This is a picture of my mother and her sisters and her brother and my grandmother in Modale, Iowa. I never knew my grandmother because she died while my mother was in high school. My mother is the second one from the right. I just ran across this picture. I know it doesn't show up too well. Girls were not allowed to wear pants. They had to wear dresses with petticoats underneath. I can remember my mother saying how hot you got in those dresses. My mother and her sisters and her brother used to weed onions in that Iowa heat. She said your dresses would drag through the dirt and you would have to wash your dresses every night. I went to the Senior Center and spent all morning there. In the brochure the class is called "Handiwork Crochet Class" but everyone just brings whatever they want to work on. The class is free. The class is from 9-11:30 on Mondays. I got there about 9:15 and I thought I would just stay for about an hour but I ended up staying until almost 11:30. There were about 30 ladies there. Most of them were crocheting pot holders, hats and other small items. One lady was making a red, white and blue shawl for the 4th of July. A couple of ladies were doing Crewel embroidery. I am doing the "No-Count Cross stitch" Dolphin picture. Everybody kept coming by and saying how pretty it was and wanting to know how I could do such small work. I guess my eyes must be pretty good yet. I think the Crewel Embroidery looks like a lot more work to me.

Dorothy, the lady who wanted me to come was not there. Something must have come up because she says she goes to the Senior Center everyday. I sat next to two ladies, one was Lois and she said this was her first day. She is working on a Crewel embroidery picture and the other lady was Betty. Betty was crocheting a hat. She said she made a mistake a few rows back but she was just going to finish it anyway because it was too much trouble to do it over.

Then I saw Ingrid coming down the hall on her walker and I had to run out and see her. Ingrid lived at Merrill Gardens for awhile when we did. Ingrid is one year younger than me but she looks much older. She is very thin like my mother was but her face is so wrinkled. She left Merrill Gardens because it was too expensive for her and she moved in with her son who has an apt. right by the Senior Center. Ingrid said she comes over everyday for lunch at the Senior Center and comes on Thursday to play Bingo. Ingrid does beautiful embroidery work but she doesn't want to go to the class on Mondays. She used to put some of her embroidered pillowcases in the Beauty Shop at Merrill Gardens to sell.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun to visit with the ladies. It will take me a while to remember names. When I left, everyone said be sure and come back Monday. I looked at the lunch menu but it did not look interesting so I just bought me some Taco Time food on the way home.

Saturday after Erik got back from his campout, Kent, Kyle, Erik and I went to the movies. We saw the 3-D picture "Up". It was a cute movie. I really enjoyed it.

Sunday evening we went to the Bellevue South Stake Center for the "Women of Worth" Fireside. We met at the Desler's home first for some refreshments. Debbie just got off the plane and did her quick change act and looked so refreshed. I don't know how she does it. That girl is so busy all the time. I just marvel at her energy. She was my little girl who could never find her shoes and stood in front of the chest of drawers with her eyes closed and crying so her sisters would help her find her clothes. Now she is about the most organized person I know.