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When I find a fun knit I seem to just keep knitting it agan and again! The kerchief is just one of those knits. The second shawlette is complete and I have a third just about done, then I need to get back to the last Christmas sweater of the year! Pattern: A little of this and little of that - Multnomah, Silk Kerchief, Milk Run Shawl Yarn: leftover sock yarn, and Red Heart Heart and Sole, Ivory Needles: US 5

Fundraisers are in full swing. Kids and parents are frantically trying to sell wrapping pager, popcorn and candy including See's toffee. Seeing the See's label, I shared with the other teachers that I had an award winning recipe for See's Fudge. My Aunt Betty gave it to us years ago. She had been visiting California, See's corporate headquarters, when there had been a contest for the best knock off recipe for the fudge. Here it is gals, and really, it's the best! See's Fudge Put into large bowl: 1 cup chopped nuts 1 cube butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 6 ounce package chocolate chips Boil in a heavy pan for 6 minutes: 2 cups sugar 2/3 cups canned evaporated milk 10 marshmallows Pour over the contents in the bowl and beat. Spread into a greased 9x13 pan, cool.

Last week the last of my Dad's generation was laid to rest.  Aunt Verna is a part of my earliest memories. Before I'd entered school she came for a visit. One afternoon as we passed a roadside fruit stand she asked if I liked cantaloupe. I'd never had such a thing and she told me that is was the best thing ever. It melted in your mouth and was quite possibly better than ice cream. On the way back home we stopped and bought several of these wonderful fruits. I became suspicious when the melons were cut and I caught wind of the musty smell but after a bite I knew I'd been sold a bill of goods! I just received a package filled with family things. One was an old autograph album of Aunt Verna's from 1938-1945. In it were many heartfelt messages to: "Irish" "Itty Bit" and "Little one". I learned that she had gone to Greeley and Steamboat Springs to signal school in the hopes of becoming a W.A.A.C. and serve in WWII. The following speaks o...

This is my entry in the Just Ask Bucket List Getaway Giveaway. Just Ask offers a breast and ovarian cancer screening and is encouraging people to share 15 things that I want to enjoy in my lifetime as a reminder to be aware of my health. Want to enter? Head over to TodaysMama.com  to get the details I have been lucky enough to lead a very fulfilling and happy life. I enjoy what I have and am grateful for surprises along the way.  A couple of items have just snuck up on me just recently. I unknowingly accomplished two of my bucket list items without even knowing I wanted to do them until they'd been accomplished: 1. I walked across the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge . 2. I bought a spinning wheel . I'd love to have these things come my way and would never turn them down! 1. Learn to spin yarn worthy of sock knitting 2. Go on a knitting retreat 3. Hike across the heel of Italy like Shirley Mclaine 4. Be a housewife once again, cleaning and cooking to my heart...

It has been a beautiful sunny and warm fall, but winter is lurking and the lovely sweater weather will soon be coming to an end. Yellowstone River 2011 Woodpecker on the deck              No more Griz games, just snowy gray days ahead.  After the game Saturday we stopped by 'The Chick Who Flew the Coop's' hen house and picked up Babycakes for a visit. She wasn't very happy but settled down for the last hour or so in the car. The now snowy Yellowstone River

I'm a little sad some of my Grandchildren are already thinking they are to old to dress up for Halloween but I do have photos of the younger ones: Sadie Isaac Sam and then there are the young at heart and VERY scary goblins: My former teaching buddy, Kathy, was here visiting and I knew we could catch up on what's been going on in our lives if we were at my house because WE HAVE NEVER HAD A TRICK OR TREATER! (That's what happens when you live at the end of the road.)

I have always loved Halloween. When I was in school at good old Gatewood Elementary, in West Seattle, we would get dressed up over lunch hour and parade through all the classrooms. The kindergartners would go to the first grade classrooms and parade through, then upstairs to the second grade with the first graders jumping on board behind them. Next, the second graders would attach themselves on to the end of the line and this would continue on through the sixth grade and the third floor. Finally, the little guys would get back to their classroom and sit down, eat their treats and watch the older kiddos march through. Each class while sitting would eat their treats and when the entire school had paraded through it was time to go home. It wasn't until I was a teacher that I realized the beauty of this plan! These days the kiddos aren't allowed to dress up at our school. We have a party but no costumes. This weekend I wanted to plan a costume and dress up but it just wasn...