Early Baby

We made a fast trip to the hospital thanksgiving night and are still shuffling between the birthing center and home. Janice (DIL #2) has developed preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome. The baby is at 28 weeks and they feel will be strong enough to be delivered--she'll weigh around 3 lbs. Unless the doctor's find a fast cure--we'll have a baby this weekend sometime.

Your prayers are much appreciated.

Thanksgiving--a few days early

I ended up with 27 at my table Sunday dinner. There were two families that didn't show up, so we had plenty of food. Other's knew that they weren't coming, but didn't bother to tell me. Planning for 8 less would've helped...but oh well, it's overwith now.

It was the first year I had brined a turkey. I used Alton Brown's recipe (close to it) and it turned out marvelous. Having my oven turned up to 500 degrees for 30 minutes was something I hadn't done before to cook a turkey, but it turned out really good. I also used his method for carving a turkey...I highly recommend it. I cooked two and there's very little left if that tells you anything!

Yesterday was also DH's 29th wedding anniversary. I told him that there was almost as many people at this feast as there was at our wedding.

Deer season (rifle) started Saturday and two managed to jump into my freezer.

Yes, I've got pictures....somewhere, it might just take a few days to get some downloaded.

New Quilting Blog

Please go over and check out Mary at Quilting in Oz. She's starting a new blog and sews circles around most people I know.


She bakes cinnamon rolls and quilts...now, don't we have something in common?!!

Gobble-Gobble

I like Thanksgiving just about like the rest of the world. We all get together with family and have a good meal and are all thankfull for a good harvest.


This year somebody(and we're not mentioning names) decided that the normal family get together wasn't big enough. I have 37 (thirty-seven) coming for dinner next Sunday. Seems like many are going out of town to see their own families, so they're all coming to MY house beforehand.

Yes, I volunteered to host Thanksgiving this year, but the "normal" group includes roughly 20+ people---depending on if several have dates. I don't mind having a few extra...but HOLY COW!

AND...since I have the coziest home, they all want to come. Oh, I forgot to mention...I'm going to be gone most of Saturday to a baby shower for my newest grandaughter.

Okay...Giz...When can I start my nervous breakdown? Thank goodness for DIL's and SIL's who are great cooks. Can I sent out an invitation that states "bring your own chair"?

AND...I still don't have a credit card to go buy groceries. I've got to go pull some cash...like the good-old-days!

Black Monday

Whoever stole my purse at wallyshop yesterday, I hope you're real proud of yourself. Spend my cash and just try to use the credit cards.


I'm trying real hard not to cry.

Seasonal

They're playing Christmas music in Walmart. No, we don't have a supercenter so I was in the fabric department buying pink flannel. A song registered in my brain and I asked the girl if I was hearing Christmas music...she looked at me and said "Since November 1'st they've been playing it".

What happened to Thanksgiving? Not that I'm going to enjoy the 37 people coming to my house for (the Sunday before) dinner, but do we always skip Thanksgiving? Guessed the relatives missed that memo.

Fast Vacation

If you are every in East Texas, go take a visit to Canton, Texas. It's acres and acres and miles and miles of STUFF! It had been 20 years since we'd been there and there's no way to even describe how much bigger it has gotten.

Here's a few of my treasures :

I should've opened this one up to take a picture, but it's the prettiest blue and the oddest gold combination. Hate to admit it, but I paid $12 for this quilt.
How many Sunbonnet Sue's can a person collect? This is just my second one--first one is purple. The girls are a different pattern than the other one too. Oh, both quilts are hand quilted and this one is hand pieced. It's twin sized, and yes I paid a little more for this one.

These two girls just spoke to me. I'm having TWO granddaughters and these two will be wonderful companions for them. Raggy needs an apron, but that surely won't be hard to make. Holly Hobby....would love to know how old she is and she's spotless, well, they both are.

I also bought two crochted items. one is a tablecloth and the other is a twin-sized bedspread. --both were $10 each. Okay...I've crocheted a lot of things in my lifetime, but to make that big of something for $10?..nope.

I also bought two antique rolling pins and several (many, many, many) other things.

Troy skipped school to go with us...drove us down there (4 hrs) and back. It was a good experience for him, but he said he wasn't ready to go back. It's 12 miles of trails if you go thru it all....and we did it in two days. He got a new pair of boots and jacket(at the western wear outlet), so he was happy. He's also a good carry-person. When you park at Canton, it's at least a mile to go back to the car and Troy gladly carried stuff for me....better than his Dad!

How we spent most of October

This is the farm version of "sewing". It's planting wheat, and it took almost a month to get 1500 acres planted.
Most of this wheat has came up and I'll try to get some new pictures soon.

Most of the time we only have one tractor running, because the driver has a "real" job. He worked evenings and weekends helping.

The neighbor's wheat--that's already green--is only about two weeks ahead of ours.

Keeping eating bread and wheat-products!!

Hello? Anybody home?

If anybody is still listening, I'm going to try to come back. Will have a newsy post soon.... I promise.