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(Day 939 IP) 45°F.
Overnighting in the garage
This week, I have been awaking before sunrise so as to have time to my self before going into the ministry. Each day afterwards, I return home to continue working on the Quire pages; completing the updating of Quire Three just this morning and continuing with Quire Four.
Each Quire, once all of the links are working correctly, will be so noted by marking that Quire with Revision Three in the Completed Quires section of the Online Journal page. The webmaster had been doing this but he left for Mexico right after the Hall was completed.
So meanwhile, it will be up to myselƒ to make the corrections until I arrive there and he can again provide help.
(Day 941 IP) 31°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Upon walking outside last night, the sky was clear with Jupiter rising and the air was cold. Upon arising this morning, there is a light layer of frost on the ground but the sky is still clear.
The moon is high in the south and Venus is below to the southeast. Jupiter is high in the west.
(Day 942 IP) 29°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Upon awaking this morning, I look up an see the slight glow above the garage door and know that it is well into sunglow. I press a button on my phone and find that it is six-fifteen so I get up to look at the moon and the planets. Jupiter is in the west descending while the waning moon is four
hands high in the southeast and just above twenty percent. To the east and closer to the horizon but very bright is Venus and below that is Saturn which is barely visible.
From my sky app I see that in the following weeks, Venus will be lower each day while Saturn will rise each day with a conjunction on the 26 and 27 of this month.
This is a must see for sky gazers and despite the full moon on the 28th, the moon will be setting at that time with Jupiter hanging just above on the western horizon, so if the night sky is clear, then the conjunction of planets will be visible.
If you want to see this event, be outside by six a.m. (or five-thirty if you have an unobstructed view of the horizon.) If you wait until seven, it will be gone.
(Day 943 IP) 30°F.
Overnighting in the garage
I sleep in today, at least until seven and upon arising notice an eastern sky fraught with clouds. I go inside to make coffee and work on my journal. Also, I set up the bird feeders for some photos and while standing at the kitchen window at nine making my third cup see a humming bird stop briefly, looking to eat.
As he stops, he turns to look at me in the window and then a moment later he is gone.
Since the temperature has dropped to below freezing each morning, it would be a good time to set up the feeders for some bird photography.
I do not have to wait very long before numerous birds begin visiting my feeders and when the rufus hummingbird returns and I am able to get one photo of him.
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Rufus Hummingbird
Also, many more different bird begin coming to my feeders including:
juncos,
chickadees,
sparrows, a
hairy woodpecker and soon after a male
starling.
(Day 945 IP) 39°F.
Overnighting in the garage
I arise at six-thirty again and go into my home to shower and have breakfast. I have been taking my weight loss nutritional supplement each day, now going on two weeks, and have notice that my belt is getting longer.
Just before seven am, I drive to the hall to meet with the early morning service group and we drive to bus stops, parking lots and fishing spots. At nine, we return to the hall to meet with the regular morning service group and continue in service until twelve-thirty pm. This has become my schedule for Monday, Tuesday and Friday so that I can accomplish my goal to continue in the auxiliary ministry.
In the afternoons, I spend time working on the updating of my web site of which I hope to have the third revision (correcting the links) complete by the first of December. Then in December, I will begin on the fourth revision (updating the cascading style sheet and bringing the web site into sync with the style sheet) and hope to have the forth revision done before the spring equinox next year.
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At about four this afternoon, Cheryl calls to invite me for supper tonight with her and Mark. Stoping on the way, I acquire a bottle of wine and a bag of flaming lime Cheetos to share. Upon arriving at just before six, I walk into the office and see Mark and Max both sitting there. Mark begins to tell me the stories of their vacation and how he finds an alcoholic beverage that he likes.
I am shocked because in all the years I have known Mark, I have never known him to drink any drink with alcohol. Soon, we go into the fifth wheel for some barbecue wings, baked potatoes, salad and more stories about their vacation. After the meal, Cheryl tells me that she has begun reading Episode One and I ask her what revision it is. She says that she does not know but gets the book and we find that it is revision 22, the one I gave to Margie, Mark′s mother.
When Mark′s mother was still alive, I had given her a copy of the current version which she read and then put on her bookshelf. Later after she died, Mark brought the book home and put it on his bookshelf.
Finally, Cheryl found it and began to read it. So, I tell Cheryl that I wanted to give her a copy of the book, with the latest revision number 28 and tell her that I will print a copy, have it bound and give it to her as soon as I can.
The evening ends and I drive home, park in the garage and hit the sack.
(Day 946 IP) 37°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Awaking now at six-thirty am on my own, not needing an alarm; I have been using my phone as an alarm on prior mornings. Up to step through my routine: shower, shave, supplements, coffee, food and donning my service clothes, however, I repeat the coffee step three times this morning. Then at five til seven, I drive to the hall and meet with the early morning service group.
