Simple Thursday

38°f/3.3°C, cold wind and rainshowers all day. Brrr. We reached a high of 51, but we should miss a killing frost tonight because of rain and cloud cover.

Larry picked the last of the garden stuff this morning,  since forecasters said we might have a killing frost. Five green tomatoes, and lots of peppers!

So I need to get these strung up to dry. 

I have been craving scones. So today I made cranberry orange ones. 

So good. And just right on this cold morning.

The rest of  today's to-do list: listing things on ebay, and putting up the outside Christmas lights. We won't turn them on yet, but Larry wanted to do them yesterday and had dragged everything out, so he went ahead with it today, even though the weather wasn't the best. Downright bracing, in fact.

I helped him and we got most of them done.

Then I got to work on listing. I got these in an auction in August and am just now getting to them. 
These are Italian, and just gorgeous.

There are eight of these blue tumblers,

and 8 of these lowball cocktail glasses. Boy, if i could keep them I would, but there's no sense in that. I have no space, and no need.

This lovely little teaset also came from the auction.

Each cup has a lithopane of a Geisha in the bottom, visible only when held to the lught. 

There are 6 of these cool midcentury cups by Libbey. Sold as coffee cups, these can actually be used for hot or cold drinks.

I picked up this watch case at a yard sale. It's a 1950s Bulova watch case, apparently an award presentation.  No watch, sadly! But just the case is worth $45.

Isn't it pretty?

Last, this very large book, published in 1978, is the last volume of the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, the brainchild of the publisher of the West Virginia Hillbilly newspaper that had wuite a large national circulation in its heyday. The book is filled with archival photos and artwork, biographies, etc. I have the other 50 volumes which I also plan to sell sometime soon.

I was intrigued by the story of the Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Like many, i wondered what Hegseth would do. I told Larry this morning that the right thing would be to apologize and commend the soldier for doing his job. But I was astounded to hear Hegseth had given him a medal! A bit overkill, I think, but at least acknowledging his mistake.

My friend Suzy is doing amazingly well after her quadruple bypass. She is home now and just one month after her surgery, she's been cleared to drive! I haven't heard from Sarah lately but continue to drop her a note every now and then to keep her up to date on family things, and on our lovely fall. 

As for my physical therapy,  this first appointment was an evaluation.  She taped my shoulder and gave me instructions for how to sleep so as not to exacerbate it, how to hold my arm to keep weight from my shoulder, things like that. I go back Monday, and I suppose then I will have exercises to do. For now, the taping has definitely helped. I'm just trying to not lift anything (very hard to do), and to sleep correctly (also very hard to do).

Tomorrow is usually booth day but i just want to stay home. So bad of me! But I think that's what I will do.

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