What are you plans this weekend? Now before you think i'm too nosy, i'll tell ya this is completely voluntary and "fun" natured. Me? I plan to clean my bathtub and clean the hardwood floors in my tiny little studio. Oh what joy.

Well lets see. At the moment one is just slowly getting his head together
from an enjoyable night at the front bar of my local hotel. My pool game
was on fire last night. Soon I will be dropping my washing off to the
laundromat, checking out the real estate agent as I need another unit
to camp in. Son is coming to live with me so one needs some more room.
I am picking him up on Sunday, for good I hope.

Then I have to pick up the pool results from games played on Tuesday night.
Summer competition has just started up and I need to get the results and
ladders posted to members. Also working on a website for the pool association here.
So nothing major for me apart from seeing my son.
Tonight will be quiet, got to watch the budget. Oh and work could ring
at any time but whether I go and do a shift will depend on whats going
on at the given time. So there you have it.

Chewy, with plans like that... I would just drink more wine!

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Mick, I am so happy for you... you must be thrilled that your son is coming to live with you again. You hadn't told me.

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>Mick, I am so happy for you... you must be thrilled that your
>son is coming to live with you again. You hadn't
>told me.

Your memory slipping Jan?

I, too, will be cleaning the hardwood, and the bathrooms and the kitchen, washing clothes and more. Oh, joy, here, too. I started tonight, changing sheets on the beds, etc. Vacuuming is a must at my house tomorrow. Went shopping last Saturday (Christmas) and these floors have got to have a cleaning. Oh, and more shopping (for the grandkids and SIL). Don't y'all wish you were going to have as much fun as me?

sheesh! now if this were 20 years ago....

but i need to get those christmas cards out!

ho ho ho! for christmas i'd like an elf.

mick, that's awesome news about your son coming to live with you. so often fathers just get eased out of the picture, whether by choice or not. glad for you that you're doing the opposite. plus, he'll have lots of ideas for what to do on a week-end. and good luck with the pool game this summer!

>sheesh! now if this were 20 years ago....
>
>but i need to get those christmas cards out!
>
>ho ho ho! for christmas i'd like an elf.
>
>mick, that's awesome news about your son coming to live with
>you. so often fathers just get eased out of the
>picture, whether by choice or not. glad for you that you're
>doing the opposite. plus, he'll have lots of ideas for what
>to do on a week-end. and good luck with the pool game
>this summer!

Yes Sophie I am wrapped. I would love to get my daughter here as well
because I think she is close to running off the tracks at the moment.
But my hands are tied, I can only offer and hope she decides to come to
me. Best of luck with the xmas cards.

It's starting to cooler here, so I went to the store today to get the ingredients for my "killer" crockpot chile. It's now in the crockpot and the kitchen has been cleaned up. It will ready for a mid-morning snack! (I made enough to last for days!)

I'm almost finished making a quilt top, and hope to get it ready to take to my long-arm quilter friend after Christmas. I have been working on this quilt, on and off, for over two years.

I have another quilt that is a finished top, but have never bothered to piece the two sections together for the backing. Hope to get that done. (I will also give that one to my friend for quilting.) That quilt has been in work for five or six years!

Then (we are getting into next week) I hope to start working on quilt blocks that have been sitting around for years. Would like to get the blocks finished and assemble it into a quilt top, and to my friend for quilting, sometime after the first of the year.

[Quilters are famous for our UFO's (UnFinshed Objects). We all have them, and some of them will still be unfinished when we die. Sometimes blocks made for a quilt that was never finished end up in a charity quilt. Sometimes we give our partially completed quilts to other quilters so that they can finish them. Sometimes we just leave them in the closet and either finish them, or not!]

I have been doing pre-Holiday cleaning. Cleaning the "corners," that is, the ceiling fans, the oven, shelves, silk plants, and such. Hope to do some of that fun stuff this weekend (grin).

The short answer is eat chile, work on quilts, and do house cleaning!

marti

Marti, that Chili sounds so good right about now. I may have to make me a big pot of that too tomorrow... I love Chili and isn't it funny that we all think we make the best!! Well at least I do, I think my Chili is awesome.. Ya have to like it a bit on fire though, not quite tears to your eyes but close...LOL cool it down with some crackers.

Yep, chili tomorrow for me too... ya got me in the mood, thanks!

