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Sunday, June 30, 2019

SUNDAY--HALF YEAR GONE

Can you believe that half a year --
and half of the Sundays in a year--
is over already??????

Tuesday's Inchy--
Tuesday was a full day with lots happening--
My water delivery came at 7:50am-
( I get 12 gallon jugs of spring water delivered once a month)
At 9:45 Dustin came to measure my window for an A/C unit-
and at 10:00am--
Anne came--
We got me my B-12 injection--
then to the Post Office to mail out 2 packages that I have tried to get to the post office
with for over 2 weeks and we still had to go to the next town to do it--as they were still working on the street right in front of the post office-
and then we did something --FUN--
we went to a green house--
and these came home with me--
there is 4 different flowers here--
and something else happened--but I will get to that later!!??

Wednesday--
was a lovely warm day--80--sunny--
took the 9:30 bus to Walmart for some supplies--
like more potting soil--
so I could play in the dirt when I got home--
most of the new ones went in the barrow--
but I needed something else for the 'overflow'--
so look at what I found in the kitchen aisle???
a pretty turquoise bowl for only $1.34!!!
and it worked great for plants and adds a bit more color in the garden--!!

Thursday--
was a big day again--
I had alot of cleaning, to do--as they were inspecting my apartment on Friday--
and you know how it is--you think your place is 'clean' until--
you know someone is coming----

also this happened--

my new air conditioner got installed--
this one is 12,000 btu's--so if it ever gets hot and humid out--
I will be cool and chilled inside!!!!!
I also finished the shawl I was knitting--
though no photo's yet--!!!

Friday--
Now I need to back up my week a bit here--
back to Tuesday morning--
this is what I get got to see each morning at breakfast--
my flower barrel full of big yellow pansies--
but I am sitting at the table and realize that something looks funny--
so I go out to feed the birds and I discovered that half of the pansies are gone--
A deer had jumped the fence and had them for a midnight snack--
well--ok--I still got half of them--
but I also know that pansies don't like hot weather--
so that is why I went to the green house on Tuesday and got more plants--

Then I get up on Friday--
and--
deer had jumped the fence again and finished off the rest of the pansies--
now he/she did not eat the voila's--I think that is 'funny' as they were right there together!!!
I do believe if the weather stays cool--the pansies will bloom again--
and if the deer stay on the other side of the fence!!!
Finished cleaning and had the inspection--
And we had another fire alarm at 10:30pm--yep some of them cook really odd hours around here!!!

Saturday--
Turned out for the better part of the day--
for 3 good days in a row--nice and sunny and low 80's with hardly any humidity!!!
But around 6 pm we had a nice thunder storm--
I do miss the thunder storms--I am one of those 'weird' folks that love them--
not sure when I fell in love with them--but I do love watching and listening to them--
crazy I know!!!
I have to say that the week did catch up with me and I have been very tired for the last 2 days!!!

For slow stitching Sunday--
I have started the August Word Play--

And this morning I went on line and ordered--
Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec's patterns--
when I ordered the last 3 of these from this company--
they were only $9 each--today they are $11 each--OUCH!!!
Plus shipping!!
but it is done and done--can't stop now--right???

For--
I have been able to stitch every day this past month--
so 30/30 days--
and did a total of 54 hours of stitching for the month--
now I might be 'cheating' a little here--
as I stitch that Inchy every day and that takes a good 20-30 minutes--
but I am usually also doing some counted cross stitching or embroidery each day too--!!


HAVE A WONDERFUL LOVE FILLED WEEK--
LUV, DI


Tuesday, June 25, 2019

NOT ONE BUT TWO--

finishes--
first up is the Word Play for July--
in the counted cross stitch series--
my favorite thing on this one is that 'crab' in the lower left hand corner--
ain't he cute?????
and I did add tiny eyes to the Mermaid and the 2 folks in the boat--
I am an 'eye' person!!!!
and now for August Word Play--
it got started today!!

And I got another embroidery basket block finished--
and now have the next one all picked out and the floss ready to start it--

and so now where are we in the life of the
Inchies??

Wednesday--
it was just one of those days--
where it was hard to come up with something extra special--
so---
but I also did get 2 bird photos--
a wild looking Cardinal and--
a dry --but 'bossy' looking Blue Jay!!!

Thursday--
I had a doctor appointment --
I was able to get the bus to get there--
about 9-10 blocks from here--
but ended up having to walk home-
or wait another whole hour for the next bus--
it was a nice walk and even though we had had alot of rain earlier--
and even on the trip to the office--
the clouds parted--
and out came the sun for the whole walk home!!!
Then it rained again!!

Friday--
Even though I took the usual bus to Walmart--
I got to do some shopping for something different while there--
my friend who works here, had twin grandson's born in Feb--
though I didn't know that until last week--
so I got to do this--
buy some 'Oneies' and some bibs--for them--
and I got double sets --as the little outfits where 3 on a hanger--
same as the bibs--and the third bib in the set says--
---time for a vacation at Grandma's--
and she loved them--
I never get to shop for babies--
there hasn't been any in my family or in the friends department for years--

Saturday--
was the really -- second full day of--
so as it is really here--
was time for it's own inchy!!!!
and right now I have lots of baby birds coming to eat or be feed--
they are so cute to watch!!!

Sunday--
I have always wanted to see this bird close up--
Red winged Black bird--one did fly in to eat on Sunday--
though a squirrel chased it right off--
so no actual photo yet!!!

