Not an exciting week for me…………………………………………………….

As always, first the chronology:

10/12/25 – Sunday – Up at 8AM. Dressed and out to church with Kathy. Home and lunch. Quick nap and off to Gary’s for the afternoon get together. Home, picked up Kathy and off to Olive Garden for dinner. A quick stop at Country Mart for some shopping then home and usual evening routine.

10/13/25 – Monday – Up around 8AM. Spent most of the day helping Kathy do errands and get ready to pack for her trip to Germany. Nothing else exciting today.

10/14/25 – Tuesday – Up at 7:30AM. Cleaned up and out for a haircut at 9AM. Then into Taylorsville and paid the property tax on the land addition. Home and lunch. Continued with getting things together for Kathy. Went to a HAM club meeting in Shelbyville this evening.

10/15/25 – Wednesday – Down to the office and spent some time organizing some files. Had a break for lunch and continued this afternoon. Had dinner then usual evening routine.

10/16/25 – Thursday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Worked the door to the circuit court clerks office from 7:30AM to 4PM with an hour break for lunch. Home and changed. Then over to Cattlerman’s for dinner. Home and usual evening routine.

10/17/25 – Friday – Up and hauled bags out to the car. Kathy was off around 9:30AM to go up to Julie’s and catch a ride to the airport. Her trip to Germany has begun. I went back to bed and took a nap. Up and lunch. Spent time with the dogs and did some reading. Dinner and usual evening routine.

10/18/25 – Saturday – Up around 9AM. Took care of the dogs. Then down to the shack and started on the work bench. Took a break for lunch. Then up around 4 for a little nap. Made dinner. Took care of the dogs otherwise usual evening routine.

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Now the specifics:

I have never in my life seen anyone so disorganized as my wife when it comes to packing. But I respect her space and just let her go. When she tells me she needs something I take care of it. Of course Friday morning, the day of departure, she was checking SD cards for her camera. Why not wait till the last minute. But she got off on Friday and made it to Germany with no trouble. Had a few cell phone issues I had to correct on the fly for her but otherwise no problems.

Got a call from my friend Stanley McCaully this week. He will be coming through this area sometime around the middle of the week. I banged out Thursday so I can spend some time with him. He is suppose to show up here sometime Wednesday late afternoon. He will miss Kathy but that’s OK.

A lot of deaths lately. First was the Commonwealth Attorney’s mother. I will go to that viewing on Wednesday. And when I was at the HAM club meeting my friend Dave comment that his mother-in-law was still hanging on. I got a call Wednesday morning and he told me she died. So that viewing will be Monday and I’ll go show my respects there as well.

So here’s the joke for the week. Kathy noticed that a $75 gift card we got almost 5 years ago for our wedding anniversary was going to expire the end of this month. So, we made this great plan to go to Olive Garden and have a nice meal, and while there, order some extra stuff that I could bring home and have while Kathy is traveling. Sounds like a good plan. Of course we were not too careful about watching how much we ordered. The final bill was a little over $140. So, we did get to use up the gift card but ended up putting almost as much on our own tab. Oh well, I’ll eat good next week.

I haven’t heard anything new about the grand kids and the medical issues. They are in Germany as well so there must not be anything critical. That’s all I know about that.

As always, hope this finds you safe and well. Stay that way and I’ll blog at you again next week.