I'm making some changes from the September plan and from what I said I was going to do in October. Me? Change my plans? Who would have guessed? :) I got tired of working on the same project for 15 days. At least the last half of September I was wanting to work on smalls - things I can start and finish fairly soon. I love the larger, more stitch heavy pieces but I need to balance those with ...
September Stitching Report
First, let me just get this off my chest. I am NOT going to spend every day stitching on Farmhouse Christmas. I just don't want to do it. I'm going to start over on 40 count linen with Vikki Clayton silks. There are problems that I've mentioned before. First, I really dislike using two strands of floss. Second, there are many mistakes - things like instead of stitching over two threads, I stitched ...
A Good Day
Pretty much every day is a good day around here. Retirement is fun . . most of the time. The dogs, even though they're a lot of trouble and require almost constant attention, they're such a joy. I have my garden, knitting, cross stitching, cooking, canning. There are few days that I have to do things I don't enjoy doing so . . all that to say . . it isn't unusual for me to feel like I've had a ...
The Schwan’s Man
I just read that The Schwan's Man era is ending November 8. Someone said the local driver here (may be more than one) had already turned his truck in. I haven't purchased from Schwan's in many years but I used to purchase a lot from them. When we lived in Kentucky, Vince was gone with his job more than he was home. We lived a good ways from a restaurant and I didn't cook a lot when Vince was ...
Inexpensive Tablet
I hesitate to say "inexpensive" because what one considers inexpensive, another probably thinks it's over their budget so please, take this post as I'm meaning it to be - a recommendation for anyone considering a tablet for reading or stitching or some other "only one" type thing that isn't going to take a mortgage on the house to buy. Most of you probably remember the story about my "green" ...
Sweet Potato Feast
I seem to be feeding lots of critters - mice, moles, roly poly bugs (pill bugs). They feasted on the sweet potatoes this year. That's just what I found in one bed! There were many clumps of roots with no potatoes so I know they ate the whole thing. There's one still eating! When I would pull the potatoes out of the ground, there were thousands of bugs on each one that they were ...