It’s Monday!

This is one of those days when . . I don’t even know where to start.

First, I started making breakfast and realized we don’t have any bread. How could I have made all the bread I’ve made in the last few days and there’s none in this house. I did take those last two loaves to Chad’s and left the leftovers there for them but I made bread Wednesday, Thursday and two loaves on Friday.

Thankfully we had some bagels in the freezer so I made omelettes, bacon, apples and toasted bagels.

We were going to have leftover meatloaf for our meal but I went to the freezer to get some cheese and a container fell out of the freezer and I said “Fine . . whatever is in this container is what we’re having for dinner!” It was beefy mac & cheese, which we both like so I defrosted it in the microwave, stuck it in the oven with added cheese on top, baked sweet potatoes and made a salad. So, even though there was a “snafu” on each of those meals, they worked.

Then, Vince came downstairs and said “Do you want to keep our Sam’s account?” Well, YES! I use it all the time. We have the Plus account and they ship most everything for free. I order more than I buy out of the store but I do love their salmon and tuna and I like buying a case of pork butts. There are four in there and they’re way less than I can get them anywhere else.

Then he tells me he bought a membership to Costco. There’s no Costco here. Why? He said “We can go to Springfield two or three times a year . . ” We won’t. We don’t even go to Sam’s Club in Joplin two or three times a year.

Then, he tells me that he got an email that the membership to Sam’s renews in March so we can think about it. Wait . . the membership to Sam’s renews in April. I had looked at it over the weekend. Nope . . it renews in March. He had just looked at it. A little investigating revealed that we’ve had two Sam’s Club accounts for the past two years. Both were Plus accounts . . I know what happened. We were in the store one day and they had some kind of “deal” for new accounts only. He was going to cancel the old account and I guess he didn’t. So that was kind of . . not frustrating but him trying to figure out why we had two accounts and get one canceled and him trying to convince me that the Costco account is a good idea . . I’m not convinced but it’s done so we’ll see how many times we go over there. Springfield traffic is crazy; the traffic on I-44 to get there is crazy. I just don’t see that there’s anything Costco has that I need that I can’t get from Sam’s, Walmart, Aldi or Azure Standard. But, I could be wrong.

After all that, I went downstairs to start stitching. Tomorrow there’s a Stitch Along starting for Prairie Life Sampler. I’m out of stitching frames so I got out some hoops and thought about trying to stitch with those. Then I remembered that I had a frame with fabric on it and it isn’t labeled for a specific project. I’m sure there is one but I’ll never figure it out so I decided to stitch Prairie Life Sampler on it. The fabric is 40 count Mallow by Zwiegart. I was going to test a few stitches to see if I needed to change any of them.

The first color I tried wasn’t showing up well. Then I realized . . the squares are like on the diagonal. I could not easily see which hole to stick the needle in and the more I looked at it, the more confused I got.

I looked at the fabric on 123 Stitch and it’s 51% linen and 49% cotton and I’m thinking either the weft or the warp is linen and the other is cotton and it’s just weird to me. I think all of the linens I’ve used so far have been 100% linen. I decided there’s no way I’m going to deal with trying to find the right holes all the way through this project so I changed linens.

See how those holes are all on a square type grid and easy to see? This linen is 40 count and I think the color is 712 by Tropical Stitches.

I’m fairly sure some of these colors aren’t going to show up. I dug through linen tubs and there wasn’t any fabric in my stash that was going to work for every color so I figured I’d just pick a linen and change the floss color as needed.

Now I’m ready to start stitching on Prairie Life Sampler tomorrow.