Hi everyone,
First of all, thank you very much for your kind comments on how I fixed my hubby’s pants pockets. I thought you’d be bored out of your mind, but you took time to comment and it made me smile just to know you are all still hanging around!
I seriously can’t seem to get into my sewing room… things just keep popping up. I had every intention of getting the skirt attached to Felicity’s Colonial dress. But it didn’t happen. Not that it’s going to matter since I’m not going to have time to list it for the 250th Anniversary of America! Oh, Boohoo! I’m so sad! It will just have to be a navy blue dress with red and white accents when I DO get around to finishing it. I’m SO sorry!
We have been on the phone for days trying to get some answers to our questions… we keep getting put on hold, or told someone will call us back, or having them say, “We tried to call you but you never answered” and when we told them there were no messages on our phones, and asked WHAT number they were calling, they were using a phone number we had TWENTY + years ago when my hubby worked at SIU Farms! It has been one thing after another, even saying we were a “No Show” for one appointment… AND it was the day he HAD his emergency surgery! We DEFINITELY were there that day!
BUT.. this afternoon we got a girl who ACTUALLY helped us… she gave us the number we needed to call to find out about his next surgery. It had been scheduled for July 2nd, but no one had called us about it. What’s the point of scheduling it if you don’t let the person know WHEN it is? Sorry, I sound like I’m screaming… I’m not, just a little bit frustrated. It is so time consuming and unsettling to have this hanging over our head and not know what’s going on. The girl we talked to said she would have someone call us tomorrow and explain to us what is going to be happening for this next surgery. I sure hope they do call.
Then we had some company come over in the evening and stay for a while.
SO… the only thing I have to show you is this… Our FIRST Fruits of the garden… These 2 cucumbers! And they were delicious! They are called Straight Eights!
But… don’t think I’m leaving you without something to chat about… Linda came to the rescue again today for me. And it fits in perfectly with my cucumbers. If you click on her pictures they will enlarge.
This is what Linda said about her pictures:
I changed the 40’s and modern dolls out and they now are into the “selling mode”!
Here are the modern girls, Emmy, Scarlett and Ivy at their neighborhood farmer’s market! I do have a sign for them, but it is not in this picture!
Here are the 40’s group, selling homemade ice cream! What talent! And check out those crisp new dollar bills too!
Love to you,
Linda💕🌻🍦
Thank you SO much Linda… your girls look wonderful… I hope they are selling inside somewhere instead of outside in the heat… especially your girls selling ice cream!
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, Jeanne, how very frustrating for you!! I hope they give you a survey to fill out once the surgery is over, and be SURE to tell them all that you have told us about your experience! You might even post a review to Yelp or something, too. You never know–it could help, and certainly won’t help!!
But, at last you got someone with information, and that’s the important part. I’m so glad to hear that George’s surgery is on the schedule now. I will keep both of you in my prayers.
Linda, as usual, your dolls look just wonderful, and I so enjoy seeing your displays. I haven’t had much time to play with my dolls or even sew lately, so I enjoy seeing what others are doing. Your girls are so industrious, growing veggies and selling them, and also selling ice cream. It was hot here today (90 in Seattle) so I’m sure they would sell a lot of ice cream!! If those are 40s girls, those dollar bills would say “Silver Certificate” on them–in other words, you could turn them in for an equivalent amount of silver. Today’s bills just say “Federal Reserve Note”. My brother is, and our uncle before him was, a coin/bill collector, so I picked up a little information that way.
I read thru the notes, and as to seafood/fish, I will say that I am 100% pure Swedish, and raised in the midwest, so we ate a lot of fish–smelt, trout, whitefish, etc. I also love lutefisk and pickled herring!! And when I was a child, once in a great while mom would get those little “shrimp cocktail” glasses at the grocery store, and what a treat that was! To this day, I LOVE shrimp/prawns!! Ron, on the other hand, thought they looked like grubworms!! 🙄 I also like crawdads/crayfish and, of course, lobster.
But after we moved out here and started trying various seafood choices, I found out that I do Not like clams or scallops (have tried both), and just Looking at a raw oyster is repugnant to me! Slimy gray lumpy things…..
I can finally enjoy crab again; when we first moved out here, mom kind of “crabbed” us to death (it was “wonderful”, along with clams, mountains, rain, and the ocean), and for a while I didn’t want to even Look at a piece of crab, but now I don’t mind it once in a while.
I will be getting my car fixed soon! (Remember, my accident on the first….) And it has been decided I should have some chiropractic stuff on my neck, which was slightly injured, so that starts Friday.
We have one more HOT day before our temps go back down into a more normal range for us. This has been one of the warmest, driest Junes I can remember since we moved here in 1960. Our June is usually more wet than dry, and more chilly than hot. But I’m not complaining!!