We have beds to sleep twelve at our house, but where do the grandchildren want to sleep - on the living-room floor! I guess it's kind of like camping with sleeping bags and all. With their modern day campers they don't know what it's like to sleep in a tent so I guess on the floor at Grandma & Grandpa's is their way of "roughing it".
I made a batch of caramel corn, supposedly for the trick and treaters but I really think I made it for myself as I really like it, especially with lots of peanuts in it. We just had two visitors tonight, the cute couple in the picture below.
We did have two other special visitors via Skype. Even if we knew who was calling it was quite a surprise to see this black and white couple on the computer screen! They had dressed up for their Swire staff party on Saturday evening and had so much fun they dressed up again today and visited some of their friends. They carried a portable CD player and played a Michael Jackson song as they went up to the door. Kristy's sister sent costume props and wigs thanks to shopping trips to Value Village in Edmonton. Todd found tight pants at the Kristiansund Salvation Army store.
Thinking back to last week, we got in on some of the near hurricane like weather that hit parts of SK. It was referred to as a "weather bomb" with low pressures similar to that of a hurricane. We were glad to be inside those days. There are snow banks in the trees and one long one across the yard. It's slowly melting with above zero temperatures again today.
The miserable weather was good for one thing, I got another quilt top done so that makes four 60" x 80" ones. I'll lay out another one on the floor tomorrow.
There are two special days in our family this week. Happy 13th anniversary to our nephew Devan and Michelle (Miller) Erickson on Monday, November 1. Yours was the fourth wedding of Erickson cousins in 1997 and we were able to celebrate with all four couples. I'm sorry that I don't have a wedding picture of you on my computer to add to this blog. Congratulations also on your move to Shaunavon and purchase of a home there. We look forward to visiting you. We'll always remember our stay with you in Frontier when it poured rain, streets were flooded and the power failed. But Devan managed just fine and made bacon and eggs for breakfast on the barbecue. We also enjoyed overnight visits with you in Redcliff and getting in on some garage sales there too. You always make us feel very much at home.
Kristy's birthday is on Thursday and I will do another blog that day. We mailed a parcel to them on a Saturday in Ambrose, ND and it got to Kristiansund the next Thursday!! Five days to Norway and the ginger cookies I baked on Friday weren't even a week old when you got them.
Well, it's time to close this edition. Tomorrow is All Saints Day and we'll be thinking of the many family and friends who are no longer with us. Blessed be their memory.
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