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Bob went out first, and bingo-ed once, but I beat him by three points. It has been a while since I have won at Scrabble. And Bob lets me have as many letters as I want.

Bob re-installed the vents in the overhang thingies. We had run them through the dishwasher to remove twenty years of dust and grime after a good hand scrubbing. Every time Bob uses his cordless screwdriver we remember the story of taking toddlers to the hardware store. When we were not looking, baby Ben pulled a cordless screw driver off the shelf and into our cart. When we got up to the checkout, Bob thought I had put it in the cart as a gift to him. I did not know he had been wanting one, and this was when they had first been invented, and to me, sounded wussy.

We had eaten cereal for supper, and even though that is quick, we only had 45 minutes before sundown to get the screens re-installed. Four little screws each. By dusk's early light...and the step stool, and the ladder for the end of the house.

I am still having trouble standing up straight, even though I went to the chiropractor the other day. Oh, well. Yesterday, I went out to lunch with my friend and her cute little 2 year old grandson, but my back was hurting before we were done. She had seen the yarn we use on sale at Michael's for one dollar each, and we could not resist stocking up on my favorite colors. I am well-stocked on yarn now. This should last me through the winter ! It sure was nice paying one dollar for the cream color instead of 1.69 !!! And I usually do not buy the smaller skeins at 1.69, but at one dollar, I picked up a few "stripes". And I don't know when I have had so many shades of green in stock. These will make pretty dishrags.

It is Friday. I'd love to blog about female stuff, but it would gross out people. I am convinced there is a female/menstrual connection to my back hurting.

And what is it with memory tricks in your fifties?? Bob and I don't dare buy milk and set it in the back seat. We will get distracted somehow one the way home and forget to take the milk out of the back seat and put it in the frig ! What is with that?? And I will make notes to myself and leave them all over the place...and then forget to read the notes. So, I ride home from Braum's (milk purchase place) with a gallon of milk between my legs. Too funny. We are losing our minds.

Soft Creamy Colored Cotton Yarn

That trip to the yarn store (Michael's) paid off big time today ! They finally have the soft off-white-yellow-creamy colored yarn I had ordered and had been nagging them about for a month. (Sugar 'n Cream, Lily's brand) Yippeee !!!!!! I don't know why, but that color sings to my soul. And it looks like it will make some other colors look even warmer, and richer.

I have been carrying the label around in my wallet for months--color number 102001, soft ecru. (not to be confused with the more oatmeal colored plain old ecru)

And this is the first day of October. In just 27 days, our "baby" will be legal age. He has been out on his own for almost two years now, and doing fine.

Now I am going to go all political on you. Soap box at the ready: Is McCain insane? The calls are coming in 100 to one AGAINST the wall street bail out, and he does not get it?? We are a county of free enterprise, and whenever government gets involved in the banking industry and economy, they make things worse. Amazing. Yes, I will vote for McCain. I will hold my nose and take a barf bag because hopefully, he will choose a conservative supreme court judge. And I know he will be a great commander-in-chief of the military. (better than you-know-who)

Pelosi and the dims are delusional. They blame President Bush for everything and refuse to take responsibility for anything. And the media (MSM) cannot be objective to save their lives.

Sugar'n Cream: new flavors

When you are not looking---that's when you find them.

I enjoy knitting cotton dishrags. The Canadian company, Lily, has a Sugar'n Cream line of 100 percent cotton yarn. I recently found new flavors at the local Joann's and today, found more at that same Joann's. "Culinary Colors" it says on the label---I guess they are on to us knitters, as to what we are making.

Urban Pastels has a lilac, light creamy yellow, medium teal-green, and white

Bronze Blue had a deep purple, light brown, peacock blue and white

Renegade is a crappy name, but jungle green camo with browns. Husband said he'd use one.

What fun, to find new colors.

Peaches & Creme, made by Elmore-Pisgh Inc., in the good old USA is my other source of 100 percent cotton yarn. Walmart keeps Peaches & Creme in most of their stores. Huge cones of the yarn is only $6.

LION Brand Yarn is harder to find, but Joann's had some today: Sagebrush is a combination of liht golden brown, teal, and off white. Lion labels list New York, New York as their place of the yarn's origin.

Soft Ecru, by Lily, Sugar 'n Cream is so different from regular old ecru, oatmeal, and off white. So creamy. Like real cream.

I prefer light wooden bamboo knitting needles. Number 10 work for me because I knit so loose.

I can knit and brouse websites at the same time. Waiting for a page to load, or reading an article online, I knit. I can knit during a movie, or Scrabble game. Keeping those fingers limber.

Huge Cones of Yarn

Huge cones of cotton yarn arrived in the mail on Saturday evening from my dear friend in Ennis. We had each mailed each other a box on Friday. I sent her knitted dishrags. And she sent me yarn to make more and money for postage. Wow. One lady she knows down there wants twenty in "shaded denim". It is a pretty, soothing color. I am trying to remember to keep track on the inside of the cardboard cone with little marks exactly how many one of these huge cones make. A regular ball of yarn, solid color makes two. These cones sure feel heavier than a pound. (it saith pound on the label)

Three down, and seventeen to go. I am glad my friend is finding all the dishrags I knit good homes down there in Ennis.

And we played a couple of games of Scrabble today since Bob was done with his Sunday School lesson. The word, JAWBONED, lays across two triples very nicely for 153 points. At first, I was going to be happy to just lay JAW on one triple in the upper left hand corner, but then I saw the opportunity to make it a compound word. Bob bingo-ed with SARDINES during the first game.

We ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. And McDonald's premium salads for supper. Chick-fill-you-up salads are better, and bigger, but Chick-fill-you-up is not open on Sunday.