Well. After that three-month hiatus I'll try to do some catch-up here! My life is much slower now. And I had some little hiccups recently but I'm thinking I can expect that more and more as time rolls on. I gave up on getting a painter to come paint the inside of my garage so I did it myself. Followed closely by some major sciatic nerve pain. Sigh. Lost most of March. Did the meds followed by physical therapy thing (and still doing the take-home exercises they prescribed). After that incident my right knee seems to have further deteriorated. Another sigh. I see knee-replacement surgery in my future if I want to walk much .....
Been keeping busy though with things I enjoy doing such as reading, crocheting, needlepunch and 'finally' back to rug hooking pretty regularly! Since I've moved here I've really missed hooking with kindred spirits. It's difficult to stay motivated if I don't have a group to meet with! That's just me.... There is no one I've found in this immediate area who does real rug hooking. (There is one person about an hour away but she is more of an "artist" and we just don't share the same style. I sort of feel for the people who take classes from her if they think that that style is what rug hooking is all about. I'm more of the rug-on-the-floor type of hooker. Just sayin.) And I've asked around about others who might hook, contacting the local homemakers club and also my crafty friends at knit n' crochet. Like most of us, those knitters and crocheters also dabble in other interests to some degree. Some lots more than others. And they're always interested in seeing and hearing about what's going on outside the yarn world.
Speaking of that group (called A Good Yarn), we're just starting a new project for Life Stream, crocheting 100 small baskets for their Christmas project. Last year we made 800 hats, but they've contacted other like-minded crafters in the 5-county area now so we only have to do 100 items and not 800. Shoot! We'll have that knocked out before the end of May! So I've been making little 4" diameter by 4" tall baskets.
Let me look at my photos and see what I've been doing ...
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| On one of my many drives I stopped at the old Ceylon covered bridge just north of Geneva. It's in the heart of Amish country and as I was stopped in the small park to take this picture a couple buggies went through. I respect their desire to not be photographed. |
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| Came across this historical marker just last week as I was coming home from a shop in Ohio. Wandering the back roads again. This 1860s building is just inside Randolph county Indiana about a half mile from the state line on county road 600S. This was an old two-story brick school house called the Union Literary Institute. They took students without regard to color or sex. Classes were on the first floor and housing on the top floor. The sign says that notable attendees included Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. Senator and James S. Hinton, the first black elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. It also claims to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. I wish someone would repair this building before it falls down! |
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| Was wandering around a few weeks ago, coming into Albany from the south out in the country, and I accidentally found these shoe trees just outside town. There are four large trees just loaded with shoes! I saw some Chuck Taylors for goodness sake!!! You just never know what you're going to come across. And folks, found out later that this "place of interest" is actually listed on Google Maps ... |
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| Someone told me some time ago that there was a flowing well east of Spartansburg. Well, I was wandering around in the southern part of the county, headed for Ohio, and came into Spartansburg from the west. I remembered about the well and went out of town headed east and there in a nice little park was this well. The water is very tasty by the way. Spartansburg is just a little crossroads town with no side streets... |
