Weekend Report

We had another good weekend around here! Even busier than most...lol...just different! Of course we had Miss Savy for an overnight on Friday. I always look forward to that! Even if all we do is hang out, color and play. She is just so much fun!

Saturday night Ron and I ventured out and checked out the Riverwind Casino. They are one of his customers and the head chef had told him he wanted to "buy us dinner" to thank him for taking such good care of them! It was strange going into a casino right down the road from home...almost felt like we were on a vacation in Vegas or something! We had a great dinner in the Traditions then wandered around watching everyone gamble. I did "throw away" ten bucks on the slots :-). It took a total of about 5 minutes...lol! Good thing I'm not much of a gambler...except maybe entering sweepstakes. Anyway, it was a nice change from sitting in front of the boob-tube every night!

On Sunday we went to the Medival Fair down in Norman with David, Amanda and kiddies. We even took Stoneleigh! All the kids...both two legged and four legged were so good! Of course, I forgot my camera, but fortunately Amanda remembered to take hers! She has a shot of me and Savy riding the elephant and a couple of Stoneleigh riding in Daxton's stroller on her blog.
It was fun, but we were all worn out after 3-4 hours!!

On SP10, my hostess has created another contest!! We are supposed to put up pics of projects we love and hate!! I'm so glad she has these contests...it really helps out when I haven't done much on the knitting front and don't have anything to post! Here is my "love it" project. Mainly because I'm so proud of myself for hanging in there and finishing it! In my opinion, the pattern stunk! It was very poorly written and I had to constantly email and call MG with problems and questions before I could get it done!

As far as the project I have hated the most.....I guess this one counts....I hated it so much I never finished it! I got so tired of messing with with I haven't even taken the time to frog it!! I think I started it about 4 years ago. I really thought I would like it because Amanda had done an afghan out of Homespun a few years back and it is the warmest thing to cuddle up in, washes like a dream, etc. So I thought...wouldn't a sweater jacket be awesome out of it? Anyway...I just did not enjoy doing it....at all....and I can't remember for sure, but I think I had pattern issues with it as well. Anyway....I see this homespun becoming another afghan/lap robe sometime in the distant future instead of this!!

I haven't said anything in a while about our attempt to buy a local business. I finally finished the business plan and we met with the first banker a couple of weeks ago. Very discouraging meeting! He was ONLY interested in collateral and barely glanced at the BP. Didn't ask a single question about experience, qualifications or plans for the business....all he cared about was whether there were enough assets to cover the loan. DH talked to another bank on the phone....they didn't even ask for a face-to-face meeting.....and again...were mainly concerned with collateral. I was pretty much ready to throw in the towel and move on but DH wanted to go talk to two more banks that people had told him about. We met with both last week and lo-and-behold, they were both very interested and very encouraging! I have received an SBA loan packet from one of them and will be working with the bank officer on it the next week or so. No guarantees, of course, but the door hasn't slammed shut yet!