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Good morning! Like Paula's weather, it is cool and overcast here. If it's going to be overcast, I do hope it rains as it is very dry with no rain these last two weeks. Liz, you would probably be happy to send us some of yours. Peps, I wouldn't worry about not dropping any of the travel weight yet, your body is probably still in shock over what it endured. Sleep, hydration, and your regular routine will get it going in the next few days.

I've had some tea, and read most of the NYT Sunday paper. When I'm totally done with the paper, I think I will make a grocery list for Thursday's dinner party, and for our meals this week. Right now we have a huge pot of chili. DH will be willing to eat it one more day. After that, I will freeze the leftovers, which will be plentiful.

The only other plans are to meet our friends for dinner that went on the NY portion of September's travels. They had some wine shipped from NY, and a we included a couple of bottles and shared the shipping fee. We have one bottle of their wine from a winery that doesn't ship to Minnesota. We offered to bring it home in our checked luggage. So we will have a wine exchange this evening.

Tomorrow will be coffee, thrift shop exploration, and hopefully procurement of items on the shopping list I'm creating today.

Looking forward to the pumpkin themed pictures Liz!

9 and Dine sounds like a lot of fun! I love that you guys are so active and have a great social life. That is the thing I'm really looking forward to in FL, besides the nice weather!

DSD here until Tuesday I think and then DS2 rolls into town for 2 days starting Tuesday. Nice that all the kids are trying to spend time with us before we move south.

Today our buyers are having an open house. If it doesn't go well, they are supposed to release us from our contract. 7 more days to get a solid contract on our house. Yikes!

Our neighbor was talking about how his parents should buy our house. DH just went over there to see if they are serious or not. I know the neighbor could use the help with kid herding. Their two girls play on a traveling volleyball team and are soooooo busy!

Gloomy day today with typical cool Fall temps for WI. Tomorrow we may all go to the pumpkin patch. It is about an hour away and the kids all have good memories of going when they were littles and like to still go as young adults. Caramel apples, fresh baked pies and muffins, petting zoo, corn maze, coffee shop, the whole shebang. Tomorrow's weather is supposed to be more of the same! Sweater weather!

119.2 - why it's up 1.6 after 3 days at the same level baffles me but I'm sure it will settle down in a day or 2.

Yesterday it finally cleared in the afternoon after a week of rain and the sun actually came out. We went to our frequent Saturday afternoon venue for music then came home and finished the deconstructed pizza I made the other night. I was able to attend water aerobics before that even though my arms were a bit sore from the 3 vaccines. Still slightly sore this morning but not much.

This morning the bus leaves at 7:30 (of course). At some point today I need to give Justice a bath. He has a rather doggy smell. We have a Nine and Dine at 3 (nine holes of golf followed by a dinner). It should go off as planned now that it is finally dry though that was questionable up until late yesterday. We are playing in a foursome with good friends and we are all dressing up in pumpkin outfits of some sort or another (Halloween themed game). If all 4 team members are dressed up, points are deducted from the final score. Will provide pictures afterwards.

Have a surprising Sunday!

What a wonderful opportunity to step back into your younger shoes! Definitely tossing the awkward ones is in order, but the others could be a great gift for your kids eventually.

Oh no! Hopefully they can improve the drainage design on the roof when they repair it?