I live in Phoenix

And it is 10PM and 107 degrees outside!

Can you believe it?

I went swimming at 6pm tonight (it was 113 then!)

to cool off and to clean the pool.

I get in the pool with a little skimmer net and clean all the leaves

and pine needles that have accumulated during the day.

You know that little place where the water pours into to go

into the filter? Well, of course there is always a fair amount of

pine needles that accumulate there. I was just about ready to

reach in and grab them (I figured it would save it from going

into the filter skimmer basket) when I saw a mysterious black

orb. I quickly did a double take and you guessed it......

...it was a black widow spider hanging just above the water.

Do you know how many times I have reached into that basket

from the topside of the pool? AND after dark?

I can tell you this..........I won't be doing that again until

that spider is GONE!

I posted this little quilt top earlier today.

I am still wrestling with what color to use as

the inner border.

I had purple there this morning and now I am

auditioning some pink and possibly a gold stripe.

Hopefully I will get up in the morning and will

know just what to do!

I also finished block #7 of the

Haunted House embroidery project.

It is really starting to look good!

Halloween will be here before you know it........

and I'll be ready!