Recovered

I think I'm finally recovered from our family reunion.  Why is it we knock ourselves out taking care of things that 90% of the population never EVER notices?  I can't imagine that one person noticed we swept the walls for cobwebs or that I scrubbed the dining room floor on my hands and knees to make sure it was really clean OR that I dusted the baseboards around the entire house.

R. and I basically nearly killed ourselves cleaning for the 2 days plus every night before the reunion.  The family was here for about 6 hours total.  The first guests arrived at 10:30 am and the last person left (except my sister and her husband) by 4pm. My sister helped me clean up and put food away then they were gone by 5:30pm. 

Wow! is all I can say.  I feel bad because we had some late arrivals and they left after 2 hours!  They  drove 2 hours, visited 2 hours, then drove 2 hours back!  I can only think that it's because we don't have a TV in our living room and these people can't seem to spend more than 6 hours without one if there are football games on that day.  I get 8 channels here and am very happy with that. 

We made a conscious decision not to hook up cable, satellite, etc. when we moved in here in 2003.  We decided that there is a lot more to life that sitting in front of the boob tube 24/7.  We really didn't miss it after the first couple of months because we were too busy with the new house.  Living in an apartment, there just wasn't enough to keep us busy most of the time.  Now I usually don't have time to do much even on the computer!

Anyway, this has been the 1st weekend since the middle of September that we don't have to be anywhere or do anything on a time schedule.  It's been nice.  I ran errands in town yesterday and got a lot of those little items purchased that one just puts off because it's not a priority.  Today I dabbled in the garden and cut back the roses a little.  I was going to pull up all the @#%$# tomato plants that only bloom but don't make tomatoes.  I found out that 4 of the 6 plants are just loaded with baby tomatoes.  The largest one is the size of a golf ball, LOL!  We'll see if they make before it turns too cold. 

I missed the deadline (thanks to the family reunion) for the Ryan High School craft and art fair Nov. 6, so I'm looking for another venue for November.   I'm still planning on Denton HS on Dec 4 so we'll see how things go.  In the meantime, I'm still building inventory and looking at new ideas.  I'll keep you posted.


Happy Crafting!

BKK