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FRIDAY

Karina and I had a nice day for the drive down to KC and finally arrived (we weren't lost, just weren't sure where we were relative to the destination).   Coming the long way around, though, we found a veritable mansion.  Really!

Upon unloading our things into the handy-dandy alligator driven by the also handy-dandy house husband we were driven back up two very steep drives to the backdoor where we we decanted into a small hallway containing an elevator!  Way to live!  After finding a nice spot for my air mattress and making up my bed I settled with a group in the dining room and worked on The Quilt while chatting with new friends. When I stripped the threads in the wing nut on my quilting hoop, I ended the evening in the indoor (perfectly heated) pool.  I thought this might help me sleep soundly; unfortunately this didn't work so well. 

SATURDAY

I sought out the house husband to see if he could replace the stripped wing nut on my quilt hoop.  A few hours later he brought me a cobbled together standard nut (which fit the screw) that he'd welded to a HUGE wing nut.  Works great!

After breakfast I put together my apple-bean-sausage recipe in the crock pot.  While I was cutting and saute-ing onions and apples in the kitchen I heard a good amount of the silk lady's discussion on the art of silk making... including a demo on how to prepare the caccoons for processing.  The silk lady even handed out silkworm eggs to those who were interested!   There's a lot more work involved than I want to deal with, I'll tell you that!  There were other classes including spinning and I'm not sure what all else.

I spent the afternoon finishing Maude's pillow before I went back to working on the quilt.  I spent a good deal of time visiting with Betty and learning about the dog show business.  I also eavesdropped on an interesting discussion on the details of medieval dress by Eleanor that was an eye-opener and will have me looking at garb pictures differently.  The total sign-in for the weekend was 57, three of whom were men!    One of those men made up three batches of bread Saturday morning for his contribution to our meals, Yum!

I slept somewhat better that night but I woke up at some point to add air to my mattress to get my hip up off the hard floor.

SUNDAY

Another lovely day for the drive home, we were loaded and on the road before eleven.  I don't even recall what the weather was Saturday; it didn't occur to me to look out a window I was so involved.  After dropping Karina off at her home I stopped at a thrift store where I found some yellow wool fingering yard and a scrapbook.  Got caught up with my email and blogs and Leofwyna pumped me about my weekend.  Her's was two full work shifts on very little sleep.

MONDAY

After nearly a week of poor sleep Leofwyna finally got a good long one and was in much better mood this evening.  We went out to hit three thrift stores before having the Valentine's Day special at Granite City.  Back at home we started another jigsaw puzzle.

TUESDAY

Well, there've been enough moderate days for a lot of the ice and snow to have disappeared, except of course for the plate of ice at the end of our drive and street due to those DAMNED trees!   Perhaps the next four moderate days will deal with that, hopefully.   I do LOVE leaving the coat at home.  I'm starting to really have garden fever;  I have a source for aged horse manure.