Estate Sale Anyone????

My trip to New Jersey was more adventure than I ever want to experience again.  Fog delays kept us from landing at our intended airport, La Guardia, and instead we sat on the tarmac at JFK for TWO HOURS.  Ugh.  Yesterday's return trip was nearly as bad.  My 4:45 flight didn't take off for Detroit until 8:30.  I pulled into my driveway at 11:15 pm. -- more than ready for bed!

Had to take this photo and post it here today:

Pay no attention to my apparently dusty monitor....

Tomorrow morning I'm heading out early to attend an estate sale.  If you live in the Detroit area and need love fiber-y things you might want to consider a drive in the country too.  For those of you who've attended the Mt. Bruce show, it's not that much further and you're sure to find some bargains.  Here's the skinny on the sale from Lisa Burmann's website:

 QUILTER'S ESTATE SALE   SATURDAY, NOV 12TH

I've been helping a friend of mine put together an estate sale for her friend that passed last April.   Mary was an avid quilter who also raised sheep - hence she was a weaver and spinner as well.  Words can't describe how much fabric this woman had!  We grouped it into colors and are selling it very cheaply.  Her husband just wants it out of there and to go to a good home!  All proceeds will be split between their church and Seven Ponds Nature Center. 

 Some of the prices will be:   Magazines  5/$1.00         Books  $1 each 

 There is batting (a lot!), half done quilt tops, half-sewn jackets, patterns, notions, etc.   Did I mention wool????  There's a boatload of fiber and yarn there as well as knitting and other wool related books and magazines.

  Here's the pertinent info: 

 The home of Dr. and Mrs. Duncan

 2601  South Blacks Corners Rd.

 Imlay City, MI  48444 

 (approx 1 mile south of I-69 and 2 miles west of VanDyke)

  10am to 4pm 

Door to Door Organics

Yesterday I had a few new-to-me produce items in my box from Door to Door Organics.

Does anyone have any advice on what to do with any of these items:

1. Persimmons
2. Ambrosia Apples
3. Mini Roma Tomatoes

The Saga Continues...

Well yesterday my Mom had no luck with the Comcast technician.  He told her she had a DHCP server problem and needed to take her CPU in to Best Buy for the Geek Squad to fix.  Remember she's 85 years old -- not exactly equipped to haul a heavy CPU out of the apartment, into her car and into the store.

Instead of all that hooey, I went to Best Buy at 8 pm last night, picked out a new computer, drove out to her apartment and got to work setting it up.  I made good progress except for the modem issue again, and trying to hook up her existing printer, which was too old to use with the Windows 7 operating system.  Plus, a new printer was included in her package so I just installed it instead.

Needless to say we were both up late, as I didn't leave until 11:15 pm.  I know she goes to bed around 9 pm, unless there's a hockey or baseball game on TV.  She was delighted to have her internet working once again -- 16 messages were in her inbox!  She'll have plenty to do today.  My roommate is hopefully heading over there to pick up the old pieces and either get the CPU repaired or discard it all at the recycler.

I'm pooped.  I have to be in bed by 8 pm today so I can get up at 3 am tomorrow for my flight.  I sure do hope I can get to sleep fast and not toss & turn, thinking about how I NEED to get to sleep.  Fingers crossed....

Mission Accomplished

Today I received a phone from my Mom, sounding pitiful and in need of help.  Not the usual stuff -- this time she could not access the Internet!  Imagine being 85 years old and not being able to go online!!  I told her to start with Comcast and see if they could provide the help.  Well, I'm sure she didn't express herself quite as well as you and I would, so she ended up speaking with someone she couldn't understand, who gave up on her.

I headed out there after finishing my chores and knitting up the second mitten for my friend at work.  When I got to the apartment, I sat down to dinner courtesy of Boston Market, and tried to ascertain what led up to her access problems.  I found out she does not have any virus protection -- going to rectify that, and might have opened an spam email by mistake.  I scolded her on both accounts and then headed to her desktop.  I tried several things before figuring out it was probably an issue with Comcast.  

I was in the middle of unplugging and re-plugging several wires when my Mom got disconnected from a phone call from my sister Carol.  Sorry 'bout that.  I'm sure she thought my Mom hung up on her.  Anyhow, I called Comcast, let them ping the router after resetting and it was determined that a service call was required. They'll be there tomorrow morning and hopefully my Mom will be back online by the afternoon.  Back to her emails, back to her Lexulous games with my sister Denise, and back to reading all about what's going on in the world.  And I told her to ask them to load their free virus protection so we won't have to worry about that again.

Cabled Mitten

Here's a completed mitten for my friend Lori B.  Her son's marching band in competing tomorrow at the State Championship -- wishing them good luck!!

Irresistable !!

No one could resist someone so precious, right?  Denver is already 2 months old and weighed 12 pounds 9 ounces at his check up on Monday.  He got his first shots and like all new mothers, Holly cried when Denver cried.

Need a Lift?

You're gonna enjoy this.