In a repeat of yesterday, we look for those who are up and moving about at this time; waiting at a bus stop, leaving a store, walking the dog, or just hanging out. When we stop at the city beach, we find several people, one woman who readily accepts the magazines and thanks Bodena for them.
(Day 946 IP) 39°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Just another day awake at six-thirty and going through the routines. The only difference is that today I will stay home to work on the web site and later run some errands. Also at ten am, I have to open the hall for an RBC brother to work on the doors.
It is after ten am when I get a call to remind me to be at the hall and I rush over there, greet Mark from Marysville and help him with correct the several discrepancies in the interior and exterior doors. At two pm, we pack out our tools and leave for home.
Leaving the Hall, I stop at the bank to make the congregation deposit, then to the post office and finally to the market to get some groceries. Coming out of the market I see Mark who has just bought some safflower oil and a couple other items. We talk briefly and then say goodbye again. Arriving home, I fix my dinner and then get ready for the meeting tonight.
(Day 951 IP) 42°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Up early, long before the sunrise, in the early sunglow and begin my Bible study during which I have coffee and my cereal. The study discussed parables which are about the need to keep up my spiritual study and the work assigned to Christians today. During the study, there is a reference article about a day in the life of a missionary which is especially encouraging to me.
After finishing the study, I look up and see that there is one hour before the meeting starts so after dressing, leave for the Hall. I meet Maureen, a sister who is coming back to the meetings after being away for a long time. I tell her that all in the congregation will be glad that she has made that decision.
After returning home I begin to work some on my web site and get a call from the man that has shown interest in buying my mobile home. He called to ask me if I would consider lowering my price and I did. He seems to be glad with the new price and says that he will be in contact with me soon. He also mentioned that he would be needing the home as soon as possible but I told him that I need until the end of November to pack up my things.
That is only twelve days from now and I know that I can be out of here in that time. I just hope that all goes smooth with the sale; and most importantly, that he does buy my home.
(Day 952 IP) 45°F.
Overnighting in the garage
The entire north-Wet is getting a pounding of rainfall for several days now and so far the rain garden at the Hall is holding up; it hasn′t overflowed the final spillway out of the retention pond. However, both rain gardens were full and water was flowing over each spillway, more so on the east rain garden which catches the water from the road.
This was the condition at about two pm when the service group returned to the Hall from service. At that time, the rain has abated which should allow the ground to soak up a lot of the water in the ponds.
I have heard that during this time of the year, it is always this wet and then later, during December or January, it dries up quite a bit. Still, I hope it dries up sooner this year and we get some warmer days, maybe an Indian summer. That would be nice.
(Day 953 IP) 46°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Awake today to a typical overcast morning and get ready for early service. As we go about town looking for those who could use a magazine or two the sun comes out and it is ever so bright. Today stays mostly clear with the moon bright in the sky, now in the first quarter. After service, Matt who is here from Guam shows up at the hall and asks if I would go to lunch with him. I suggest that we go to a Mexican restaurant and he readily agrees, saying the he does not get good Mexican food in Guam.
Later I go home and Spider, the man who wants to buy my home shows up and we talk some more. Yes, the details of the sale is progressing and I mention the need for a down payment. Earlier, I mailed the park owners a letter of intent to sell and to transfer the lease to the new owner, a notice which is required by both the lease agreement and state law. Now, we just have to wait for the owners to respond. I suppose that if the owners do not mess it up, then I could be out of this mobile home and free from the encumbrance of home ownership and all the entanglements associated with it. When would that happen? Possible as early as the first week in December. The exuberance has caused me to be beside myselƒ but if I have learned anything in this extremely long, nearly a thousand day wait, it is not to let myselƒ get excited about something that has not yet happened.
This excited feeling is great, especially since all the depressing rain of late. However, never can I allow it to start making excuses to stop going out in the ministry. Still, when I come home after service, I get busy with the final packing and organizing of my things into the bins. Also, in the next few days, I will be moving the bins out of the mobile and into storage in Mark′s attic above his garage. Once that is done, then I will be ready for what ever happens with the sale.
(Day 954 IP) 43°F.
Overnighting in the garage
Today is only one month before the winter solstice which occurs on the 21st day of December this year. That will be the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. Interestingly, the day is shorter the farther north one travels, even to the point when the traveler reaches the Arctic circle. At that latitude on the day of the winter solstice, the sun does not climb above the horizon. Conversely, during the summer solstice on the Arctic Circle, the sun never sets. This is what is called, the midnight sun and on the Arctic Circle is a one day event happening only on the winter solstice. Further north, the number of days of midnight sun increases. The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude.
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Due to the quickly shortening of the daylight here, I hope to soon be much farther south than where I am now, a little ways above the forty-eighth northern latitude; or to be more precise, 48°18′ 34.2″ N., 122°38′ 41.8″ W. Yes, this is exactly where Episode Four began, looking out the same window at the same landscape some fourteen hundred and twenty three days ago. Too, this is when the Big Day started, the one to Day the 1369 days left until social security would begin and I have yet to receive my first check.
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