Mmmm November and our Christmas Cactus blooms,

Very pretty pinkish blossoms, lots of buds, very delicate.

Also, we attended a Gratitude Banquet in Bandon Saturday night.
There were about 200 people there, we had lasagna, salad and coffee and dessert.  Oh and baskets of stuff got raffled.

One of the speakers was a woman who talked about her alcoholism and how after years she had a moment of clarity and decided that her  plan to drink for two weeks thinking it would break her drug habit was NOT a good idea.  She attended a meeting.  She kept going back because she knew there was no other help for her.  She has been clean and sober for several years now and she was grateful.  She got a standing O.  You had to be there, it was a pretty darned good speech.

Yesterday I  was watching Bobby Flay's Throw Down.  He was in Texas cooking chicken fried steak and milk gravy.  I couldn't stand it any longer, today I purchased some cube steak that had been nicely tenderized, fried it up and boiled some potatoes and had milk gravy to go over the meat and taters.  Dang that tasted good for supper.  Tasted even better as a late night snack....urp...scuze me.

Thirdly, the weather has been very wet all of a sudden.. what!?  Its Oregon in the fall.  Rained like a cow peeing on a flat rock for an HOUR, then tapered off.  Wear your raincoats when you go out!