Ho Hum

In talking with dd#3 just a little while ago, I came to the realization that I haven't posted anything here in almost a month. So just to reassure my 3 readers that I am still alive and well, let me just give a brief run-through of the past month.

1. Home: Made it home from Salt Lake okay. I stopped in La Grande on the way home, to break up the trip and to do some more research. Sunday night as I was getting ready to organize what I wanted to look for at the Pierce Library at EOU, I changed my mind and decided to look for a few graves instead. My "baby" brother, who would actually have been 7 years older than me had he lived but died at 2 or 3 days old, was buried in the Hillcrest cemetery in La Grande. A great-great uncle & aunt were also buried there. To make a long story short, I discovered that my brother did not have a tombstone. Have talked with a few members of the family about getting one for him, that may be a future event.

2. Work work WORK! The night I left La Grande, I got an email that one (or so I thought) of the real estate files I put online was ready for download. I had a good, fast connection, so downloaded my book that night. Unfortunately, I didn't read the email, just the subject line, or I would have gotten the news before I got home. Instead of doing two Home Source magazines, I was getting to do all FIVE of them. Sigh. So much for personal time. But between the two jobs, I made over $900 in October.

3. Pumpkin Party. This has been an annual tradition since 1995. Our whole family (or as many as will or can come), gathers at dd#2's house, armed with a pumpkin to carve and whatever potluck dish we've been asked to bring. Costumes are optional. Usually the little kids will dress in costumes, sometimes the grown-ups do too. We had this year's event on the 27th. It went pretty well. Two new "additions" to the group this year was dd#4's fiance, and dd#5's boyfriend. The boyfriend hadn't met too many of our extended family yet, so this was a first for them & for him. He's still dating dd#5, so apparently we didn't scare him too badly.

4. Disappearing/reappearing quarter. I volunteer at my local genealogy society library twice a month as a librarian. Yesterday when I got there, my partner, Larry, mentioned that he was off a quarter and would I see if I could find it. I pulled the quarters out of their space in the cash box and counted them. I came up with 15 quarters, which is what he had come up with, but was one short from the previous day's count. He looked in the file box drawer about that time, and there the rascally little quarter was--it had somehow escaped the cash box and was sitting there in the drawer, waiting to be discovered. Six hours later, when we counted the cash again to be sure we balanced (my turn this time), I only counted 15 quarters. I turned to Larry to ask him if he had put that quarter in the section reserved for quarters, and when I turned back to the money, it was sitting in its space, waiting to be discovered. I should have called today's crew to see if they still had problems with this mischevious quarter.

So we are now into November. Halloween is over, except for the leftover candy. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and following that it will be Christmas. Let's see what the rest of the month brings.