It hasn't been quite a month since I last posted.  Been busy and haven't taken the time!

  So we got some boxes from the shop up at the Pit place and I found some surprises.  We found another box of lanterns.  I put them up on the shelf with the hurricane lamps.

 

 

I can remember my dad using these lamps, or lamps like them when he would go out to do chores when we lived up on the homestead in Telocaset.  The bigger ones he'd use when he had to go out to milk and it was dark. 

 

These are some of the hurricane lamps.  The one on the far left I've had since before I went on my mission.   The next two I believe were Glendella's.  They came with Dad.  I don't know if the tall one on the right is the exact one I remember but we had one like that in the house on the place up in Telocaset too.  The box on the left that I put flowers in is a dinamite box.  It was just up in the shop and it reminded me of the time Dad put a 1/2 stick of dinamite in the septic in North Powder to unplug it.  Oh yea!  You probably remember the story.  Mom was doing laundry and things weren't draining so Dad decided to unplug the septic tank.  Blew the lid off, into the air a ways, blew crap, etc. all over mom's clothes which were hanging on the line over the septic.  Only time in my life I thought she might kill him!!!

 

Last night it started snowing, a very fine snow which we've had before and it never amounted to much of anything.  Well we got up this morning and had 3" to 4".  Late this afternoon we started getting ice pellets then it turned to a heavy snow, then almost to rain and I don't know what it will do during the night.  Could be interesting in the morning.  Here's a picture of our backyard.

 

Cheyanne doesn't like to have to stay outside in this stuff.  She does pretty good staying on the rug by the door.  We've been letting her in when it's cold and she is happy to sleep in the garage in her bed.

 

We are doing some Relief Society humanitarian projects.  I was assigned to be the leader of a group of eight women and we were to decide what to do.  We are making pillowcases for a group called ConKerr Cancer.  I first heard about it from the girls at St. Luke's MSTI where I have my Treasure Tower machine.  When kids are in the hospital for any kind of procedure they get their own pillow case.  Both the girls at and one of the leaders of the Idaho chapter of ConKerr Cancer said that they always are short pillowcases for boys and teenagers.  They like fun and colorful fabrics too.  So this week I made up three.

 

Jodi said that she remembers when I made shorts for the boys out of the fabric on the right.  I hope it doesn't give some poor kid nightmares!  The one in the middle is kind of hard to see here.  It's bumble bee fabrid.  Seems to be the favorite.  I'm going to work on some more this week.  Like I don't have anything to do.  Some in my group is going to get together and cut out the pillowcases and then some of us who have surgers are going to sew them up.  I could sure use up a lot of fabric making pillowcases and it would go to a good cause.  It takes about as long to cut them out as it does to sew them up.  It might become another hobby!!