Bidding Farewell to September!

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I guess after my running around on Monday and Tuesday turned my Wednesday into a very lazy day.  I have done next to nothing…enjoyed reading, listening to a book, stitching a little, a little cooking at lunch (cooked some rice to go with the chicken and shrimp gumbo that I thawed and reheated. Taking advantage of the meals that I have in the freezer.) I did unpack the first order of books that arrived today.  Did some paper work for the library due to the order.  So maybe I did more than I thought!  I have just gotten home from Bible study at church.  I am going to move some things off the hearth…in case the chimney folk decide to remove my unwanted critter.  I haven’t heard any noises coming from the chimney so far today. I look forward to the time when the cap over the chimney is repaired or replaced…and, I have no more unwanted drop-in visitors! This evening I’m going to eat a late light supper, then stitch and watch TV…or listen to my latest audio book.  

And, lastly tonight I will bid farewell to September…seems like it has only been a blink in time!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Terrific Tuesday?

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It has been another pretty day. It did get quite warm this afternoon, but still nice.  We're still waiting on rain.  Today was a pretty blue-sky day. Donna and I worked in the church library.  We did the little maintenance that needed to be done and then worked on a book order.  We will have a nice stack of new books to enter into the library once the order arrives. 

I talked to Nathan this afternoon.  He had texted me the dates we will be celebrating Joy's and Abigail's birthdays.  October is a busy birthday month for me…two granddaughters, my niece, my great niece and my great nephew.  They are spread from the beginning of October til almost the end. 

Back to talking to Nathan.  I told him when he texted that I needed to talk to him.  He called right away.  I’m sure he was thrilled to find out that I have another unwanted guest in my chimney!  But what I wanted to talk to him about was finding someone who would put a new cap on the top oh the chimney.  I had two places that I had found and asked him to see if they could do what needed to be done to stop these unwanted drop ins!  I meant to do this after the last squirrel fell to his demise but didn’t get around to it before another unwanted visitor dropped in. So getting right on it this time.  Nathan’s gotten someone to come Thursday to evaluate my problem! So we will see what their solution is. My chimney has seemed like a magnet for squirrels this year…I have lost count…but think it is between 8-10.  The last time set a record…got two that time! 🙄

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

It Had to Be a Good Day!

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My title reference is that it was a haircut day for me…which I always say means it is a good day!  In the morning before my haircut appointment, I just worked around the house…mainly in the kitchen…doing a bit deeper clean in a couple of areas…the main thing being the dishwasher filter.  One of those jobs that I don't think to do…or if I do think about it! The dishwasher is full of dishes to be washed.  Today I actually thought about doing it when the dishwasher was totally empty (that doesn't happen all that often).  After my haircut, since I was out and about, I ran a couple of errands…got gas and went to the Credit Union. Then this evening I went to the Furnace Room Prayer Meeting.  Now I am back in and ready to settle in for the night.  I came in and headed straight to the shower as I was getting itchy from my haircut…so I am all ready to go downstairs and watch a bit of TV and stitch for a while.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Sunday Favorite Photo

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Last Saturday in September

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Today I have been all over the place…in the house.  I have stitched, watched some TV, cleaned (a little), taken a few pictures, napped (a true power nap = 20 minutes), washed and dried a load of clothes, picked up and put away a few items, cleaned the counters in kitchen and put away a load of dishes, vacuumed the family room, started cleaning a bathroom, etc…lots of thises and thats! Feel like I accomplished more than usual…think I have more energy when it isn’t so hot!  That energy probably won’t last, but good to have it for a day, at least! 

I will say that I noticed the lower temperatures overnight.  I woke up chilly in the middle of the night and needed to reach for my lightweight throw…and, was very happy that it was within my reach, as I was able to cover up and go back to sleep. Another reason I like this time of the year…don’t need the AC or heat on.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Back to Alaska

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I was looking at Alaska photos today so decided to see if I could find some I haven't shared yet.  Tonight is Skagway…both of these were taken from the White Pass train window as we were leaving Skagway on the train heading up into the Yukon area…Alaskan gold rush history. It was fun to think back over our Alaska journey while I looked through my pictures again today.  

