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.

Matching chairs

We bought four matching oak chairs at a yard sale last week. Only rich people have matching chairs...
This week I found a fly costume (haven't seen one of those before, size 7/8, child), a chef hat, a sheer scarf for 1950's dress up and a CI game for Dan.
Bruce and Andrew are camping and canoeing at Wallawa lake with the Scouts.
I finished my 11 stupid monkey tails and hoods for the Wiz. I am going to cut out a green king cape today and begin on the Winkie guard costumes. Dress rehearsal is this week. Did you see my name in the paper as a skilled seamstress that is helping to do the sewing? I get free tickets.

Estate clothing

My friend gave me 6 black garbage bags filled with clothing. They had put her sister in a nursing home and were cleaning out the house. She had a bright red/blue clown costume, a white apron, and several Eastern Star formal dresses made from polyester. She said she had paid $200 for some of the dresses. They will make nice prom dresses or Titanic dinner dresses, sz 14-18.
There were two Pendleton wool ponchos in a brown plaid and a blue plaid, both with fringe. I took the pockets off and I think they will be perfect for period clothing and warm too.
There was one milk maid costume from the colonial period that will be nice to have.
There was a crop top in big red/blue flowers, I'm thinking 1980's.
Also a green polyester short sleeve turtleneck with matching mini skirt and hot pants, maybe a cheer leader outfit?
There was a blue mid calf, fur collar coat with big buttons, definitely 1950's. LOL
And the best of all was a leather jacket, mid- calf length, sz 15/16. Just wish I could fit into it!
The clothes smelled musty and stale from being in a closet so I am letting some air outside while the weather is nice.
I will take some of the clothes to a vintage clothing store in SLC in Sept. to trade for other clothing for the costume shop. He has good junk there.

August 16th

Bruce started back to work this week. They hired a new teacher.

I made 5 monkey tails and still need to make 5 more plus hoods with ears for the Oz.

Andrew had two soccer games, won one and tied one.
Andrew and I started the Communications merit badge. He is getting good at communicating.

Duncan had a Birthday. Happy Birthday! He wanted a Joy of Cooking cookbook. Happy cooking!

Gave a box or two to the Free Market. Andrew came home with a boffing shield, a tank toy and a plastic baseball bat. I got a belly dancing belt, (the ladies saved it out for moi), a beautiful brown teddy bear, some striped pants that might make good pirate pants, an old prom dress, and a green reversible jacket for the Emerald city costumes. Good haul!