Cautiously Optismistic

 We're old school.  Unabashedly so.  We still like our Tivo.  And it works great for us.  I think I might have lamented that the two mini-units we had died.  It all came to a point-of-no-return that miserable day we tried to hook up a new Tablo (which didn't work and was returned to Best Buy).  We've been limping along with our main Tivo (hooked up to the wifi not the ethernet) in The Husband's office.  We've been spending our evenings there watching things we've recorded.  

I am postponing as long as possible our eventual acceptance of streaming everything.  For now, we both much prefer our Tivo.  But recently The Husband received an email from Tivo advertising a discount on their mini-lux which supposedly works with our series of Tivo base unit.  Taking a chance, we ordered. 

It was shipped FedEx.  Miraculously, it was delivered as promised.  We unboxed it, and in a little while The Husband had it set up, connected with our main unit, paired the regular tv remote so we only have to keep track of one remote and we are up and running.  So far.  I am hopeful and cautiously excited that we've solved one of life's little annoyances.  

I was ready to stand and dance a jig when it appeared it was working.  It's been kind of irritating to not be able to pause the tv while we pray over our meals.  (Yes, we do watch tv when we're eating.  Life would be strange without Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy.) I know in the overall scheme of things this truly isn't important.  That doesn't change how much having it again impacts our overall life enjoyment for the better.

LOTS of leaves.

Went to a movie yesterday:  the latest version of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.  Even 24 hours later I'm still conflicted about it.  It did check one of my mandatory boxes:  a happy ending.  Still a bit uncomfortable with other aspects.  But it was a decent enough way to spend an afternoon.  Next Tuesday will be another movie and then the following Tuesday is the one I'm most excited about - Wicked (part one).  If the play were being produced anywhere near here, I'd be getting tickets and seeing it again.  I tried without success to read the book.  But the play is a favorite of mine (aside from the scene at the school with all the animals, somehow that particular part just rubs me wrong). 

And the picture?  The trees have finally begun to lose their leaves.  All of a sudden.  The yard (front and back) has a covering of leaves, but as is noticeable, there is still a large percentage of them left on the trees.  We'll be raking over the next while as much as possible.  (And with luck 😁 - just kidding - the wind will blow a bunch of them away so we won't have quite so much to rake.) 

So I'm grateful today that not only did FedEx not lose our package, but we were able to use the contents to enhance our lives.  I am so very grateful for cooler temps, working furnaces and a pork roast in the slow cooker to provide dinner for tonight and probably a couple days beyond.  I'm grateful for somewhere to go tomorrow, even if it's only a quick-ish errand, for glue on my clogs to wear on Saturday (the storehouse that's hard on a body) and for hope that the new finance guys will be better than the previous ones.  It'll be nice to have everything all in one place.