Dear Redeaglespirit1,
You’re SO RIGHT!!! For a long time I’ve fussed about not being able to blog every day. I bought a small tape recorder so that I could tape ideas when I was somewhere I couldn’t write them down. I thought that if the ideas were available, I would be able to post at least something small every day.
Welll…it looks like that’s just not my style. Usually I make the time to post on the weekends, but one of my stepsons was working on our computers this weekend, and then I was away on Sunday, and by the time late Sunday evening rolled around, it just wasn’t going to happen. Actually, I would have been happy to go to bed without dinner on Sunday, I was so worn out from spending the day with my sister.
So, here it is, Monday, past my bedtime, and I finally made the time to blog. I must be in good company, if you went a week without posting. *S* I know you all understand about the rest of our lives occasionally getting in the way. This week I have to start putting the gardens to bed for the winter, so I expect to be away again. Btw….go visit Bogie….and see all the stuff SHE has to do to get ready for winter! Maybe you could laugh at her pun about putting the gardens to bed. (I ignored her.)
I’ll save up a week of comments and be back. I want to tell you about “Lucifer’s Hammer” and pumpkin carving, and scarecrows, and Halloween. And I know that other things will come to me over the weekend.
Have a great week!

Yeah….I bet you thought I was going to talk about my exercise class. Heck, NO!
On Sunday, I got waaaay too much exercise visiting the Antiques Market with my oldest sister. She was here about 6:45 in the morning. I’m guessing, because I was still getting ready at that point. I came running out of the bedroom at 7:00 to find her chatting with Mother, waiting on me. Luckily, she wasn’t bothered by the short wait.
She drove, and we took off for the Market. We made such good time that we were there about 15 minutes early, but they let us in anyway. It was nippy to start. I bought hot apple cider for both of us to sip, and gave her my gloves to use until the sun warmed up a bit. The day turned out to be glorious, and we shopped so well and long that we had to make two trips back to the car to leave packages and layers of clothing that were no longer needed.
I bought TWO quilts. One will be a gift, and the other is for me. I found a depression era quilt that is a variation of the Boston Commons. I have to look up the variation name. This one is square rather than rectangular, and other than a little sun fading in the corner, it’s in good shape.
I found a medium sized wooden bowl that appealed to me. I found sets of crochetted and embroidered pillowcases to give as gifts, and to use on my own bed. I found a bone china cup and saucer, and tea napkins to give as a Christmas present, and a delicate cup and saucer for myself.
Mostly, I just enjoyed spending the day with my sister. We’re both busy women, and it’s not easy to make the time to go off and do things together. Luckily for me, she doesn’t take being busy as an adequate excuse for not doing fun things, so when I mentioned the Market’s last session for the year, she wrote it into her calendar.
What pleases me the most is that we are going to be together again this coming weekend, along with my youngest sister. It should be a great weekend! I plan to window shop, to point out all the great places to eat, and fight to get a word in edgewise!
And THIS time…..I plan to take my Ibuprophen with me! *G*

Tomorrow, October 26th, is Dear Husband’s birthday. I won’t go shouting out his age, but I can tell you than neither of us are spring chickens any more. (Now, THERE’S and idea for a blog. What the heck is a “spring chicken?”)
My niece and her boys come to dinner on Tuesdays, and then we play UNO and have dessert. Tomorrow, dessert will be one of Dear Husband’s beloved pies. He doesn’t care for cake, so we traditionally do birthday pie. His pie of choice would be lemon meringue or coconut cream or banana cream. My niece is providing the dessert, so she will choose the kind of pie.
Some time in the next week to ten days, we’ll go out to dinner to celebrate, but Tuesday, we’ll celebrate with family. UNO anyone??