Today turned out much busier than I had intended.

I had to be at the Plymouth Armory to pick up Share at 9AM.  That went well,  I was home by 9:30AM.  After I put everything away, I went to Sheboygan Falls to see Mother and bring her pills to her.   We had a nice visit.  We sorted through her mail.  I have become her secretary and she instructed me as to how to handle a couple of the mailings.

Home again, I finished fixing our dinner.  I had put a pork tenderloin in the slow cooker.  So I prepared a cauliflower and some rice to complete our dinner.   The slow cooker tenderloin left a really good gravy too.

I worked on a lemon meringue pie today too.  We will be able to enjoy that tomorrow.   Bobbie called while I was at Mass.   She suddenly realized that the Christmas event at Kohler is this weekend.  So we are going to meet at the American Club at 9AM to enjoy that together.

I want to get the family room downstairs kind of straightened out tomorrow too.   If I can get the excess fabric put away, finish the block of the month and pin the lap robe I will stay on schedule.  

Please pray for my friend Ron's sister who has been rushed to the hospital with complications from cancer.   She needs all the support she can get and so does he.

God love you

Mary

Hi everybody.   What a nice day.   It was really cold and rather breezy out there, but since I did not have to stay out in it that was fine with me.

Jody came to clean this morning and I was rather busy, trying to get my email under control and working on some of the little communication items for the Brigit trip in February of next year.   We are finally confirmed, even if we don't get quite to our 20.  I believe we have 18 and will be able to function with that.    It is a wonderful group of women (and husbands) and should be a very intimate and exciting adventure.   My friend, Joe Donohue is strong arming the hotels to drop their 20 minimum which is sensible in this economy.   I hope Joe is driving for us.  He is now an owner of the company but I know him from two other trips.   Bobbie knows him too.   I would love to see him again.   His boy must be 10 by now.   He was single when Bobbie and I met him.

Anyway, I gave Dick a lunch of spaghetti just before I headed out to do errands and have lunch at the Dairy Queen.   I got the 3/$4 meal.   A cheeseburger, onion rings and a soda.   There were fur of us ther.  Joyce, Mary, Ceil and myself.   We had a great visit on this chilly afternoon.   I had picked up two prescriptions from Walgreens and did some shopping at Fleet before the lunch.   I found two really nice flannel shirts WITH POCKETS for Dick.   He needs more warm shirts for winter.

On the way home, I stopped at the Dear Old Books store to order a couple of books that I want.   I found out that she will take books for credit so a possible place to take the books we are weeding out of our bookshelves.  The other choices are places that have book sales for fundraisers, friends or St. Vinnies.

I pulled out some cauliflower soup for our supper.    Now I just have two kinds in the fridge so it is time to make some more,   I must decide between Garden chowder of Toscana.

The funniest thing happened this morning.  Jody came in to clean and Roxie walked over to greet her then turned and walked away.   Jody's eyes got big and she said,  "What happened to her tail?"    Apparently Roxie had always observed her from afar and Jody never noticed her lack of a tail.   So I told her about the Manx cat and that this is the proper way for a cat like Roxie to be and that she is a Stumpy.   Manx cats with no tail at all are called Rumpys.

So that was today.   Tomorrow will be moderately busy.   We are getting a lot of things cleaned up around her.  You would think it was spring cleaning time.

God love you

Mary

Stayed home all day today.   It was really very pleasant.   It was cold outside and will be foe the next couple of days.  No wind or rain though.  

I don't feel that I did a whole lot today.   But when I look back, I really did.    Roxie was very glad to have me here.   She does not like it when I go away.   She always complains at me when I come home again.

There were and are a couple of projects that I am working on for CWI and I started to assemble the lap robe downstairs.   I have a bit of piecing to do on the batting yet.

We had spaghetti for lunch.  I made the sauce yesterday so it had a chance to age and it was very good.

The next few days are also moderately quiet.  Nice, since a week from today is Thanksgiving and after that all heck will break loose until Christmas.

Take care.

God love you

Mary

A moderately busy day.   Kind of chilly and cloudy too.   Rather dreary actually.  But we got Mc Donalds breakfast which is fun because it reminds of the days we shopped together and ALWAYS went out for breakfast.

I went grocery shopping this morning.   That turned out to be quite the adventure.   First, I got to the store and had to return home because I had forgotten my list.    Horror of horrors.  

Then, when I bought the lottery tickets that are going to make us rich some day, I asked if I could use the Pig Points that I earned today for credit on the turkey I planned on putting in the freezer.   I was told that this was just fine.

The shopping was rather fun.   But I was totally disorganized and kept having to go back to pick things up. Took forever!     I rather enjoyed it.  So, I get to the checkout and the computer program that records the Pig Points is DOWN.    So - the box man (he is not a boy) helped me load my groceries into the car and I went back to get this figured out.   I got a refund for my turkey.  The computer had given me the discount price of .45 per pound but I still had $7. credit which they gave back to me in cash.   So I am rich again.


