Good evening, ladies! It was a lovely day today - still 62 degrees at 7 pm!
Maintained at WW today. It's okay because I had a big loss last week. I went to Curves today. Put the binding on a quilt so that's what I'll be doing tonight, the hand finishing and labeling.
I think we've all had the same experience with the bread starter. It was fun the first week and then it was a chore and then when no one was looking I threw it out.
I think I did a little too much quilting this weekend - now tomorrow I have to clean house, go to the grocery store, do 2 loads of laundry and my bible study to Monday night - after I go to church, of course.
Good morning to you all! It was cloudy all day, but gorgeous here. Got up to near 70 yesterday and supposed to be a repeat today but I have mucho housework to do. We did the shopping yesterday and that took up most of the day then Jack got called in to work so I gave myself an excuse to sit on my bum.
Jean: I was talking with Jack yesterday and telling him our part of town is beginning to look like the trash section of town. We have whole shopping centers empty except for title places and check loan joints or clothing stores for blacks only. Pawn shops here and there and some fast food places. It has gotten horrible. Even the mall by our house is dead except for trash stores. Nothing we can do about it but just stick it out. It is sad really as this used to be a beautiful part of town.
Susan: I am working on the sleeve for Jackson's sweater. I ended up doing it with a seam instead of seamless as I am really having trouble trying to knit with double points or shortened circs. My hands ache almost immediately so I just tore out the few rows and started over and will just seam up the sleeve no biggy. I, like you need to work today instead of play.
I have Jackson and T's Valentine's Day bags done. I decided to just get stickers and put on little lunch bags and stick the stuff in them. I thought Thomas would get a kick out of the hamster stickers with me being so phobic so I go tthem and plastered them on the bags then wrote in red marker things like "I'm Nonny's favorite animal," "XXXOOO from the Rat," etc. I bought him a card and put in a $20 then got him gumballs, candy hearts a chocolate sucker some jelly hearts and a couple other things. I needed to get Jackson stuff without chocolate so got him some jelly belly candy corn and the candy hearts and jelly type hearts, got him a card and put in a $10 and they both got valentine pez dispensers. I have gotten T a pez dispenser for every holiday gift since he was about 2 so had to start the tradition with Jackson too.
Well gals, I am going to sit and knit for awhile until it is a little later and I won't disturb Jack to start cleaning. Have a wonderful Sunday!
Faye
The weather here in the heartland is so so. We were told we would have rain today and snow on Wednesday. So far this day no rain. Services this morning were good. We have such a good preacher here that delivers the truth ~ my dear husband of course. A bunch of us went out for Mexican food (which is this towns version) after services. It is aways fun to go out with the group. Next Sunday evening after services we will be going over to a members home for a candle light valentine dinner. Pot luck is for the lunch meal that day. After she figures out her menu then I will know what I will be taking.
JEAN I wish we lived closer and we would purchase that bed. We could always use it downstairs for company. Don't they plan on raising crops in your area even after that school is built? I thought it was the workers children that mostly filled up your schools. But if they do close down the sheds and quit growing crops then the workers will migrate on.
DONNA You deserved a day of to just sit and recoup. You are one busy gal. Your valentine bags sound so cute and those boyswill love getting them. You are such a good grandma.
SUSAN on that maintain. It usually falls that way for me after a real good loss the previous week also. I am hoping for a maintain on weigh in tomorrow. I haven't been real true to myself this week for some reason.
Everyone have a lovely evening. Stay warm type at y'all later.
Good Afternoon, Flowers! Our sunshine has disappeared and it looking pretty dark and gloomy outside. I was to be at church by 10:00 this morning to set up the bell tables, music, etc., and practice through the piece a couple of times. Just before I got there another one of the gals slipped and fell on the ice injuring her wrist and arm. She was on her way to the hospital as I walked in the church. We listened to the singers practice and then took a vote to play next week instead. It's hard to play without a part. The injured ringer was subbing so the regular ringer would be able to play next week. It was so nice yesterday but froze over night -- everything was slippery this morning. We stayed for church and then headed off to a neighboring town that is on the way to the lake. We ate lunch at KFC; our local one no longer uses the original recipes and is terrible. It was bought out by Mexicans a year or so ago. Made a quick stop at Penneys and Staples, then home for a nap. I got in the recliner first, but Ernie thinks it is his chair and if he plops down thinking we will move out. I fooled him so he stayed sprawled across my lap -- he is too long to be a lap cat.
Susan -- Congrats on the maintain . . . better than a gain any time! It sounds like you had a busy day planned for today. Knowing how organized you are I'm certain you got everything done.
"Gma" -- The way you describe your area sounds like a place called North Ridgeville in Ohio -- a suburb of Cleveland sort of. I don't know if it had any shopping areas or not, but we went there to look at a house to buy. The realtor didn't give us a clue and as we drove through the shabby streets with run down houses and broken down cars in the yards, we looked at each other in horror. When we arrived at the vacant house we refused to even get out and look. Every once in awhile we will see a rundown property and both will refer to it looking like NR! It would be nice if the city fathers would help get the shopping businesses up to snuff again. The Valentine goodies sound like fun. I know that both Thomas and Jackson will get a kick out of them -- especially the hamster stickers.
Maggie -- We have not one, but TWO, packing plants in town and that is where the Mexicans, Asians, blacks, and the rest work. Tyson is one of, if not the biggest, pork processing plants, and we get hogs from as far away as N. Dakota and Kansas. Sara Lee is a turkey processing plant and some area farmers have quit raising hogs switching to turkeys. Tyson actually recruited Mexicans in southern Texas because our neighbors spent the winters down there and saw the signs. They promised a free bus ride, a motel room, and 2 weeks pay if they would come and work. It's not too likely they will shut down any time soon.
I have another load of laundry to finish and some plants that need watering. I hope you are having a nice day! Enjoy the rest of your day and have a marvelous Monday tomorrow!
Sunday
~ my dear husband of course. A bunch of us went out for Mexican food (which is this towns version) after services. It is aways fun to go out with the group. Next Sunday evening after services we will be going over to a members home for a candle light valentine dinner. Pot luck is for the lunch meal that day. After she figures out her menu then I will know what I will be taking.
on that maintain. It usually falls that way for me after a real good loss the previous week also. I am hoping for a maintain on weigh in tomorrow. I haven't been real true to myself this week for some reason. 
injuring her wrist and arm. She was on her way to the hospital as I walked in the church. We listened to the singers practice and then took a vote to play next week instead. It's hard to play without a part. The injured ringer was subbing so the regular ringer would be able to play next week. It was so nice yesterday but froze over night -- everything was slippery this morning. We stayed for church and then headed off to a neighboring town that is on the way to the lake. We ate lunch at KFC; our local one no longer uses the original recipes and is terrible. It was bought out by Mexicans 
a year or so ago. Made a quick stop at Penneys and Staples, then home for a nap. I got in the recliner first, but Ernie thinks it is his chair and if he plops down thinking we will move out. I fooled him so he stayed sprawled across my lap -- he is too long to be a lap cat. 
. . . better than a gain any time! 
It sounds like you had a busy day planned for today. Knowing how organized you are I'm certain you got everything done. 
It would be nice if the city fathers would help get the shopping businesses up to snuff again. The Valentine goodies sound like fun. I know that both Thomas and Jackson will get a kick out of them -- especially the hamster stickers. 
