I Guess I Like Sawdust a Little Bit....

....but not so much at 9pm at night. Joe and I just recently returned from the church after we finished CLEANING UP AFTER THE CADETS. But...in all fairness. I WAS prepared and I WAS able to take off early on two days because I decided NOT to clean up BEFORE those lads did their woodworking project. And we all know very well, that where there is woodworking....there WILL be sawdust. I usually spend an hour cleaning up downstairs at church each week, and this week that hour just happened to be saturday night at 9pm. Not ideal but the tradeoff one must make for an afternoon of shopping and an afternoon of making kro-ketchez. YES... I DO have a lot of fun everywhere I go.

The car rally this afternoon was just a hoot....they aren't allowed to call it an amazing RACE for insurance purposes. We didn't really realize that it was a race....we got a little slip of paper with some clues on and we thought...that isn't going to take us all afternoon, so we leisurely slipped into a couple of stores before heading to our last stop. It was here that we were given our next list of clues to solve and information to gather, and the rubber really hit the road. Eventually we would get a third slip of paper. There we scads of little clues to answer and tasks to complete. My task was riding a bike through a park system, over a couple of walking bridges, under a street, past the pools, in the general direction of the water tower, and look for the guy by the tennis courts. All without getting lost in an unfamiliar town. I found him and had to do a tennis ball toss into one of those frisbee golf baskets. I got 4 out of 5 scoring 400 points for our team. The other task I assisted on was...having to pick three pumpkins put them in a case and when weighed the total weight can't exceed 40 lbs. Ours came in at 53 lbs, so we lost 1300 points. But we figured 50lbs would be waaaaay heavier, which just points outs our physical prowess. We are in FINE shape. The race ended with a delicious chicken and roastbeef dinner, and an award ceremony. We came in second last....and got one of the consolation prizes, although I'm not sure how a compass is supposed to console us. We wanted a GPS!!!

Lots of Teresa's family sent a carload and it was neat to see them all at such a fun fundraising event. On the way home we talked lots about family things and it just made me miss all of you a lot. Most of their families live here in town or on this side of Toronto. Today, PEI feels really far away.

Alrighty, lets not dwell on that! I had a very productive trip to the scrapbook store. It is called Scrapaholics and their motto is "It's a healthy habit!" . Couldn't agree more, although some people at this house would beg to differ. I'm going to wait to chop up the paper into the component pieces incase we don't end up with 60 people in the gym! All the paper is particularly yummy and I can definitely find a home in my stash for it. I have come to realize that I favour colour families....especially the greens....just can't get enough of that. Especially from BasicGrey. I saw some of the new MME Bohemia papers, but I can't say I care for this year's colour schemes....I'm sure it will be all the rage but....didn't do much for me(fussy, fussy, fussy) I guess I like the rustic, earthy and organic colours.... These seem to work better for the card style I have....which would be kind of shabby chic...if I read the magazines right. I've never really been one to have style dictated to me...it's usually a fusion of one thing or another...but, I digress. My demonstration will teach people how to make their own chipboard shapes. Once you learn the process you can addapt it to make just about any shape....I'm so excited. I hope I get time to go to one of the other workshops too....but we'll just have to wait and see.

That's my day in a nutshell. Albeit a big nutshell. Ray and the lads were very busy...books, hockey, dinner (shepherd's pie from the freezer to oven, I'm the best wife ever, I go away and have supper ready anyway!), hayride, Cadets and more hockey. Ray and Craig are Ray's over 40 hockey. Craig and his buddies are the score keepers and peanut gallery. They have a great time hanging out watching their dads! Joe is in bed and I am going to find Ted Dekker in a minute but first I must read all up on all your days. Thanks for your notes....it's cool to talk to you everyday and read your observations about my fragrant anecdotes. Just trying to clarify the mental image that I project. Totally extra sensory eh!

Have a good day today, I hope you have a good time worshipping with your church family!