Challenge of the Day Met!

I finished an ornament last night and have gotten well underway with the next one...a repeat of the one I finished yesterday. This is the ornament chart that gave me quite a challenge. What I have stitched today proved to me today that I had conquered the challenge. I wanted to have the red part of the frame and then the outer green check part of the frame done before I blogged tonight. Challenge met! I decided that it was best to repeat this pattern right after I finished the other one...hoping that I had a bit of a recall with the way the pattern goes! I did the red inner ring first and then the outer ring...that seems to have been the answer! This stitch was much less troublesome than the first time I stitched it! Now to fill in the center with what goes in it and another ornament will be finished...still many little Xs to go! But this gives you a picture into a little of what I have been doing over these last months...really been doing most of the year! After this one...three more to go...unless I realize another that I need to do! I went to Kroger this morning. It was a pretty quick trip, as I didn't need very much...just a few fresh ingredients. I was going to do some cooking, but then decided that I will wait till tomorrow to make what I was planning to cook, as I am awaiting a new saucepan that I will enjoy breaking in with my next cooking efforts. I got everything put away and was about to grab a bite to eat for lunch, when I heard a soft knock on the door. It was my next door neighbor with her new baby and her oldest son. They came in for a little while. The big brother discovered what the door under the stairs leads to...toys! He was pretty intrigued! I may have made a new best friend!! This was my introduction to new baby boy. Little babies are so sweet! He slept peacefully while his big brother played and his mommy and I talked a little. She had heard about Joy at her church so she was wanting to be filled in on how Joy was doing. Here I will catch you up a bit just to say that Joy seems to continue to improve slowly. She will have an evaluation at Vanderbilt's concussion center in the next few weeks. If all goes as planned, Joy will attempt a college class or two on Monday...when college around here gets back underway. Esther will have her first day of college that day and Graham, as an old hand at college will head back, Monday, too. Graham = Middle TN State University, Murfreesboro, TN; Joy = Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, TN; Esther = Columbia State Communitiy College, Columbia, TN. Esther will be the first of Nathan and Kathy's kids to live away from home for college. She will spend week days there and come home on the weekends. Columbia is just a bit too far for her to commute daily, especially when she has to do farm chores as part of the Vet Tech program, which means she would have to get to campus really early...she would hardly have any time to study if she was on the road commuting daily. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!