Beautiful cold weather.

The past few days have been bright and beautiful. Then we had to bring all of our plants in at night. Yesterday our neighbor and I carried the cuttings of our rose bushes to his house across the street. He has a small trailer that he hooks to his riding mower. I used his pitchfork and loaded the trailer twice. He took it to his large yard where I used the pitchfork to unload it. He will burn it in a couple of weeks. He did almost knock me down when he tried to back up. We did some preparations for Saturday's football party and then dressed to go to the last ballroom dance of the season. We had a good time but left early because Evelyn's hips began to ache. This morning I was up early and dumped the chili we had made a couple of weeks ago into a large pan and slowly heated it. I also heated the boudin while Evelyn went back to Belk to see if she could find another bra like the one she found there Thursday. She couldn't, so she came home and we continued preparations. We had invited our neighbors, Gary and Linda and Andy and Adele, along with Brent and Susan Ramsey for a chili lunch and football party. We had several things to dispose of before we leave. I also had several bottles of beer that I can't transport to Texas. The guests accommodated us by drinking all the beer and 2 bottles of wine. We watched Purdue barely beat Illinois and then watched some of the game in which Nebraska mauled Minnesota. We had planned to go to the final square dance in NC, but Evelyn was tired so we stayed home. I also got a call from NCL and I scheduled us for a cruise to the southern Caribbean on October 24, 2012. It will be an 11 day cruise and will delay our departure for Texas because we will not return until November 4. I think I have nearly finished packing the trailer with a week to go. We will leave a day earlier than originally planned so we can attend Tom's 49^th birthday party.