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It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I am in Michigan this weekend, so the party is having a little bit of a late start. I am also have some trouble with my Inlinkz link. For some reason I have received a bad gateway error message two or three times.  I will write a little bit about my week, and then I will try again.  On Monday as I was leaving work my engine light went on. As you can see I also needed gas which was $4.49 a gallon where I lived. Ouch!  I added about a half tank of gas, and drove straight home until D could look at my car.  He has some sort of device that tells him why the light came on.  In this case something was loose but he could not tell what, and it was getting to dark to keep looking. He did determine that my car was safe enough to drive to work, but told me not to do a lot of extra driving until we knew for sure.  When I got my gas, the miles on the car said 235 miles.  I drove the 7 miles home.  The next morning when I started my car the number said 169 miles. I was baffled why approximately 50 miles just disappeared. On Tuesday when he was able to look at it more in the daylight, it was determined that my gas sensor was acting up.  He removed the sensor, and went to a couple of auto stores. It turned out none of the auto stores had one. They said he could order one, but it would take a couple of days and would cost $100. Since I was not able to miss work due to my line of work and low staff this week, he decided to put the sensor back in to see what would happen.  When he did that, the engine light turned off.  The numbers on the dash were off for a couple of days. I drove to and from work twice, which would be 28 miles and the tank stayed in the 140s. Finally today on my way to work the numbers aligned again, and the light did not come on.  Has anyone else had a similar problem with your gas sensor? 

Well I just tried the link again, and this time it worked. Since it is already 1:30 in the morning, I am going to post it and get this party started. Link up and HAVE FUN!

 

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It's Party Time! Let's Time to Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I did something fun this week.  We had the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile visit our area the last several days. One of the stops was near my work so I went to go see it.  I have seen  one before a few years ago, but it was late in the evening and it was just parked in a parking lot.  This time it was official visiting hours where they had two reps greeting people and taking photos.  They reps were so nice, and really loved their jobs. 

We had the grand baby over one day this week and she was going through my stuff. I had my Halloween craft supplies out and she wanted to make something. I recently found these felt shapes in the Dollar Tree craft aisle. I also recently picked up some gift bags that are currently on sale for $1.  Since she is still pretty young, making these gift bags was something that we could do together. I put tape on the back and she put the felt shapes on the bags.  I added then added some color with paint markers. I like how they turned out and it is a cute and easy way to make Halloween goody/gift bags. 

As we get closer to Halloween, I am going through some of my old DIYs and crafts.  Dollar Tree still carries the condiment containers which I have used to make treat boxes.  They are easy to make, and fun for parties or in the classroom.  If you are interested in seeing more on how I made them, and a few other holiday treat boxes you can see the post here.

Well it is getting late, so it is time to get this party started. Link up and HAVE FUN! 

 

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Let's Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share! 

As I write this post, I am watching one of the specials about September 11.  It is so hard to believe it has already been 25 years.  I still remember that day so well.  Back when I first started to this blog, I wrote a post on the 10th anniversary of that fateful day.  You can read it here.  I am glad that I wrote it, and was interesting to read it again 15 years later.  Back in 2001, I had three young children. The youngest was only 2 months old.   They are now all adults in their mid to late 20s. They were too young to have any memories of what happened on that day, but they have had other big events shape their lives.  What big event do you remember most in your life? 

I was thinking of posting about Halloween tonight, but with the importance of this day, it doesn't seem quite right. 

It is getting late, so I am going to get this party started.  I would love to see what you have been up to. Link up your posts and HAVE FUN! 

 

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It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It's time to Dare to Share! 

Happy Friday! 

Last weekend on the way back from Michigan, we stopped by a county fair. We had been to this fair exactly 5 years before. We ended up taking a picture in the same spot we did on our last visit, while listening to a band that was playing 80s music.  We also saw one of our classmates there who graduated with us in the 80s. 

Each week I play trivia at a nearby restaurant with a good friend of mine, and D when he is able to go with us.  Over the summer the winners of each round win tickets to our local minor league baseball games. This week we won tickets for tonight's game.  It was a beautiful night, and we won by several points. Near the stadium is a pizza place that sells different kinds of pizza by the slice.  One of the choices this week was this chicken and fries pizza.  My friend ordered it, and said it was really good. I was going to post some pictures from the game, but it turns out I took videos and very few photos.  

Now that it is September, I am starting to decorate for Halloween.  It has been so hot (in the 90s) this week, which  has made it difficult to be outside for more than a couple minutes. I have not done much outside yet.   My grandbaby still likes to play in the cardboard play house I made her last year. We have been decorating it for all the holidays.  This week she helped me change it over to Halloween. It is not finished yet, but she loved the stickers and spider craft kit I bought from Dollar Tree.  She also loves the squirrel stacking pumpkins. She enjoys taking the squirrel off of the stack so she can play with it. The stacking set is really cute and only $5.

Over in my shop in Etsy, I have been adding more Halloween items like these cute treat cards. I have so many items I want to add, and not a lot of time to add them.  Halloween is definitely one of my favorite holidays. 

Here is a throw back to a fun Halloween DIY I made a few years ago.  That year my Halloween theme was ghosts and I made these cute Ghost Dogs that resemble my dogs. We got a lot of nice comments on them from the trick or treaters.    You can see what you need to make them on this post here.

Now that you know what I have been up to this week, I would love to see what you are up to so let's get this party started.  Link up and HAVE FUN!! 

 

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