I woke up early and decided that I would get to stitching and get that last ornament finished.  And, I was successful.  I have all the unfinished ornaments stacked up ready for me to take upstairs…ready to be made into ornaments.  Then I got busy and got all those patterns tucked away and put ALL that embroidery floss away.

I did do one unplanned job when I was putting away.  I took some charts upstairs to put them in the drawer that I have them stored in.  When I opened the drawer the drawer pull pulled out…so I did a little repair work…found a screw driver and emptied the drawer out enough so I could work from the inside of the drawer.  And…once again the drawer pull is tightly back in place and useable. 

I now have no Christmas stitching stacked up near me.  There are still a few projects on the stool…but not ornament related…most that are surrounding me now are projects for me…one gift in the midst.  The one gift is something that I decided that I found while looking through old cross stitch magazines when I was looking for possibilities for Christmas ornaments…so a serendipity stitch…one that when I saw it, I knew I needed to stitch it!  So I will stitch on it along with stitching on some of my samplers, etc. that I have lined up. 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

A Cooking Thursday

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My main accomplishment for today is a nice pot of New England Clam Chowder…pretty yummy. My kitchen is almost cleaned up.  I have loaded up the dishwasher and will after I blog go check to see if I have missed anything that can fit in it…then will run it and straighten up the kitchen a bit more and then put a closed for the night sign on the kitchens. It seemed like it took a long time…but I did have a few breaks while making it…a phone break with Cheryl, then a lunch break, and towards the end of it's cooking time another phone break with Melany. 

I thought that Melany was going to come this weekend for a sewing day, but she isn't finished with the cross stitching that she plans to finish here.  So we are now planning a slumber party/sewing time during her Fall break!  

I have gotten a little farther on my last cross stitching ornament gift for this year. Slowly closing in on that finish.  Maybe tomorrow? While I cooked I listened to the next selection for my  Cottey College Alum Bookclub…one way to kill two birds with one stone!

I got pretty sleepy late afternoon and did sneak in a nap.  Hopefully that means I will be able to stay awake to stitch this evening…a method in my madness?

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Feels Like Fall!

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Today when I went outside during the day, it actually felt like Fall…so much cooler…high in the 70s…big improvement over the last weeks' hot temps!

Today has been just a do-little-of-this-and-that day.  I tried to concentrate on doing some more stitching on that elusive last Christmas ornament.  Getting closer…but still quite a few stitches to go.  I hope to put in a few more stitches this evening.  I also did some reading…the next Cottey Bookclub book and another book. The Cottey book is an audio book…so listened to that one on my iPhone and the other one is an e-book so read that one on my iPhone. I am reading a "real" book, too…but just not today.  

Nathan stopped by this afternoon and visited for a little while.  He had been to a conference and stopped by on his way home.

This evening I went to Bible study at church.  When we came out…a little before 7pm…it was getting dark…another sign of Fall…getting dark earlier. It is getting obvious that days are getting shorter.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Fall Arrived Just Moments Ago!

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Fall's official arrival was at 7:05 pm Central time.  So…welcome Fall.  I’m anxiously awaiting those cooler temperatures.  It still hit 90° here according to Alexa…but then it wasn't Fall yet…maybe tomorrow will be cooler!? I keep telling myself not to complain about the heat, as I will probably be more miserable when the temperatures drop…I’m not much on being cold, either!  I like the times of the year when I might need a sweater, but will probably not need it for part of the day.  We get a few of those days in the Fall and a few in the Spring.  But at the moment, I’m feeling like cold would be welcome!!!  I will say that when I went out late this afternoon to roll the garbage can to the road, that there was a breeze and a bit of cloud cover and that it actually felt very pleasant…my next trip outside this afternoon, it was sunny and no breeze and it felt hot! I am sure that it will be back and forth for a while…hopefully pleasant mornings and warmer afternoons.  October is just around the corner.  I’ve also noticed how that the days are growing much shorter.  

