One thing I've learned with this latest project, Only Once, is that I do NOT like stitching four stitches and changing thread. Give me a big red house with a grassy lawn any day. One of the major changes I want to make in 2025 is to buy fewer charts and only buy things I intend to start stitching within a week or two of purchasing them. No more buying, filing and never seeing or thinking about ...
Skillet Pizza
I love homemade pizza. I do not love eating pizza out for several reasons. First, I do not like red sauce. With homemade pizza, I put just enough sauce . . which is probably way less than others would like. When we get a pizza out and it's swimming in the sauce, I cannot eat it. Second, Vince and I like different ingredients on our pizza. He likes anchovies and sausage on his pizza. I do not. I ...
The Green Pickup
Remember when Chad hit a deer with his green pickup? It was in August and I wrote about it in this post. It could have been much worse. You can see that he ended up on the wrong side of the road so there could have been an accident if someone was coming right then. He said he felt the truck start to roll and couldn't believe it didn't. He did not have full cover insurance since the truck ...
A Mess on My Hands
Life has been a bit crazy lately - I know many of us are in that same boat. But, hopefully most are smarter than I am. :) My haircut lady's husband has been sick for quite a while. Every time I would think about contacting her (through FB), I would see a note that her husband was in the hospital so I wouldn't contact her. Then . . I trimmed just one little sprig of hair and then another little ...
Vacationing Package
This is not a complaint. I think it's totally crazy. At this point, I'm just glad I'm not paying postage per mile the package travels. It's a package from 123 Stitch. I ordered floss that I need for several projects I plan to start in the next few months. Before Christmas, I made a list of projects I may start and ordered the floss so I can get that behind me. The entire travel path is ...
Potential Elderberry Benefits
You know how much I love the elderberry trees/shrubs we have here . . until I've had my fill of them and they won't stop producing and I can't let them go to waste! I'm no doctor so this isn't medical advice but I read this article yesterday. Interesting and encouraging since we have so much juice here. There are probably parts of the country where elderberries will not grow well but in ...