Being retired is the most wonderful thing! We live on our schedule, not work schedules. And there are so many things to do! I've had my new Tucson for a year now, and just hit 5000 miles on it! If I was still working, it'd be at least double that. I have a lot of days that I don't have to be anywhere, so I stay in.
Heather came up to go to lunch with us on Wednesday, and I sent Julianna three tote bags of fabric- some fat quarters, and the patriotic and halloween fabric that I had. She's taken to sewing like a duck to water! After sewing a month, and without ever having a lesson, she's putting in zippers! Zippers! Everyone I tell is totally impressed.
I got Northern Lights started! Once I started doing it correctly, it looked a lot better and moved a lot faster! My goal is two rows per day.
I love my temperature afghan! It's getting warm and snuggly already!
Temp scarf is as long as the ottoman! It's just single crochet, and the same colors as the afghan.
This mitre insists on photographing as blues, but it's actually greens. I'm calling it spearmint.
I sat down and startled Tina, but she didn't leap up and run away. She stayed in the chair and dozed til she heard Ralph go into the kitchen, then she had to run off and see what he was doing- it could involve food for her!
And it's Sunday again, which means lunch with Frank and Charlotte. Olive Garden this week, Ralph's pick. I finished watching Ripper Street on Netflix, and now I'm watching The Killing, which is set in Seattle. I love the not having to fast forward thru commercials aspect of Netflix!
The end of an era for me- I just renewed my nursing license, and made it inactive. It costs about half of an active license, and I didn't have to have the thirty CEU's needed for an active license. I had the license continuously for thirty years, but have no desire to work in the field, or any other field, anymore. So it was time.
Oops, missed a week posting!
We had a warm enough day that the low temp was a new color! It didn't last, we're back to blues.
The temperature scarf is almost as long as the ottoman!
The temperature afghan is looking so good!
I had to put the butterscotch mitred afghan on hold. I like the colors so much that I want to make it full size, and I ran out of yarn. Of course AC Moore didn't have that color, so I had to order it from Herrshner's.
We took break and went to the Lamp Post for lunch. The special was quiche and fruit. It was good, but not as good at the Whitman's. Ralph got a cheesesteak.
We got the CO for Mom's house. Now there's something going on with the buyer, we should hear today what's going on.
While I'm waiting for butterscotch yarn to be delivered, I started this. The first row was terrible to do, took me all day because it was making me crazy. The next morning I looked at the directions and realized instead of doing dc7tog, I had done 7 dc's in a stitch! So rip, rip, rip. It looks much better and was much easier when I did it correctly.
I also finished binge watching Ripper Street on Netflix. The good guys weren't good, the bad guys were terrible, and the story was compelling. I really hated to see it end.
We're supposed to have a warm day today, imagine that! Of course the nice weather will only last a few days, then back to coldish and dreary for the weekend.
The temperature afghan is coming along nicely! This low today will be 59, which is a green. I'm really tired of the blues, so it'll be a nice change.
The temperature scarf is also coming along.
The peanut butter swirl small granny is also finished, and I've move along to a butterscotch color.
Sly is getting to be a real lap cat! He sits with me once or twice a day now! And if I don't pet him, he bumps his head against my hand.
I bought this pattern as a kit after seeing one done on a facebook group. The website said out of stock til June, but I had it within ten days!
I went thru my yarn and gave away all the stray skeins I had. I'd made my friend Jean a lot of chemo hats, and I had all those skeins. Plus I bought some blanket weight yarn and hated it, so out it went, to my friend's church's crochet group, where it will be used. I also passed along two totes of cross stitch and counted cross stitch projects from mom's that I had no interest in. It felt good to pass them along to where they will be used and loved.
I bought the serger at the Houston Quilt Show, back when Manda and Ben lived in Houston. I think I used it once. Now that Manda is sewing a lot, I shipped the serger and thread off to her. She's busy practicing on it.
We went to lunch, and I got this great spinach and strawberry salad! I brought home enough that we shared it with our dinner!
Settlement is in ten days, which explains why I'm up at 4.30 a.m. writing on my blog! I'll breathe a sigh of relief and sadness when it's over.
