A Beautiful Pyn Keepe and Commenting on Comments

GR&DF - Thank you all for the kind comments over the last couple of days - as always they are the bight spots in an otherwise very bleak life.... sniff, sniff..... not really so bleak , but I do enjoy reading them. What you don't see is in the morning I am sitting here all by myself I am usually talking to the computer as I read - you just can't hear me carrying on the conversation. Corinna asked about the salutation I have started to use - GR&DF = Gentle Readers and Dear Friends - I really like that and feel that writing this blog for the past few years I have come to know and feel that - although it is cyber space and I am writing out into the ether - that I have made some super friends. I always remember the old Irish saying "A Friend is a stranger you haven't met." I have met so many nice people through this space that I feel really blessed.

On meeting and making friends - Nancy - a reader of the Black Sheep - contacted me about my love of the tea towel. She wanted to send me one - well, yesterday I received a package that not only contained a beautiful towel, but she was she also included a great Fall Pyn Keepe - Here is a snap -


Isn't it just the sweetest thing and so appropriate for the season - Fall is my favorite!! Thank you so much!

After mentioning that I was watching a mini series about Napoleon - Meadow asked about my reading a trilogy of books about Josephine B. - by Sandra Gulland - Yes, I read them a year or so ago and would highly recommend them. Although a fictionalized story they are based on Josephine's life and are a really good read. I did finish up the a mini series about Napoleon. It is broken up onto three discs. Only Disc I and Disc II have the actual mini series on them. The third disc has some extras but they are not as good as they could be and could be missed if one was so inclined.

Shelia mentioned the one of Saturdays purchases - the DVD "Pennies from Heaven" - 1981 - starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. A nice movie with super music it was based on the TV Mini Series of the same name from 1978. The six part mini series starred Bob Hoskins was produced by the BBC.

Margaret commented that her husband was a bread baker - my hats off to him.... I am so envious as my bread baking is sorry at best and a total disaster on most occasions. I think there is a real nack to having a loaf turn out correctly and I just do not posses this nack. Talking about bread - Julianne said that her daughter noticed the way the bread in southern California tasted different - it has to be the water supply - bread and bread products change from place to place because of the different water used some places have really great bread while others are not so good. It is also the flour used but water has a lot to do with it. Maggie remembered having Dutch Crunch bread here in the city - Most shops that make sandwiches or sell bread have Dutch Crunch bread - I love it and when given a choice about what bread should be used in a sandwich - I will choose a Dutch Crunch roll over sour dough every time!!

Cindy Mae said that her Farmers Market is kind of expensive I am lucky in that the Farmers Markets I frequent - the one in the Civic Center and the one in the western addition have really competitive pricing and are often much lower than any super market around. Even when stopping by a green grocer in the Mission the prices are better than our chain store - Safeway - Not only is the pricing better but I really like the idea of getting produce directly from the farmer AND in season. Yes, it is nice to be able to get a strawberry in the dead of winter but what does it taste like and how far did it have to come???? Eat Seasonally and shop locally - my produce mantra.

I did want to say that we have a balcony again - out building manager has let us know that it is complete -so we will be re planting - so to speak - since 95% of the plants that we had are brown sticks - it should be nice for the Fall.

Last night was a total non-stitchity evening. I spent the entire time cleaning out the guest bedroom closet - That sucker was packed - from top to bottom and front to back - sort of bulging with a ton of stuff that needed to be gone through. After sorting through the piles and dumping a shopping cart full into the trash - I have ended up with quite a few bags and boxes of stuff ready for the Garage Sale we are having on the 12th. Dale, Rico and I a hauling all our "not used" stuff out and having a sale. I was amazed at the things I found and had kept. Way too much stuff - time to declutter my life a bit!!!! We still have the second master closet and the hall closet to get into - then we need to get into the storage area under the staircase (what a total nightmare!!!) - but it needs doing and there is no time like the present to get rid of the unwanted!!!

Thank you all once again for stopping by!!

Take care,
edgar