Itty Bitty Chickens, Crochet Lessons, and Galivanting Grandmas

I have some catching up to do, don't I?

Let's see.  Eler Beth's dog bite is healing very well.  I don't even think it will leave much of a scar.  Yesterday Eler Beth and her friend B went to a crochet class at the public library.  My niece M was there too (M is the one with diabetes).  There were only two other girls in the class.  They were home schoolers like Eler Beth, and M is on homebound, so B was the only public school student there.  They had a great time.  The lady who was doing the class (one of the librarians) had so much fun with them that she asked them if they'd like to all meet together again to continue the lessons -- not as a formal class with registration like this one, but just meet together informally.  She kept our phone numbers and gave the girls hers.

I had taught Eler Beth some basics of crocheting last year and she had played around with it a little, but I'm very much a beginner myself, so I thought it would be good for her to learn from someone who was actually good at it.  This lady had a lot of examples of her work there on display, and she is good.  So tonight I took Eler Beth and B to The Hobby Lobby, and we stocked up on yarn and hooks and other goodies.  Now I'm in the mood to do some crocheting myself.  (An afghan is about the extent of my ambitions, though.)

Last night was very stormy in our area.  We had tornado watches and warnings here and surrounding us from late in the afternoon to the wee hours of this morning.  I know the wind and rain were pretty bad in our neighborhood and there were some very ugly clouds out there, but we didn't have much damage.  The tornados stayed to the South and East of us.

Wednesday was Eler Beth's day to plan and cook dinner, so that morning I asked her what she'd like to try.  She said, "How about those itty bitty chickens!  Remember those itty bitty chickens we had one time, and we each had our own?  I can't remember what they're called."

So we had itty bitty chickens (also known as Cornish hens), stuffing, French cut green beans, and salad.  For dessert we had homemade peach pound cake that I'd made the day before.

My Mom is in Florida for a month or so.  She went down with my eldest sister, Dee, last week.  They visited Dee's daughter and her family in Ocala, and Dee's youngest son, Jacob (the one who was an assistant cameraman on Survivor), and his girlfriend.  Her middle son and his family, who live in Kentucky, couldn't go, but their oldest son went along.  Then they spent a few days with my second oldest sister, Maxine, in St. Augustine.  Then Dee and her grandson went back home to KY, but Mom is staying with Maxine for a few weeks. 

Maxine is a teacher and won't have a break from school until November, so Mom is on her own during the day.  Maxine's son and his family, or her daughter and her family, come by to see her, though, and have made plans to get her out of the house some days.   Mom said she's going to work on a quilt while she's down there, so Maxine took her out Wednesday night to get fabric, batting, and backing.  And Maxine took her to Curves on Monday, so Mom won't be missing her weekly exercise routine.

Well, there.  That's caught everyone up a bit.  I'm still catching up on entries, but I think I've at least visited everyone and left a comment in the past few days.  I'll try to write some more over the weekend.  I'm planning on doing some major cleaning tomorrow, so I'll probably be taking breaks on the computer to either read journals or write in my own.  I hope everyone has a good weekend.