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Jessie and I met Diane and Randie at Theo's for breakfast. We do this every so often when Jon works a Sunday. From there we spent an hour or so visiting. I hope to go to their house in September during the day and make my own glass window. Diane made this one out of an old wooden window and sea glass and cut glass. I'll post Randie's picture tomorrow. I'm not sure mine will be anything close to theirs, as they have worked with glass for years.

On-Line Buying

I have been having fun buying inexpensive items on-line. I get Groupon and The Grommet daily e-mails that have wonderful savings and interesting items. Just like yesterday's boat trip. I got 4 tickets for $16.00 a piece instead of 2 at $20.00 and 2 at $18.00. PLUS it included 4 pictures ($10.00 each) and 4 drinks ($2.00 each). Now that's a savings plus we had a wonderful time.

If you get a chance, look up Groupon for your area and The Grommet, which is US made unique items. Shopping on-line sure beats going from store to store for what you need or what you'd like to have. I needed new over-head range filter screens and I couldn't find them around here so I ordered them on-line. Same as my vacuum cleaner bags. A lot of time there's free shipping which makes it even better.

In today's mail I got an order from The Grommet, Groupon, Harriett Carter and Amazon. It was like Christmas!

Huron Lady II

Jon, Diane, Randie and I went on the Huron Lady II cruise on the St. Clair River. I got the tickets on Groupon and it was an exceptional day. Beautiful weather, wonderful family!

They are very large boats looking at them from land, but enormous when you are within feet of them!

More Harvest Pictures

Jon picked potatoes several weeks ago and left them to dry on a rack in the shed. He brought them in today and cleaned the dirt off of them then separated the potatoes for canning or storage. There really isn't anything like a fresh potato from the garden!

Jon picked fresh carrots for our dinner tonight. Yellow and orange. We were surprised when I cleaned one and found it to be a combination of both !!!

As Jessie Would Say ... "Stupid People"

After SM tonight I went to a Hallmark store. As I was walking back to my van I heard angry yelling and the F word every couple of words, by a very angry man in a vehicle, not far from where I parked. Apparently a woman had parked in the road in front of a store instead of the parking lot and was tying up traffic - which was only his car. He's screaming out his driver's window, waving his fist in the air. Unbelievably, the woman in the parked car gets OUT of her van and walks up to the man. (I was thinking that this action wasn't the smartest thing to have done.) She sorta calmly explains to him why she's there, which didn't make any sense to me. She then puts her hand inside her purse and I was sure this really wasn't going to end well, but I think she just pulled out her phone. After several minutes of her within range of his fist and ear-drum-breaking screaming, she slowly walked back to her van and very slowly moved her car out of the way, which I'm sure made him all the more mad! He zoomed off still yelling and she circled the parking lot. Like Jessie would have said ... stupid people!

A Day With Chris

Chris picked me up at 8:45 a.m. today and took me with her while she had a test done at a local hospital. I've had this test before, knew it wasn't pleasant, and I'm glad she asked me to go along and drive home. She did better than I have done in the past - we went out to lunch then shopping !!! It was a nice day spent with a very good friend. When we got home she stayed and had dinner with Jessie and me and didn't leave until almost 8:30 p.m.

Jessie had gotten up early this morning but then went to sleep on my bedroom couch. Brenda finally had to wake her at 10:00 a.m. They went swimming, lunch then their 1-mile walk. Jon worked and had a hard day - again.

One Job Leads To Another

Have you ever started a job but realized you needed to do another job before you could complete the one you wanted to do? I had some Christmas houses I had bought a while back that needed to go in the Christmas closet. They've been in the garage and I do want to park in there this fall. It's become a catch all place this summer! However, when the Christmas closet door is opened, you need to stand back in case things fall out. So something had to go. I opened the door, took out a great deal of items and removed my box labeled "Gifts For Others". Bri helped me several weeks ago clean out one of my hall cupboards and I wanted to put the gifts in my newly arranged area. I brought up all my Christmas stuff from the garage and put it in the closet. Now I just need to put the Christmas Gifts in the hallway closet with my other year-round gifts I buy when I see something on sale. So much for one job.