Saturday was a craft show at a local church - I made back my investment to rent the table plus $5.00.  It was fun, but financially not viable.  Good thing I don't have to do this for a living! 

This weekend is the Pittsburgh Polymer Clay Guild's annual retreat.  At Lutherlyn (hope I can find it).  So far I've got about half of my studio loaded into my car.  No clothes, bedding, towels, etc., but lots of polymer clay crafting items.  (At least it seems like half the studio.)  Don't know what Tom's going to do for the weekend - he doesn't seem real happy about me being gone that long.

This morning I prepared instructions for my demo on the "brain cane".  Guess I'll just have to wait til I'm there to actually starting to prepare clay for the demo.

Yesterday Tom and I and about 70 other older folks from Temple Sinai went on a bus trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art where there is a Paul Guaguin (sp?) exhibit.  Tom spent all his time in the Guaguin part whereas I went through that at what I thought a reasonable rate, then had time to see some of their Modern Art collection on the second floor.  It was an enjoyable day - I didn't hurt despite all the walking and standing (YAY!!!!).  And the leaves are still beautiful for the 2-1/2 hour drive.  Each way.

I keep saying I'm done gardening for the season, then finding myself out there pulling weeds.  At any rate, I think I'm through dividing perennials for the fall.  There's still weeding and cleanup to be done.

Just thought I'd finish with a group photo of the next set of switchplates I'm planning to list on Etsy.

We just got back from Atlantic City where my high school class of 1957 celebrated our 70th birthdays.  Funny, when you're 18 and just graduating from high school you never think to say "Just think - in only 52 years we'll all be 70 years old."  Yet that's what happened.  So we didn't have a 52nd reunion, but instead it was a 70th birthday party complete with cake(s).  There were about 100 people at the event, around 80 of them graduates and the others were spouses.  Tom went off to a casino to play poker and I went with my girlfriend Vicki - we were staying at her house.  She and I had a good time.  Tom had less of a good time.

Besides the reunion we went birdwatching twice, both times at the Brigantine (excuse me - Edwin Forsythe) Nature Reserve.  We saw lots of egrets - Great, Snowy, and Cattle - Great Blue Herons, cormorants, Canada geese (of course), black ducks, gulls (mostly laughing and great black-backed), some sandpipers we couldn't identify, a couple night herons, some hawks (harriers, mostly), wood ducks (a surprise - haven't seen them there before - not that I get to go there very often), what seemed to be  thousands of tree swallows, and around a hundred red-winged blackbirds.  That I can remember.  Fewer varieties of ducks than I was expecting and far fewer Monarch butterflies.  We went for walks on the boardwalk in Ventnor and out to eat a couple times.  Got home last night.  I didn't take any photos but our friend Brenda did.  Here's one of me with Vicki.

Other than that, I've got lots of mail to go through, lots of emails to read and still have those clocks to finish.  I have the feeling I could spend days learning more about using Etsy effectively, but don't have that kind of time.  Actually I feel kind of overwhelmed right now.