End of the day

Had a wonderful afternoon with Jason, Tracie and their family.

Tracie is a great cook. We not only had turkey but she prepared a lovely ham, too. Thanks Tracie it was great.

This is a picture of Josh and Hailey wearing the PJ's & Nightgown I made from fabric I found in Hawaii. I guessed right on the sizes, whew.

I taught the kids how to play 9 up. I don't think we played enough hands for them to really get the strategy of the game. Oh, well. Next time.

Time for a nap.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We are going to Jerry's son's house today for the Feast, so I spent the morning sewing. I had promised our Puppeteers that I would sew "Wise Persons" costumes for our three church puppets. That was three weeks ago. I was reminded yesterday that the puppets will be performing seven times in December and having a "dress" rehearsal Saturday. Yikes!! I whipped out three little Kingly robes this morning. Have to figure out what to do about crowns. One puppet is a "Cone Head" so she is a bit of a challenge.

Jhary spent the night last night. She is so quiet and doesn't need me to entertain her. We pick up Uma and Donald in about an hour. I'll take a pumpkin pie, a cherry pie, ice cream and almond roca (made with crackers - really quite good). I have always enjoyed going to Tracy's home as she is layed back and a fun person.

Listened to Christmas carols all morning. The season is upon us. Enjoy!

Old

You know you're getting old when you buy Sympathy cards in bulk. Three this month. They're dropping like flies.

Sunday already

My gosh! Where did that week go? Let's see....
Today we had our monthly Bonsai meeting. (We have to rush after church to get there.) They had a slide presentation of various Bonsai collections. Some in WA DC, Pennsylvania, Tailand and China. Every time they came to a Gingko they remarked about it. Guess I'm the only on in the group with one.
Yesterday was Red Hat Meeting. We had a lovely luncheon in the home of our Queen Emeritus and played bingo for a while. Came home to Uma trying to talk to Jerry. He figured out she was upset. I figured out it was because Donald had gone to a friends house and stayed the night. She didn't care for that. Because of the Apple Cup we were asked to babysit Jerry's granddaughters. They saw that I was making sleep wear for their cousins and decided that they wanted to sew some for themselves. I had enough flannel for one girl but not the other so we had to go to Joanns and get some more for Casey. She wanted border print like I found in Maui but we had none here in Spokane. We'll deal with it.
Friday I finally went to the Dr. about the itchyness in my eye. She determined that I did not pick up anything while in the crawl space but gave me a Rx just incase.
Thursday was Admin Board for the church. Had to leave early because with early dismissal at school for conferences, we have grandparent duty for a week. Hung the curtains I made of Casey's room. Went to see the Civic theatre's production of Mame.
Wednesday was sewing class, a performance by the Project Joy group I'm in and yoga. That makes for a very full day.
Tuesday I should have sewn but didn't. Met with the girls in my Spirituality Group. What a wonderful group. I'll tell you of them sometime.
Monday was our Evening Fellowship group (a small group of United Methodist Women). Since it was my turn for the Program, I invited Lynda Bowen my yoga instructor. We spent a heavenly 45 minuts learning relaxation tech. and giving mini massages to eachother. (I think that was a hit).
A week ago after church I attended the Interplayers production of Moon over Buffalo. A kick.
Gosh. I guess I have been busy.

Saturday

We have a not too tall crawl space under our unit. You can't stand straight up in it but you don't have to get on hands and knees either. Previous owners have installed a small forced air gas furnace and an airconditioner down there and I figured it would be a great place to store our "extra" stuff. Jerry's son installed a couple of hanging from the floor joist shelves and I have been meaning to start hauling bins of stuff from the storage shed (which only Jerry can get into because of the security door he installed) down to the more easily accessible crawl space. Today was the day. I took three bins of Jessica's music down and a bin of my summer cloths and a bin of "sewing room extras" (you know the kind of stuff you don't want to get rid of yet but don't have room for on the shelves).
While down there I noticed that the gas furnace exhaust pipe was loose. I mean this pipe went to the exterior wall where there is another pipe of equal size going through the foundation. The two ends of the pipe are exactly the same size. How did anyone expect them to connect? There was NO coupling attached to either end. With my great knowledge of "this old house" episodes I trotted off to the Hardware store and explained my dilemma to the man and he fixed me up with a PVC coupler and some cement. Back down the hole and tried to glue the pieces together. Well, PVC and gas pipe, although each has a 3" opening are different thickness of pipe - PVC being much thicker. The fitting would not fit (too big). But I had already applied glue so couldn't take the fitting or the glue back. Second trip to the Hardware store, this time with the section of pipe that goes through the foundation (it slips in and out quite readily). "OH! You need this kind of coupler" says the woman who helped us - didn't see the guy around at all. Got the rubber sleeve with the strap around it that you have to screw to tighten and the tool (not a screwdriver like I have a dozen of at home, but a 5/16" wrench jobbi on a screwdriver handle).
Back down the hole. Fuss, fuss, fuss. Have to work over my head, everything by Braille as there are pipes going in front of my line of sight, but it is done. My dad would be so proud of me. It is now quite sturdy all the way back to the furnace. I even stuffed some insulation around the pipe to keep beasties out of the crawlspace.

Went to see Flushed Away yesterday. A great movie for kids (and kids at heart).

computer woes

I got it in my mind that I wanted wireless access so I could be in my sewingroom and be able to access the web on my laptop, so Carrie's significant other came over last night with a Wireless-G router and commenced to install it. Should have been a 15 minut thing, right? Wrong. In the process some how my desk to blew out it's web card. Dave spent hours on the phone trying to find out from Comcast tech support what to do. He finally hooked Jerry's laptop directly to the internet and called it a night. He will be back this morning to finish installing the wireless router. In the coming while we must decide if it is worth getting our ten month old desk top a new web card (I'm for it - Jerry is not).
We have the most bad luck with computers. Jerry just bought a new lap top for Jessica in New York and Carrie as she is starting a PHd program soon and needed capacity, speed and reliability for her program. And then the computer we bought in January of 06 acts up.
I don't want to use the lap top as our "home" computer because it doesn't have spider solitair.
Whine.

Thursday

Granny would be so pleased. Tomorrow is her birthday and it is snowing today. She loved snow and looked forward to having the white stuff fall on or before her birthday.