October 24 - A Meeting That Happened Twenty Years Ago and a Hat

This morning out of the blue Shea wanted to make a Confederate soldier's hat using a picture he saw in magazine. We had received several pair of jeans that were, to say the least, a little bit large for us. That's what we used because that was the only material we had that there was enough of it to make the hat. So even before we got started, Shea went from a Confederate to a Yankee.  

Shea did every step on his own.... almost. He had never learned to sew with a sewing machine, or now that I think about it, he has never really done anything like this before, so he enlisted Kacy to help with this project. First step rip the seams out of the jeans.

Now cut off the usable parts of the jeans, the leggs. 

Looking good so far.

We had to cut out the piece for the hat itself, a piece for the top.....

... and a band to go around the hat.

After much trial and error we got this far, and after much more trial and error we finished the hat, but you can't see it until the October Creations Post.

Twenty Years ago, two very wonderful people met. A young lady was staying at a camp in Oklahoma with some friends of hers. They had invited some people from the camp over to their house for dinner of pizza. The pizza had jalapeno peppers as a topping. An this young lady was suppose to make strawberry shortcake for dessert. One of the guests was a young farm boy from Wisconsin. He ate some of the pizza and burned his mouth. After the meal was over the young lady brought in the strawberry shortcake. As this young man started eating this, you have to realize that his mouth was still on fire. Well, to say it nicely, the shortcake wasn't much of a hit, this young lady had mistaken the salt for the sugar, and it was very salty. But if you have ever experienced your mouth on fire because of a hot pepper you will know that salt puts out the fire. And that is how Dan and Rossella Pogue met Twenty years ago. This evening, in honor of that meeting, Janessa made pizza (minus the Jalapenos) and strawberry shortcake (made correctly).

Dad's shortcake and salt.

So glad that God brought you two together and you have stuck together for this long.