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Mid month madness

Finally pulled up all but one of the tomato cages, and picked a bucket of butterbeans. With the rain from Storm Michael, we may get another bucket full first of next week, though with the colder temps coming this may have been my last harvest. And I can't say that thought makes me sad.

We are also halfway through training pollworkers for the November election. The vending machine (drinks anyway) is empty. That's usually how I mark the training time, but since early voting starts next week we're truly nearing the last few weeks of election day training.
And Christmas music is now playing in my car as the kids at church start practicing for their Christmas musical a week from Sunday.
Our local quilts of valor group had a presentation scheduled last week. I drove to North Raleigh only for his child to tell me he wouldn't be home from work for another hour. So I've not called to reschedule yet, but need to do that soon. I never know the best way to handle these scenarios. I don't want to give up if he simply forgot, but I also don't like wasting time of everyone in the group. We'll give it one more try before giving up. Meanwhile we have both a group and an individual presentation planned next month, with 3 more we need to process. Rescheduling a no show is not exactly easy on my already crowded calendar.
On a brighter note, I am about 3 hrs worth of work away from meeting with a printer for a family Christmas project Bobby has diligently been working on. Details will come after Christmas.
And that's my week in review....going MUCH better than last week!

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