life in general

It is hard to believe this is September 1st already.  The summer flew by and I haven’t a clue why?  I think I spent the majority of the summer in the house due to the extremely hot weather we had.  When it is 100+ degrees for days on end it tends to be too hot to even sit on the porch and enjoy the weather.

One would think because of that inactivity that the summer would have dragged by instead here it is September and we all know that fall is actually just around the corner.  I think as we get a little older times goes by faster!

Last night I worked on two boxes of scraps – I filled up this small plastic zipper bag that I got a set of sheets (folded up so tight and small I am amazed).  This little bag is about 7x7x7 inches and I have it packed with scraps that I will take along on the trip and go through as I feel like it and cut into useable scraps.  Some of the shapes will be diamonds and some will be squares and rectangles depending on the size.

As I cut them I will store them in this box.  I took some of the overflow from the photo shown in yesterdays post and also took two boxes down from the shelf and went through them.  I repacked one box and put it back on the shelf and will bring this one with me to use for storage.  If I decide I have enough room I might dump one of the boxes of scraps in a plastic bag and stuff them in the cabinet to take along – I don’t want to take too much along with me though as I hardly ever work on as much as I think I will.

I’m still trying to decide if I should bring a bag of yarn along to crochet while we drive.  I tend to like to have something to do while Mike drives but I have found that I no longer sew very well when in motion.  Last year I started an afghan but here I am part way done with it and haven’t touched it since the last trip and no longer really like the color! and I ran out of yarn anyhow and would need to match it up.  Maybe I will bring the crochet hook with me and if I feel like it stop somewhere and pick up some yarn – a crochet hook sure doesn’t take up room – I can stick it in the silverware drawer

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Seeing as I had to go to Little Rock today for my bi-annual check up for my auto immune disease I thought it would be a good time to look for the rest of my dishes!  I had went back to the local Wal-Mart several times and all I found were broken dishes!! What a way to run a store – putting crumpled up boxes on the shelves with dishes rattling around doesn’t make good business sense to me.

The first and only Wal-Mart we went in today had 3 or 4 boxes on the shelf and they all looked to be in good shape and no rattling noise when you lift the boxes ( the tell tale noise letting you know not to buy).    These all look blue but they are actually more of a hint of green in them – they also sell individual pieces on the shelf but they are all very much blue.  I will get these all in the dish washer tomorrow after I get back from my quilting morning and then get the old dishes packed away for goodwill.  I will keep a few pieces here and there for extra – like little dessert plates are still in very good shape.

Yesterday – mainly last night while watching tv I finished quilting the first pillow for the camper.  I still need to make a backing  for it – but that is just one layer of cloth and will not be quilted as the front of it is.  I should be able to finish that tomorrow.

One down, one to go.  I think I will bring it with me to quilting in the morning – maybe I can make a good start on it.

We didn’t stop to visit with our daughter as she was working but also because she is spending the weekend and Monday here.  She and I are driving to NW Arkansas on Monday for a surprise visit with my mom – Mel hasn’t seen her grandma in almost a year.

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Sometimes I hate shopping!! Talk about a run around.  I told you all last week or two that I wanted to find some new dishes – I don’t want expensive dishes – I know me I will get a chip or a crack quickly.

All I wanted was something new and pretty.  I found some new plates etc.. at Wal-Mart, I bought two boxes to give me 8 settings so that when the girls and family are here I have enough plates without going to paper.   Aren’t these pretty – well of course I am unboxing when I get home and find one plate in one of the boxes is broken into about 5 pieces.  I go back to Wal-Mart with the box to make an exchange – no problem there.  I go back to get another box leaving the box with the broken dish at the Customer Service area with a very helpful young man (really he was the best).  I get back to the dishes – and all I find is one box of my set ( I really thought there were more from the way the box was on the shelf when I was there the first time) and the bottom of the box is crushed and when I pick it up I can hear broken dishes!

I go back to the service area and tell the young man – only one box and broken dishes in it.  He says well go back and get the box and maybe one plate is ok in that box that we can change out to my box – ok that would work – not!  I bring the box back and he checks – all the plates are broke!  Ok they are selling the same dishes individually also – he checks with his manager yes we can take one plate and change out – I go back once again to the dish area and grab a plate – bring it back up to the service area and we are ready to do the exchange – get the plate box out of the big box, open it up to get the broken plate out and low and behold they are different colors!  Mine has a hint of green in them which I don’t think shows up in this photo – the individual plates are more of a turquoise – an obvious difference when they are next to each other.  By this point I’m ready to scream!

The young man sends someone to the back of the store to check and see if there are any in the stock room as his computer tells him there are – he gets on the phone to check with the stores in the next towns over both east and west (I forgot the one to the south which is much closer and so did he) to see if they have a set (how helpful he was being.  They have him on hold forever!  The person comes back from the stockroom to tell him they have 4 more boxes of those dishes coming in on the next truck which was coming in last night but there were none in the stock room at that moment (sounds like they were missing some boxes that mysterious disappeared from the shelf).  They assure me they will be on the shelf today – not!!  I went back over to the store today to see if they had them stocked on the shelf – not a box!  I will go back tomorrow when I am done at the fitness center and see if they have them then.

I can order them on Wal-Mart.com but I would rather be able to pick up the box and shake it gently and listen to hear if I think there are any broken dishes in it until I get the right box – I just have a feeling that if I order on line that by time it gets to me it will contain some broken dishes.  But if they do not have the boxes on the shelf by the end of the weekend I guess I will order a box or at least drive over to the next towns and see if they have the box that matches my color.

Now I guess I will get back to quilting!

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