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I only need to get the pictures uploaded to snapfish... it's possible the bowl of the boy's is going to be not grouted...we don't know yet, cuz court is in an hour and a half..it'd be a fine bowl, as is..... I need to leave in a few minutes, to the juvenile court house...if his mom gets custody, they will be leaving for Oregon this afternoon. this girl/lady is the same age as my oldest daughter..eleven days apart and is the daughter of a friend of mine, that I've known for 40 years... my friend lives in Corpus Cristie and advised her to call me, when she was at the CPS office, here in town and needed a safe place, right then...man, expedited background checks and a visit from the case worker and CPS case worker, here at the house and my place was approved, right there on the spot... ( I swear, they must have had blinders on...lol cuz my place is filled to the rafters with art supplies and not a lot of space to do any square dancing, in my front room!!) that was last Monday..and here we are, 11 days later and the future is unknown for them but it's a new beginning, either way... Zach went through trama and I watched a transformation, while he worked on his glass piece.. here, on this forum, we all talk about how doing mosaics is a healing process.. Zach got a broken finger, when he blocked a blow to the head, when his dad was beating him up... the dad had also taken everything important to Zach, including little clay pieces he had made, from first grade on...the kind made in the classroom, with clay, glaze and firings...all of his favorite games, his laptop (I think I mentioned he's 14 and is a very sensitive boy)and made Zach ride with him to the landfill...then threw all of his belongings in the dump and said he would have to work to pay for the trip to throw it all away... it was a cruel and needless assault on Zach, both physically and emotionally.... This week's journey helped him take something broken, both from himself and other things and make something beautiful from it.... he first walked in the house with a rather empty look in his eyes.. this morning he's full of hope... I only wish and pray the judge sees the same thing.... I have his bowl and some of my projects, in a display case right now, with an overhead light and it's so pretty... it's a 6 hour drive to where she lives and we've already been talking about her coming up to visit friends and an aunt, or me driving there for a couple days..but not in winter...I would take grout with me...lol the lexel is in a tube just like the GE11 and is 5 oz...it was under $5...I think it was like $4.85 or so.... it's a lot cheaper if it can be found in a 12 pack but then again, I'm not going to do that...lol it's gone a very long way, with just the 5 oz... the number on the tube is 13013, evidently to be sure which one it is, between clear or white or something... at least that's what I noticed, ....it's on the bar code and this one says 31525 13013 super elastic sealant it also says it sticks to wet surfaces...guess that would be in an emergency, to maybe fix an aquarium...?? I'd better be going now, to get to the court house...

Thanks, Chisue! I'll bet you were a good Camp Fire Girl. I wasn't in any group as a kid, but I became a Girl Scout leader when my girls were in middle school. We had fun. The turtle rug is the hooking I'm most proud of. Certainly it meant the most to me as I worked on it. I dyed all the blues and greens, as well as the peach background for the lettering. I held my breath a lot doing the lettering, but I was happy with the way it turned out. Quilters, I probably mentioned this before, but the turtle pattern came from FourTwinSisters.com, a nice source for free quilt patterns run by.....four twin sisters. :-) They're also on Facebook.

A couple years ago I purchased 2 Acer Ultrathin Laptops - Refurbished (Acer Aspire V5 573p-6896). These laptops have Intel i5 Processors, 4gb DDR3L RAM, 500gb Hard Drives, 1080p Touchscreen, Lighted Keyboard, 4 Speaker Dolby Home Theater, etc... with Window 8 installed. Both Laptops were in great shape and worked well (Every Feature Worked). I decided I wanted to Upgrade the RAM, maxing it out at 12gb. When I popped open the case I was surprised to find an Empty Slot for RAM and an Open Slot for a mSATA SSD Drive. Usually the manufacturers have 2 slots for RAM, both are used and if you want to upgrade the RAM you must replace it all! In this case, all I had to do was to purchase an 8gb Stick. Found another feature on these laptops I overlooked. These came equipped with a Thunderbolt Port Connection. These Ports were set to Replace USB (not sure if they still are or not)? It's my understanding around 7 devices can be run from One Thunderbolt Port (Daisy Chained). Whereas a USB, One Port, One Device! I decided to Upgrade both Laptops with a 256gb mSATA SSD Drive and keep the 500gb Hard Drives in the laptops and set them up just for storage (I did upgrade mine from a 5400rpm to a 7200rpm)! Both of these computers have turned into very nice computers with an SSD Drives for the Operating System (Upgraded to Windows 10). My Sister also purchased one of these Laptops. She too has been very happy with it. We paid $350 each for the Laptops. Then I paid around another $120 for the RAM and mSATA SSD Drive, Approx. $470 in each computer! All are still running great after 2 years!