Friday (September 25, 2009) was Jack's last working day at the prison. He is officially retired on Wednesday, September 30. His birthday is tomorrow - 62 years old. Of course, he is not really retiring. He is just making a career change. He will become a nanny to Alexie and Ian. I think he is really looking forward to his new responsibilities.

Yeah! I have succeeded. I managed to clean my sewing room enough last week that I worked some on a quilt top I started in May. Saturday, I spent more time deep cleaning the room. I have four bookcases in the room. I cleaned two of them. I also have a four drawer office file cabinet that is full of "important" paper plus other useless junk. I cleaned just one of the drawers. Altogether I threw away five large trash cans of trash. I still have three file drawers plus two bookcases to clean. Nothing like getting control of the room. I then spent some time sewing and managed to finish the quilt top. I will post pictures of the room and the quilt top. I am happy with both,