Monday, September 10, 2012

turning colder - soon the leaf peepers will be here


It has turned cold.  Well, to us it is cold and the leaves have taken a serious turn for color all of a sudden.  I am really hoping for a glorious showing of leaves this year – something like we had in Pennsylvania.
We have been going in early each morning in an attempt to get our goals done.  Bill wants to finish 100 boxes of Washington County court and I want to finish up the September term of York co. court 1807.  I was assembling the writ’s today and noticed that we are missing a chunk of records.  Jeff said that he had humidified the entire September term records but it looks like he missed a bundle somewhere.  He was not at work today – the septic tank at his cabin backed up and he went up to help dig it out and get it working again…….what a smelly job.
In the middle of all this, we got an email from someone in the office at SLC and they found some files that need reworked – they were done well before we came here and it is 18 months later and all of a sudden they want them re-done.  This has not made me happy because we barely have enough time to make the goals we have set for ourselves.  Is no one interested in asking first if we would have time to fit in this re-work?  Apparently not!  There will be missionaries coming in after us, if that helps.
We went to line dance tonight and they applauded us to give us a sendoff – we have been doing this activity now since January and I am amazed that I even know some of the dances well enough that I do not have to keep looking at my feet while I dance.  I do, however, have to keep an eye on the other dancers to get a clue as to whether I am doing the dance right or not.  I guess in time I will know them all well enough to just get out there and dance.
I took a card to Mary that was a Halloween card for cats and on the front was 6 kittens – two of them looked like cats she has had at her home.  I put in some money for her to buy food and litter for the little kittens she is fostering right now.  When we were there last time she was saying how much these little guys eat.  She brought a farewell gift to us – a blanket from the Animal shelter and a card and a wall plaque.  I am very glad that we met Mary and that we have become friends.
Bill has been calling many businesses that have been sending us information and bills etc. and has began changing our address back to Prescott.  It sounds so final but the fact of the matter is, we will be gone from here in no time and when we get home we will have a whole basket of mail from the post office to sift through.  Most of it will be tossed out.  One of the jokes we have between us is guessing how much % off Kohls  is offering us in their mailing.  It is either 15%, 20% or 30%.  Today Bill won the guessing game with 20%.  We rarely shop there because the stuff they sell is pretty expensive and at times not good quality either.  Everything is either on sale or you can get a special deal if you spend so much $$ and then you get Kohl’s Cash that has to be spent the following week – and then they ask you if you want a Khol’s credit card and the list goes on and on with all the gimmicks they have to get you into the store.
It will be very strange when we do not have to go to bed early and get up early and make lunches to take with us to the Archives.  What will we do with our time?  Guess we will soon find out.

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