It's Time / Change Time

And of course, we are talking clocks. Tonight before heading to bed we might set some of our clocks back by one hour. Some of our clocks will automatically change and others we will one by one manually change.

For some reason, I am SO ready to "fall back". The last few weeks I have found it harder and harder to get up at the usual time -- around 6:30 am  . . . Dino is already making the adjustment as I get up a bit later each day . . .

It is definitely fall around here though the temps a few days were very summerlike (the 90s).  I think that I am not going to like "springing ahead" next year.  In California, this coming election, Proposition 7 is on our ballot -- having to do with either keeping Daylight Saving Time or abandoning it.

It is confusing as to which way would be better, but I do know already that I am not looking forward to "losing" that hour of sleep in the coming spring of 2019 . . .

Speaking of "change", Tuesday is election day for the mid-terms.

We are going to vote this afternoon -- promises, promises. Then we'll drop off the ballots at our local USPS.

For whatever reasons, this year it seems even more important that we take the time to make our selections.

Wednesday will be a very interesting "news" day and probably will determine what to expect in the news in the coming two years. We continually are appreciative of the "fast forward feature" on our DVR -- we record everything that we watch.

Wednesday this week was of course Halloween. It is not a huge deal for us but we do recall our own days of trick and treating.

This year we thought that since we do not receive that many trick and treaters that we would be handing our "full-sized" candy bars.


And so that is what we prepared to do and did. The youngsters began at 5:30 pm -- two little ones dressed as a princess and a pirate happily took their full-sized treats.

The rush came later when we had 8 middle school types coming in one group. Then there were a couple of other small groups and by 7:30 -- that was all there was -- a total of 15.

The kids were appreciative of the large sized candy bars, but one problem for us is that we now have "full-sized" candy leftover and at the above rate, about two more years worth. We'll get through it . . .

We did purchase some of our favorites so that is a good thing, I think.

Football in our neck of the woods has not been so good this year. First, our local high school was not able to keep enough varsity players to continue the program and so look to maybe next year.

Next, the highly anticipated season for the San Francisco 49ers was thrown for a loss when the new quarterback was injured and the season deteriorated into a 1 win 7 loss status . . .

Across the Bay, the Raiders who have for many years been so questionable were expected to do really well with their new head coach, the return of John Gruden -- and they have a 1 win and 6 loss season.

So what could be more exciting than watching what some were calling the "Dog Bowl". But for us San Francisco Niner fans -- it was exciting. The new quarterback, Nick Mullens, starting his first ever NFL game after our second string quarterback was injured last week, turned in a spectacular show.

Niners 34 -- Raiders 3 . . . one thing that spoiled the sense of a "good game" was the pregame behavior of one of the cheer squad who chose to take a knee during the anthem . . . we need to be done with this . . . at least not show it or mention it -- just like they do not show people running on to the field interrupting the play.

We are though, enjoying our new puzzle project -- San Francisco Trolley.

We are about a third of the way to completing it and it does bring back the memories of living in that city for many years.

Once again though the sky colors are tough as they wind up being single pieces with no shapes or forms in them, just varying colors
that takes perseverance.

We made a large pot of chili this week and enjoyed it for three meals.

We also made a batch of cornbread to accompany the main event which turned out to be equally good.

It makes my mouth water just thinking about making another batch and as the weather gets cooler -- so comforting.

It is getting time to replenish the inventory of meat choices for the freezer. We need to make a "Costco" run soon.

Some good news just heard today -- the Trader Joe's that burnt in last October's major fire is hopefully going to reopen in a couple of weeks -- we do like shopping there a lot, except for the parking . . .

That is a bit of our week, hope to see you all "in a few"! 👫