Quilting

Last year for Christmas, I asked for fabric scraps, and Granny and Aunt Glenda sent me a bunch of neat ones. Granny included a lot of Christmas scraps. So, this week I started doing a crazy quilt tree skirt. I intended to post a picture, but digital images have been really inconvenient since I gave the school's camera back. (Hmmm... digital camera, Christmas item?)

Aunt Glenda also included some neat scraps from flour sacks that came from my great grandmother (I think). I have been saving those for something special, and I think I'm going to start a baby quilt soon. I don't want it to be all crazy quilt, but I thought I might do a patchwork puppy, like the story book Mom has. Anyway, I will hopefully get started on that soon and post pictures.

Halloween

I got a pumpkin for us for Halloween, and (I think this was Sunday afternoon) Laura felt well enough to carve it. We roasted the seeds with some wershteshier sauce (that's how it's spelled in my mind) and butter.

For Halloween we bought some candy, just in case some kids came by. We placed the lit pumpkin precariously atop a bale of hay on our front porch as a beacon to any candy-searching youngster and their suv-driving parents who happened to be tearing past our house at 79 miles an hour, which is the usual means of travel round these parts. But nobody came. Gary, our pumpkin, was noticeably saddened.