Thanksgiving

 Well, blogger is being a pain in my butt today. It would not let me sign in this morning, for whatever reason, and so my comments are anonymous. I tried several times to make a post tonight. When I clicked on 'sign in', nothing happened. 

Now, suddenly, I can make a post. 

Today was a quiet day. Tim worked on the heating for the cats, and I burned trash. Then I got the idea to start gathering up various bits of construction debris and start getting rid of the clutter around the house. It was a pleasant way to spend the morning. 

Tim needed to run to Lowe's this morning for some fittings. Something we've discussed is the fact that 25% tariffs will be levied against China, Canada and Mexico and supposedly those will take effect his first day in office. That's going to lead to some pretty high prices. We had discussed the fact that we probably should pick up our dishwasher for the new house. I kind of had my heart set on one, because I haven't had one for nearly 30 years. I don't need one. I am aware of that, but I did want one. 

Tim came back from his run to Lowe's, and said, "I bought you a stove." I was a little surprised, because I'd bought a used stove for $300. It had a convection oven, which I was pretty sure that I'd like. Tim explained that this stove had been marked down from $1100 to $600 because it had a small dent in the side. It was a top of the line stove, with 5 burners, and a convection oven. The oven can be used for air frying and dehydrating, and it was a large capacity oven. Plus it matched the refrigerator we bought last spring (also a scratch and dent markdown). And the dishwasher he picked out. 

I was a little stupefied. I said, 'but...we have a stove.' He said, "We'll put that one in the rehab." 

And that was that. The new appliances are nice. We put them into place and it will be a nice kitchen. All we are waiting on is the Amish made sink base, and we will have all the components for the kitchen. We still do need to pick up the flooring, but the good news is that we have agreed on what we want, and that feels like half the battle right there. 

Another interesting thing is that someone is interested in buying our house, the one we live in right now. That was unexpected. He owns the apartment building next to ours, and has an eye on turning our house back into a duplex. The original owner had done that when her husband died. She made the second and third floors a separate living space for tenants. She lived on the first floor. After she died, a young couple bought the house and restored it back to a single family dwelling. 

Tim said in a musing way, "Well...if he bought it, we would save quite a bit of time on getting it market ready. If he wants to turn it back into a duplex, he would want to do the renovating." Which sounds very fine to me. I may not have mentioned it, but I am heartily sick of fixing up houses. 

So we hauled the appliances to the new house. I fed the cats while Tim hooked up their furnace. It was a pleasant morning, warm, no wind, and so I started a fire outside to burn the trash and then collected a lot of construction debris and got that burnt as well. 

So. It was a productive day, and that felt nice. 

In just a few minutes, it will be Thanksgiving. For all the uncertainty about the future, I can tell you that I still have blessings to count, and I'm trying to be very mindful of that. 

We celebrate Thanksgiving with my brother-in-law's family. The celebration has grown so big that it is held at their church, in the rec hall. There will be two turkeys. Three hams to build a feast around. We are taking one ham, corn casserole, cranberry sauce with orange and ginger, and a chocolate cake.  It is always a good time. 

It will start snowing at some point tomorrow. We're in the midst of that blue splotch. That's snow. The interesting thing is that the interactive radar shows the storm moving, but the blue patch stays right over us. We have snow in the forecast every day for a week and by the time that this finally passes, we are expected to have 9-12 inches on the ground. 

Happy Thanksgiving, America.