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 We have had some rain, but mostly just grey icky weather with no substance... and the dampness lingers.. Got most all the leaves up with Brian finishing.

I have been nursing a bad back,  my hip hurts (the one that was replaced) so that makes me favor it and makes other things off kilter... suppose eventually i will get better. Have been making xmas gifts and sitting at the sewing machine is not helpful, no matter the chair/pillow, taking breaks. after all it does not ALL have to be done right now.  Just don't like all of that 'stuff' sitting out right in the way.  Have to have it done on the table which is sort of the middle of everything, then you have to do other things around it. very inconvenient. would be so much better if is just had a room dedicated to all of my hobbies.  

OH... the xmas candy is out!!! always so very exciting... there are kitkats that are candy cane and peppermint, and peppermint m&m's.. snowballs too, but that did not sound very good... AND i should not be eating candy.. but can say it lasts quite some time!! now just have to find very little lights, that are only 25 lights, don't need 100 on a string, just a short one... had that in the bathroom and quite liked it, but they burned out....

nothing else exciting comes to mind...

Take Care and God Bless

Brian got me this flowering crabapple for mothers day one year and it is a source of delight, with the blooms in the Spring, to the lovely burgundy color of the Fall and these little apples that the deer like... we almost killed the top one year when throwing too much snow on it when shoveling, but Brian fixed it with duck tape and seems to be just fine and flourishing.  we are always cutting it back to get around and get into the car.  Brian twines the branches together to get them to droop.  i get in trouble when i just cut them off/back

didn't get the rain drops very good, but it was pretty this morning