Good morning ladies. It is beautiful here this morning, not cold, not hot just right at Goldilocks would have said. We still have gotten no rain and boy do we need it. Jack was looks at Google Earth at the new Hoover Dam project that was just dedicated this weekend and he said Lake Mead is really low. You gotta figure all those people and hotels and stuff in Las Vegas is sooner or later going to make a difference and they have have less than usual rain and last years snow from the mountains was a lot less run off too.
Got the commissary stuff done. We got there half an hour before they open (they let in retirees half an hour early though they can't check out until opening time) and it was so quiet and still. Only a handful of us old codgers in there. We got through and checked out and boy was the party beginning. I went out to get in the car and the parking lot was half full and people were streaming in. That was about 10:30 and they open at 10 on Sundays so it was going to be a busy day there. Glad we got in and got out.
Susan: That's why I don't sell my knitting. Say someone wants a plain hat. Unless I buy the really cheapo yarn like Walmart brand or something, which I will not do, it probably costs me $8-10 for yarn depending on what I get. Most people that sell their stuff either calculate the time involved or double the price of the yarn and whatever else they have to buy to go into the project. Now who wants to pay $20 for a stupid knit hat? So, I either make a gift or occasionally will make something for like my sister and charge very little (I made something for her dd a couple years ago and she still owes me the $50 but I just gave up on that) so you see it is better if you just don't do it. Sort of like loaning money to family or friends, either give them a gift of money if they need it or say you can't don't loan. Surest way to harm relationships if the money is not paid back. I had an absolute stranger ask me if I could make a baby blanket for her because she had seen one I made for a family member. When I told her what it would cost (the yarn for this particular blanket cost me $75) she blanched and looked at me like I was nuts.
Jean: Does Bob usually help the farmers with planting too? I thought I remembered you talking about it sometimes. My kooky grandson posted on facebook a picture of a plate of food and labeled it "my vittles." lol He is a nut. His parents went to see "Wicked" at I think the Orpheum last night so he was probably at Nana and Pops last night unless he went with. He isn't going trick or treating anymore so I imagine we will arrange to get him him Halloween goodies sometime the week of Halloween. The stuff has shipped and should be here in the next day or so. I had Jackson's popcorn stuff shipped directly to him but his tshirt shipped here so will just send it in the mail to him. It sure would be lots easier if they both lived here!lol Does Ian play soccer? I can't remember whether you said he did or not. I remember you going to games, but I can't remember what they were for.
Maggie: I don't keep candy in the house either or we will sit and eat the stuff until it is gone. We do better with full size candy bars than we do with the little ones. You just keep eating those like they are potato chips and suddenly you have scarfed down half a bag. I still the the individual packages of those little cookies and such for a treat.
I have a muscle knot in my shoulder I got I guess from wiping down the car after we had it washed on Saturday. It bothered me all weekend and I have slept with a heating pad on it and my neck all weekend. I finally broke down last night and took one of Jack's Flexerils which is a muscle relaxant. It will make you real loopy, for me it takes awhile then makes me sleepy. The knit is still there but at least I got some sleep. It is better today than it has been so I am hoping with a little more working it out and heat it will loosen up.
Well I guess I should get out of here and get some breakfast and work done. Did you see Barbara Billingsly passed away? Wow, Beaver's mom, that takes you back. Have a good start to your week everyone! Faye
When I was a teenager in high school one of the teachers asked me to borrow one of my dresses I had made. She wanted to wear it to a Saturday tea. Then around Christmas time she asked me to make her a velvet shell to go with a satin skirt she wanted to wear at a party. I made a black Italian velvet shell lined with silk and she was delited and paid me handsomely. She was my drama teacher. My mother had a wonderful sewing machine and I learned to use it at an early age and to pick out quality material for a project. She said that if I was going to spend the time to make something, make it out of quality materials. She taught me to make things right and I made a lot of my clothes and always got compliments from my friends. I remember making the Admirals daughter an outfit. I also remember the time when Will wanted a linnen sport jacket and we found one for $600 in a catalogue and I make the crack that I could make one just like it for a lot less money then that. He said get your coat, we are going to the fabric store. It was coming up on winter and the store just had enough cream color fabric on the bolt to make it. It turned out so well next spring we went and got some more linnen and I made him one a shade darker, more like light coffee. I had some buttons made of bone that went great on them. Nice looking, lined with shoulder pads even. He got lots of compliments when he wore them which put a smile on my face. I don't sew much anymore. Make a doll or two but have not tackeled a big project of late. More into doing my glass works. Life is good. Graceous sakes I do go on don't I.
Well they do make ointment nowdays that doesn't have a bad odor. Hope all is well with you soon.
to admit I found 2 pair of slacks that still have the price tags on them. At least they are the size I am wearing now; I wonder if I bought them tight thinking I would eventually fit into them. 
I haven't bought fabric in years so was surprised when you mentioned prices. Is "real" quilting fabric different from regular cotton fabric?
Will you have many trick or treaters? Cowboy beans . . . 
! My mom was quite a seamstress as was my grandma who sewed for other people. I think that's why I had so little patience with sewing; I felt like mine never measured up.
Ian played baseball last summer, and is really hooked on that right now. I know soccer has become popular around here but I'm not sure about where he lives. I'm hoping he will take up the violin rather than play football! 
(Jason ate, slept, and lived for football from 5th - 12th grades.)
I got a letter from BCBS that Medicare doesn't like one of my scripts and wants me to try something different unless my doctor will write an excuse for me. I'm waiting for his office to call back; I called at 8:00 this morning and HATE to sit around waiting for them to call back. 
Thanks for the quilt fabric info -- now I understand why quilt shops sell fabric. I took the Stretch 'n Sew class when we lived in Ohio and did make a few t-shirts.
We do plan to be home for Christmas this year. After our crazy weather and everyone snowed in last year, it just didn't seem like a "real" Christmas. 
Enjoy your day! 
Many people were killed but many survived and the pilot became a national hero -- Al Haines. He is from Oregon (or Washington) and comes back for crash anniversary shindigs. Jason was walking corn fields at the time and it was later during harvest that a neighboring farmer found a missing piece of the plane necessary to figure out what went wrong. Have fun knitting today! Your house will be quiet with Thomas going home today.