Still plugging away

Ok, my weight is now 167.4 - not good but I haven't given up yet, nor have I started REALLY trying to lose. But I have a plan - Big news! I'M GOING TO BE A GRANDMA!!!!! My son and his wife are expecting in February. Sadly, daughter still not expecting - I know she really wants a baby and was really upset that her brother "beat her to it". But anyway - son and wife are stationed in England and I have hoped desperately to make the trip over to see them while they are there. Financially not possible at the moment but now that I'm going to have a grandchild, maybe it'll give me the incentive to put money back each payday so I can get there when the baby is born! Not to mention, that falls right at income tax time which would help too.

Haven't done anything else on the house - been too busy in the garden. So far this year I have canned 30 quarts of green beans, frozen broccoli, made blackberry jam, strawberry jam, and put zucchini and summer squash in the freezer. This weekend I will have more beans and probably tomatoes to can. Brussell sprouts are coming on and I should have enough to freeze this weekend also.  Thankfully,everything I have frozen so far has gone into the kitchen freezer because last week my deep freeze somehow got unplugged and I lost everything in it! Just got it cleaned out last night - YUCK, what a job. It is, however, clean but still has a rather bad smell. I put a bowl of charcoal and lots of baking soda in it and will let it sit until the smell is gone before I start re-stocking it.

Going to start teaching my co-workers to crochet next week - that should be interesting! Will let you know how it goes. I've about finished with my "name" wall hangings, just have one more to go before Christmas and am now madly crocheting baby things! Fun! I'll be posting pictures as I finish.