Our boys in blue. I had an alarming morning. I was awakened at 8:29 by something that startled me. One of those sit straight up before you wake up kind of things. Poppy was sleeping on a blanket at the end of my bed, and she bounded off the bed and ran down the hall. I started to lie back down when the alarm and Poppy both went off at the same time. I didn't have motion set on the alarms, just the doors and windows, so someone had to tamper with a door or window to set it off, but Ring via Alexa said someone was at my side door. Thinking it was my daughter or grandson, I looked at Ring on my phone, and it didn't pick up a person, just motion. Poppy came running back into the bedroom. I hit the panic code on the bedroom panel, grabbed a robe, keys, and my phone, then went out the patio door to the fenced backyard to wait for the police. When they pulled up, they said there was a guy in my driveway who took off down the road when he saw their cars. One guy went to try to catch up with him and get info while we waited for another one to come through the house with the one that arrived first. Something was jammed into my deadbolt lock as if they had broken something in it. The policeman had to work to get it to move so that the key worked. It worked fine last night when my husband came home from the office. They checked the house, attic, and workshop and found nothing. Just glad that no one actually got into the house.

No one was hurt in the wreck that my son had last night. He was going down a four-lane road last night when a lady in the left lane veered over into his lane and hit him, forcing him onto the shoulder. The dents in this truck started in the center of its back door. Her Tahoe, on the other hand, had extensive damage from her front bumper being pulled off, a broken front passenger side light, her running board pulled off, and dents past her passenger side door where a child was sitting. My son said he was more concerned for the girl than the mother was. Thankfully, she was okay. The woman tried to tell him that he was in her "blind spot". He said, "Lady, you hit my truck almost 10 feet back. I was obviously ahead of you when you tried to swap lanes." She said she didn't see him there. Just grateful that no one was hurt.

I went out and picked all the good-sized tomatoes and peppers yesterday, while I was thinking about it before the hard freeze tomorrow night. I washed everything and let it air dry. I am wrapping the green tomatoes in brown paper and storing them in the closet under the stairs in the garage. We should be able to have ripe tomatoes for Thanksgiving and Christmas that way. I'll just have to lay some out to ripen a few days before the days. Today I am slicing and chopping all the beautiful peppers and freezing them for winter cooking.

My husband says that he feels better from the head and chest infection he had, but he feels like he still has some infection in his head. He had a well visit/diabetes checkup on Wednesday. They X-rayed his lung, and it was clear, but they called him to tell him that his white blood count was up a little, and they had called in some antibiotics and decongestants to try to get that completely cleared up before it comes roaring back. Glad he had the appointment when he did, or he would be down again shortly.

Had a long talk with my brother last night. We have been playing pnone tag for several days.