I had fun in the liquor department after the grocery shopping because I had a lot of coupons and you know how I LOVE coupons.   So I have stocked up on some bottle wines.   Some are VERY expensive (for us)   One started off at $11.   Wow.

We are going through our books and getting ready to donate those that we know we will never read again an do not have a special place in our hearts.   I will take them to St. Vinnie's when we are through sorting.

Tonight I picked up Sy Regan and we went to Mead library for Karl Elder's monthly Poet's gathering.   It was fun.   I read a poem I wrote for Courtney and got interesting comments on it.  A nice group of people.   I felt out of my realm at first but am settling in and feel more comfortable now.

I brought my tribute to Uncle George to share with Sy.  I will print a copy for him.   Uncle George was my godfather.   He would go downtown once a week of an evening and make his rounds of the bars to interact with his friends.    At the Villager, Rosemary Eigenberger, Ione Otto an Uncle George had a limerick contest for a while.    Rosemary shared the limericks with me and I copied them and printed up a small chapbook for the family.   After we are gone, I hope this little book will be handed down in the family stories to keep his memory alive.

Here is one of his limericks.


Dear Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tis said wrote a poem each day
But its hard to convince
Even Friends of " Old Vince"
That she really had that much to say.


GD

Quite a guy my Uncle George.

God love you

Mary

 A mostly "at home" day.   I did go to get my hair cut at 3PM.  But except for that,  I was home all day.


You know, I cant really tell you what I did, but I was busy all day.   My desk is clean, the kitchen is clean, Dick got his leg coverings changed.   I was busy.

Now it is after 6, I did not get a nap and I am tired.   Dick slept from 9:30AM to 1:30PM.  I don't like to wale him if he is sleeping unless he asks me to because he has so much trouble sleeping. So I had lunch alone and then fixed him his when he got up.

So it was a strange and rather lonely day.   I was glad to get may hair cut and see a real person.  Jessica is very nice.

I am going to watch the Dancing with the Stars elimination show before I got to bed.   I hope I make it.

Here is a goofy Haiku for you:

Cat

My cat is a nag.
She figures that I should speak cat.
She should learn human.

God love you

Mary

It has been a very busy and very nice Monday.

I left for bible study at 9AM.    We had a great time.   This was the beginning of our study of Psalms and we feel we have determined how we are going to approach it with the study guides we got.   We were SO impressed with the first chapter which deals with prayer and the importance of the Psalms themselves.  Just one statement was this:  "At prayer we celebrate the reliability of our God and hence drive confidence to undertake new ventures." John E Craghan.   How exciting is that.

Then over to Mom's.  I brought her some of our leftovers and a loaf of Cranberry bread.    We got several of her bills paid and a good visit before I had to leave.   I had to be home in time to fix Dick's lunch and pick up Jena by ten to noon so we could meet Peggy for lunch at Hub City Restaurant before the Cream City Writer's meeting.    We had a good lunch and visit the three of us.   Then on the the meeting.   Lots of good reading  this month.  Next month is our Christmas party.   I will have to make reservations and let everybody know. 

On the way home, I stopped at the Sewing Basket and picked up a nice piece of flannel to back the lap robe with.   I really think it will look nice and feel good too.

Home again.   I tried napping but had trouble with that.    This evening I watched the new 1 VS 100 which I have been looking forward to.   Then Dancing with the Stars.   I will miss Dancing with the Stars but am glad they do it just once a year.    I hope they never try to overdo it like they do with so many shows.   I will not watch Skating with the Stars.   One is more than enough.


So tomorrow will be a much quieter day and Dick and I have a couple projects.

Take care of you.

God love you

Mary

This was a peaceful day.    I got up at about 7AM.   Dick has been getting up early and feeding Roxie so I don't even have to get up to feed her at 6AM.

I finished assembling the lap robe top this morning.   It looks quite nice.   A muted colored top that when I back it with a nice cozy flannel back will make a nice lap robe for a man or a woman.

We had a light lunch and dinner.   I was lazy today.   I just had a couple things on my list and feel good about them but I wanted to get rested up for the weekend.

Tomorrow will be busy until about 4PM then I have the evening and the next day at home.   Dick and I have determined that we are going to start sorting through our books to weed them out.   We are trying to deplete our "stuff.   A good idea.

Have a good week.  I am ending with a quote that I found today that may amuse you at it amused me because of it's truth.

Love and God love you

Mary



"And one finds, especially by the time one reaches one's fifties, that there are a limited number of types of people in the world, and you went to high school with every single one of them. You can visit the Eskimos, you can visit the Bushmen in the Kalahari, you can go to Israel, you can go to Egypt, but everybody you meet is going to be somebody you went to high school with." Quote from P. J. O Rourke