Hey guys - just taking a few minutes to check up on everyone while my jars are in the canner.  I have been making and canning salsa again this afternoon - 8 more quarts to add to my collection.  As we were gone for several days, Greg brought me in a big bucket of tomatoes from the garden and also a 5 gallon bucket completely filled to the top with green beans.  I will wait until Big Brother comes on, so I can snap them as I watch the show.  It sounds like all of you are keeping very busy.  We leave 2 months from today to head to Galveston for our cruise.  It will take us 2 days to get there and we will be spending the night before embarkation at a hotel not far from the port.  At Greg&#39;s uncle&#39;s funeral, they ran a slide show and it took me a little off guard how much he and my FIL looked alike.  Dad will be 76 in a few weeks and it struck me that we may not have all that much more time with him.  He truly is like a father to me and that will be very difficult for me when the time comes.  He and hubby kept teasing my sister in law and myself, saying that the pastor at Uncle Earnest&#39;s church was going to make us sit in the back or maybe even outside.  His uncle was pentecostal, and the women don&#39;t wear jewelry, make-up, pants or cut their hair.  I had bought a new black pantsuit at Dillard&#39;s the day before we left for Okla, and also a black lace blouse to wear under the blazer, and of course, some new black high heels.   My SIL and I both had on black pant outfits and make-up and jewelry (we both like the bling) -  but I quickly pointed out to her that she was a bigger sinner than me because my hair is almost to my waist and her&#39;s is very short.  Okay, as for Scotty and school - I had told you how he got the good citizen of the day award on the first day, and I knew something must be amiss there - I am imagining that it must be a classroom full of hooligans in order for him to be the best behaved.  Anyway, I called him Wed. night, when we arrived at Greg&#39;s parent&#39;s, to see how his day had gone.  He informed me that he had received 3 yellow cards that day.  I asked him why he got them and he said for talking and for not listening.  When he gave the phone to his dad, I asked my son what the deal was, and he said that if the teacher gets onto them, they get a warning and then if they do the same thing again, they get a yellow card.  Each yellow card they get on a given day takes 5 minutes away from their recess time, which is 15 minutes long.  As he got 3, Scotty lost all of his recess that day.  I think it made an impression on him though, because he proudly informed me on both Thursday and Friday, that he had gotten green cards those days.  A green card means they had a very good day and did not get in trouble once.  Well, it is time to take my salsa jars out of the canner - hope you all have a wonderful evening.