Enough said!
I woke up to the thought it’s National “How Do I Change the Clock on my Microwave” Day!
Today, we didn’t do much except have a late breakfast. Vicky supplied us with burritos yesterday while we were working, and we enjoyed them this morning.
I told Mary, “I have trouble with four-letter words: cook, wash, iron, dust.”
My first task of the day was to adjust seven clocks – three outside and four inside. I also replaced the batteries in all seven of them. Scout, my pet, watched me curiously as I climbed up and down the ladder in every room of the house. He seemed to be trying to figure out what I was up to!
Daylight Savings Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.
“Watcha up to Pops?”
When I tried to adjust the time on my grandfather clock, I discovered it was locked, and I didn’t have the key to open it. I hadn’t seen the key for the past 40 years. I decided to take matters into my own hands and used a large screwdriver to pry open the door. Luckily, there was only one screw holding the metal receiver in place so that I could open the door quickly.
Being born in the 1940s had an advantage especially when it comes to change the clock time!
Yes! It’s Daylight Saving Time. The clock in my car will finally be correct!
Dad bought this clock in the mid-1960s when he and I went to Europe!
We looked for the key at the bottom of the clock but found other goodies instead:
- A letter my father wrote to the clock store where he bought the clock in Switzerland requested some strings, and he even enclosed $2 to cover the cost, which was in 1968.
- A report card from Jeanette (my estranged daughter) when Sue and I put her through the last two years of college so she could have a good life; I haven’t talked to her in years for some reason only known to her.
- A picture of a dime store in Oklahoma in 1928 where my mother was working when she first met my father!
After the clocks were set, we watched a movie called The Book Club (the post-COVID series), which was hilarious and kept Mary and me laughing for 90 minutes.
The movie is about four best friends who take their book club to Italy for a fun girls’ trip they never had. However, things go off the rails, and secrets are revealed, turning their relaxing vacation into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
We decided to take it easy in the afternoon. Mary helped me clean the workbench, and we did laundry together.
Mary found her military uniforms, and we will get a picture of Captain Côté for the upcoming Starlighter’s Dance Club event, which is themed Veteran’s Day. We will miss it since we will be at sea with the kids!
We watched another movie. “The Covenant”, and at 7:30 p.m., we went to the office to do paperwork before bed.
The film, set in Afghanistan, centers on an Army Joint Terminal Attack Controller, or JTAC, named Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal). While deployed, Kinley is introduced to an interpreter named Ahmed (Dal Salim), who says he enlisted because he needs the money. It’s later revealed, however, that Ahmed’s motive is more personal: His son was killed by Taliban forces.
At 10:00 PM, Mary and I exchanged glances and concluded that it was time to take Scout out and prepare him for bed. Mary has her gym class scheduled for tomorrow, but she’s thinking of skipping it since she already got her exercise today!
