Last day for a while to work in the yard

 

It is unseasonable warm and overcast this morning.  As in 69℉!  I took advantage to cut down some of the volunteer trees that have dropped most of their leaves.  The lack of leaves makes it easier for me to lop them down.

The Prisoner very vocally escorted me back toward inside when I went out to snap that photo.  Then he hopped on my lap for a while and purred... only to ask to go back outside, moments later.  Cats!  Go figure.

A while after I came back inside at The Prisoner's insistence, my phone rang.  It was the mythical son, calling to check up on me, having recovered from his cold from last weekend.  I view these every so often calls as a gift.  I asked after his school, and his job and he's stressing a bit because the hours at his job that count toward his education/degree are not adding up fast enough.  

Turns out the hours he spends driving to the appointments that *do* count as "ed" hours are paid but not given school credit.  He's not getting enough "ed" hours on average to meet the school deadline to graduate in December.  It looks as though he won't graduate until May. 

 😟 Bummer.  But it will work out such that he can keep working that job long enough to get the credits. He'll be able to get his certification, etc. and be done with grad school at that point.  Disappointed?  Yes, it's behind his anticipated schedule.  But it's not the end of the world.  Breathe.  You've got through worse, son.

Fellow US folks, did you have a calm election day?  For all the media hype and hysteria, this was a pretty normal Nebraska election.  Closer than usual, but the Republicans won pretty much all the offices where the party was denoted.  

We have a number of non-partisan offices, where they don't give you the party affiliation of the candidates on the ballot.  This includes our state senators (unicameral).  

We split on two ballot issues. We passed the increase to the minimum wage.  It's about time.  We passed Voter ID.  It was a vaguely worded thing, leaving it up to the state legislature to define just what that means.  We shall see.

Bottom line, it was peaceful.  Nobody yelled foul.  Those who lost, conceded.  But also gave their supporters credit for how well they ran the campaign, because the races turned out to be closer than usual.  Me?  I'll be glad to see the end of the political ads.

After teasing us with these warm temperatures, the weatherman is telling us the high tomorrow will be about midnight, with the temperatures plunging over the daylight hours, and the high on Friday maybe 30℉.  Brrr!  It's the roller coaster and the sudden drops that are troublesome, right?

Kid sis Ace came over after her workday for our usual Wednesday walk.  I walked in shirtsleeves and shorts; she went as far as a tank top.  It was overcast and windy, but we had a record high temperature for the date at 74℉.  We observed that the neighborhood had been taking advantage to get the Halloween decorations put away for the year.  As I waved her off on her way home, other neighborhood folks were getting home from their jobs and taking advantage of the weather, too.

Here's hoping your Wednesday has gone well and that you're taking care of your health, best can do, one day at a time.

Life is good.  Spark on!

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