Share Four Somethings - February 2024

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There's almost a week left in the month, but this is the last Saturday, and so I'm taking a little to  share Something Loved, Something Accomplished, Something Improved Upon, and Something Noticed.  I added Something Read and What's Coming Up Soon at the end, because those are bonus features I like and I've become used to sharing those as well.

Something Loved (and/or Disliked)

I have loved seeing some beautiful sunrises and sunsets recently. However, I dislike that I can never take pictures, because I see them on my drive to and from work! I also dislike when it seems like I'm driving directly into the sun on the horizon and I just hope that my retinas won't be singed and that everyone will drive properly so there's no accidents! Last weekend I happened to see this sunset while I was at home and though it wasn't the most spectacular one I've seen, at least I wasn't driving!

At the beginning of the month, we spent a day at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, to celebrate our daughter-in-law's birthday. It's a really interesting place, and we loved exploring and discovering all the inventions and innovations that come from this small city.

The cash register was invented, patented, improved, and marketed from Dayton. And the same company, National Cash Register, also gave us bank teller machines and ATMs and modern electronic scanning registers too. And a lot more! Carillon Historical Park also has a train museum and a living history town of historical buildings.

Something Accomplished

We checked another restaurant off our "eat here" list, and tomorrow we'll check off another one since we have plans to go out to lunch with friends. Last weekend I was craving Asian food, so we got takeout from Chi Thai and it was delicious. I tried something completely new too - Ka-Thong Ton. It's these little rice pastry cups filled with chicken and ground peanuts. They were so pretty and tasted really good too.

Something Improved Upon

I don't know that there was a huge improvement of our retirement plan and financial situation, but I feel a lot better about it! We met with the investment advisor for my husband's retirement funds through his work and crunched numbers and made a plan. Since I switched to full time, my retirement plan contributions and benefits begin in March, so that will count as an improvement too. 

Something Noticed

On our walk in Dayton, we noticed this tiny bird's nest, and a huge nest which was home to a Bald Eagle pair raising a family! It wasn't easy to get a decent picture of the eagle, but I tried. We also noticed a Pileated Woodpecker. You don't realize how big they are until you see them!

One week when I was grocery shopping, I noticed this huge empty space where the produce and bakery items usually are. All the movable shelves had been moved out of the way, I guess so that they could polish the floors? 

Something Read

Here are the books I'm currently reading:

A Fatal Illusion by Anna Lee Huber

Ticker by Lisa Mantchev

Wimpy Weak and Woke by John L. Cooper

I recently finished and reviewed:

The Matrimonial Advertisement by Mimi Matthews

The Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

All of my reading news is at Just A Second if you're interested.

What's Coming Up Soon?

Next weekend our granddaughter will be sleeping over with us! I'm thinking we'll need to start conserving our energy now so we'll be able to keep up with her!

The following weekend I have private voice instruction session scheduled through the Chorus. I'm excited about it, but I guess a bit nervous too. 

We're starting to make plans for when the Maryland kids visit next and I'm very excited about that!

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