Beautiful Tuesday!

It's a sunny, bright day here in northern California.  We had some nice rain (finally) yesterday (Halloween) and early this morning.  I think I actually brought it with me yesterday.  I got up and drove up to Ukiah to secure a storage locker before my move there.  I left home right at 9:15, made no stops on the way and got there at 11:20.  Not bad, no traffic, light drizzle part of the way, but a lovely drive.  Got to the storage place and took, I believe, the last storage space available in Ukiah.  Bob, the manager, told me when I commented about there not being any available units at any of the 9 or so storage places, that because of the fires the last 2 years in the Clear Lake area, all the storage units are rented.  I had not thought about that, but was so grateful to have a space.  It's a 5 x 15, which square foot wise was what I wanted, and I only plan on putting my craft boxes in there for now.  Scott drives down here after work every weekend, and when he goes back Monday morning, I can load his car with a few boxes and he can drop them off for me, since he is there every day.  That will work great.

Then once I was done at the storage place, I called Scott and we had lunch at Schat's Bakery (they are located in the Friedman's store).  Great little deli/bakery, scrummy food, reasonable prices.  It rained pretty good while we ate.  After we were done, Scott went to look for a few supplies he needed to take back to work, and I headed out to look at some rental houses.  One out of three was not a good fit, but the other two were nice looking.  This morning, I noticed that one of them is rented and off the rental site.  I know looking at these places now is futile, as nobody will hold it for 2 months until January 1.  I started to drive up to Willits to look at a 4 bedroom for $1,500 (wholly, molly, what a deal), but after about 10 minutes, decided Willits was too far, so around I turned and headed home.  I brought the rain with me.  It always hits in the north bay first, so it came with me.  But I left it in Santa Rosa until I got home.  I took 116 towards Sonoma/Napa, and that was a nice route to take, green hills, farmland, vineyards, not bad traffic.  Then to hwy 29, and home from there.

Got home around 5 hoping to see Aria before she went out trick-or-treating, but I missed them.  She dressed as a princess this year, of course.  Nettie had to work until 6:30, so Aria was at the quad with mom until then, then they went out to a gated community.  Aria filled her pumpkin before it started to rain, so then home they headed.  She was asleep by the time they got back home around 9:30, and off to bed she went.  I hope Mom took pictures.  I bought wax lips (anyone remember those?) from Cost Plus at the beginning of Halloween season, bought one for each of us.  So Sunday I gave them to everyone, and took a pic of Miss Aria.  Told her to roll her eyes, so this is the shot I got.  She doesn't know that she can chew them up after she's used them all she wants, that's the fun of them!

So today I'm doing a few chores around the house, paying the rent, packing a couple more boxes, working on an altered rolodex project (I have a double rolodex with 1000 cards that I will be altering/painting and making beautiful over the next year or so.  I wanted the 3 x 5 cards, but OMGosh are they hard to find.  I finally got some on EBAY, but can you believe the prices?  Ridiculous...I also ordered some new flour sack towels and am embroidering Monday-Sunday patterns on them.  My current flour sack towels are desperately in need of throwing away, but they are just too cute, I can't bear to throw them away.  Once they get so many holes, they are not good to use anymore, so I do need some new towels, and since I am packing away most of my craft supplies for now, I need something to work on in the meantime.  So embroidering new flour sack towels it is.

I can't believe it's already November 1!  My this year has flown by.  I have not accomplished nearly as much as I wanted to, but then I never do, as life gets in the way.  Having to move (not my choice) is a big pain in the butt, and not something that is fun to do just before the holidays, but there it is.  I have enjoyed my retirement, time spent with Aria and Nettie, being available to go to lunch with someone when I want, going to Cabo with Nancy and Joel in February.  I love my life now (well, I always have, but especially now that I don't have to work).  So glad to not have to work anymore, so thankful that God takes care of me daily.  I am truly blessed, so I will end this post with that for now.  Have a blessed day all!