Alyssa finally got to have her Oktoberfest

I woke up this morning and did not feel much better than I did when I went to bed last night; in fact, I spent the majority of the first hour I was up on the toilet. I did make myself a couple eggs, veggie sausages and orange, raisin and nut toast for breakfast.

After eating I cleaned up the kitchen, Kathleen had made some bread yesterday and so there was quite a lot of things that needed cleaning. I am also trying to keep the counters a little cleaner.

After finishing cleaning, I went into the living room to read the paper. While I was reading the paper, I heard a voice on the front porch, so I opened the front door and there was the mail carrier talking on his cell phone.

After finishing the paper and the mail, I went outside and trimmed the irises that I split the other day. Then I put a couple dozen in a bag to give to Tami. I wanted to get it done today, as we would see them either at Alyssa's Oktoberfest or tomorrow at church.

Kathleen was still not feeling very well and we had almost decided not to go to Alyssa and Dan's, but then about 1500 Kathleen said that she felt well enough to go so we took off. We had a good time, I think almost half of the people there were us and our children and their families.

There were also two guys there from Boeing, one was an uncle of Dan's, his mother's brother, and the other was the father of Natalie's best friend from pre-school. Dan's uncle had retired shortly after I did and the other one was hired back after a layoff. So it was fun to get caught up on what was going on with them.

We left about 1800 as both of us were getting tired and it was a dark rainy night that made for a long ride home. I do not envision much of anything else happening tonight, so I will say my good night now.