GOOD MORNING MAGNOLIAS 
Wonder where in cyber space is my post from yesterday or did I just think I posted and spaced it. Hummm. It is currently 82 and fixn' to get up to 103 this day. I got my 3 in one village building done and it turned out better than I had visioned. I put scalloped copper around the roof edges and that really set it off. I made little signs to put above each of the shop windows to tell what they are. One end says Beauty Shop and the other end says Barber Shop with that little pole and the middle says General Store. Will told me he never ever wants me to quit cutting glass. I cut out a court house last evening. It is the one that was built back in the 1800’s, that I had made a pattern for, and is still in use in the northern CA area where we once lived. My goodness there was a lot of windows to cut out. It will be a fun one to have in my village. I will build a Police Station and Jail combination building next I think. Will is going to put up another couple shelves up for the ones I am building now for the two that are up are full. If Michaels still has the little Christmas lights I will solder some hooks around the roofs and decorate the buildings for the season. I have about 6 buildings that have lights around the roofs but will need more. It really looks very festive with the lights all lit during the Christmas season. After I get my village built I think I will gather up the materials and tools and make some high fa-lootin dolls. I really want to make some and that would be a good time to start them ~ before I start a new glass project. Yikes I do go on. Did I totally bore you with all of that?
My goodness this cat is getting big. He totally fills up his butt hut and is taller than Beanie. Cecil isn’t even a year old yet so has more growth even yet to do. He is such a character. He will stay outside after dinnertime till it is time for us to go to bed then we call him and he comes up to the storm door but won’t come in till we close it and he can come through the doggie door. Beanie does the same thing. When we are going inside he waits till the door shuts and he uses the doggie door. Ole Mopp will come through the door as we are going into the house. It sure didn’t take Cecil long to figure out that little door meant “freedom” to come and go as he pleases.
JEAN Sounds like you have fun with family plans. Isn't it wonderful to have family close and with fun things to do.
DONNA FAYE Oh my, I have never had rubbery Scallops ~ that would be terrible. No wonder you don't like them for the ones you had must have been old ~ not in age of the scallop but freezer old. Maybe what you had were not scallops at all but look alikes cut from Sea Skates. I really like scallops and shell fish also and "fresh" is the key to good fish. We don't buy any fish locally except through Schwan's. My favorite fish is Red Snapper. It is so yummy and mild.
I hope all is well with you Magnolias ~ type at y’all late ~
Looks like it is nice and cool there though!
I hope it is cooler for you today; I'm sending it your way. I'm sending positive thoughts that the brace will help Jack's knee and he will be in good shape for vacation. I will be anxious to hear about the mountain climbing! Your sweater turned out great! 
Thanks for sharing the pictures. 
We eat corn-on-the-cob with anything. 
The season is so short that we overdose on it. 
There is a new Italian restaurant, in Spencer, that we drive by on our way to the lake. I'm anxious to try it sometime. OG is my most favorite Italian place to eat, so the new one will have to measure up.
I usually just buy a 1/2 melon so I can see what the inside looks like. I've never made a cantaloupe smoothie. I don't make smoothies very often because I don't like digging the blender out, then washing it, and putting it away. I should make myself do it more often. The gift shop is closed on holidays and so is the coffee shop. We don't have nearly the business we used to when it was separate from the coffee shop; we used to have more space and so had more merchandise to display. The goofus who moved us is long gone because he couldn't keep his pants up! 
yesterday ~ not enough to amount to anything but clear the air which “was” something. I have some things I must do before starting another building. The court house turned out nice and is all finished waiting for Will to put up more shelving. But next I think I will build that police station/jail ~ I have some black glass that will work well for that. Then I will need to order some more supplies for I will be out of solder and some other needful items. I have to keep a close watch on Cecil when he is in here now for he has grown a curiosity about my glass works. He hasn’t yet bothered anything but he gets his nose very close. It appears that he enjoys sitting on the table beside my grinder to watch me work at grinding glass edges smooth. Watch is all he has done so far. I hope that is far as he gets and doesn’t decide to help me out. He has so far 
: I will just keep “keepin’ on” this week and hope for a loss at the coming Monday meeting. I do keep track and know if I have blown it during the week and my last week looked good.
and it was still hot. AH but now we are down lower. That heat ceiling must have moved away. When the fresh corn is no longer in the markets we get the Schwans frozen kind which is very good. They are little about 4 inches and good as fresh. 
Sun rise has been a minute later every few days, then will stay the same for a a couple days. Sometimes I will shut Ernie out of the room if I am ironing because he likes to sit on the end of the board and look out the window. He will scratch at the door or gets his paw underneath and jiggle it. He doesn't like closed doors; Jason didn't shut the bedroom door tight the other night and Ernie paid him a visit before he was awake. 
Heartland. Cats are funny creatures aren't they. Very entertaining to say the least. When my bathroom door is open Cecil gets behind it and sticks his paws under it and swats Beanie as much as he can reach. Those paws dart in and out and what a hoot. Cecil likes the bedroom door shut when he wants to go in there to nap on the bed. In fact he demands that I shut it. 