Thursday, November 5, 2026

Good morning! I didn’t really have a blog topic today so I thought I would just be chatty as if we are sharing a cup of coffee together. If you don’t drink coffee – why? Lol.

Tom is off this week! I made him a list and called it “TTO” – Tom’s Time Off. He humored me with my list. It is a silly list, but I love a list!

On Tuesday I took down the Halloween specific decor and got out my very small Thanksgiving decor stash. I hang the little paintings on my mirror that has hooks in the hallway, and the Fat Pants sign makes me laugh and reminds me of the Friends episode. The little salt and pepper shakers were a gift from my MIL, and I can’t remember where I got the turkey.

I can’t guarantee I won’t put Christmas stuff up before Thanksgiving, but it felt right just to do this for now.

I did pretty well on my Fall List!

So, look at the strip of clean grass below; that is our property.The neighbor’s EX left the strip full of leaves on Saturday when he could have very well just included them since it’s their tree. Tom blew leaves Tuesday for only about 20 minutes and cleaned off our strip, the rest of our front yard and our back yard. We had rain and wind, so the leaves were all a mess again after Saturday, but I was very happy to snap this photo to show you all what I talked about in Hello Monday.

I really just laugh about it!

Tuesday was gorgeous! We took the boat out and had a really nice few hours!

EO taps his paw on Tom when he needs a hug. He needs lots of hugs.

We saw cows taking a dip in the river! Can you see the little black blobs in the middle of the photo?

We beached our boat not too close to the cows and could hear them mooing. Eddie got to go on shore to potty. I made us sandwiches and we ate lunch while beached.

How are you doing with early darkness? I’m ok with it since I wind down after dinner anyway but it’s so dang early.

My sister Molly had some fun with AI and made us 70s sisters and 80s sisters!

So funny!

This week I decided to cook dinner only twice since I knew we were going out for my birthday. I decided on Molly’s lasagna and it turned out so delish! I plan to make chicken enchiladas for the other meal. Those both will provide leftovers.

Mason is in a graduate program at a small college in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He got a job at a tea house, as well, and Morgan Freeman recently dined there while Mason was working. He is filming a movie between there and Montana.

Mason sent a photo of his graduate cohort dining at an Indian restaurant:

And he sent this photo of his Halloween costume – Sherlock Holmes:

I loved seeing some photos! He decided he wanted to come home for Thanksgiving and then he has his other half of a ticket to get him home at the end of the semester. He will be home for about 6 days for Thanksgiving and for almost a month at Christmas, I think. He has not bought his return ticket in January yet. I miss him so much, but I am also happy that he’s happy. He has to fly either through Dallas, Denver, or Chicago it seems, to get home from Santa Fe.

My body still wants it to be an hour later. I can’t believe how confused I’ve been!

What would you tell me today? My coffee is gone now but I can’t wait to read your comments!

Amy