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Marti, I'd love a good chili recipe. I turned cooler here today and a good crockpot recipe sounds like my kind of chili . . . enough to freeze maybe for later in the week or the next week (reheat after coming home from work on a night I'm tired). I wish I knew how to quilt and were retired so I could learn. A coworker and I keep talking about learning to tat, but alas I couldn't do it the first time I tried many years ago. She's taught herself to knit and here I am with no "crafty" talents but crochet and a little cross-stitch. I've been trying to get cleaned up (the house, I mean) for the holidays, too, but my progress seems a lot slower than yours. Now if you run out of corners, silk plants or ceiling fans, rush right over here

>Marti, I'd love a good chili recipe. I turned cooler here
>today and a good crockpot recipe sounds like my kind of chili
>. . . enough to freeze maybe for later in the week or the next
>week (reheat after coming home from work on a night I'm
>tired). I wish I knew how to quilt and were retired so I could
>learn. A coworker and I keep talking about learning to tat,
>but alas I couldn't do it the first time I tried many years
>ago. She's taught herself to knit and here I am with no
>"crafty" talents but crochet and a little cross-stitch. I've
>been trying to get cleaned up (the house, I mean) for the
>holidays, too, but my progress seems a lot slower than yours.
>Now if you run out of corners, silk plants or ceiling fans,
>rush right over here

If you are serious about a crockpot chili recipe, send me an email and I'll provide it.

You don't have to be "retired" or not working at a job to learn to quilt. There are many in our quilt guild that have full time jobs and have families. I took a class at a local shop (lasted several weeks) when I first started. I went in the daytime, but they also offer an evening class. I've been quilting for 11 or 12 years, and it took me a long time to get to the point where making a quilt is like making bread. Sure I do things for a challange, or to try something different, but once I get going, it's like mixing flour, water, and yeast. When you want to make bread, you find the recipe, check your ingredients on hand, and then follow the instructions.

When you bake bread, you fit the bread to the meal. Same with quilts, for example, when my sister wanted an "old timey" quilt for a couch throw, I looked for a recipe, that is a pattern. Then I designed the quilt and looked around to see if I had the ingredients (the fabric). I purchased some new fabric for the quilt and mostly used fabric that I had on hand.

My first quilt, the quilt that I made during the class, was finished, but it's now used by the cats! Once you start "playing with fabric" you will find that many of your other artistic talents end up in your quilts!

I'm not out of "corners" and areas that need to be cleaned. I was hoping that you would come help me!

Take care,

marti

Marti, do you make your quilt tops by hand or by machine?
There are so many corners, crevices, cabinets and such in my house that need straightening, cleaning or spiffing up that I'd never get through in time to help you! Sometimes I think my house is the Grand Central Station of the rural south. Grandchildren, children and dogs (oh, I forgot the hubby) going in and out like crazy some days. May I just send them to your house for a while . . . then my "corners" would remain clean for a day or two:lol:

>Marti, do you make your quilt tops by hand or by machine?
>There are so many corners, crevices, cabinets and such in my
>house that need straightening, cleaning or spiffing up that
>I'd never get through in time to help you! Sometimes I think
>my house is the Grand Central Station of the rural south.
>Grandchildren, children and dogs (oh, I forgot the hubby)
>going in and out like crazy some days. May I just send them to
>your house for a while . . . then my "corners" would remain
>clean for a day or two:lol:

I use a sewing machine and either simply quilt the tops, or have someone else quilt them on a long-arm quilting machine. I have never hand-pieced a quilt, but can and have have done hand quilting on the finished top.

take care,

marti

>>Mick, I am so happy for you... you must be thrilled that
>your
>>son is coming to live with you again. You
>hadn't
>>told me.
>
>Your memory slipping Jan?

Excuse me Michael... you are talking to a girl that probably has one of the best memories around, RIGHT?? And I knew you were talking of him coming but I didn't know he was going to be this coming Sunday, so there...

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>Excuse me Michael... you are talking to a girl that probably
>has one of the best memories around, RIGHT?? And I
>knew you were talking of him coming but I didn't know he was
>going to be this coming Sunday, so there...

Ok, I misunderstood, sorry Jan**

Weekend plans? Well its sunday here now, but yesterday I took the wife for a ride on the bike. Today I will ride over to where she has her market, help her out at the stall for a while,maybe sell a heap of her beautiful jewellery.
Later this afternoon I will ride my bike the 120 odd klms back to work for the week.

Decorated for Christmas today, went out for dinner tonight with good friends, Tomorrow, big breakfast at home and head for Gillette Stadium at 11:00AM to get ready for Patriots vs. Bengals game. I have a friends tickets for seats at the 45 yard line 20 rows up from the field. My wife is happy as can be because the weather is supposed to be 48 degrees and mostly sunny. We're on the sun side of the field. We dodged the rain today and rain coming in on Monday.

Paul

I think i hear the beach calling me..a short trip to ocean...maybe watch the waves...maybe a little fishing...maybe a nap on the sand.

Vitalt

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Hmmm... 30 degrees here at 11pm cst. I'm staying in where it's warm

LilJoe

I'm going to curl up in my sun beam and sleep. Just like every other day.

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