Luke cleaning

Here is Luke wearing his cleaning gloves so he can clean the bathroom in his apartment.

Sept.

Bruce had his surgery on Monday. He got three stitches in his cheek and one stitch on his forehead and they sent it off to see if it was cancerous.

Andrew has started soccer practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school at Pioneer Park. They should have some games soon on the week-ends.

Andrew went to Scouts which was a bike ride down a totally steep, narrow trail where he crashed and never wanted to ride it again. It was in preparation for the Scout Fall Camporee this week –end. The campout was at Phillips Reservoir with a 22 mile bike ride up and down an old logging road. Andrew rode shotgun in the car and refused to even try the ride after his experience on Wed, which turned out to be a wise choice. There were 6 bike crashes, two lost campers, one concussion and one leader had stitches, all in all a good scouting activity...

Bruce had his stitches out on Friday and they told him the results of the skin test were negative, one spot was an enlarged oil gland and the other spot was from sun damage. No cancer is definitely good news!

Bruce and I went to Boise on Saturday. I stopped at the costume store and picked up a brown derby and pink ostrich feather, one police badge, two Bobbie police hats and two plastic Bobbie sticks,(we might make these out of wood as the plastic ones are cheap looking) and some white spats. I also went to a fabric store to find material for the lead in Hello Dolly. I found some nice sparkle gold fabric that should work nicely with an historical western dress pattern with a train. Bruce read a book in the car.

Old for the Old

I traded old clothes in for old clothes. I went to a vintage clothing store in SLC, Utah. The nice man gave me a $100 credit and I got some fun stuff. I got a red cummerbund, some plaid pants, some ostrich feathers, a man's smoking jacket, maroon and a yellow hat with black trim. I went with three friends to SLC to visit my mom. We went to four DI's and an Aviary. In the evenings we watched Poirot. We like murder. We went out to lunch twice and had a picnic once.
Rachael Berry is having a giveaway http://eoberrys.blogspot.com/ at her website for a crocheted hat for Halloween. They are adorable.
Bruce and Andrew stayed home and did man things, like soccer practice, boring board meetings and canning apples and drying apples.
I am now sewing costumes for the haunted house. I have made 1 mummy costume and have three to go. I finished the hoods. I made a hump for a hunchback and am working on a strait jacket.

school starts

I made five tree skirts for the Oz play. There were a couple of costumes that didn't get finished. Maureen will finish those next week. We had good reviews of the play. We went opening night and it was fun. I loved the crows with their sunglasses. I loved the apple hats on the apple trees.
Andrew is in school and loving it. He has PE everyday. He loves his Science teacher, Mr. Mays.
Bruce is home sick with a fever. He said they sent 12 children home on Friday with a fever, he figures he has what they had.
I found two bow ties, two pair long white gloves, two boater straw hats, some purple gingham fabric and several yards of bright orange fabric at yard sales this week end.
I even did some canning this week. I canned about 8 quarts on Monday and another 6 on Tuesday. Bruce is drying a lot of the peaches and he canned quart size jars of tomato sauce.
We are grateful for our garden.