I went to Cincinnati Tuesday and stayed with Libby Wednesday through Friday while her babysitter was on vacation. We played outside two days and she enjoyed swinging, bubble wand and playing in the sand. Friday it rained so we had to play inside. Friday night after Libby went to bed, Sarah asked me if I would help them make a dress for Libby. Sarah did all the sewing and Kevin did all the pressing, made the bias tape and lots of moral support. I just explained some of the terms on the pattern and gave a little instruction. It was a fun project and we worked on it as a team. The dress was finished in about an hour and a half. I took a picture of them with the finished project. Kevin had bought Sarah the pattern for Mother's Day and it is a Mommy and Me pattern so it has a pattern to make a matching top for Mom. I got home about noon Saturday. My garden had missed me. I got two gallons of pickles soaking "Erma's Pickles" to be canned Thursday. Also canned 14 pints of bread and butter pickles, made cucumber and onion salad and picked two five gallon buckets of green beans. Today I canned 20 pints of green beans, had fresh green beans with lunch and got another gallon of pickles soaking. Tomorrow I am planning to can beets and Tuesday spend a day scrapbooking. Oh, when I got home and looked over at the robin's nest, I thought it must be the Mom in there...but it didn't have a orange breast....It was a good sized bird...This morning I checked and the nest was empty. Keith said, "You wouldn't believe how the robins grew while you were gone...he was surprised too that the nest was empty.
