SEPTEMBER--COMES FLOATING IN--

 On the change of the time of year--here it came in with the rains!!!  It  has been a rainy day since last evening--so it is a bit cooler--but still in the 80's!!!

A finish was completed yesterday--

a new cross stitch from Melisa--it reminds me of the one room school house I went to --grades 1-5--they did not have kindergarten--you started at grade 1--I had a women teacher the whole 5 years and the last year it was open there was just '7' of us girls in grades 1-6th!!  Our school was not painted red though!!

Here is the backing fabric--

Have some of this for a baby quilt--!!  I think this fabric is sooo cute!!!

And talking about baby quilts--somehow I managed to get 2 tops done for them--this week--

And I believe I have figured out backings for both--!!

And then yesterday while eating my lunch and reading blog posts--someone showed her last minute Chook challenge for August and I smacked my head and --said---opps!!!

So off to the design table--(my bed) to lay out one set of my hearts--then I started stitching them together and adding a border--

It is hard to see here--but there is a black embroidered dash line around each heart--

I don't know that I am done with this one yet--time will tell--but we just have to show progress on a the project picked for the month--so I did do that and I have the second set of hearts all done with the dash lines around the hearts--and the third set I am giving to Anne--

I started a new Cross stitch--

this is sunflower month, isn't it???

And one more baby sweater is finished--

Two more baby sweaters are on the needles!!

More hand quilting on my Country quilt has gotten done--

I enjoy hand quilting in the evenings and I start my day off with the counted cross stitching in the morning!!

Story time--

First up--

When I was on the computer last evening and got up to go to the kitchen, I looked out the window and seen this rainbow--yet the sun was still shinning here--about 10 minutes later we did get a nice rain--and afterwards the rainbow was still here--but it's the first time I have seen a rainbow--before the rain!!!

Last week end--especially on Sunday again-I had the problem with the neighbor--and hardly any sleep on Sunday night--but did get up and was able to go on the Van to Walmart to do a return and pay my internet bill and do a little shopping--and a new flowering plant came home to keep me company!!

Monday night I called my friend Anne in NY as it was her birthday and I wanted to say Happy Birthday and to see how she liked her box of gifts--but learned she was in the hospital--ouch--she hasn't been feeling well for awhile now and has had a lot of back pain--and I guess she started falling alot--so her youngest daughter made her get in her car and she drove her up to the hospital--so on her birthday she said they gave her all kinds of tests and some twice--all they found out was --she has Lyme's disease!!

She has deer in her back yard alot!!  And she has had it awhile--so it will be awhile before she gets better!!  I did talk to her on Friday and she is home now and boy did her 'fur' gang of 9 cats miss her--(she has 6 inside ones and 3 that go outside all day and come in for the night!!)

Anne is still in alot of back pain--so prayers are needed for her--thanks!

SO--WELCOME SEPTEMBER--TIME FOR APPLES AND GRAPES SEASON!!

HUGS, DI