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10am,,,sunny.  Out for lunch and milk.  Prepared the pill packs for the trip and pill setts for another three weeks after the trip. No need to order more until after the trip.  Leofwyna spent a considerable amount of time on the phone with the motel in Gatlanburg and that four day treat fell through to her disappointment.  She's decided to go to see the Biltmore estate in North Carolina after all since we'll have the time.  I finally made contact with Dee on Facebook; got her phone number and we may meet her during upcoming trip through Tennessee.  Didn't walk Bonnie until it cooled some at dusk, otherwise a quiet afternoon and evening with Leofwyna working on merchandise downstairs.

9am, promises to be a nice day.  It's definite we're leaving next Monday for Trimaris coronation and we have motel reservations for Bonnie and I while there.  Leofwyna is determined to see manatees this time.  We may stop at the Calontir coronation on the way home.  Went with Leofwyna to take her RAV to the shop (trip prep) so I could take her home again before making a run to the grocery store (tried new recipe in crock pot... was okay) then downstairs to finish sorting/folding plastic bags ready to get out of the house.  After supper downstairs started working on tree blocks again.  Kinda forgot how I was doing them so have to refigure my technique.

11am, up and out for Tuna Frenchees then library, 27th Street Good will (shrug, 3 sweaters, bra, big safety pins) and made a  haircut appointment since they were busy today.  Stopped in at 24-hour too and they're willing to switch the plates for me but were too busy just then so I need to go back.  Went to the library for one computer session, found 401A manual is 144 pages... too much to copy out there; reported this to Leofwyna.  At home Leofwyna was already downstairs sewing so I continued making sniglet blocks to add to the top and finished netting it.  Started the horizontals late but ran out of time at 3/4s.  Plans for a trip south at the end of March are proceeding.

Up and breakfast... measured the rod for the sunshade and got the hose connected for Leofwyna to water.  Gulf Wars merchanting is confirmed so Leofwyna is cancelling Colorado trip.  I spent time on the laptop and after supper headed downstairs to finish up the dark on light Wonky Stars.  

Tuesday up about 11:30 but stayed in all day downstairs on the home computer and some at the sewing table. Commenced on processing the fresh-ironed pile of frips for storage. At supper with Leofwyna she expounded on travel plans upcoming. She's signed up for two different sets of combinations where we sit through sales spiels which we can certainly hear without any temptation whatsoever but we'll receive several travel breaks in return. A Cozemel cruise, St. Petersburg, Hawaii and various others are apparently in my future.

Monday was a lovely, sunny day and I headed out for lunch and computer time at the library. (No problem with the one at home.) When I got back I trundled the camper into the garage to surprise Leofwyna. When I opened it up inside the garage I cleared the rest of my things out of it. Leofwyna had voiced a desire for 'new' potatoes and peas when she saw me sorting and de-sprouting potatoes so that's what I made for supper tonight with smoked porkchops; a really easy meal. At the sewing table I'm still putting together kronberg blocks. We may be heading west sometime in March and I want these assembled so I can get the pile out of the house.

Monday was Leofwyna's birthday so we drove up to Omaha where Pla Too's for lunch and an afternoon at the Henry Doorley Zoo and Imax were my treats for her.  It was an overcast day and the rain came in while we were in the Imax but the temps were fine and we had a good day.  The zoo closed at six so we hit a couple Thrift Worlds before going to The Cheesecake Factory for supper.  We love the lettuce wraps there.  A rainbow sprouted out of Leofwyna's head... she was sitting in front of a window and it was a gloreously high and wide double rainbow for her birthday.  During the drive up and back she started a review of all our trips through the years... beginning with travels with the folks when we were kids.  We've been very fortunate in being able to see so much.  We're always ready for more and are planning for future trips.  Back home at the sewing table I continued cutting solid strips.  We learned the storm here in Lincoln was much worst than Omaha.  There was a funnel cloud in SE Lincoln that didn't touch down but brought some baseball-sized hail.  There's areas in town with roads closed due to flooding.  We're pleased that the gutter noodles are doing their job.  We found no sign of moisture anywhere inside. 

Thursday I sewed up the wine tunic conversion (a two-piece suit to begin with) which I initially had serious reservations about.  It turned out great to my immense surprise.  Friday I sewed the rest of the canvas scraps up into the smaller sized weight bags, finishing that project.  Saturday we participated in the Inn pre-cook for Cattle Raids with Gwenyth.  Back at home in the late afternoon I whacked around the raised garden beds, mowed the verges and backyard, and Leofwyna finished up the front yard when I'd reached my limit.  At the sewing table I'm cutting and prepping linen coifs for the work basket.  I'll have those and the napkins to work on at Cattle Raids and Battlemoor.

A planning discussion Saturday evening... we're going to go to Battlemoor but will skip Gulf Wars and Pennsic in the new year.  Instead we'll do the 50th Celebration making that a shorter, more economical trip.  New England and Louisiana will have to wait a couple years.  The costs and repairs from the Pacific Coast trip needs to be paid for before we do another extended trip.  

Monday Leofwyna took me out to Misty's for a really nice steak dinner.  We made some tentative plans for next year's vacation... we're thinking to get to California to see Aunt Jeanne.  Monday and Tuesday I poked about doing little bits of things but mostly spent my time working on the log cabin blocks and when on the computor worked on genealogy.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I've been out covering the brussel sprouts at night as it's been really cold.  Temperatures are predicted to be good now for another week and with some watering I'm hoping the little buttons have a chance to fill out so I can get a meal or two off these plants before I pull them for the zoo animals.

Wednesday before moot I was talking with Sash and I think I'll be going to Battlemor next August with the apprentice gang to work in the Tailor's booth.  We're having an apprentice weekend this Saturday so more discussion of this no doubt.  Back at home Wednesday I mentioned being in Colorado next August and how about making a vacation out there so maybe Leofwyna'll come out and pick me up for a 'trip'.  (I'm pretty sure she will skip the war camp and just catch me up at the end of it.)

On Ancestry-dot-com I seem to have a problem so work there is slowed until I can get that figured out.  I've been working, instead, on some cutters washing, ironing and cutting.  I have finally cleared the pile of grocery bags full of cutters I had accumulated.  My plastic stacks of drawers are getting full but I need to work through more rough before I begin construction.  And I really need to get focused and look in my stash for purple and gold to get that project begun and completed within the next year as I'm already benefiting from the massages I'm getting in trade for it.