The week started with the last warm day for awhile and included a couple of fun days out of town. With my packages off in the mail, I could relax on Christmas prep too. All good.
The last garden clean up task for the season (or so I thought) was cutting down the huge sweet autumn clematis that grows behind my AC unit so that's what I did first thing Monday when it was still warm. I loaded the vines and my packages - the 3 that hadn't been picked up and Dottie's too - into the car and made a trip to the post office, the city burn pile and BK to pick up lunch. I even stopped at the car wash to vacuum out the car and I put the seats back up, reclaiming my car from pick up truck duty. I made peanut butter blossoms that afternoon to take to knitting and Tuesday to Helen's. We knitted late that night until 8:45. Nice start to the week.
Tuesday was a Lincoln day for lunch with Helen. I don't know what I was thinking but I didn't bring her Christmas presents. She showered me with presents so I felt dumb. After a lunch of delicious homemade mac & cheese, we chatted the afternoon away. I thrifted a bit afterwards but had to head home in time to grab some supper before a library board meeting. That's a long day for this retiree. : )
I was home for the next three days, doing some cooking, more decorating, chatting with friends, reading, riding my exercise bike and doing some crocheting to give my hands a break from knitting because they were sore. Aren't my little choir candles cute? Some were my mom's but I collected a few more in the early years of the library holiday decoration sales. Decorating for holidays was actually on my retirement to do list. Check that off.
I had briefly considered doing a Fremont run on Friday but talked myself out of it so when Andrea said she had to go to Lincoln on Saturday morning to pick up an auction win, I invited myself along. We picked up the item, got a bagel for lunch and hit Super Saver for groceries. I was thrilled when Andrea suggested going home via Seward, which is totally not on the way home. One of my favorite thrift shops is there and I scored all kinds of fun things - fabric, a sheep to go on my Ikea yarn shelf, some vintage linens and an orange picnic set to name a few. Andrea had a Runza gift card so we got salads to go and I enjoyed it for supper later. It was a fun day.
Sunday was my typical chore day and after Lorri stopped by after church, I did the final garden chore - cutting down the morning glory vines on the driveway, which I had noticed when I came back from the burn pile earlier in the week. I didn't want to dirty my car again so put them into my empty trash can in hopes that heavy trash would break them down because they filled the can. I ended the day making a big pot of black bean soup and calling Windstream because my landline had died and my internet was flaky.
It was a good week with my packages on their way, the final garden chores done, some quality veg time at home and thrift scores on the weekend. I think I'm getting the hang of this retirement thing.
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