Slow Week

Tom continues to try to take it easy from his surgery.  Of course that doesn’t mean he isn’t working.  He’s mowed our lawn and a rental’s. He’s helped me make Harry and David Wannabe Sweet and Hot Pepper Relish…. And has had to try it numerous times JUST to make sure it’s still tasty.  He is my hot pepper chopper.  And he does a very good job.

His challenge is how do you know when you have done too much?  The doctor said it was okay to ease back into normal life and that he would know when he over extended himself.  Well, he is finding out that he doesn’t know until the next day if he did too much, and by then it is too late!  Do you hear the gnashing of teeth in the back ground?

Our garden has slowed down. We are getting a few cucumbers and some cherry tomatoes.  I’ve dried some green onions and some basil.  It just occurred to me that I could dry some oregano, as I use dried oregano a fair amount.  I keep debating about leaving the beans on the plant to get seed for next year… then I see a few good beans and pick them.

I completed my heating and cooling newsletters for the quarter.  I keep thinking I should be ambitious and approach local HVAC companies about using the newsletter to create customer loyalty and advertise.  I have two books outlined for Infinite Banking—or dividend paying whole life insurance.  One I will write jointly with another person.  So I have WORK to do.

Thursday Tom and I celebrated our 43^rd anniversary. We went to Bull Shoals for lunch and then went to the fair.  I had thought about entering things into the fair, and decided I just didn’t have time to do it correctly.   But we enjoyed walking around the fair.  We ran into friends and business owners we’ve done business with in the past… but may not see that often.  I saw a company that did web design and we got to talking.  I may get some copywriting work from them.  So that was encouraging.

Friday I did some visiting teaching.  I actually have three companions.  So in a way, it makes it easy. If one can’t go with me, I take another.  And this time, one of my companions needed to visit someone else, so I went with her.  I am continually surprised at how welcoming the less actives have been to us.  One sister had been a “do not contact”  and we visited a month or so ago. 

She doesn’t like vegetables, but her husband does.  So when I had an abundance of cucumbers, I’d call and drop some off.  We visited briefly most of those times.  This time, Tom and I brought over some cherry tomatoes.  Her husband (who may be the reason she isn’t coming to church) invited us into the house and we had a lovely visit.  He was a pilot and had lived in Africa, so we found a good deal in common.  We are becoming friends.

Tom and I are taking a series of options classes.  Puts, calls, delta, theta, vega, “buy to open, sell to close.”  Wow. It’s a whole new world.  I hope it will become a profitable one.

We had stinking hot weather and no rain for the past several weeks.  Finally we got some rain and cooler weather in the low 80’s.  Suddenly the night temperatures are dropping into the low 50’s.  Are we going from summer to winter?  Probably not.  But it certainly feels cooler.

The chickens are doing a good job of laying eggs.  Our friends have been selling them at the farmer’s market.  I figure at this rate, we’ll pay for the taj-ma-cluck in about 3 years!  But we do enjoy watching the “ladies.”