God, what a day. We were up by 8:30, had breakfast, went to Miller Box for a few more square boxes and some bubble wrap. Came home, changed into grubbies, wrapped the blue glasses, and the few other glasses we are keeping. Wrapped the horse lamp. But ran out of bubble wrap for the mixing bowls. How aggravating.

By this time it was almost two o'clock and we hadn't had lunch. T's closed at three, so we went there first, had more of that wonderful chicken soup. Then we went back to Miller for more bubble wrap and packing peanuts because we still had to pack things like the records (Mom had several dozen old 78s from the 1940s) and the photo albums. Then we stopped at A.C. Moore one more time because I loved some of their fall stuff which Michael's (which we also stopped at) didn't have. They actually have candle rings, which I use for small wreaths and which I haven't seen at either Michael's or JoAnn in over a year.

I also got a tall glass "apothecary jar" for a project I worked on this afternoon just to get some things out of the way. All Mom's Christmas things were downstairs. I tossed out all the clear plastic ornaments, salvaged some long ones, kept the ones I made and the 1950s plastic ornaments, and wish some of the glass ones that were left, made a "memory jar." This is actually something I found in Country Living magazine: what to do with ornaments that are too tarnished to go on the tree. You put them in a clear jar—and you can even use ornament fragments—with tinsel, tiny ornaments, anything else Christmasy you have until the jar is filled, put in multicolor glitter, and cap it all up and put some Christmas ribbon around the lid of the jar. So I did that with the glass ornaments that had flocking on them, plus added little balls, an angel, a flat nativity scene, two "pine" branches off the artificial tree, a tree bulb, and a little fuzzy bird. Dropped different glitters in it, and also did a pattern of glitter on the lid, and tied it with thin red and green ribbon.

We stopped at Anna's on the way home and presented her with the yarn from the attic (and knitting needles), and also some beautiful fall flowers I'd found at Moore's in a white glass vase from the attic.

Then we came home and packed, and packed, and packed and taped, and marked, and finished about 7:30, just in time for Jeopardy. I'm tired, hot, thirsty, and we're going out for Del's Lemonade.

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