Good morning to everyone. Same old story, hot, hazy and humid here. We had a thunder boomer last night with some heavy rain but it didn't last long.

Susan: Glad you can now make sounds again. When you taught yourself to make socks, what did you use initially to learn, just a pattern or a tutorial? I would really like to get one pair done for Thomas's birthday, but I am struggling a bit with the tutorial as it isn't really a pattern. I keep having to take the sock out (top down) because I have lost a stitch or something. Guess I am just going to have to keep going until I get it right.

Jean: I love to make homemade banana bread but Jack won't eat it so I rarely make it. Many a time I have thrown away too ripe bananas that would have been perfect for bread. The yarn I bought for the sweaters was the only thing I could find in a sport weight that wasn't pastel colors. It knits up unusual with it having elastic in it and you have to really look to see the stockinette stitch so it will be something different for them both. Hope you have fun when you go to Minnesota this weekend. Jack wants to go up there next summer for a Cubs game then go to Mall of America again, but I don't know. I think we have kaboshed a big vacation for next year again as I have things I want to do like buy a new car for one and I want to put a big down payment on it. We shall see what little trips we plan for next year. For this year, I am looking forward to going to see the baby over the fourth and then going to the Cubs game in Houston in September. Our trips for this year, I guess.

Maggie: The kids sent me a little video of Jackson and his birthday cake from his party over the weekend. She made him a little cake shaped like a baseball and he had on his little party hat and was eating with his hands. Someone in the background said he was doing really well with the cake and about that time, he leaned over and put his face in it and you heard all the adults laugh. Well, it scared him and he started crying. His mom and dad could be heard telling him it was ok they were just laughing, but he would have none of it. Don't know what happened after that as the video ended. I can't believe he is one already. I remember last year all nervous on Sunday when they called at 5 then getting half way there and they called and said she had the baby while we were going through the Wendy's drive through. Are you a hot coffee drinker or iced coffee? I dispise coffee and coffee flavor in anything. I do like the smell of it being made though and I like the coffee spice cookies my grandma used to make.

Well, the laundry is calling me. I am doing sheets today as well as a regular load and the first load is finished washing so I better hop to it.

Have a wonderful Tuesday and keep cool!
Faye

Good evening, ladies. Another hot humid day. Supposed to be only in the high 80s tomorrow.

Faye, wonder where everyone is? I started knitting on a sock (top down) and had to restart several times before I got the right number of stitches consistently. Do you know how to back knit? I was reading "Embroidered Truths" and she gives tips in with the story (set in a craft store). She talked about doing back knitting instead of knit 2 pearl 2 (or whatever) for ribbing. It sounded like it would work but I'm not sure I understand. I'll have to experiment a little over the weekend. I'll bet you are counting the days until you get to see baby Jack.

I went to quilt guild tonight. We had our covered dish and I really ate too much. I feel stuffed. Good thing I went to work out before going. I've been invited to join 2 more quilting bees and I accepted both. So I'll have 2 quild meetings and 3 bees every month. That should keep me busy!

Have good night - I'm off to bed.

Good morning to you all! Hope your Wednesday is starting out fine. We have another electrical issue with the same light that caused the upstairs to go dark before. It has those 5 years bulbs in it, but when I turned on the light it popped, but then I turned it off and back on and it is popping each time so there is another electrical issue somewhere. I told Jack I am going to put tape over the switch to remind us not to turn it on until we get someone in here as I don't want to cause a possible fire. We have another light in the bedroom we can use until then.

Susan: Sounds like you are going to be having lots of fun with the quilting. Good for you. I am waiting for lots of pictures of Jackson at Wrigley field last night in his little outfit. We watched the game, but of course they only panned the pretty women with their boobs hanging half out and not my grandson! lol Oh and I forgot, they kept focusing on some stupid woman in the front behind home plate that has bright bubblegum pink hair she had pulled up and it looked like she has a head full of feathers. I told Jack I thought I would look cute with pink hair and he said to go ahead! :lol: Nothing I do will shock him, I guess. I just hope they all had fun. I am sure they did as the Cubs won 10-5.

Jean: Hope the "poopy" day is behind you and today is much better. I am supposed to get my dil's UPS package today that has her birthday stuff in it. Kohl's was having this big sale and I didn't know what to get her this year so I bought her three sets of really nice towels in poppy, pumpkin, and a rust color, two bottles of some fancy pants fabric and air freshner and then a bath set with body wash and stuff like that. They sent one bottle of the air stuff by itself and it arrived yesterday in this huge box. It is about the size of a flask size whiskey bottle. I am pulling out tons of plastic bags trying to find the darn thing in this huge box. I see this morning all the rest of the stuff is going to be delivered today. Wonder why they just didn't wait the one stupid day and send it all together. Her birthday isn't until July 21, but I couldn't resist getting $29 bath towels for $3.15 apiece!!!! If they get here and I don't feel they are up to my dil's standard, I will just keep them and go and get her some here in town.

I am going to try and tackle the tub upstairs today. It sure gets grubby fast with Jack's work "dirt." Time's a wastin' so better get to chores.

Hope to see everyone in here today!
Faye

Good afternoon! A cool 83 degrees at 1 pm. I sure was ready for the heat to stop for awhile.

Jean, hope your day is going better than yesterday! Unfortunately some days are like that. We had a hard drive crash in one of our computers so that was waiting for me and it's been all down hill since. Can't wait for Friday the 13th!

Faye, you always get the best bargains! If you make your hair bubblegum pink, I'll do mine lime green. Is it a deal?