Looks like my phone and google like each other today!
This is a granny square made with a yarn color called Bubble Gum. It's a premium sweet roll. It'll be 4 sweet rolls in size. What looks like gray on the right is just shadow.
Temperature scarf, up to date as of this morning.
Temperature afghan, folded in half on the ottoman, and laid out flat on the floor. I love how it's turning out!
Easter is this Sunday! We're going to Mike and Donna's for dinner. I made my shopping list out this morning, and we'll go food shopping tomorrow. I'm making pasta salad, cole slaw, corn casserole, sweet potatoes with pineapple and cherries in the crock pot, and a lemon trifle. Ham will be the main course, as usual.
Julianna has been wanting to sew, so she and Heather came up last weekend and got my travel machine, a Janome Jem platinum. We did a short lesson, and found the manual online. She raided my fabric closet, which she was very impressed by. She said she may visit me every week! She can't be here more than a few hours at a time due to her cat allergy.
When they got home, Heather texted me pix of Jules sitting at the dining room table sewing, making little pillows. The next day she cleaned and rearranged her room to make a sewing corner! The next day Heather got her a small table/desk to keep the machine on. I'm so happy that she's discovered a new passion!
I'm caught up on all the series I watch on network TV, so I have to find a new series to watch on Netflix.
Tuesday it rained, then it snowed, then it sleeted. Wednesday it just snowed and snowed and snowed! 8 to 10 inches worth!
I worked on a springy looking baby afghan. I love the colors- the yellow is more a spring yellow than gold.
Temperature afghan and scarf are looking really good! I hope I don't have to do any more white for snow rows til next winter!
Google finally updated my pix from my phone! This was at Heather and Ed's St Patrick's Day party.
Mike and Donna brought Joey to the party. He was so thrilled to win the best costume for kids prize!
Eddie played for us! He likes heavy metal, and was playing Stairway to Heaven. Ed's sister Colleen and their friend Maria were terrible backup singers!
Julianna did part of her dance class routine for us. The girl is flexible!
The snow is already melted off the driveway and roads, and Ralph has cleared pathways for the feral cats.
And it's Friday again! No big plans for the weekend, just lunch at Olive Garden with Frank and Charlotte on Sunday.
I finished this afghan last week, but my photos didn't share to the blog site til this morning.
So then I started one in these wonderful colors!
Temperature scarf as of last Wednesday, it's up to date.
Temperature afghan is looking good!
We went to lunch at what Ralph calls the Quiche Diner. He had banana walnut pancakes with a side of scrapple.
I took a lot of pix at Heather and Ed's party, but only the one has shared with google so far. We had such a good time! At one point there were probably 50 people there! Lots of food, of course!
And the best news, we got an offer for Mom's house! Papers are all signed for a settlement the end of April. Much as we're sad to see it leave the family, since Dad and Mom built it, we're happy that another family will be able to build memories there.
And there's snow in the forecast for the first day of spring!!!!
So we had some snow! Almost a foot for us, of heavy wet snow. It rained, then snowed, then rained, then snowed and snowed and snowed!
I took this apart down to the center, because I hated it. It was a traditional granny, where you turn at the end of each round.
Now it looks like this so far- I'm on the last sweet roll of yarn. I like it much better! I changed it so that instead of turning at the end of the round, I slipped stitch to the next chain 3 space and picked it up from there.
Temperature afghan! I love how the colors are mixed. I have to get to the 60's in temp before a new color-yellow- will come in.
Temperature scarf is also coming along.
Today's goal is to finish the green afghan (again) and to sew the flower buttons onto Steph's firehouse, which will make it a FFO and I can mail it out to her along with a check to get it framed. And to do today's temp rows- the color of the day is arctic ice, since the low was 28.
We had our first Rita's of the season on March 1, which was a beautiful day. Lemon water ice for Ralph, a chocolate water ice with vanilla custard gelati for me. March 2 it first rained all night, then snowed all day!
Julianna had a birthday! She's now 11! It was her first birthday without her birthday twin, her great grandmother, so we were all sad about that, but she had a nice party with grandparents and friends. And her mom and dad let all 5 of her friends sleep over!
Afghan almost finished! It's the mitered modern granny afghan pattern, made with HL cakes and an H hook. It might be my new favorite pattern! I actually finished it the following day- I used 6 cakes.
Temperature afghan! It's twice as wide; it's folded in half. I love how it's coming along. A simple ripple with a G hook, picking up back loops only.
Temperature scarf, also coming along. Just single crochet, 40 stitches wide, back loops only, also with a G hook.
Ralph and his baby, Tina. He carries her around wrapped up- she'd shred me if I tried that!
In February I read 9 books, 4 of which were on my Kindle.
And so it goes!
Mother Nature is a tease. We had record high temperatures this week, followed by rain and more rain. We actually slept with the windows open one night!
The difference back stitching makes! It's amazing! Backstitching is so tedious, but it makes all the difference. Now I just have to order the flower beads, and it will be done, and can go to it's new home at Steph's house.
Heather made me this sign on her cricut. The wood is from a shelf at Mom's house, from my old room. She lightly sanded it so some of the blue from the shelf comes thru. She also made one each for Mike and John, and along the bottom of theirs it says Oehrl in script. Totally amazing!
Temperature scarf, with ends woven in. It'll need to be blocked when I'm done.
Temperature afghan, coming along so nicely. It's folded, so it's twice as wide as it looks. I got to use a new color this week with the beautiful weather!
I'm still reading my way thru Jill Shalvis books. I'm reading the Animal Magnetism series now. Her books are very readable- humorous, and you can relate to the characters.
One of our feral cats looks like his leg is broken, and Ralph has been trying to trap him all week to take him to the vet. So far the cat is too smart for him. Ralph is considering a butterfly net! Poor cat, we just want to help.
It feels so good to not have to bundle up to go outside! But it's only mid-February, so we could still get lots of snow. Boo.
Tina in her chair, and on Ralph's lap. She stretches out and purrs, until he does something unacceptable like move.
Steph's fire house is coming along nicely. The aida cloth is actually a light blue, to represent the sky.
The temperature scarf! I spent an hour yesterday weaving in all those ends, so it looks a little different today.
And the temperature afghan! I'm so happy with how it's coming along!
I just finished the new JD Robb, Dark in Death. Really good, as are all of hers. Nothing on TV, since I don't watch the Olympics. So I'm binge watching Midsomer Murders on Netflix, a British mystery series.
I had a really nice birthday. Talked to all my people, and had lunch with Ralph and Heather. Heather brought me a bunch of purpley pink mums, which I love. Manda and Steph sent me chocolate from Godiva and See's, always a hit! And Ralph got me a box of chocolate covered cherries, and a bag of Swedish fish. All wonderful gifts!
This morning I had errands to do, so Ralph went along with me and we started with breakfast at the Lamp Post. Then quick stops at the library, mailbox, and bank.
My mom gets so much mail! Everyone asking for contributions, if they enclosed a postal paid envelope, I write deceased across her name and send it back. Florence still gets the occasional mail, and she's been dead for four years!
The plan for the rest of today is to do my temperature rows and work on the cross stitch. I read for a half hour to an hour before I go to sleep at night.
And that's retired life! It's great!
