These and that of daily life

Back home from our road trip for a month now and not much to report. 

Yes, it is rare that we have a breakfast like that, but we were given eggs from William and Ben's hens and had brought them home. That is always special. But nobody really to play "the silly game" with. We did sent William photos of it though.

Helping Sarah out ... and Owen. He had a huge bag fill of coins from his birthday. Banks don't have coin counting machines any more. Could we ...? The bank gave us those paper rolls. What else do grandparents have to do?

Oh yes. We believe in immunizations. October 28. Flu and covid shot!

Sarah used to do Papa's hair but the poor girl is so busy with her family and working full time. She is always willing but we hate to ask. Got our own tools and #4. I actually had fun doing it. Made my husband happy.

November 4 was election day and there was not school. We helped out with the kids (picking the twins up from a baseball camp) and when we brought them to there house Stella was happy to see Papa. It is such a cute photo.

This year we had a really lovely autumn. Blue skies and sunshine and beautiful colorful leaves. Our camellias were blooming too for an incredibly long time. 

Our community has a nice selection of trees in all different autumn colors. You can see a bit when I took a photo of the little Jesus figure we found on the parking lot when we took our turn for the Meals-on-wheels delivery. 

And other things keep us busy. Our church has a once a month wine club outing. November we went to the New Kent Winery.

I was leading the church ladies (ECW) in a craft day to make items for a bazaar we had signed up for. It was quite successful. And fun!

And of course there are doctors appointments. Another routine visit for James to the dermatologist but yeah (!) he got another "clear" report. But I loved seeing this at the reception. The sign said "Enhanced Patient Care" (with a large bowl of halloween candy in front of it). I didn't read the fine print!

And the season has started! Shopping!

Chocolate Elf on the Shelf!

What kind of Advent calendar is this? 12 days?

Hot Sauce

Oh yes. And here is more. I do not like shopping ... except for food because it is easy for me to make decisions for that. 

But we had to shop for a dishwasher. We heard noice which was not supposed to be there. And we figured that it was the original from when the house was built in 2006. Do we bother to get it repaired? Do we get a new one? We got a new one. 

We were lucky that our plumber had time to install it. He is good. And we were told by the salesperson in the shop not to trust the delivery men with this job. I had to take this photo of Mike the Plumber. 

This generally sounds all ok but unfortunately I also have to report that my dear husband was in terrible pain, probably coming from his spine and running down his left leg all the way to his foot. He had seen Ortho doctors and had PT sessions for quite a while but they didn't seem to help and may be even make it worse. Hard to tell. We were supposed to travel starting November 17 on a wonderful trip we had so looked forward to. We decided to cancel it and concentrate on finding a doctor to figure this out. 

We are over the initial feeling sorry for ourselves and having to do all the cancellations and dealing with reembursements etc. It was the right decision and as my mother always used to say: "Wer weiß wofũr es gut ist?" (You never know what it is good for). 

Of course there are the little things you see the greatness of our God in. 

Here some photos from our garden ... taken today! Pictures taken of the 2 autumn/winter camellias earlier in this blog. They actually started in the beginning of October and are still going strong. Our 3 winter/spring camellias are loaded with fat buds. Something to look forward to.

Still some roses blooming.

And my Christmas cactus who starts to bloom whenever in the year I remember to water it.