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My HSB and Blogger.com blogs were randomly selected for the spotlight this week.  My Blogger blog is one of the featured blogs on Thursday Thirteen and my HSB blog is a random blog of the week.  It's funny how that just happened right out of the blue, on the same day. 

We had a nice visit with Mike Carr last night.  He was able to come over after his meetings in Mason and regaled us with his own special humor and insight.  I'm afraid we weren't much company but we sure did enjoy seeing him.

My knitting has been giving me fits.  I had my first episode of "you know, you could just forget all about this" last night as I was valiantly trying to knit the garter stitch lace dishcloth.  It doesn't have any stitches with which I'm unfamiliar but for some reason it just wasn't working.  I ended up binding off the mess that I completed last night.  Abby begged for that homely scrap of knitting and is using it for a ballet wrap for one of her porcelain dolls.  More power to her.

In a misplaced fit of confidence, I started it again, determined to do right.  The dumb thing was messed up by the second or third row, so I frogged the whole thing and decided that I'd do another basketweave dishcloth.  GRRRR!

Anyway, happy Friday!  Friend Husband is off on Monday so I guess we'll have us another old TV show marathon.  I got The Electric Company at the library this week (hands up if you remember that!) but I doubt that he'll go for much of that (I doubt that any of us would, come to think of it).  Tonight, Rachel tricked us into agreeing to watch the Shirley Temple version of A Little Princess as an adjunct to her report on the Depression (movie stars of the 1930's.)  After that, who knows.  Probably bed, as the twins were up at the horrid hour of 5 AM. 

Happy weekend!

Posted by Anonymous

I loved the Electric Company! It was my favorite PBS show, so I'm sure I'd actually watch them again. I'll have to see if our library has any copies, and see what my kids think of the show. Enjoy your long weekend. My husband has Monday off as well, and I'm looking forward to the extra set of hands. Leigh