Good morning to you ladies! We got the shopping done, but whew what a nightmare! I think every retired person was in that store yesterday. It was bumper to bumper traffic or shall I say cart to cart traffic. We had to stand in line about 15 minutes. The line snaked out through the back of the store and most of them were retired people. We came home and put everything away then went to Super Target and got what the commissary didn't have.

I have a couple errands to run today then I am done with that. I didn't get my cleaning done on the list yesterday so have to tackle the floor mopping today and I guess just combine up and downstairs dusting tomorrow so I stay caught up.

Jean: I bought Jackson a little zip up hoodie with pumpkins and stuff on it for Halloween then ordered him a couple t-shirts, a pair of jeans and a Notre Dame jogging suit from Target online. I had to confess to Jack that I bought an arch enemie's college team for the baby, but they are huge Notre Dame fans. I am done now with Jackson's Christmas except to round out his stocking stuffers. The little bowling set came yesterday and it is so cute. Jack said he thinks Jackson will like it, but will probably throw the penguins with the ball! I bought these cute Christmas decorations at Lakeside online. They are canoes with snowmen in them and they are paddling. You can order them up to 5 snowmen per canoe, so I bought two canoes with 4 each for the family. You can then write their names in marker on the canoes. It is really cute.

Susan: I am not much of a muffin eater and only had one tiny piece of the garlic toast. I do like their french dressing though, but I am sure it is high in fat. I still have the little Koala bear we bought for Jay when he was a baby. We lived near San Diego and went to the zoo there and they had these tiny little stuffed bears. We named him Scotty because I used to buy the little individual butterscotch puddings for him and he would feed the bear pudding. He has a hard place right between his eyes where the pudding hardened. Scotty now is blind in one eye, but he is clean and well cared for. I showed him to Jay when they were here right after the baby was born. Kelly was the blanket girl. She had a blanket that she kept until it became tatters. Those bear heads with the blankets attached you can knit. I have the pattern for them.

Maggie: Sounds like your glass work is moving right along again. I am sure you enjoy being able to do it again. Kelly sent me a link to a pic of the little girl I made the hat for wearing it and I can't get it to open. I get an error message saying I am not authorized so I emailed Kelly about it. I haven't heard back from her.

I guess I better get going. I need to unload the dishwasher. I have it full of those silicone baking pieces. I should be set with baking it came with 2 baking sheets, muffin tin, bunt pan, 2 8" square pans, a 9 X 13 pan, 2 round cake pans and 2 bread pans. We shall see soon how well they work.

Have a great Saturday!
Faye

Good morning, ladies! The sun is out and the rain is over but still only in the 50s.

I went to Church then stopped for my prescription and the milk I forgot on Friday.

Faye, you started me in on thinking about Jason's Deli - I love their Chicken and Dumpling soup. I wonder where they get those huge baked potatoes. Glad you got the dreaded commissary trip out of the way for another month.

Jean, you are right - kids to like to occasionally have matching outfits...and they look cute. I have a bunion on my right foot so have a hard time finding shoes that don't hurt. If I buy wide width so it doesn't hurt, the heal doesn't fit and the left shoe falls off. That's why I love sandals.

Well, today is mop the floors, finish the laundry and clean the kitchen. Then I get to sit down and do some quilting.

Have a good day!

Good afternoon ladies. I had a rough night last night so have been napping it off today. I pinched a nerve or something on the inside bend of my elbow area and it bothered me all night long. I took one of Jack's muscle relaxers in case it was just muscle strain and put Icy Hot on it and it got better, but boy it kept me awake most of the night. I think maybe Fortune stepped on me and pinched something there.

Jean: I know you have to be sad a favored dr is retiring and did you say moving? I hate getting coupons that are expired before you can even try to use them. I finished up Thomas's Christmas overnight as Kelly emailed me what he wanted so I did it all online. Looks like he is getting a real interest in science because he wants a lot of electronic and science related building kits. I am all done now except to get a few more stocking stuffers! Yeah!!!!

Susan: I'll have to try that soup sometime. I have never eaten it. I love to make chicken and dumplings but we only have it occasionally. Takes time to make all those dumplings. I have totally flat feet so no shoes look pretty on me. I also have a long foot, size 11 so everything I wear looks like boats! lol I am a big sandal lover as well and wear them as long as my feet won't freeze sticking out! lol

Fortune is again calling wanting back in so I need to go. Talk to you tomorrow.
Faye

Good morning everyone! It is cooling down here and should be low 70's for part of the week than down into the 60's. I guess fall weather is really here now.

I am so glad gas is falling. Now if they would lower airline prices to reflect the lower prices. I checked on flights to Vegas and they have become outrageous. We aren't going to be going anytime soon as we want to buy the new car next year, but I keep getting room deals so I just checked to see what airline prices were. The first year that we flew business class it cost us around $1100, then it went to $1300 and now it is over $2100 to fly the business class for the same airline. No one, not even Southwest flies cheaply. We would have to drive to Little Rock and fly out of Little Rock to go Southwest and they still want around $800 for the two of us. That is just ridiculous. Be prepared to get gouged when you go to Hawaii next year, Jean.

I am making beef and noodles for dinner tonight. I want to get some chores done and it is something I can put on and not worry about then put the noodles on at the last minute.

Nothing much else happening in this part of the world. Everyone have a great day!
Faye

Good afternoon, ladies! I guess winter is coming. There was frost this morning!

Faye, your beef and noodles sounds so good. I haven't made any for a long time, guess I need to put that on my menu.

Jean, I did see a recipe for Baked Potato soup that had you bake the potatoes first. It also had cheese, bacon, sour cream and chives so I passed on that. Did Hallmark honor the coupon?

Not much going on - work then bible study tonight.

Have a good day.

I just got a call about the friend I asked you to pray for. She died last night. There will be a memorial service, no calling hours and then they are taking her to Roanoke for burial. I feel so bad for her family. We'll all miss her.

Good morning gals! It is cool again this morning. We had lovely sunshine yesterday and are supposed to today then rain until the weekend. Seems to always rain on trash day so you end up getting soaked getting the trashcan put away!

Susan: Oh, I am so sorry about your friend. I know the family has to be devastated with such a weird thing happening so suddenly. I hope they found out what was wrong with her just for her family to have peace about it. I think it would drive me nuts not to know how they died if it was sudden.

Jean: Sounds like you need those Cuddle Dud things to wear under long shirts and slacks. Kelly swears by them and says they really keep you warm. Hope Bob got the crop in before it rained. I noticed when we went to the commissary part of the fields had been striped of their cotton. No fluff this year though, but maybe because it rained the day before we went out there. I ended up canceling the Target clothes for Jackson as they weren't going to ship until sometime in December, which I think is ridiculous. So, I canceled and ordered from Sears. We shall see if they do better. I had to cancel a couple things from Lakeside that were shipping too late too. I am waiting for their reply about it.

I better get going. I need to scrub the tub today and try and get the rust stains from the dripping faucet cleaned out. I bought CLR and some of the magic erasers and worked on it a bit yesterday and it seems to start to come up so I imagine it will all come up eventually.

Have a good one everybody!
Faye

Good afternoon, ladies! 70 degrees today - a nice change.

Nothing interesting going on - went to work, went to Curves, making supper and then some quilting and NCIS. Although it's nice not to be as busy as I was there for awhile. I had bible study last night. I tell you, the bible is better by far than any soap opera. It's a wonder they haven't made it into a mini series.

My friend died of complications of pancretitis. She had everyone they know of. They told her family she would have been in the hospital for months if she had responded to treatment. I guess when it's your time, God takes you.

Now that we are in the age of "Made in China", I wonder if some of the shipping length of time is the product is made as it is ordered.

There was a call from Michelle O'Bama on my messages when I got home. Did she call you, too? I'll be so glad when the next 2 weeks are over. With VA being one of the battleground states and historically Republican, we are being bombarded with political calls and mailings and junk left at the door.

Faye, I love those magic erasers. I make sure to always have them on hand.

Jean, I don't want you using that four letter S*** word again. I hope not to see any snow this winter...or only on the weekend.

Have a good evening.

Good morning to you all! I hope your day is starting out well. I am anxious to have Jack get home and get his hands on a Wall Street Journal. I am going to check with Kelly later today to see if the article is in there today.

Today is my son's 35th birthday. I feel so old. Guess I can't say I was 12 when he was born, can I? I just sent him his card because he wanted me to hold his present until they come down here. With the Cubs taking the dumper in the playoffs I'm afraid he might burn it in effagy!

Susan: We still have a long way to go for health I guess. In this day and age you would think they could get a handle on anything, but we are still made by God and like you said, he takes you when it is your time. I am just so sad for her family. I was in contact with a friend at the law firm I worked at in Indiana and the lovely elderly friend I had there passed away last week. She was such an incredibly sweet lady always wanting to know about Thomas and the family. She loved going to the casinos in Chicago and would go on little bus trips with friends. I doubt Mrs. Obama would call our house as we are die hard Republicans. We have an unlisted number so we probably won't get any Republican calls either. I have started getting literature in the mail though. They are saying the black turn out for early voting is huge so I imagine we will stand in line to vote here and we rarely do. There is still cheating that goes on here in Memphis though I don't rightly know how they accomplish it. I agree with you, no dirty "s" stuff this season. We shall see if we can get by. I heard we are in for a hard winter, but since it is late October and we are still mostly in the 70's I am not sure unless it starts late. I sure hope not.

Jean: My Sears stuff has shipped already so poo on Target! I have stuff coming everyday now so keep the postman and UPS and FEDEX guys busy. I got more stuff last night from Amazon.com and have a couple boxes coming today. I also have some stuff coming postal so don't know when it will get here. I am getting 3-5 catalogues a day now and some of them are nutty. I just pitch them. Guess postage isn't the issue! lol

Everyone have a great day. I am going to start on chores.
Faye

Good morning, ladies - Only 50 degrees at 11:30am. It was COLD this morning.

Faye, I check the WSJ on line but didn't find the article. Is it supposed to be in today? I'll ask my boss to let me have his paper when he is done with it.

They are saying there'll be long line at all the voting places this year. I'm a registered Republican, as are 90% of the people in my area. I still don't know who I am going to vote for. When it comes down to the bottom line, I don't like or trust any of them. Why did the Republican party feel a need to spend $150,000 in one month for Palin's clothes - and then say they will be donated to charity after the election? Didn't she have any nice clothes, being the governor? I don't like O'Bama's ideas on redistributing the wealth, either. Let them work for what they have like I have.

Jean, your description of the men driving the stuff to the grain elevator brought back memories. I can remember this from my childhood. I was driving tractor when I was 9 years old. The elevator was about 10 miles away on back roads and my great uncle worked there. I couldn't drive on the road but I sure did in the fields. We raised corn, wheat, rye and oats.

Getting the boss ready to go out of town to one of our clients so I better get back to work.

Have a great day!