Beautiful day in the neighborhood

It is 70 degrees at 4:30 and we are almost halfway through November. The weather has just been wonderful for the last few weeks.

I was so please to hear from Cheryl Ann today. Sometimes, the best you can do is just move on. Going back is never an option.

We got through the audits at work and things are gentler at work this week. We should not have any more audits at all until at least August of next year. That is good because I am really tired of audits and a lot of other things at work. On December 5 I will have been working for this company 22 years, this time. I still have vacation days and sick days to take before then. I am taking the week of Thanksgiving off for vacation and I think I am going to call in sick Friday. I can carry my sick days over, but Patsy says you should never count on these things. They change the rules at will. Until last year, I could arrange a 'sick' day, but they tightened up on the rules and now they say you have to actually be sick, so when I get sick of working I call in a sick day. If I don't do that, the money goes to uncle don.

Time to go fix supper now. We are having soup. I hope I can find the can opener.

Camera

Missy says she needs a new camera. I thought I would recommend the Cannon that I had, Cannon PowerShot SX 20 that I paid $500 for a year ago but it sells for $350 at Walmart now. Then, when I went to look at walmart.com to see the price, I found this

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Fujifilm-Z800-EXR-Red/14977212

Fujiifilm Z800 for $169. I got Jr. a Fujiifilm camera a little over a year ago and it has been a very good camera. This one is a 15X zoom, and I think it is a very good buy. If you mainly want to take pictures of people like your kids, I don't think you could beat this camera.

If you buy at walmart, save your box and everything that comes with the camera and you have 30 days to take it back even if the only reason is that you do not really like the camera. No one else gives that kind of money back offer.

Winter is coming

It is still not up to freezing at 9 am here, but it is supposed to warm up into the 60's. Should be a nice day.

Time changes tonight. Next week I will get to sleep an hour later in the morning. That is good as it gets harder and harder to get up at 4 am. I think that is a sign I am getting old.

Company's Here

Billy got here just before noon. He is up at Clayton's. They went to see Patsy this afternoon. I called Gilbert and I think he is coming over to see him.

It is nice to have male company. With female company you have to clean before they arrive. With male company no house cleaning is necessary.

This is a picture taken from my deck this am looking off down above the pond on my side of the road. The fog is rising off the creek. It lasted about 5 minutes and then was gone. It was 30 degrees this am, but was really nice today.



This was taken from my deck this evening looking off towards JR Snow's. The golden tree is in Norton's pasture and the barn in the distance is the Molder barn.

I did not have to go to work today. The audit ended Thursday and I already had 40 hours this week. We did good. Scored 95. Won't have to do this again for a year. I am so glad it is over.

I still have vacation days to take before my hire date of December 5. I am taking the whole week of Thanksgiving off.

These pictures were taken with my new camera. It has a 12x zoom while the one I had was 20x. This one is a Cannon Powershot SX130 IS. I am pleased with it.

Thrid Cousins

Jim Reed's grandson and Betty Renfroe's granddaughter are third cousins according to Legacy Family Tree, my genealogy program that is so much better than Family Tree Maker that Betty uses.

Their common ancestors are Melton and Gertrude Maples Powell (their great-great-grandparents) and they are both 4 generations down from this couple.

There is no 'removed' as they are both 4 generations from the common ancestor. You get 'removed' when the number of generations back to the common ancestor is not the same for each individual. Betty and Jim's grandson are first cousins twice removed because it is 2 generations back from Betty to her grandfather vs Reed's 4 generations. My program told the that also.

Happy Halloween

Rotert this morning buried in the garden dirt.



He loves playing with his trucks in the dirt.



Baking a dirt cake.





Putting on the finishing touches.

My camera came with an image editing program. Actually, my last camera had the same program but I never tried to use the program. I gave it a spin this morning and found it easily adds text to a image.

We took the kids home around 10 am. They have a room now and a small place to play outside that their mother can see from the front door. It looked to be better than where they were. I would never live in Eureka.

I am cooking an Aunt Betty Crocker angel food cake, meat loaf and oven potatoes. I love meat loaf but George is not too fond of it. He did not really get to vote. He will probably be glad to have something besides spaghetti. He just does not like meat loaf very much. He hates spaghetti.

It had been a beautiful day. Got up to 75 and it now at 73 at 4:30.