There were 15 for dinner at my house today. Everyone brings something so it is pretty easy for me. I started my spaghetti sauce on Sat. morning about noon. I cook it in the oven in a big canning kettle. There is chicken, pork chops, hamburg, mild and hot Italian sausage in it. I cooked until 9 at night and then shut it off and left it alone. This morning I took out all the bones and stirred it really good. Put it back in the oven at about 250 to keep it hot. Dinner was around 2. I cooked 3 pounds of Angel Hair pasta. Jerri brought a huge salad with lots of great things in it. Judy and Jackie brought garlic bread. Millie brought wine coolers. Yelena brought Russian cake, she is from the Ukraine. Everything was wonderful, the ladies ate in the dining room and the guys ate out on the patio at our huge table. So much fun and everyone complimented on how good the spaghetti was. I hated to see everyone go home.

Clare, I have my ribs in the slow cooker, too. They sure are smelling good!! Wish I could bake something for dessert, but it's 83 degrees outside and I'd have to turn on the air. Decided to bake the sweet potato in the microwave. Everybody's dinner sounds good--especially tacos!

I moved a two-step ladder out of the g'houses to the sewing room, so that I can easily reach high up on the design wall to pin blocks. Moved a wheeled, swivel office chair out of my old office to put on one side of the quilting frame, so that I could slide easily from one work point to the next as the quilting progressed, and leave another chair on the other side of the frame. You can't believe how often you change positions at a floor frame. I use the compass from my old EKG interpretation class for making circles, the straight edges from my drafting supplies, old crocks with bails for things like straight pins, a sprayer from my house cleaning supplies for water when ironing, paper from a huge roll of butcher paper salvaged from my hubby who is a retired butcher I use for paper piecing, cone thread not related to quilting for basting. Knitting needles for stiletos to turn seams. Use the old pole lamp light brackets to hang sections of sashing and bindings as I make them. Washable markers I borrow from my 'kiddy fun supplies' for marking complex quilting lines. OMGosh.........everything can be multipurposed. My fav is an old stuffed bear my dd was going to throw away as a pin cushion at the ironing board. I keep another pin cushion also at the machine and when it fills up I just swap the nearly empty cushion from the ironing board, where I often pin blocks. Saves a lot of steps.

A cookie sheet under the dish?? Ohnooooooo that would be too smart wouldn't it? ;) I have made them with cream of chicken soup and milk or the coffee creamer in both the oven or slow cooker. Scalloped Potatoes 3 tablespoons flour 3/4 cup non dairy coffee creamer (powder) 1 tsp salt 1/8 tsp garlic 1/8tsp pepper mix together add 1 1/2 cups boiling water. Pour over sliced potatoes. Dot with butter. Bake 350 degrees til done. Uncover the last 15-20 minutes.