Monday--
I finished up this devotional book--
and will now start this one--
so I did this for the Inchy--
I think those are two really good words to end this post on too--

          Joy                         Faith

HAVE A GREAT LOVE FILLED DAY--
LUV, DI




Thursday, June 20, 2019

SUNDAY'S POST ON--

MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY-

THURSDAY--
yea--maybe I can do it now---
before we get into the Inchy's--
I want to show you where I am on the  'word play'
for July--
Plus a bit more has been done--(then unstitched and restarted!!!!)
A crab that was giving me a hard time!!!  But he is so cute!
am down to the fishes now!!

So now where did leave off in the 'story of my life' according to the Inchy's???

Last Thursday--
(oh dear don't tell--Di--but that was a week ago!!)
Rainy day here--(as today has been also!!)
I did spend part of the day pricing some rummage sale items for this week end's sale--!!

Friday--
was one of those --
up and down days--
felt good when I first got up--
then didn't--
but rallied after lunch to walk over to the yarn shop--
was at a turning point in the new shawl and had no idea how to continue with the pattern--
then it was down again--cause Sue just told me I had to go online to see how to do the next
couple stitches to make the fringe!!!  that made me sad--what happened to the 'days' when
others showed us how to do things--now it's--go to the internet and u-tube!!!
but while there an ole yarn friend came in--Sharon--we used to knit together there on Friday afternoon's so we are planning on doing that once again--so the day went back up--
and I was able to find the u-tube videos I needed and eventually figured out how to do the fringe!!
so the day did end on a 'high' note!!

Saturday--
was the 'cardboard boat races'  remember those from when I lived here before???
And yes--they had a big yellow duck boat in the race--
and after I got home--I realized I could see him from the window--
Here is the photo I took on the photo shoot walk--
Who is this tall tall man????
there is many more photos--I will be posting those on the Di's workbasket site--

Sunday--
was--
or I mean would of been--
lil sister's birthday--
she would of been only '65'--

Monday--
was another interesting day--
What do you mean--NO--
well--
No-- blood work done at the dr office for my appointment later in the week--
No-- trip to Walmart to walk--
No-- Cracked Wheat Bread at the bakery-
No--right sized needles in the brand I wanted at the yarn shop--
Like I said it was just a day of  'No's"!!!

Tuesday--
was lovely day--
of the --
Rose--
but first Anne came and after visiting for awhile--
she ran me to the dr office for the blood work--
then we went to Walmart for a couple things and then out to lunch--
later I did walk back up the bakery for my loaf of bread--
and seen alot of beautiful roses--




I think that about catches us up for now--
do take the time to enjoy where you are now--each day--!

LUV, DI




Thursday, June 13, 2019

SINCE SUNDAY--

I have been really busy--
or else time is even going 'faster'!!!

Sunday's Inchy--
was for---
the frogs--
times '3'---
first when I worked on my counted cross stitching--
I had for 'frog' the days work out-was off by one thread!!!
got that going correctly though before I went on with the day--

Late afternoon--
I got all ready to watch the race--
only it was rained off--
but --
I ended up 'frogging' 2 knit projects I had started--
the first one was being knitted in silk yarn and was to be a shawl--
but was too much like a long scarf and not wide enough to suit me--!!
so--we unknitted that back into 3 balls of yarn--
Then I was not happy with how 'wide' the last pair of socks was coming along--
so they got 'frogged' back into balls of yarn!!!!

I did go out and play in the flower barrel again--
planting the 2 plants I had gotten at the windmill--
this is the 'hot pink' geranium I got--
here is the barrel now--
and a clay pot of viola's
 Love these tiny babies!!!!!

Monday's inchy--
what in the world is this --Di????
Oh maybe it is another knitting project???
Yep--using the new yarn!!!
and the race was on Monday evening!!!

Tuesday--
a very eventful day--
It was Anne's day to come--
she was 20 minutes late because of traffic back up--
they are redoing the whole length of town --a good mile and half--
new side walks--street lights, and a new road--
Let's just say--right now --it's one big mess--
but someday--it will be nice and look neat!!!! hopefully--
We visited a bit and then decided to walk to Jerlando's for lunch--
cause after next week when all the schools get out--
it will be very busy in there even at lunch time--
on the way there--we had to get around some sidewalk workers--
and I wanted to stop at the yarn shop for a different pair of needles--
we finally get there and 'guess what'--they were closed--
the gal who was suppose to be there--car broke down--
so --ok we will cross the street and go to lunch--
in crossing the street though--
Anne fell--in the street--over a water pipe that they dug up and then left--
sticking part way out of ground and had not filled in around it--
but a car that had pulled up to the light--the passenger --a lady--
jumped out and helped me help Anne to her feet--
she said she was ok--so we kept on walking--
she did have a couple scraps that were bleeding--but not badly--
we went and had a nice lunch --but we did walk back here a different way!!!
and this was her show and tell this week--
Remember all those basket blocks I did 2 years ago!!!

Wednesday--
Inchy--is
a baby   Alpaca--
one of the bus drivers that takes me to Walmart 3 x a week to walk--
raises Alpaca's--and I always ask him about them--
so when I got on the bus on Wednesday--
he showed me a photo of a new baby on his cell phone!!!
cute--reddish brown one--I want a baby Alpaca!!!

Today has been rainy and cloudy and damp all day--
so even though it is Thursday and I wanted to get back to the yarn shop--
it will be tomorrow before I can do that--
here is a picture of a wet blue jay from the other day when it rained--
I wanted to take a towel out for him to dry off with!!!!

KEEP SOME LOVE IN YOUR HEART--
LUV, DI