Hi! This has been a really nice Saturday.

Started off really busy with starting laundry, picking up SHARE and just getting the morning stuff done.

It was rather exciting at SHARE.  It is their 25th anniversary and they had cake (I ate a small piece and brought a piece home for Dick's lunch.  they also had Danish so I brought two home for a breakfast treat. I got home at about 9:30AM and left to meet Bobbi e at 10:30 AM at Southside Alliance Church on the southside of Sheboygan for the Sheboygan County Quilt Guild show.   It was really wonderful.  But we noticed that we were not as much impressed with the color choices and a couple of other things that we look for .   Perhaps we are getting too picky but as an example a quilt called Beige something or other, made us wonder - why bother.   If the finished product is much like a whole piece of cloth it seems a waste of time.  I did learn a lot.  Bobbie is a font of knowledge.   I f  I did not know a term, I just asked her.

Home early, I did a bit of quilting before I headed for Mass at 4PM.  I was a Eucharistic minister.  Always Something that leaves me in awe.  

Home again.  we had chili for our supper.  BOY is it good.

Til tomorrow.

God love you   I sure do
mary

Whew - this turned out to be quite a day.  We got up shortly before 7AM and got ourselves all put together and fed before Jody arrived to clean at 8AM.   I also boiled the lemon balm leaves and left them to steep  and dissolved the sugar and other additives to put into a primary fermentor so I could assemble the lemon balm wine when Bobbie got her later this morning

I left at 9:30AM so that I could stop at Kate's with some information, food and containers that she had shared food for us in.   We had a cup of tea and a short visit before I had to go to see Dr. Cheryl for a check on my eyes.  I am getting an adjustment on my prescription as there is a change, probable because a cataract is developing but of course that is not anywhere near ready to correct.   So we will change the lenses.   I have a one time free change since my last change so will take advantage of that as I can notice blurriness especially in my right eye.

Got home a bit later than I wanted too.  Bobbie beat me.   But that is OK, it gives her and her Dad a chance to visit too.  Roxie doesn't complain either.   We had Chicken Waldorf salad and cookies for lunch, then Bobbie and I hit the winery.

We did a lot. 

First we racked the Strawberry into a secondary fermenter (a gallon jug.) 

Then I mixed the rest of my Lemon Balm into a primary fermenter. 

Then we mixed Bobbie's new wine, a parsley/rice wine.  We laughed as the directions comment that one should not be alarmed if there is a smell of chicken broth at the beginning of fermentation as this will go away.

And finally we bottled the persimmon wine that was ready, having been racked three times.  We always taster the last little bit but it was really very raw.   As my Dad would say - let it age.

Tonight Nancy picked me up at 4:45PM so we could shoot pistol league.  With the wind the way it is, I am sure that the trap shooters will be few to none.  So they were glad to have some business.   Both Nancy and I did pretty good.   I know that both of our averages for these three were over 50 which is our goal for this league. 

The Beer Tasting event was not as good as Jim had hoped but was OK I guess and they hope if they do it next year it will be better because word should have spread.  We have lots of beer left for sale, so I bought 2 six assorted six packs so that Dick can try some of the different ones and perhaps Bobbie and Richard too over the next two months.  It is a surprise for Dick so don't tell him.

Home again, I ate a leftover chicken wrap.   Dick had decided on some more Waldorf before I left.   Then I settled in for a quiet evening.   I have to stay up until 9:30PM but that's OK.   I have to put the yeast into my lemon balm wine then.   But I can sleep late tomorrow if I choose.    The first place I have to be is at the Plymouth Armory at 9AM to pick up SHARE.

So.  This is a quiet easy night.  Roxie likes it a lot and so do I.

God love you all

Mary 

Such a nice Autumn day. A bit muggy for my taste but quite pleasant.  Our neighbor, Dick, came over at about 9AM and we divided a couple of my plants for him.   I ran into the house when it started to rain.  He did too but he finished on his own a bit later.   The rain was very short lived.   I understand that we are supposed to get more tonight.

I was on a cooking frenzy today.  Don't know why.  But I made a batch of chili,  a batch of summer squash-lemon-strawberry bread and a chicken Waldorf salad.   We will have the salad and bread tomorrow for lunch while Bobbie is here.   Bobbie and I are going to do wine.    I am putting a batch of lemon balm into the primary fermenter and she needs to rack her strawberry wine onto the secondary.  She may have another batch to get started,   I am not sure.

I had one set of errands today.  I had to mail an unusual sized envelope from the post office and go to Walgreens for prescriptions, OTC meds and a couple of household needs. 

So it was a busy day mostly at home.  Which is how Dick and I like it.   We had leftovers for both lunch and supper so my cooking was the above described.  Roxie has been very cuddly today.   She is quite demanding about my taking a nap after our lunch these days.   How quickly these critters get used to a routine.

Have a nice Friday.

I will be shooting in the evening.

God love you

Mary

What a gorgeous day.   I left the front door open for a good chunk of the morning and afternoon and Dick did not even complain.  Roxie was pretty delighted.

