for my weather station.

Uploaded and released Verbal Surgery -895- “Hand Sight.”

So good.

Downloaded the newest edition of Verbal Surgery onto my Mac.

Good news is that my cold is better. Bad news is I tweaked my back this morning. Oh, well.

This QANON/Evangelical mix is really bizarre to me.

Dali is one of my favorites.

Español!

Had a great talk with my Mom this morning.

OYB!

I just got more Ylang Ylang was melts.

Gorgeous weather, although I was inside almost all day long. Rest is the best cure.

Thai food today.

Harry.

Siempre nuevas palabras.

Funny.

I recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery called, “Badjectives.”

Beauty.

Shots from God of War.

I heard this a lot today.

I picked up my groceries that I ordered this morning. Pick up is still WAY better than spending the time doing it myself.

I liked this from the Art of Noticing.

Beautiful moon!

I slept ok last night, but still feeling under the weather. I rested all day.

EE Cummings’ credo.

Love this.

Who knew?

Still learning.

This!

Reminded me of this.

Just a reminder.

I thought this was interesting, but the best stuff was behind a pay wall. Figures.

Indeed.

Español!

OYB!

Spent time looking for Kathy’s winter clothes. They were in storage downstairs, just wasn’t sure where.

Watered my garden.

Enjoying playing God of War. One of the most beautiful and creative video games ever.

Although I’m feeling better than I did yesterday, I’m still not up to speed.

This is good news.

Interesting!

Did some research on our photo hosting site.

Studied Spanish last night and this morning.

Power went out at our house for about two hours.

Cable was down as well.

OYB!

Reminder from FBA.

I updated my Mac to Monterey today. They all seem pretty much the same to me.

Released Verbal Surgery -894- “Sure Cure.”

Make yourself feel great!

OYB!

Español!

All my girls! Kathy got off to hang out with us. I was glad about it because I’m still not feeling well. Penelope had the day off because the county canceled school to celebrate the Braves winning the World Series.

IHOP this morning.

Cold and windy today.

We went on Safari to Stone Mountain and visited Campsite 1.

We go up the ranger road.

It was cloudy all day long. Sunflower!

We’ve marked the rock on CS1. It had held up really well. Scratched it out again.

Always something beautiful to see.

We were only about a third of the way up the mountain.

The girls saw a big buck go right by them!

Tiny beauty.

I love the colors of the rock.

They should put all those idiots in jail.

All in all we walked about a mile. I only turned Runkeeper on after we’d been at the top for a while.

I came home and went to sleep for about four hours. Didn’t sleep well last night. Too stopped up. Got a headache now. Glad I’ve got some rest days coming up. Amen.

Crazy, right?

Funny.

Classic “Europe Weather” today.

Español!

It was drizzling. Everly was in the car. Ashley is always so beautiful!

OYB!

I wasn’t feeling great this morning. Had a sore throat, headache and while driving to pick up Everly, I felt like I was going to puke. That’s never zesty. Ate breakfast and felt a little better. Everly was tired so we took a nap when we got home. That helped.

I untangled her hair and put it into braids.

Trimmed her bangs.

Trimmed her nails which was really hard because the last time I did them she kept pulling her hands away and I cut one a little too close. Hard to trim the nails of a bucking bronco. I got it done. Then painted them and let the fans dry them out.

I thought they turned out looking good. I liked the red which was her choice.

Went by my office to check the mail and my ficus tree.

I got a water tester for the soil to see when I need to water it again. The soil kept feeling moist to me so I didn’t water. It felt moist because it WAS moist according to the meter. Going on three weeks without watering. Ficus in particular doing like over watering.

I’ve been going through bags of winter clothes and taking out the ones that no longer fit. Like this one.

Part of the median wall at Azalea was broken last night.

Helped the kids at the mission. We finished nearly all of the homework yesterday.

Harry.

Deposited checks on the way home.

We are the World Champions of Baseball! (At least in the USA!) Go, Braves!

I’m glad my grandgirls have had Covid. It seems the best protection for them.

OYB!

Incredible dawn clouds!

Love my girls!

Español! I stayed up and studied Spanish last night. I’m in a league of thirty new people every week in Duolingo. Everyone is pretty advanced. If you’re in the bottom ten people you get demoted in the league. Basically, you earn XP by completing lessons with high accuracy. I’m in the Diamond League, which is the highest. I must admit, it does motivate me to work harder and longer, knowing I’m always on the Leader Board.

Picked up the newsletters at the office.

I worked with Penelope on her sight words. I’d make long sentences for her to read. She did great. Practice is always helpful! Seems like it’s easier to remember the words in context.

I realized that if I wanted to get the letters in the mail today, I needed to get the kids to help me. So they stuffed envelopes while we folded.

Made my deadline and got the letters in the mail stream by 4:45 PM.

Helped the kids with their homework.

Cold day.

I released Verbal Surgery -893- “Purple Cupcake.”

Get over the difficulties that life throws you faster!

Wow.

True dat.

IKR?

Nice window view.

Interesting.

OYB!

All my girls!

Español.

Zoo Atlanta!

You have to know your tag number in order to pay your parking spot.

The Zoo was great today. Fun having Kathy with us.

We discovered the new elephant enclosures today. They look fantastic.

Love the trees!

They’re growing!

Great lighting.

Fun.

Pumpkin carving deluxe.

Funny.

Beauty.

Really fun time with perfect weather and not too many people. We stayed about an hour and fifteen minutes. Which is about right for standing and walking.

Stopped by the church to drop off Ashley’s newsletter.

Español. I spent extra time this evening studying.

I knew Diwali (which is a major Hindu festival, kind of like Christmas for them) is Thursday. I didn’t expect there to be big fireworks displays with it.

And then in the Halloween section Day of the Dead cookies. I love the ATL.

I had a fun group of kids for the Candy Throw at the mission after we did homework.

Gassed up the car before coming home. Checked fluids.

Good one.

Seems like a lot.

I always found this Monty Python bit hilarious.

I liked these ideas from Eric Barker’s newsletter.

Español.

OYB!

Uno dia mas.

Went to the bank to deposit checks.

Went over to the neighbor of my Treasurer’s house today to pick up the packet from Paychex. Not sure why they keep sending it to the wrong address, we changed it to come to me instead.

I was thinking about the Jewish calendar today. I knew it was based on the Lunar Cycle, but wasn’t sure about other influences.

Put the stamps I got yesterday onto the envelopes. Now all I’m missing is Ashley’s page which may be there at the church already.

I had a good lunch with Jesse today. We went to Metro Cafe, then a couple of hours later we saw Dune at NCG.

It was so good. It’s definitely my favorite sci-fi book.

Don’t want those! Only about three other people in the place beside us. We went at 3:00 PM.

We will have both girls tomorrow. Always a blessing. K said she wanted to go to the zoo. We will probably do that.

The Zoo and the Stone Mountain memberships have both really been worth the money this year. Everly and I go out there fairly regularly.