The news that has me excited today is that this morning I finished another ornament and started on my last Christmas  ornament gift for 2026.  This is the third time that I have stitched this ornament…so I have to a point memorized the pattern.  I still have to check about the positioning of certain items in the pattern, but having stitched it before it is an easier stitch.  And, I got underway with it this morning before I went to work in the church library.  Donna and I worked on several things at the library.  One of our patrons had asked for some books dealing with a certain subject so we did some searching in the card catalog (housed these days in the computer) and then pulled some books and did some searching in those.  We found two books for him to start out reading about the subject…and, know where more are if he needs more. Then we did some shelf searching for some children's books that are classics that have been read so much over the years that they need to be replaced.  We did regular maintenance in the library and managed to come upon no mysteries to solve…made for a good library work day! 

I came home and emptied wastebaskets and got the garbage can to the road for tomorrow's pickup.  I also got recycle out to the road.  I don’t do recycle every week, but I had quite a bit of paper and some boxes from an Amazon order to get rid of this week.  It is nice to have weekly curbside recycle service that Tullahoma provides.  It really helps me to keep from having stacks of papers, magazines, catalogs, etc. pile up around the house.  And, so nice to be able to get rid of ungainly boxes.  All I have to do is flatten the boxes out.  Each time I get the recycle material ready for the road, I think back to when we ere doing Woody's dialysis at home.  Then…I was very thankful for being able to get rid of boxes.  I went through many, many boxes weekly.  It usually took several trips out to the curb to get it all out each week.  When I picked up that light load of two boxes, I thought how easy it was to maneuver that few over the number I used to have trouble getting out the door with…today's light load was a breeze in comparison!  

Well, guess I will get back to my stitching…so close to having them all stitched for this year.  I think that my total count, if I counted correctly, for this year will be 22 ornaments, when I complete that one I am stitching currently. I think a few less than last year…but this year couples are getting an ornament to share!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Monday…Again!

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Mondays just keep rolling around!  And, I can’t believe that there is just one more Monday in September after this one!  Didn’t I just turn the page on the calendar?!?

I’ve just gotten home from prayer meeting so the day is drawing to a close.  It has preen another hot day…not quite as hot but our high was still in the 90s.  When we came out of prayer meeting we were greeted with damp sidewalks, parking lot, and streets.  When I got home there were actually small puddles on the driveway so I’m thinking that we may have gotten a little more rain here than we did at the church.  But still not enough to get through all the trees and get everything underfoot wet…my street still had dry places…in other words it didn’t rain very hard or very long. But right now we’ll take what we can get and be thankful for it! 

I’m coming right along with the Christmas ornaments that I am giving as gifts.  I’m on the last one from my original list, but I added one to the list, that is, if I got finished with the others in a timely manner.  Since it is still "just" September, I will have time to do that one, too. My goal has been to finish the ornament stitching by the end of September.  Then I can get busy making them into ornaments in October…stitching is only the first step towards finishing each one!  But a big step towards finishing. I want them completed and ready for gifting early in November.

This afternoon I spent some time in the kitchen.  I divided the pork loin roast into chops and cubes and got them into the freezer.  I did cook a couple of chops for a couple of my meals this week.  I was trying to figure out what to make to go with them and remembered that I had a partial bag of Pepperidge Farm stuffing in the pantry.  So I sautéed onions, celery, mushrooms, and apples and put together some dressing to eat with them…tasted very good…guess that is me starting to want Fall food items!  Still pretty hot for things that I like to eat in the Fall.  I keep thinking that the temps are going to go down and I keep putting off making my New England Clam Chowder…but going to end up making it soon whether it is hot or not outside.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Favorite Alaskan Photo

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Sizzling Saturday

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Today lived up to the heat advisory prediction.  According to Alexa, it got to 99° with a heat index of 104°.  I just stayed inside…never even poked my head outside.  

We had an enjoyable Bookclub Zoom meeting…always good to get together with Cottey alum.  It's not a large group, but we share plenty of different opinions about what we read.  And, it is fun for me as several of my classmates participate.  Friendships shared through the years! 

