What a couple of months...glad that we went when we did. Don't know if we would have gone this month. September brought a water stain in the ceiling of my sewing room. Had the roof looked at and it needed to be replaced. Got the estimate, sent to the insurance, got check from the insurance with both our names and the mortgage company.....whats with that? Never had that before. Unfortunately, they are not here. We had to send the check to Phoenix to get their endorsement. Could not get anyone to start until it got back. Any way, we now have a new roof over our heads. Looks just like the old one. They had to take off two layers of shingles to get down to the wood. No rain and they were done in four days. But now we have small parts of shingles and a few nails and staples all over. They were really great at picking everything up.....but ..... we will probably be finding pieces for a long time.
Now with the election and with a few more commentators, and annalists....we won't even have to have an election....they can tell the outcome by asking a couple of people on the street and we can get on to something else on the news.....like the train wreck happening on Wall Street.....(but who cares). That may be all the entertainment we can afford. After years of saving.....we are about where we were 8 years ago, but older and ready to retire. The good thing is that Tom has job security in that every morning at 6am the doors open and......they will come. We had been looking forward to him retiring in 2010 but that may not happen as we will not have the 401k to use. Could not take it out till then....and hopefully the stock market will quit going down by 5% every day. At some point.....it has to start back up.
We have been really lucky. We have a nice home. Tom has a good job (most of the time). The kids and grandkids are all healthy and doing well (or were). We have great friends and family(if we have to sponge off someone!) The weather has been exceptional. We have enough food in the pantry and freezer to last. The Kat and dog think we are the greatest thing since ..... 'cat food' (their favorite!) And we are healthy for a couple of 'old farts'. I will just have to learn to enjoy margaritas..... on the deck.... watching the sun set behind the trees.....wrapped up like NaNuk of the North!

: D What more could you ask for??