I went grocery shopping this morning.   On the way, I swung by Fleet and bought some ammo for the 22 pistol.   I got there and had a heck of a time finding what I needed.   Most of their 22 shells were hollow point, high velocity and all kind of "more power" stuff like that.   I finally asked a guy who looked like he MIGHT be a sales person.   He wasn't but he was so willing to help.   I found out that he used to run a pistol shoot in West Bend, so I sure asked the right guy.    I will have to get to Gander to stock up, though.   Fleet just does not have enough target ammo.

The other shopping went well.   I was home before 10AM.   The rest of the day I cought up on a lot of computer stuff, finished the block of the month for the Kettle Country Quilters and baked some cookies.  

Tomorrow I will be making chili and hopefully doing some cleaning in the garage.

How nice not to have several errands and to be able to be home and do home things.   Roxie likes it too.   She always fusses at me when I get home from anywhere.

So until tomorrow.

God love you

Mary

I did get to stay home ALL day.

Was that ever nice.   I also slept until after 7:30AM.   I did have a restless night, then Roxie "suggested" that she should be fed her breakfast at 6, so I went back to bed and really slept soundly.    I took the trash out right away, then fixed our breakfast.   After breakfast, I went for a nice long walk.   On the way back, I  ran in to two different groups of neighbors and we all caught up on what is going on around here.

It was warm today but there was a breeze and the cloud cover never left.  It never got as hot as the weather people had threatened so I was not unhappy.    I even went out and did a little bit of thinning of plants in the front berm.   It is SO overgrown.   I am planning on eliminating about half of everything.   Then they won't be crowding each other out.  Don and Jan and Dick are going to take some of the excess.

I had a nice nap this afternoon also.  Now I will watch the elimination round of Dancing with the Stars and then go to. bed.     I just can't seem to get rested these days.

God love you all

Mary

I had my Monday all mapped out.  Then a couple of things got pushed into the mix.

Bible Study was as usual at 9:30AM at Blessed Trinity.  We had 8 attendees which is nice.   We are discussing the death of Jesus according to Mark.   And we got hung up on two of the themes that run through Mark's Gospel,  1.  the roll of women as disciples of Jesus and 2.  the Kingdom of Heaven.  We always have a lot to say about those two subjects.   Come and join us some Monday morning and you will see.

I went to Mother's next.   We got a lot of her paperwork done and had a chance to just visit before I had to hie myself on home to give Dick his lunch and go over to the Pig to pick up Jena and Lynn for the Cream City Writers meeting.  We had been invited out to Don and Ruth Cooper's home for our meeting so the three of us had decided to go to Mc Donald's for lunch on the way to their house.  

Now the fun begins.  When I pulled up in front of the Pig to pick up Jena and Lynn they told me that a lady named Sam Cook had stopped to talk to them.  When she found out that they were on their way to the writers club, she bog excited.   She had met me a couple of years ago at Book Heads and emailed me a couple of times, then it kind of fell by the wayside.   So we waited while she checked out her groceries at the Pig.   Then we all went to Mc Donald's for lunch.   While we were lunching, we discovered that she is a neighbor  of Don and Ruth Cooper.  So I dropped her back at her truck and she joined us at the meeting. 

It was a nice meeting.  Everybody had something to share and we shared ideas and philosophy  too.  Ruth and Don are lovely hosts and I got to pet their special doggy which made me feel good.

I dropped Lynn  and Jena off at their homes and then went home to get Dick ready for his trip to the Anti Coagulation Clinic to have his blood checked because he is on antibiotics.   His count was just fine.   So we are safe for a couple of weeks anyway.   He has a staff infection on his right leg which we will be treating with a salve for the next 10 days.  Then we will see Dr. Sharon again.  This is good as the antibiotics for the chest infection are still working.

So it was busier than I would have liked.  But tomorrow, I get to stay home all day.   I intend to get Dick all squared away,  take a walk and do some sewing.    If it is a NICE day, Dick and I plan on cleaning the garage.  Then I would put a couple of the other things off until Wednesday or Thursday.

I kind of hope for a nice day as I like to spend time with Dick.

God love you

Mary
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A whole day at home.   The only time I left the house was to take a nice long walk this morning after breakfast.   I walked for a good time.   I found a caterpillar crawling on a twig as I came down the path from the park so I went home, got my camera ans took several pictures of it.   I also took some pictures of a very crabby squirrel.

We had a big breakfast this morning - it was Sunday after all.   So I fixed chicken fajitas for our lunch.   We had leftovers for dinner so it was a quiet cooking day too.  

I did get some strawberries frozen and some Brussels Sprouts ready to cook for tomorrow or the next day.

The rest of the day was football.   My fantasy picks are pretty bad.   Thank heavens for the Packers, at least they saved me on the Survival Game.   The regular game, the Guessathon, had a lot of upsets on the picks that I made.  Oh well, next week will be better.

This is a much quieter week than last week.  Dick and I plan on cleaning the garage one day if the weather is with us.

Have a good one yourself.

God love you

Mary