I have had an Amazon hassle going on for months.  Back in April I bought two replacement blades for a vegetable chopper.  They only sent me one blade.  I told them about the error and they sent me the set of two…told me that they couldn’t send me just the one blade they neglected to send at first.  I was also told that I didn’t have to send anything back.  Ever since then I have gotten messages periodically saying that I had neglected to make the return.  I would then get on the Amazon site and explain that what they had sent was a replacement…nothing to return…they would apologize and say they had taken care of it.  BUT I kept getting requests for the return…I would go through the same thing and they would apologize and say it was taken care of.  Then about a month ago I got a notice that if I didn’t send the return they would charge me for it.  Again, I went back to Amazon to explain my plight and they said no problem…all taken care of.  But then came the day that the amount was taken out of my account…so back to communicating with Amazon…again, apologies…money will be back in 3-5 business days.  I waited ten business days and when it wasn’t deposited, I contacted them again…and…finally yesterday it showed back in my account!  It was not a large amount…but it was the principle of the situation…and, I was determined Amazon wouldn't win the fight!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sizzling Friday

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Today has been another hot day…once again we are under a heat advisory and have been for a couple of days and will be for a couple more.  I think we are all looking forward to some Fall temperatures and some rain…so hot and so dry!

I stuck to my Friday schedule and went to the grocery store.  I bought a couple of things for recipes and shopped some of the sales…such as they are these days! My main way of shopping is to shop sale items…especially in the meat department.  If I don't have immediate plans for the meat in a recipe, I freeze it for another day when I will plan a meal around what I have already purchased.  Today's sale wqs a pork loin…I plan to cube part of the roast for sweet and sour pork or a soup recipe that calls for cubed pork.  I think that this time I am going to cut the rest into pork chops…not going to use it as a roast at all this time.  Sometimes I use half for a recipe and the other half I roast. A week or so ago chicken thighs were on sale and I bought some…skinned and boned them and popped them in the freezer to use in a recipe that I like to use thigh meat. With the cost of everything these days, I’m trying to shop and cook smart!  I can't aways shop smart if I go in wanting to make a certain recipe and that week some of the ingredients are sky high in prices…just watching these days!  Doing it this way I find that I have a good varied diet of recipes that I enjoy cooking…when I let my freezer do the inspiring rather than the grocery store aisles!  

I bought a new pan to replace two of my cooking pans that had gotten old and probably shouldn't be used any more…those nonstick surfaces on pans just don’t hold up no matter how careful I have been with them…no dishwasher…no metal utensils, etc.  I am in the process of switching to stainless steel.  I have been very pleased with the ones I have gotten as replacements so far…hoping the new one I am pleased with…less in my cookware drawer by replacing two with one.  One of the ones I am replacing had a bit lower sides and the other a bit higher sides.  I hope that this one in the middle will do the job of both of them…time will tell! I am planning to make New England Clam Chowder sometime this weekend so will try this new pan out.  

After getting the groceries bought, brought in from the car, and put away.  I was pretty done in…this hot weather seems to wipe me out…or maybe it is my age…probably both!  But I was very ready to stitch and read this afternoon.  I finished the book and did a little more on the latest Christmas ornament. 

I’ve got my dishwasher running and that is it for this evening…more stitching and reading is in store for me this evening. I’m looking forward to tomorrow as once again it is time for my Cottey Bookclub tomorrow late morning. I’d probably better go find a summary of the book and read it prior to the meeting as I read tomorrow's selections some time back…probably need to refresh my memory!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Thursday With Friends

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Today I met with some of the ladies in my Sunday School for lunch.  We had a nice time  visiting and eating.  It's always good to spend time with these friends!  

