Hey Julia and All,

I made a trip to the Rivervalley to look at another house. I sort of like it the best, so we are meeting with the real-estate lady on Wed., and we are making an offer and since we are paying ca****hink she will happily take it. I hope so. 

We brought the grands back up the mountain with us and now I'm washing the mattress pads and sheets off of our bed and off of the little bed in the other bedroom  

It has rained off and on here today, which cooled everything off a bit.  

Breakfast for me was veggies and scrambled eggs (about 1/2 to 3/4th cups)

I didn't eat lunch because we were looking at the house.  

For dinner, we took the kids to a buffet place and I had a few shrimp, a catfish fillet, and 1/2 of a baked sweet potato.  I tried to eat a roll and it was just too doughy and I knew it would mess with my pouch...

I am snacking now on watermelon and cantaloupe.  

Tomorrow I am going to make more pickles and more relish. I've also got a sack full of peppers that I am going to pickle. 

My daughter asked me to make her a quilt.  She and her husband cut down some large cedars over on our old farm and the lumber yard guy made them into wood and charged them half of the wood so for each piece of lumber my daughter got, the mill guy got one.  Those old cedars were huge so she got enough lumber to build another room on to the farm and it's all made of cedar. It smells so good in there.  Her husband made her a cedar chest too and I told her I would pay him to make me one but she had to tell me he actually made me one but was going to give it to me for Christmas. LOL...so she said, since we are giving you such a good present, could you make me a quilt for my new bed, so I said sure.  We found a pattern so I'm making her that. I cannot wait to get started. I think I'm going to invest in a quilting machine. They aren't that expensive and since I have all this time now...you know?

Well, ladies, let me get my clothes folded.  

Tomorrow we all get back to work...we have tons to do 

Hi All,

I meant to start the thread last night but forgot. I'm needing to get back to posting. I got into a great groove and was having lots of success, but now that I've been not posting I'm starting to falter. I can get right back on the horse now since I haven't gained back more than a pound. 

Today I tutor as I do every Sunday. I'm also trying to organize and get rid of things that I don't need in my craft room. I have a very good crafting friend that was just diagnosed with ALS so I know that I need to get things in a more manageable space...she has so much "stuff" and now she has no ability to use any of it...I am going to help her make Christmas cards this year, which she really wants to do. I have a Misti tool which I can help her to use to stamp a lot of images by just moving the panel. Of course I will need to load each piece of card stock for her, but she will be doing part of the process. Her paralysis is progressing so quickly that I'm thinking this will be her last Christmas. It is a difficult thing to watch. We are so lucky to be able to do so many things with our bodies that we take for granted. 

My food plan:

Breakfast: one quarter of a veggie omelet with a few pieces of potato

Lunch: green salad with cheese and nuts

Dinner: leftover Chinese Mongolian Beef plus some chow mein

Snacks: watermelon and mixed nuts

Hugs to everyone!

Julia

Linda,

Other than going to Yellowstone, we only visited one other significant thing and that was the Wild Bill Cody Museum, which is a part of the Smithsonian and it was well worth the money we spent.  Go see it. 

Love the story... Hurry up... Write more... 

the bill cody museum is awesome.  We took all day and didn't get through the gun museum. We decided to buy a membership.   We been 7 or 8 times.  We are headed there now to finish up the section on buffalo bill himself.  We've been to yellowstone 3 times.  Went to the south rim of the canyon and saw the upper and lower falls, went to old faithful, anti climactic,  took the hikes around all the geysers in the area, much more interesting than old faithful.  We still have to do mammoth Springs and the north rim.  We are hitting the highlights but three is so much more to see.  There are hikes all over the place and I am armed with bear spray but might not get around to most of those hikes.  It's takes so long to get there and back that I get worn out, it becomes a 12 hour day or more and I'm too old to do that day after day. We also bought season tickets to the rodeo and have gone several times.  We are having a good time.  Did you buy boots?