My books are due to arrive later today, and the (my) excitement is building. In the meantime, I got some knitting done. I've finished the first part of the border pattern.
I had to print the graph again. I don't know where I put the one I already used. Then, because it was only in black and white with no symbols, I had to write in the colors used for each row.
The dogs were at the groomer on Monday. They always look so nice when they're clean and nicely clipped.
Some time during the week was taken up with medical appointments and arranging for a new phone provider, which is done. Yay! My old provider had lowered the rates for all the plans but only for new customers or people who changed plans. I got charged extra on top of that because I went over my data usage during our trip. Now I have one with unlimited data for less than half the price. Yay!
Our ballots came Friday, but we've had the voters' pamphlet for almost a week. It's as big as the phone book we had when we were newlyweds living in Casper. The candidates' sections were about normal, but there were some measures that took a lot of pages to explain, including the arguments for and against. It took the better part of a day to read it all.
Friday we finished our assignment (filling out our ballots) and went to the drop box that's on our way to the park.
It was a lovely day. We had a detour to get to the ballot box, but it wasn't marked as such, just the road was closed. We made it, though. It's a drive-through drop-off, but we always park, so we can get out and take photos.
From there we went on to the park to give the pups some off-leash time and have a walk on the off-leash trail. We've been getting rain, so the air quality is back to normal, but catching good weather between rains is important.
I forgot to start the Walk for a Dog app when we left the car, so we actually walked farther than this. I actually started the app at that green upside-down teardrop shape that has a white dot in it. I let the app run all the way back to the car when we were done, though.
We had some of the new black bean soup recipe again, this time with some fresh bread. This is a small loaf, baked in a pan that has room for four little loaves, but I used it to bake only one. I use a half recipe for these little loaves.
In family news, my brother-in-law sold his Class B camping RV (that's the van type) and decided to buy an R-Pod 171c (c=classic), which is like ours, but without some of the special features, such as the front window, the outdoor shower, the internal vacuum and the solar panels on the roof, and the outside speakers, but they gave him an awning with it. I'm not sure what kind that is. It could be like ours. I don't think he get the TV, either, but we almost never use ours. We watch DVDs on my laptop, if we need entertainment. This isn't his, but this is a photo of the same model. He got it from the same dealer we got ours from, but they took down the photo after he bought it. Next time we go camping together I'll get a photo of his actual rig.
The Wisconsin grandkids are in a couple of ballet productions coming up. First will be "Alice in Wonderland" and then "The Nutcracker." I'll post photos when there's something to show.
The Beaverton family is getting into the Halloween mood by reading some of the scary stories from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They will be coming to visit us over Thanksgiving. For a whole week! That will be fun.
Meanwhile, our grandkitty is learning how to hide, presumably to be able to jump out and scare people when the time comes.
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What's in The Doll's Storybook: This week's story from #TheDollsStorybook is Being Green Makes It Easy, which first appeared in 2020, and has been updated.
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