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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Scattered!!

Congratulations to helia DD14!! WhhooooHOO!!

Hi SHE world! I have been busy getting ready to have Thanksgiving dinner with my kids and grandkids. We were sick with the flu and the house looks like a bomb went off! so busy cleaning and working on preparing what we can ahead!! Purging as I go as we have to much "stuff"! i have been quilting! just finished a half triangle square trade within our quilt group! See then I don't know everyone here but I am an "old"she thats been around a long time!

Hello, villagers ~

Hi, SuzLew, it's great to see you!

Happy birthday, Scattered.

General CI for the day:
I ran out of steam early last night and went to bed before finishing my newsletter work. Slept for close to 9 hours almost straight through. I remember waking up when DH came to bed, not sure what time, and then again at 5 to take meds and go to the bathroom. Normally I would have stayed up after 5, but this morning I decided to see if I could go back to sleep and I did.

Once I finally did get up, it had been long enough after T meds that I could have coffee, milk, fruit and graham crackers right away. Then I started back on the newsletter stuff.

Which of course ended up being one thing leading to another that I realized should go in this issue. Finished it all late morning and sent it off, even though the editor won't even look at it until tomorrow or Tuesday. Glad to check it off my To-Do List temporarily. Hopefully when she sends it back, the proofreading part will go smoothly this time.

Another Tiny Town half an hour from here was having special sales today to kick off gift buying season. I ran over to the fabric store because they pay for an ad in the sewing group newsletter. Found some gorgeous double-faced quilted fabric in a bright modern floral print to make a mat and cover for my sewing machine.

Also stopped at the dollar store there to look for a joke gift for the sewing group board's dinner meeting in December. We won't do business, just a social get together, and one of the other members wants to do this gift exchange. She gave the example of a time in another group where they had a $1 gift limit for the gag gifts, she planned to give a bag of hot dog buns. She realized, though, that the whole bag was worth more than $1 so she took some buns out before wrapping it. I found a few cute things at the dollar store that will work, and what I don't give for that exchange will work for stocking stuffers for someone else.

Then DH and I went out for a sandwich, came home and changed into jeans and a denim jacket, and worked out in the yard until the sun went down.

I'm warning y'all, don't leave 2 cardboard boxes alone in a closet ... They will start breeding and next time you turn around, you'll have a big pile to dejunk! I keep thinking surely I've come to the end of them, and then I find more.

I'm going to fix some leftovers for supper, and then get ready to watch the Ken Burns special on public tv about the Dust Bowl & the Great Depression.

We are rotessiring a roast beef for dinner! Just made a double batch of a new recipe for banana bread and it is so good and smells out of this world !Dh is unloading dishwasher then I wil reload and do pot and pans!

Hi SewLew! It's good to see you posting. Thanksgiving with kids and grandkids sound like fun.

I have been a slug as much as possible today. LO has been good as gold requiring minimum care.....but it is constant. He is currently sitting next to me doing his homework. DH tried to go to church this morning, but ended up coming back home. He still isn't over this stomach bug either.

Still no final decision what we will be doing on Thanksgiving. We have been invited to eat a traditional Thanksgiving feast at DMIL with DH extended family and also to eat at my DSis home with several of my side of family. We are planning on cooking a non-traditional meal here (brisket, potatoes, etc) on Thanksgiving Day. One thing for sure - food and family will be in abundance no matter where we go.

a viszla - she must be beautiful! I had german shorthair pointers for many years until I had the labs and lab/shepherd

took a nap, dd older went back to school. it was really nice having all of us together!

Have to at least post and wish scattered a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. And say hi to SuzLew.

Went to church this morning. Stayed for a light lunch and then a Memorial Service. Came home and slept for a bit.

DH watched the race, but I pretty well ignored it today. DD made shepherd's pie for dinner. DD and I made a quick trip to W mart this evening. She was looking for an inexpensive scrap book for a pictorial she's doing for dgs8 for Christmas and I needed an embroidery hoop. Bought a small piece to work on the other day but couldn't find my (long ago used) embroidery hoops -they might even be up north. At least going to try my hand at it. Need something to do with my in-between time.

Think it's going to be a long week. With dsil not working, that means everyone will be here all week. GD 'goads' him and he won't let it go. Actually she was trying to goad both of them tonight and dd was keeping quiet and dsil not so much. What was that C a l g o n commercial? I actually know what it was: "C...... take me away."

DD and dh are both feeling better today but weren't ready to go to church this morning. So it was just me.

Did my edits to the Christmas 'letter' (novel is more accurate a descriptor!) and then got dinner started, leaving instructions for dh to start the potatoes during my nap. I make roast beef in a cast iron pan and he put his hand on the handle while putting the potatoes in the pan and burned three fingers. He didn't cry out so I didn't find out until much later. He's in a lot of pain and is holding onto an ice pack now.

I slept well and woke up just before ds arrived. Dinner was good but a bit late because we forgot to make Yorkshire puddings until it was almost ready.

Ds is exhausted. He had first aid training yesterday, then worked the overnight shift, had his ski lift rescue training and then a meeting with a group of friends about a vacation. The group is too large to get consensus (some want an all-inclusive but high-end resort, others want to rent a condo near a good SCUBA diving place) so ds is bowing out of that.

Anyway, he had tried to call in sick last night but there was no-one to replace him and he wasn't visibly contagious so he ended up working and by the time he got here for supper had been up for 32 hours. He has a low fever tonight so is in bed here after mommy gave him a dose of vitamins, a tylenol for the fever and tucked him into bed with a heated bean bag. He has to leave here by 7:10 tomorrow morning because he's working in an outlying town doing training at that hospital.

Dinner is all cleaned up and the dishwasher just finished. I also cleaned the stove top. Dh and I watched the first three episodes of The Neighbours and are enjoying the throwaway lines greatly.

Now dh is doing another proof read of the newsletter while I surf the net from my comfy chair.