I’ve been a busy lady lately. We have all been working hard
around our new home and property raking leaves and tearing out things we really
didn’t care for such as shrubs and bushes. The men have been trimming trees and doing
general yard maintenance before the snow flies. Ken and I love this new place
even though it does come with a lot of work. We feel it will help us stay
active in our later years. I remember an elderly gentleman warning Ken about
that when Ken told him a few years ago that we wanted to sell our house and
downsize. He laughed and said “You don’t want to do that because you’ll just
get fat and lazy.” So, the fact that we live here, proves we listened to him as
we find there is always something that needs doing.
We have twelve chickens that we got when they were 5
weeks old and they are about 2 to 3 weeks away from laying eggs. I can hardly
wait. I'm the one that's home the most, so I am the one that usually lets them
out of the coup in the morning and puts them to bed at night. I can’t believe
how fast they’ve grown. I have been told that I need to interact with them and
I have. I quite enjoy being around them and they are noisy; almost like they
are trying to communicate with me. I wear very high black shiny gum boots and
they love to peck at them. I stand there and they gather around me and I let
them peck away as I visit with them. Apparently, it's important that they know
who I am so that when I go into retrieve the eggs, they will trust me. Can
hardly wait for the first eggs to appear.
One thing I've had to get used to living up here, is the
traffic circles. My Lord, what is wrong with people? I can’t decide if they
don’t know how to use them or don’t want to know or if they just don’t care.
I’m about to give a lesson on how to use them and I hope at least one person
can learn from it.
Supposedly before you enter the circle, you know where you
are headed. If you are making the first turn to the right, put your right
signal light on just before you enter the circle. If you are going to the
second exit, put your left signal light on and leave it on until you get to
the second exit then you put the right signal on and complete your turn. Not to
difficult, right? If you forgot something at home, and must go back to where you
came from, put your left signal on and leave it on until you make your way
around to the exit you came from, then put your right signal on and complete
the turn.
It really isn’t rocket science. I can’t tell you how many
times I have had my grandsons with me and explained it to them so as when they
start driving years from now, they will know what to do. They are very aware of
my frustration with this and they have seen for themselves what a problem it is
when people don’t bother to signal. “Treat everyone like an idiot,” I tell
them. “Never assume people know where they are going or what they’re doing and
you will be good drivers.”They laugh at me now, but just wait until they start driving.
Now for something a little more uplifting. Christmas is
coming! Yay! I love Christmas. Although, it will be very different this year as
we are still living in our RV, and for that reason, we won’t be putting up a
tree or doing a lot of decorating. I’ll miss that, but the kids will have a tree
in the house. I expect a lot of things will be different this year but
sometimes change is good. I look forward to writing about it.
Merry Christmas to all!
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