Christmas Tree up

Well, carpets cleaned, windows washed, Thanksgiving over and First Sunday in Advent.  Up goes the Christmas Tree and lights and the Manger and lights in the front window, Anna Mae was busy after church.
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I played at the Nursing home with Mark and Karl and Jacob and entertained the residents for Thanksgiving and we had a good time with the Music and visiting with the residents !
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While Anna decorated I took on the unpleasant job or putting new strings on the Dobro Guitar I just picked up and gonna try to master, it does not play anything like a guitar and I stabbed myself with the end of a string and finally after an hour got all 6 strings on it.
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I tried to pick out a tune but My Honey said I had better get a few lessons before I headed for the Grand Old Opry !!
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I decorated our Front Door and got an "Atta Boy" for doing a good job !
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Well gotta go to UTUBE and find a site that gives Dobro Lessons.
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Don't Forget, Remember our Vets !!

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Thankful Time

Well it is Turkey Time again, We here at West Side Terrace hire the Methodist Church Youth Group to cook, prepare and serve us our Thanksgiving Dinner.  They did it last year and was so good we brought them back again this year and they did not charge us an arm and a leg to do it.
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Anna Mae and I and Mark Bierman set up the dining room in the morning,  we can seat 42 people, there are a total of 64 residents in our Building but we normally average 35 to 40 when we have an event.
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The Methodist Church has 2 women youth leaders and they bring a few of their youth with them due to lack of room, some of the food is cooked at church and brought over here in broilers and kept heated till we eat.

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Our meal was turkey, dressing, potatoes, gravy,  cranberry sauce, squash, mixed veggies, homemade rolls for our main meal at 2PM and it was delicious.
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 we had 2 tables of Home made deserts, the ladies from the Methodist Church did a lot of cooking and donated all the deserts for our meal.
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Our dinner was served, Lady on the right in white sweater refuses to wear hearing aides and sometimes get a little mean when you try to talk to her !
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Man on right, Billy is deaf and uses sign language,  his wife Tina is unable to walk, I pick on him something awful but we are good friends.
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Lady in center was taken to Syracuse right after dinner with Heart Palpitations and unsteady on her feet, her Medicines caused most of her problems.
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Everyone talks a little loud for awhile but when they serve these full plates of food it gets quiet.
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We just had Bruce on the left just get out of the Hospital with Heart Problems, they put in his first Stent..
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Everyone was served in 10 minutes, we fed 40 People, 7 of these meals were put up and delivered to their apartments as they could not and did not want to come down and join us.
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The meal was delicious and  desert was Pumpkin, apple, custard,  pie and also Apple Crisp which I had.
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We are so Thankful, for our Health, Family and Friends and enjoyed our Thanksgiving here at West Side Terrace.
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Lots of Snow

We sure have been getting hammered with snow, hard to believe that Saturday we were walking around in T Shirts and Shorts and 65 degree weather but that all changed.
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We went from sitting outside to going inside and watching it snow.   We went to bed with nothing, and about 3 AM it started Snowing !
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We were on CBS NEWS this morning.  The first major snow storm of the season is sweeping through the Northeast. Dangerous conditions overnight sent drivers sliding off roads in New York state. Parts of the Northeast could see nearly 20 inches of snow by Tuesday morning. Tony Dokoupil reports from Watertown, New York.
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We got pounded with snow and wind.
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Looking out the back window towards our gardens, it really came down, Redfield New York got 40 inches of Snow, it is about an hour from us and higher elevation.  We got a lot of snow, about 2 feet so far.
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The Garbage Can outside has about 2 feet of snow on it so far.
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This year they are using a contractor with a large blower to clear the road and pavement areas tocut down of tearing up the lawns.
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We had a female Cardinal come in  to feed at the neighbors feeder along with a Junco during the morning.
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We had the Male Cardinal come to our feeder during thr snow storm and they came in and fed and left, didn't see them the rest of the day.
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This the snow drifts which blow down from the eves of the roof, and behind this pile and  drift is an apartment and it makes looking our difficult so Snow Rakes are used to clean the roofs of overhangs.
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This is the door we usually go in and as you can see it is "Snowed In" !  It was cleared out in the afternoon !
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In front of apartment there is almost no snow but back there is about 4 feet drifted in and the wind is out of the West coming in from the Great Lakes.
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I went outside but not for too long as it is hard to breathe with this COPD so I sometimes have to wear a breathing mask. The wind died down and sun came out for a few minutes but didn't stay out long !!
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My Honey making sure there is food in the Bird Feeders for our feathered friends. Pretty boring without them to watch.
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This is common up here in the North Country for Bedtime !
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Remember our Vets !

Storm has Arrived.

Went to bed last night with the Temps in the low 50's, window open, slight smell of someones Wood Stove  Smoke, that familiar Fall smell to the air from the leaves, quiet nite.
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Woke up around 4 AM and "There She Blows"  the winds were about 20 to 30 MPH and it was SNOWING and RAINING, the temp was 32 then 33 then 31 then 32.
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It would freeze and thaw but mostly stay wet as the black top is still warm.
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This picture was early morning after SNOW started to be all Snow and not mixed with rain.
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This is the difference between last night and this morning out back on the Patio !!!
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Out back at the Gardens and Grilling area they put away 1 grill for the Winter and they leave us die hards a grill to use over the winter and we do use it a lot.  This was at 9AM.
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Winds coming in from the West bringing in the snow !!
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Well the Storm is supposed to last till Monday night, so far we have about 3 - 5 inches of snow with more coming!!
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House is warm, lots of Food and Great Person to spend my time with !!!
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Everyone Take Care, Stay Healthy.  THINK SUMMER !!
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DON'T FORGET OUR MILITARY AND VETERANS ! 
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Fall Cleaning

Well, it was almost 70 degrees here on Saturday, November 19th, We both felt still a little run down but we jumped into an Apartment cleaning.
We rented a Carpet Cleaner and got home and dove into cleaning, I was no Speed Of Lightnng but I did get er done.
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Moved the furniture from one side of living room and I cleaned that carpet and Anna Mae cleaned the walls.
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It was nice and sunny and warm enough for shorts and windows open. Windows got a good cleaning.
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While the 1/2 of the living room carpet I cleaned is drying I went in and did the traffic areas in the Bedroom and the walls and windows got a good cleaning also.
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My room with the guitars was cleaned last night and we stored the kitchen table and chairs and carpet in there to get them out of the way.  We are looking for 2 chairs with wheels for the Dining Area like the ones I saw in Jacks new house on "Shipslog"!
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Now to move the furniture from the other side back onto the clean dry carpet and clean the other side.
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This is the hallway coming into our place and the carpet was cleaned and also cleaned out into the main hall way.
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Scrubbed the kitchen floor spotless but it really wasn't dirty.
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House cleaned and putting back in order so it's Ship Shape.  We have had had fantastic weather but that is going to change.  Today was almost 70 degrees.
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We have a Storm coming in from the West off the Great Lakes, we are supposed to start getting SNOW and possible a lot of it Tomorrow, right now the Temperature has dropped from 68 down 42 and gonna get worse as the day changes.
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If you find Watertown, Carthage is where we live and it is at the end of the *(N) in Watertown. 
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I do not like Day Light Savings Time, I like it lighter later, right now it is dark at 4:30PM.
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Don't forget, Remember the Vet !.

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