Today I'm getting loose ends tied up so we can go see the 'kids' ... it is really nice to have a day with just little things to do and nothing major! I actually read some this a.m. and started another crocheted scarf.
This picture is of the cock's comb (celosia) at the edge of our vegetable garden. As you might see in the background, all that's left in the way of vegies is okra and tomatoes. Wendell is still picking okra and we're both giving it away. We haven't stooped to leaving it on door steps and running away yet, but ...
Jane & I went to Margo's for a nice day of hooking this week. Wonderful lunch, great company, beautiful surroundings! Just a great day. [Thanks Margo!] I hadn't hooked for a couple weeks; worked on the rug depicting the woman with striped socks. Changed her "hair" into a hat ... it looks great that way! Next week I will do more on that runner rug, too. Finally woke up and moved my hooking 'stuff' back to the house. When it's right here it's easier to sit down and pull a few loops than having to walk over to my work room ....... DUH!
Wendell & I went to Terre Haute yesterday and looked at condos again. We don't know ... do we really want to live in Terre Haute, Indiana???!!! I don't even know if I want to live in Indiana for the rest of my life! Why not try some place entirely different?! We did like Texas but have you been hearing about how HOT it is there this year? (I don't do 'hot' ...) But it's definitely a buyer's market right now ... we should make some sort of decision soon. This place is definitely getting too much for us to maintain. We do love it here, this is our dream house, but we need to face reality pretty soon.
Been working on a memory book for my 50th high school class reunion which will be next spring. It's been fun looking through my old pictures! I'll have to post some here ... As I have been planning this book, I've been looking up events that happened the year I graduated (1962) to include and was surprised to see that both Wal-Mart and Kmart were launched that year. The top 10 songs brought back memories and I've been listening to some of them online! Fun!
Have a great Labor Day! I will pray that everyone who wants to work can find a job.
P.S. Soon I'm going to remove the directions on how to make the pins at the bottom of this blog and replace with pictures from LONG, LONG AGO ...
On Monday I finished this pillow. Jane, Margo & I had seen a similar one at Sycamore Farms B&B in Terre Haute and I found a pattern in a book that looked a lot like it. This is definitely not as large as the one we saw but I like it. (It's on a 12" base.)
I've been crocheting recently! Got the book Crocheting for Dummies and have already made a scarf. I tried crochet in the past but never really mastered it (or felt like I was doing it correctly). My sister and I took a crocheted rug class MANY years ago and I have done two crochet rag rugs -- that was fun. So since I can't seem to get a handle on knitting, and wanting to at least make some scarves, I thought I'd give crocheting (the correct way) another try. My first project was a natural gray wool scarf, using some hand-spun wool I purchased at our Guild's fiber fair many years ago. (Actually, I use hanks of wool as decoration and these have been hanging around for a while.) So I got one down and used it ... HEY ... I'm allergic to that stuff! Since I've hooked for years, using 100% wool fabric, this came as a shock to me. But after crocheting steadily over the weekend, I woke up Monday a.m. with itchy hands! ARGH! So yesterday, when I went to Bloomington to get my hair cut, I shopped for other yarns in organic cottons, acrylics, and bamboo. My next project will be a wash cloth. I'm loving it!!!
Soooooooooo ... no hooking on that *#%!*&#% runner rug lately! What to do???!!! I MUST get back to it if I'm to make my goal of getting it hooked and bound before the Christmas holidays. I did a bad thing (don't tell Margo) ... I took it back over to my "work" room. I use the word work in quotes here because not much work has been produced from that location lately! Had been getting a lot done on it when I had it with me here in the house. Ah ... I keep thinking "tomorrow" ...
I still have lots of okra in the garden and have been cutting some in hunks, dredging in dry Jiffy cornbread mix, and freezing it for the winter. Also Wendell has been giving it away. Anyone want some???
We're planning a big church breakfast next Sunday! Wendell & I volunteered to make the monthly breakfast. Others will bring in fruit, etc. I'm doing a crock pot of sausage gravy, he's making biscuits (NOT from a can), I'm doing scrambled eggs and heating some ham they have at the church, and Wendell offered to make eggs to order! Wow! that sounds way too ambitious, doesn't it. But we'll git r' done! It should be fun! Y'all come!
