This has been a lovely thread to read!! My quilty friend and I (both newly retired) have started having "work" days every 1-2 weeks... we meet at one or the other's home and put something in the crock-pot for when the hubs are ready for supper (we're all old friends)... Now that the weather has (finally) turned cooler and we've gotten (finally) a little rain (here in western Oklahoma we wait until fall for the lawn to green up), it seems all is well with the world... at least until I turn the tv on... sigh...