The trees started their fall colors about the time we got home. The peak of this year’s colors was Friday. It was warm, cloudy, and humid. The colors were vibrant, with may views of yellow against red and green. Friday night, a strong front came through with quite a squall. It spawned a small tornado that took down a 50-foot wall at an Amazon warehouse, and a second small tornado that pulled some roofs of in Carrol County. Needless to say, plenty of leaves also came down. But the colors still look pretty good today.

We were scheduled to attend a neighborhood party this weekend, but it was cancelled due to lack of interest. We volunteered at a Church dinner. It was pretty much a disaster. There weren’t enough dining room volunteers. We were running around trying to plug holes and put out fires. Attendance was higher than anticipated. They ran out of dinners. They ran out of salads. They ran out of deserts. They ran out of order pads. (We didn’t have paper to write the orders on.) They even ran out of trash bags. As soon as the last of the crowd was settled, Danita and I left and went to Jason’s Deli for our dinner. Needless to say, we didn’t make a dinner donation.

We’re getting closer to catching up from our vacation. Our Verizon contract for internet, phone, and TV expires 11/29. They want to raise our monthly fee from $92 to $125. That includes more bandwidth, but we don’t put any strain on our existing 50 mbps service. I plan to switch Verizon to internet only. I purchased an Ooma internet telephone device. It’s set up and working. I have started the process of porting our home phone number. I also purchased an antenna pre-amp because one of the UHF stations Danita likes to watch doesn’t come in very well without it. I did some tests with the pre-amp, and found it to be an excellent device at what I thought was a very reasonable price.

The car needs servicing. The dishwasher has to be installed. Bud ordered a suit which has to be tried on and picked up (for dinners on our upcoming cruise). The list is getting shorter.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.