Looking forward to the Handmade Vendor Market

 Tomorrow afternoon  the parking lot next to the Blue Springs movie theater will host a "handmade vendor market"!  The promoter has been doing a great job of keeping interested people aware of what will be there on Facebook! The vendor number is up to 44 plus food trucks!

The specialty popcorn booth will be there...loved the many varieties last time!! Maybe I'll come come with some new type?!

Also looking forward to picking up something for dinner... Bob and I usually choose something different things and split between us!

The weather is still quite hot by mid-afternoon... currently in the 90's... It starts out in the low  60's so I open the doors and air things out.  But 90's doesn't feel like fall!!

getting ready for San Diego

 We are joining our elder daughter at a non-profit convention in San Diego! We leave Wednesday Nov. 1st and return that Sunday!!

We will be staying at the same hotel we stayed at the last time we went... it's right on a big bay and we had fun watching boats go up and down.

So we have started going back to walking ( in preparation for this). We are definitely out of practice... it was just too hot this summer to do laps at the park. We want to do a few touristy things in San Diego...maybe the zoo, the train museum and ride the trains than run all over the place!

  Walking is going to be part of all this...practice has begun!!

The Kansas City Star had a section in the paper Sunday of fall recipes... I am going to try some of them starting with one I tried tonight. It was like a turnover but used chicken, black beans,salsa,  cheddar cheese and spices including a tablespoon of chili powder! This filled a 5 inch circle of pie dough folded in half, sealed with egg wash and fork made crimps!! Baked in the oven... I served them with a little sour cream ( my addition not in the recipe). A keeper... may make a few additions..green peppers, onions?

Maybe the pumpkin cheesecake bars will be next...

Out for brunch

Bob and I finally made it to a new place in downtown Blue Springs.. Bean Counter Cafe !  For a sort of brunch .. It is in the old second hand bookstore place...with lots of updating. 

The menu is large with CHOICES!! One orders at the counter , pays and is given a sign to place on one's table for the server.... and one's order is delivered. Bob had a sandwich.. I had a wrap.. we both has a salad as our side.

The cafe has its own pastry chef so after finishing our brunch we went back to the counter and chose pastries to take home for later ( They were great!)

Downtown's parking spots were few ...so we  checked out other places walking back to the car. I found a shop full of little booths with hand made items ... Bob watched a train crossing over Main Street while I looked! Next door is a wonderful cupcake shop... next time we will go home with some of these!

Wonderful day to be out and about!! Our teacher/daughter said it was a great day for outdoor recess... freeze tag and sidewalk chalk drawing!!

Fall Fun Fest

 this weekend is Blue Springs' Fall Fun Fest...all sorts of things happening down on Main Street. This morning started with a parade. The high school marching band was part of it! 

Here is my grandson as he marched by on the euphonium taken by my daughter                

Handy that he is so tall! Easy to find him!!

new lights ..

 We went out to our older daughter's to replace her lights - downstairs by the cellar entrance and upstairs at the front door. They are really nice and are light sensitive ... ie turn on in the evening and off with the sunrise!!

We also spent time talking on the deck... I spent time with the dogs while daughter and husband did the lights.

The dogs are pretty big and it was fun watching them play tug o war with a sock. I was sure they were going to pull their teeth out! And the noise they made... sure they were ready to kill each other!

When I got home a picture was waiting for me in my emails... My grandson had his haircut per the requirements of the marching band... The students have to look just so for the competitions they will be attending

                                                            Before

                                                           After

ps... think the haircut rules are due to the uniforms which vary every year.

Food trucks

 The parking lot not too far from our home will have food trucks tonight!! We're going to give it a try!!

A friend of our grandson's family has one...His family also has a restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas which I hear is very popular. Looking forward to trying the family's crab rangoons!

This morning the parking lot has a booth selling mums ... a fundraiser for our grandson's marching band. I bought one.... we brought it home and on the advice of the"sellers" or volunteers I gave it LOTS of water. It doesn't have any buds yet but is supposed to have Chiefs ( our pro-football team) colors- red with a yellow center!!

Update this evening!!

It was fun... both daughters joined us.. plus s-i-l. grandson and s-i-l's visiting brother. Tried Hawaiian truck, sort of Greek truck, specialty popcorn booth, cookie dough truck and a couple of others.. Talked to the Colorado peach people... $60.00 a box !!! The peaches looked wonderful but $60 !!

There was a dog stuff booth, crafts, flowers etc. And a singer on guitar and microphone... hope they do it again but with more tables.

up to date

 Both my daughter and grand daughter plug their phones into their cars and call me on their way home... it's all hands free and like talking to me as a passenger.

Really don't mind... it allows them to vent and tell me about their days and I am DEFINITELY kept up to date.

My daughter tells me about her day with her students.. like about the fight between two fifth graders.. I mean a real physical one. She separated them into opposite sides of the room and the rest of the class actually heard MRS. H****S get loud etc.  I heard how the principal,and counselor handled it and about my daughter's calls to the Mothers!! It was handled well ...nothing on their records and that the boys were best buddies all afternoon!!

My granddaughter told me about her new manager... how to cope with him calling her "sweetheart" etc and about school now that she is in a University not a community college... how she got a zero on her Spanish presentation -- she forgot to "publish" but when the professor saw the time stamp , the zero was changed to a 99!

I also heard that she discovered that a classmate is the sister-in-law of her s-i-l to be ! Small world.. She's settling into finding her way around the campus, making friends, having a mixture of online and actual classes!!

stitch and bi**h... quilting...hen party

Whatever our group calls itself it is great to get together ... tonight was the night. Usually we do a round robin meeting every two weeks but  this summer has been unusually busy... so tonight was the night.

Bob and I spent the day readying things... can't have company with "doing" the cat litter trays...the bathrooms... etc. 

A good night was had by all... Bob decided to join us too. Lots of munchies... catching up stories..and so on.

Leftover food put away... dishes in the dishwasher... trash in the trash can.

BTW... much cooler but muggy that should help with the next electricity bill. One of us had the higher bill ever after the last hot spell! 

We were hazy again due to the Canadian fires' smoke

Trip to Costco..

 My teacher/daughter asked if I could go with her to Costco... I have the membership, she doesn't. I agreed and off we went to purchase snacks for her students...Her  students have a long time from arrival to their scheduled lunch and get pretty hungry. Hungry students don't learn well!! She picked out all sorts of things... big boxes, individually packed... enough for September.  Guess we'll have another trip down the line!

Her students eat their snacks and lunches at their desks. I wasn't aware that schools can have roaches.. mice etc. problems... so  individual packages help as does careful treatment of trash!!