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Hey y'all! Sewing. You must have heard me cussing last week. LOL I washed some lace curtains and the top hem came out of one. Then, I lost a little weight and needed to take some pants in. KISA went on a golf trip for a week and I had him get one of the sewing machines out before he left. When I was 10, I was making my own school clothes, just simple skirts with elastic waistband. I sewed all my own clothes from then on, clear through high school. When a JoAnn Fabrics came to the town where I was living when I was 19, I went in to apply for a job. I was wearing a pants suit I made. I filled out the application, the guy who was hiring asked me if I made my suit and I told him yes. He told me to go home and change into work clothes. We opened that store, oh my heavens, y'all would never believe how much work that was, unpacking all that stuff and putting it out. Anyway, I sewed for most my life. Then, I suddenly hated to sew!! Now I only do it when I absolutely have to...if KISA wants a button sewn on, I take it to the dry cleaners. LOL I made all the window treatments in our house, except for the lace curtains, but now I just shudder at the thought of the sewing machine. What used to make me feel good and creative, now turns me into threadzilla. I think those of you who sew would agree with me that it's better to make something from scratch than to make repairs. Ugh. I never did the counted cross stitch, it seemed like way too much work for that small end result. I started making a cathedral pane quilt about 25 years ago. I still have it, it's about 1/3 of the way done, and I know I'll never finish it. That was back in the days when I sewed 50 stitches per inch. 😉 Our local WalMart took all their fabric dept out about a year ago. Last month, they brought it back! I guess enough women complained!

D2oris, I'm glad you can navigate the stairs. Hope you are being extra careful. Somehow, I think you are clenching onto the handrail extra tight. I'm glad all went fine with DH's surgery. That sure has progressed, I remember when the patient couldn't move his head for x amount of time and it was a big deal.

We have rain today. I need to plant my tulip bulbs, I dug them up this summer because the skunks were eating them. Now I see where the skunks are back and spreading mulch around, so I don't know what to do. Allie plants her bulbs in a cage-like thing so the moles won't get them but these skunks are digging them up.

b4, thanks for the link you posted on 9/11. I had to take baby steps on that day, just a little at a time, if you know what I mean.

MD! The people who put our new heat pumps in brought us a bunch of cukes. I had that onion & cuke salad at a local restaurant and tried to make it with a recipe from the net. Yuk. If you or B4 have a recipe, please share.

If any of you watched America's Got Talent, the winner was a local guy from WV. Of course, when you are as rural as we are, "local" is not the same as it is in big cities. If anyone is interested, I will post a link to his audition. He amazed everyone from his first 3 notes.

Max, your family will be so excited to visit you for Christmas! Are you all better now? I sure hope so.

Cedar, my brother-in-law owns a small business in our town and he has asked me if I wanted to work every now and then. I started working when I was 6 (no kidding, my aunt was a nurse and I cleaned her house, running the vacuum cleaner and everything). I have no desire to 'work' any more, selling on ebay is as much work as I want to do.

daiting/waiting. Aren't typos funny!?