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I did Go to the Library and Get My Card, Take Two this morning. It went beautifully. Of course, once I got into the library I kinda got sucked into a black hole. I found the Chris Van Allsburg books in the children's area and of course had to revisit those. They didn't have "The Stranger", but they did have the Harris Burdick one. Seriously one of the best books ever.

Got a book on knitting at the library and went to Hidden Treasures to see if they had a pair of knitting needles. They had. Went and got some money from the bank to get them. $2. At least I'm reusing someone else's needles rather than going to Wal-Mart for new ones. Right? ;-)

"What Would Jesus Buy" is really making me think a lot about just how commercial we are - even me, who doesn't have TV to give me a lot of commercial exposure. Dan is pretty good about just not buying things. He likes to buy local produce and avoid Asian-manufactured products as much as possible. Obviously, you can't totally cut that out of your life because there's so little made here anymore. But the less we support it, the better off the country will be. Reverend Billy is extreme and perhaps a bit crazy, but he wasn't afraid to make himself heard, anyway. I need to finish watching it today.

So I came home and got the laundry going while I made six more jars of applesauce. The goal is 30 jars of applesauce. Not sure how many we have so far but probably about half that. Not sure what on earth we're going to do with the rest of the apples. Maybe juice? I'd enjoy that.

I need to make the bed and get going on a few more doll dresses today. So much to do.

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Our neighbours on the left of us are apparently moving out. They have hired a moving company to move them.

Yesterday the truck was parked out there. I saw neither hide nor hair of those movers most of the day. Perhaps they were inside packing. I do not know.

I'm sceptical of this, because instead of a regular, steady stream of items or boxes being removed from apartment to truck, I saw maybe six things transported.

Today I saw them take smoke breaks at least five times. They took a lunch break. They sauntered in and out of the apartment. Again they barely moved anything.

If I was paying a company to move me and it took them two days to move a fourth of what we moved in ONE DAY, I would be kind of irritated. Granted, we had help and our boxes were already packed. But we loaded a U-Haul, moved, and unloaded the U-Haul all in one day. I think it's ridiculous that three movers need to take this long.