Abbie's blessing day was Aug 4th!! She is such a cutie and sooo smart!!

Ala making banana nut bread. It turned out really good!! I realized I failed as a mother when she was reading the recipe and it said add eggs and mix. She looked puzzled and asked what mix???

So here's the hole that was in my bedroom. We had a leak under our foundation! They couldn't get rid of the water and my bedroom smelled like the swamplands of Mississippi!! They ended up digging a hole on the outside of the house and finally tunneled over to the leak and fixed it. It was very tramatic. You kept waiting for something bad to come up from under the house and get you!! I guess I watch too many movies. Things are better the hole is gone and no more boogie men and I can now sleep in my bedroom again!!

My beautiful, wonderful, talented, sweet, loving, kind, and generous daughter Erin came to can with me today. She was a pleasure to work with. She was happy and helpful all the while. You too can can with us next month we will be doin' some pears. Ya'll come back now you hear.
P.S. This is Erin typin

Went to Ikea today. Loads of fun. Made my girlfriend Donna drive so I could knit my socks!! We were gone practically the whole day. Besides Home Depot, I think Ikea may be my new favorite store. The really sad part, I was broke and could only afford some washcloths for $3.49!! But they are really cool washcloths that hang!

Here's one of my quilts, red is my favorite color so I made this quilt for our bedroom.

I knitted these socks, put them on and thought one is greener than the other. So I went and looked at the dye lot, humm, two different dye lots. (now I check dye lot numbers instead of trusting my eyes because they looked the same) I went back to my LYS and got one more of each dye lot and now I have two green striped socks and two blue striped socks. Anyway, my feet love them and I ended up with two pairs of socks!