Subject: November Banner From: Joy Beeson Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:14:25 -0500 To: Alice Lecklitner , Mary Love , hoosiers31@hotmail.com, The Rundell's , David Lecklitner , Musser1@chartermi.net, alanlove3@hotmail.com, sara leck , ChrisVBrown@Charter.net, busymomsewing@chartermi.net, armusser@charter.net, andyleck@hotmail.com, debeeson@comcast.net, joybeeson@comcast.net, Don Lecklitner , j_gagneur@yahoo.com CC: joebeeson@earthlink.net, Timlindafrancis@wmconnect.com, Steve & Martha , Jean Beeson , kathygales@gmail.com, Sherry X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 Message-ID: <4750DFA1.3080603@comcast.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 12 November 2007 Got my lab results back today: basal cell carcinoma, they got all of it, but he wants to look at it again late in December. First meeting to plan the church decoration and the Christmas Dinner was tonight. 19 November 2007 Only two loads of wash today. I don't know whether we've been awful clean or awful dirty. I'm baking flat rolls and cinnamon rolls. Not what Dave is thinking of, but they have cinnamon and sugar in them. I think I'll make them very small. 28 November 2007 Far cry from the wordy October issue! I've been missing my yellow silk-flannel scarf for weeks -- since Halloween, to be precise, as I discovered when I wanted the backpack I used on Halloween to carry an iron to the sewing meeting on Monday. The previous week, nobody brought an iron. Monday, everybody brought an iron. And then, when we were looking for a place to stash a spare iron, we discovered that there's an iron and ironing board that belong to the parlor! (The church parlor is sometimes used as a bride's dressing room.) Got a backache Monday night that was so bad that I called Dr. Snider Tuesday morning. It had pretty much cleared up by the time he called back to tell me to stop taking simvastatin and call him in two weeks. Tuesday night, I read _Operation Chaos_ instead of working. At one point the novel referred to the third chapter of Acts, and in getting up to check a pew bible, I realized that it was the chair I sat on during the sewing meeting that had wrecked my back. I sit on one of those chairs every Tuesday, but when I darn, I change my position frequently. (I spent the rest of the hour in an easy chair in the ladies' lounge.) The third chapter of Acts can't be interpreted the way the folks in the novel did, but that was the author's point. 29 November 2007 Back still complains about bending over, but I didn't take the cane on yesterday's walk. We went around the Trailhouse, since I wanted to see whether they were still holding bike-trail meetings on the last Wednesday of every month. Probably stopped as soon as it got too cold to sit on the porch. 30 November 2007 Made a *lovely* loaf of bread today, but I'm nervous that I may have taken it out of the oven too soon. I plan to slice and freeze it after having some for breakfast tomorrow. We had pizza for supper, and I decided I might as well make a pint-of-water batch of dough, pinch off what I needed for the pizza, and bake the rest in a loaf. Turned out to fit my taller glass loaf pan perfectly, and I'll do this again. I made the pizza crust thinner than before, because Dave had said pizza has too many carbs. So we each ate three slices instead of two. Good pizza even though I didn't find any tomato sauce in the cupboard (brief recess to scribble on my shopping list) and had to substitute salsa. I made the dough a tad stiffer than I've been doing; I think I'd been overdoing not using too much flour. It was one cup of semolina and sufficient whole-grain white wheat. We were having pizza every Sunday when I decided to buy fifty pounds of white-wheat flour; figured I'd use a pound a week. I've made a pretty good dent in it anyway. We exchanged Christmas gifts last Wednesday: Dave's new GPS unit was delivered, and I ordered 12 yards of 90" cream-colored linen. Nine yards to make a set of three sheets, one yard to make a pair of pillowcases, and two yards just because you don't see linen at 3.18/yd very often. You don't see 45" linen that cheap very often! Dave was out playing with his new toy most of today. It told him to turn on Winona Avenue; he decided that he'd rather go down Market Street -- and it spent the rest of the trip saying "recalculating" and telling him to move over to Center Street. Yesterday, he asked it to compute a route to Alice's house. It started heading south on Route 15, but was hardly out of Warsaw before it started zig-zagging around on county roads. (Which I don't think consistent with its attempts to get him to take high-traffic streets.) One of them was called "Pawpaw Road". -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather)