I just went into town and it was wild and crazy! I live in a small town (Pop 2000) and everyone really gets into the school sports. Tonight is homecoming and there were kids all over downtown. A bunch of the football players were in the back of a truck parked at our only red light. They were yelling and getting all the cars to honk in support. Very exciting! Looking forward to going to the game. Jammers youngest son is on the team.

Twice this week there have been lots of cop cars up on my town's Main St. Yep, it's called "Main Street". Don't know why they're there. The first time, I drove slowly thru the police-car-gauntlet. The second time, I made a U turn and went a different way. Hey, I'm just doing my grocery shopping.

I'm getting out of town tonight. I'm meeting 3 of my closest classmate/girlfriends for dinner at Farmer Brown's.
Leslie

I'm sitting here, watching the Phillies beat LA, and missing my DH. He had to go to training at the other end of the state, got stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the way home and didn't get in until after dark. Told him to stay home tonight, and come down to the country house tomorrow. I think he's done enough driving for one day.

Otherwise, nothing to exciting happening. I've just spent the past couple of days cleaning up the garden, painting the stoops, lugging a third of an acre's worth of grass clippings to the curb.....

I'm laying low tonight. It's cold and windy again today.

Maryann, that was our town last Friday. We have around 8000 but only one high school. Our entire district (five schools) gets out at noon on Homecoming Friday so they can go to the parade and join in the festivities. The H.S. games always draw a large crowd.

Dh is at work until tomorrow night and the boys have out of town football games tomorrow, so I'm a single mom again.
I'm taking my oldest (13) to the 49er/ Eagles game in San Fran on Sunday. That will be SO much fun!!! I wish I could take my younger son too. The three of us always have fun hanging out. I'm going to try and talk DH in to taking him to the Renaissance fair while we are gone.

Tivy Homecomeing here in our town too. I finished my second chemo today came home and slept all afternoon. My Beloved is going to Austin tomorrow for some car repair maintenance and I think I'll just be hanging around here...recuperating.

Not much going on around here. Must be flu season though, cause I have it...took me by surprise, I normally don't get sick, I leave that up to DH.

I had a strange day last Friday. Was quite a scare that turned out to be quite a pleasure actually. I have some friends that live about 200 miles north of me. He's in his 80s now and his health has been getting worse as time goes on. Poor guy was very active and about 7 years ago he had a freak accident that put him in a wheelchair for most of the time. Anyway, I heard the phone ring and lately I don't even look at the caller ID but the computer was on and I looked at it. The name rang a bell but took a fraction of a second to realize it was Andrea's brother's name and I went oh, no, I could only think of one reason why he'd call and that was that Rodg had died or something. Well I answered and I heard both of them (whew!) and they were in town and wanted to stop over for a bit. They were down for a breakfast with some old co-workers and were going to Eau Claire for an even where he'd be featured. (He's a former television personality.) They both looked better than they have for a long time and we had a nice visit. Nearly an hour and they had to get going. What a joy! It made my week! I haven't seen or heard from them for a long time so it was really nice.

Otherwise, not much exciting going on here.

Had a lousy day at work today, low staff, high census. At least our new manager gives a crap about us and found some help through the day. Didn't get any sleep the last two nights so that made things worse.

We used to have a rabbit in our backyard but I don't know where he went to, now we have a groundhog of all things. He runs under the little porch when he hears us coming. I'm going to have to find out if I can get him trapped and moved. My dd volunteers at the Humane Society so I'm going to ask if they know where I can find a safe trap to borrow.

I found someone to come look at my treadmill, which has been broken for months now. He normally works on appliances only and at first said he doesn't do treadmills, but he took pity on me and is coming next week! If he fixes it, I'm giving him a nice fat tip on top of whatever he charges me.

Expecting our first snowfall this weekend--don't have time for it. Fund raising dinner for the church among many other things.. Pheasant season starts also--would love to stay home--but duty calls

Oh, and gas was $2.87 here in my little town when I got back home tonight!