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That dear husband of mine came home from the grocery store excited about vinegar. First of all, yes, he does the grocery shopping most of the time. After all, he is the one that is in town all the time and I would NEVER even think to buy VINEGAR, much less be excited about it. He sets them on the counter and wants me to taste test the difference between the vinegars. Trying hard to feign interest in his little scientific experiment/carnival act, but extremely wary, he pours the first vinegar and I taste it. Not a vinegar fan, it is ok ...tastes like vinegar. THEN he pours about a half teaspoon of the PLATINUM vinegar and I taste/slurp that. Immediately I am coughing and wheezing, can't breathe on the dining room floor. I manage to crawl and claw my way to the bathroom because as the coughing subsides, the gagging takes over. Sorry to be so graphic, just beware...don't slurp vinegar. Next time he wants me to taste test something it better have chocolate on the label ...

Yesterday I went to the Chautauqua Quilt Show in Lake Chautauqua, New York at the Chautauqua Institute. There, now I have spelled that word enough time that hopefully 1.)I will remember how to spell it and 2.)probably cause spell check to run out of yellow highlighter. The day could have also been called, How Many Times Can You Pass Through Pennsylvania in Twenty Four Hours? Friday night I drove from Pa to Ohio to stay at my Mom and Dad's. Saturday AM (4:30 to be exact) we got up and went to gather the other people on the trip and drive to Warren, Ohio to get the bus. The bus then took us back through PA to New York, then on the return trip, back through PA again and back to Ohio, where I picked up my car and promptly left Ohio and drove home back to PA. At 6:30 yesterday evening I was 1 1/2 hours from home, at that point we rode two more hours on the bus, then I drove two more hours back home...seem a little preposterous? It was a lot of riding and would I do it again? yes!...

Three days without blogging, I have some serious catching up to do. If I wasn't behind enough, yesterday I woke up with some nasty flu type bug that really knocked me down for the day. Tuesday night I felt fine and we had out Knitting Field Trip to Smicksburg , PA. I know that I mentioned this little shop before and really, I am not getting any payment for mentioning it again, but I am just so happy to have a nice little yarn/fabric shop close by that I have to keep telling about it! Our field trip was to Cozy Comforts in Smicksburg . The owner agreed to stay late until we could all (three of us) get there. Hopefully, our shopping habits made it worthwhile for her to stay the extra time. They have a nice selection of fabrics and yarns at reasonable prices and great samples to inspire! We were even treated to this wonderful view and sunset on the way home. I am always truly amazed at God's glory This is the yarn that I bought Tuesday night and the hat that I finished yes...

Yesterday morning was spent at the Peanut Butter Festival...well so was part of Friday Night. There is a Smuckers plant in New Bethlehem, Pa and the Festival is a yearly event. Fun, small town event, I love those! This is the welcoming sign as you drive into town. We were there early for the 5k Run yesterday and after the runners took off, I walked to the creek with my camera and got this shot. All of the downtown decorates with peanuts. All the businesses have peanut displays in their windows and I was fascinated with these light up peanuts. Just where do you go to shop for light up peanuts? The midway of the festival was not really open at the hour of the morning. Landscaping in town and the bridge over Redbank Creek. John is finishing the run. He took almost three more minutes off the time of his last run. Some of the craft booths just beginning to open. And the view at the creek again once the fog cleared. This is the little restaurant in Hawthorn, PA where we had a...

At 4:30 yesterday morning, my day started after four hours of sleep, refer the last post and the pumpkin latte comment. I thought that a latte was just warm milk....little did I know that it had a shot of ESPRESSO (spelled right, Marilyn!) in it. I won't make that mistake again..the spelling of espresso OR drinking a latte at 9:00 at night. As a side note here, when I write MY book and go on MY book tour it will be under a pseudonym and I will be interviewed on Oprah behind the same screen that they use for the witness protection program and my voice will be garbled. I will tell me family that I am on R & R in the Caribbean and they will never know it is all about them. The following pictures are of what happened to my sewing room that I cleaned at five in the morning is preparation for craft day with Shawnee. We thought that since I keep Kendall at home one day a week now, we could have a craft afternoon while Gracelyn and Kendall napped. It partially worked although th...

...or here let me pull your fingernails out with pliers. The words "I need some clothes" coming out of my husband's mouth literally send me running, hands shaking for the Zantac. I just know that before it is over, I am going to have a serious case of stress induced indigestion in the very near future. Over the past 6 1/2 years of marriage, shopping has improved with him, but really everything is relative, right? The clothing search with him can only be related to when I received drugs when I was in labor with my first born, I was still in a LOT of pain, but it was endurable. That is how shopping with him now could be described as opposed to 75 pounds ago, endurable...avoidable if possible, but endurable. (if you have a high pain tolerance or some sick sense of sadism) I heard the words yesterday. I cringed. I begged that he wait until Friday night, I just don't have the energy for it if I have to go to work the next day. It can easily produce a "shopp...

Our Tuesday night knitting group resumed last night at my house. How fun! I have missed my friends and knitting. There was quite a bit of digging on my part to find the dust covered knitting basket and remember what I was doing. Poor Tina, who is even more of a beginner than me, forgot everything and we had to reteach her. Carol is the most experienced and also the most patient. She always helps us and has new things to show us. Last night was a new cast-one technique for me and you know what that means....a new project! Did I really need to START anything new? Carol brought us this bounty from her garden. What a great gift and this will all be part of supper tonight. I can't wait! Gardening is on my If I Didn't Have a Job list. I used to love to garden and "put up" for the winter. We have a new customer at the shop. Normally I don't deliver or leave the shop to see customers. Most of our customers do guy things, mine coal, drill gas wells, pour ...

It is worth a prize! A giveaway sort of..designed to make me feel better. How self-centered is that giveaway. Once again, or as usual, I have way too many projects started. Last year Ann at A Hole in the Basket had a UFO challenge. It really got me moving to finish things. Someone needs to host one of those again, I would but it would just be another unfinished project. Anyway, as I STARTED the afghan at the bottom of this post this morning, I felt the need to hide it from my dear husband so that he would not see yet another project laying around. Instead, I replaced (hid) another project with that one. So here goes, I am going to list everything that I can think of that needs finished and having published it to the "world" I am going to try to finish something every day for the rest of September. The first person that can list MORE UFO's than I have will not only make me feel much better, but will receive a prize in the mail from me! I promise it will be fini...