Hi everyone, HOORAY!!!!! The STEELERS brought home one for the thumb! Thanks Semper! You are so wonderful to do this for all us ponders. It was great fun! And thank you for the win. I asked Semper to donate my winnings to The National Aviary right here in Pittsburgh, PA. It is a wonderful place that is close to my heart. Here is a pic of the Bald Eagles that reside there. Notice the one flapping only has one wing. Poor thing had been shot by some @#$&*!*....... And this is a picture of me the last time I was there..... Thanks for helping take care of the birds Semper. Hi Comet! Thanks! Well, it's been a great season. I'm already looking forward to training camp. And the next pool...........: ) ~Dawn (mamabirrd)

Thank you all for your kind responses to my excitement over what is a very common daylily, but to me uncommonly beautiful. There were 4 of the gorgeous blooms with a somewhat darker edge this morning and 2 rebloom scapes! Here she is after a long hot day in the sun none the worse for wear. Christine

Hey! Did you guys notice the color! That color will show up under any length pants. It's almost neon! The yarn was left over from a scarf, hat and mittens set. Imabest, I found the "toe-up" pattern on the net. It was from one of the links that were shared on the other thread about socks. Judt a minute, I'll get it....... Here it is! This is what I used to start it, but since it became like a foreign language, I couldn't follw through. http://sarah-knits.blogspot.com/2006/06/toe-up-sock-pattern-invisible-double.html (doesn't that picture look just like mine!!!! LOL) Dances, You have me almost encouraged enough to try again. I had to laugh at your comment about having with "A" hole in the gusset. I ended up with a bunch of them. Sheilaj, I know I just need to get a commen cense understanding of turning the heel. I'm getting that by looking at my boughten socks. I did like the feel of that first one.

celticmoon, how TERRIFIC! What a great feeling it must be, to have that system STILL working. That's proof that it's a system that works for you. (I often think we blame ourselves when our new system doesn't work, instead of realizing that maybe the problem is the system doesn't match for us!) What is it w/ DH's and pawing through drawers? Back when DH used to dress the baby, I swear to you, he would open the drawer, put his hand in, and STIR! I swear to you, I WATCHED HIM! Then he'd grab some clothes, and dress the kid in pieces from different outfits (meanwhile, they'd all been folded together, shirt inside its matching pants, and laid neatly in the drawer) I've been thinking of you every day for about 2 weeks. Every time I open my sock drawer. I think of your success, and say, "I need to do somethign about this d*** drawer." I keep stuff besides socks in there--lint roller, some jewelry, the evening bag, extra gloves. And I have socks I should probably ditch. Maybe I'll try your rubber bands. (DH is in charge of his OWN sock drawer; I don't even want to go there, LOL!) And DS's sock drawer could probably use the rubber bands, too. I think of our comments about how sock drawers just do NOT want to cooperate, etc. Maddie, that's how my mom did socks--all socks went into a sock basket; if you wanted socks, you fished yours out. Every now and then, mom would be tired of the sock basket accumulation, and she'd make someone sort it out and put it away. She refused to sort socks; that was OUR job. And the teacher is thinking, "Oh, good. I'm not the only one who can't keep my kids' socks all bright and shiny." This reminded me of a conversation I overheard in the laundry once. This older woman (LOL, probably 57 or something) was speaking of her widowed son-in-law, who had 3 boys to raise after his wife (her DD) died. The grandma said, "he's doing a really good job, but the bottoms of their socks are gray!" She went on about it a little bit scathingly, as if somehow that proved that he couldn't do it without her help; he was basically incompetent as a dad, because the bottoms of his kids' socks were dark.