A Thrifty Weekend

Being a HUGE bargain hunter/trash to treasure kind of person, I always enjoy seeing what people have gotten and what they do with their treasures, so I thought I would show you my weekend's pickins. I paid $7.00 for the little wooden cart (my husband assured me that he couldn't make it for that, so I went for it), and $7.00 for the big pear because I've had my eye on one of those for a long time and I had just gotten my "allowance". Otherwise, everything was 20c to 1.99.

Most of the white dishes made their way into my built in hutch and will make it into a later post. The little cart is still waiting for its treatment. I just don't know what color to paint it. I want it to sit on my front porch full of pumpkins, gourds, leaves, etc. for Fall and then greens or something for Christmas. Any ideas?

The black colander needed nothing but washing and then we could put in some fresh-from-the- garden tomatoes and apples (well, from someone's garden).
The little white dish looks adorable with mini pumpkins in it

I spray painted the cake plate black and set the pear on it. I don't think it will stay like that as I really want one of those blueish pumpkins on it. The pear just doesn't stand
out enough either. So I'll do some work on that and maybe it will show up in a later post.



Today my daughter and her husband brought the twins down to spend the day with us. We went out to a pumpkin patch and picked up some beauties!! (Now why didn't I pick up one more of the bluey pumpkins?)



There's nothing like pumpkins to give a porch a welcoming, Fall look!

And a pile of them on the table looks so festive!

Oh - and thank you little men for helping Nana pick out some GREAT pumpkins!!

The Supper Club

Eighteen months ago today my daughter gave birth to identical twin boys. (7 lbs 15 oz and 7 lbs 2 oz). I cannot even tell you how excited we were to hold those little fellas!! For the first month of their lives, I had the privilege of driving the hour to their house every Sunday evening and staying until Tuesday evening when I headed home and the other grandma headed to them. Then on Thursday evening, we switched places and I went up again and stayed until Friday evening. We let the little family fend for themselves on the weekend because Daddy was home.

One Tuesday as I was heading home, my husband called and said, "Jan and Sherm want to know if we want to go out to dinner. She's been babysitting grand kids all day and she's too tired to cook. Do you want to go?" Did I want to go?!?!? Helping with newborn twins is exhausting (although fabulously fun) work!! I too was too tired to cook! And so began "The Supper Club". We decided that since I would be doing this for awhile and she babysat on Tuesdays, we should make it a weekly thing. Now a lot has changed in those 18 months - those babies have grown,

until they are half as tall as me! They can walk, run, jump, climb and keep a Grandma hopping!

My dear friend has gone through breast cancer and sometimes that meant supper was brought to their house and we ate together. But we have missed very few weeks (only when one or the other of us has been traveling!) And now we have added more people so that we have eight in our group. We take turns choosing where to eat and try to be adventurous and try new places!

. . . hmmm, something very important is being discussed. . .

Between the eight of us we've had lots of loss, sadness, joy, and sharing! And that's what friends are for! What would we do without them?