Alright Already

Happy Thanksgiving.  Hope you and your family are safe and ready to head home soon.

What a day yesterday!  I cleaned the house on Tuesday, top to bottom and even bathed the dogs because I forgot to make the appointment for the vet to bathe them and they were slammed full for the holiday.  The new, larger shower with the long hose and wand set up actually made it quite easy.  The worst part was the bending over.  My back has been killing me for a couple of days and this did not help at all.

But the dogs were cleaned and not too traumatized.  They naively went into the shower, which is large enough to be another room anyway. I probably won't get them to walk into the shower ever again though!

Post from Charlene:  Bonnie Hunter has a new mystery quilt you should do.
Reply:  No

I cooked all day yesterday.  I made carrot cake cupcakes with the requisite cream cheese frosting, candied yams with three Louisiana Yam varieties one of which was purple topped with Louisiana naval oranges, long green beans and long carrots done in the instant pot, cranberry sauce done in the instant pot, banana pudding and whipped cream, fried apples in the instant pot from North Louisiana apples and Brown sugar and Pineapple with Dijon mustard glazed spiral cut smoked ham.

My neighbor sent








 her famous fudge and Frank's cousin Patsy brought the Louisiana Pecan Pie.

I used about 5 lbs of Louisiana cane sugar, 10 lbs of brown sugar and a few vegetables.

Post from Charlene:  All you have to do is to make a couple of 4 patches.
Reply:  No - she will want 5,736 of them.  

We drank wine, beer, fancy root beer, Dr. Pepper, cokes, Sweet Southern Iced Tea and chocolate milk.   And ate ourselves silly.

Sawyer loved his Aunt Patsy and Aunt Stacey.  He had such a big grin when he saw them!  And he played them for all he was worth!












We discussed contrails vs chemtrails and how the government is trying to knock us off.  And ancestry.  Frank's side of the family goes back to Daniel Boone's uncle Jeremiah Boone.  But when Frank got his DNA results back there was no Native American in there.  And his genes were mostly English and the Boones were Dutch.  Who knows that far back though.  He did have that coonskin hat when he was a kid in the 50's.

Post from Charlene:  All you have to do is make 12.  You can make 12 just like that. 15 minutes tops.
Reply:  No, she will never stop wanting more.

Frank went out last night to get a jump on the Black Friday Sales.  He bought some things, he said, although I didn't see them come inside.  I am hazarding a guess here that he has bought my Christmas present.  In a heated argument last week I told him that he always ends up going out at the last minute and trying to find a present for me.  And I am tired of old lady jewelry from J C Penneys and Sears.

My neighbor two doors down just returned home from a massive hospital stay.  She  was stabbed by her brother in law trying to help her sister.  He was stabbing her sister and ended up killing her.  My neighbor was critically injured and has a lot of stab wounds.  She is healing physically, I imagine it will be a while for the mental healing to come.  I can't even imagine.  So far, the police have not found him.  I guess he is long gone from here by now.

Post from Charlene:  If you don't like them, you can just send them to me.  come on, you can do it, can't you?
Reply:  What size?  You know I am going to hate this, right?

I talked to my other cousin, who has her son home from the Naval Academy.  She is playing proud Momma this weekend.  I know I would!

Post from Charlene:  Come on...….you may end up loving it!
Reply:  I won't, I refuse to like it.  But I will see what I can do.

My fiber group met and we shared some really interesting work.  I am going to direct you to Our Fiber Exploration Blog for this month's sharing pieces.

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Post from Charlene:  That's the spirit!  You go girlfriend!
    Reply:  I refuse to reply...…

I am too busy making 4 patches...……..