I swooped through the house today picking up and putting away things that I had put for my decorating efforts.  So the rooms look finished now.  That was one of the things that I wanted to get done today.  I have also read on the book that I am close to finished.  It is at that point in the story that I really want to find out what is going to happen.  I hope I will finish it before I sleep tonight.  I am also making good progress on the next Christmas ornament.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Mid Week…Mid Month

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Tonight's photo shows the dining room table and I included a close-up of the cutwork, that my grandmother or her sister did (that I mentioned the other night in my blog). I thought that the cloth that had the fruit on the corners was a good one to use for Fall decorating.  I have a feeling that this may have been a dresser scarf rather than a table runner. It only has the design on two corners and the other side is just a finished edge.  But it works well for my purpose on the dining room table.

I have enjoyed looking around at my decorations today.  I am fairly pleased with the way they have turned out.  I never know how I will use the pumpkins, etc. that I have…I just start placing them and this time what is on the dining room table were the ones left…worked out well, I think!  

Today I did finish the Christmas ornament that I had hoped to finish last night before I went to sleep.  But I ended up being too tired to stitch so I got up this morning and finished it.  I have also read quite a bit today…sort of resting after my extra effort towards cleaning over the last days.  I did a little planning for a possible sewing project.  

I have just gotten home from Bible study and am ready to settle in for the evening.  I plan to start another Christmas ornament…this is one I have stitched before…perhaps memory of the pattern will come into play for this one.  I have plans to make this one a couple more times and would like to add another one on for my tree…but that will only happen after I get ones made for Christmas gifts first.  There is a light at the end of the tunnel for "to-be-stitched ornaments" for 2026!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Busy Tuesday

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You are seeing the last of my decorating efforts.  I am finished…I think!  

Donna and I decided to play hooky from the library today.  We really are caught up for the moment in the library and since we both have a busy week ahead of us, we decided that we could skip the library.  I stayed home and worked on cleaning and decorating and stitching.  Besides finishing Fall decorating, I am hoping to finish another ornament today.  I am in a good place to say that I am pretty sure I can finish it before I sleep tonight.  I just have some outlining to do and quite a few little French knots.  On my breaks today I stitched for part of them and read for others.  Moving along in another book. I finished listening to a book over the weekend. That made my books-read list grow a bit, but I am definitely way behind on my yearly goal of reading a book a week.  But stitching takes away from reading time…reason that I listened to a book over the weekend.  My only problem with listening is dozing off and then having to go back and try to find the place I was just before dozing…I relistened to quite a bit of this last audio book! But in the end I did get the whole story and found out who did it!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Monday Musings

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How about this bunch of bananas?!? I took this photo at the butterfly garden in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Probably not a photo expected from our Alaska/Canada visit!

Fall pumpkins continued to roll to various places in the house today.  I got the kitchen pretty much finished today.  I then moved on to the dining room table.  I usually keep a tablecloth on the dining room table as it tends to be a place where things get put down…purse, key, sometimes mail that needs to be tended to, etc.  This time it also had things on it that are needed to finish the front door…it still hasn't been painted…I’m hoping soon, once temperatures cool down just a bit.  I put those all in a plastic tub put them aside…at the moment on the floor in the dining room…just to keep them close to the front door where they will be used.  Anyway, I totally cleared off the dining room table and removed the cloth and pad.  Then polished the table.  It's all shiny and nice…now to NOT put things on it for a while!  I am now trying to decide which of the special hand embroidered cloths/doilies/runner, that my grandmother made, I will use to put the decorations on…round or rectangular…have to iron whichever I choose…a decision that I will make in the morning.  The embroidery that is on these is cut work!  Lovely work.  I say that my grandmother made them, but there is a possibility that her sister made them as they both did wonderful handwork and, I imagine that they gifted each other their work so it could belong to either of them…either way I treasure each and every piece that I have of theirs.  I really don't remember my grandmother, as she died when I was two.  But my Aunt Mabel, I got to see several times in my life.  She lived in Massachusetts and we lived in Arizona.  We would visit with the Massachusetts relatives when we visited my mother's sister in MA…so I saw her there and visited in her home.  Then she and Uncle Bill visited in Arizona and so got to visit them in my home so I definitely have more memories of them than my grandmother.  Since I love doing needlework, I really love having pieces they made.  And, I have a drawer or two full of various linens that they embroidered over the years.  I love using them!

At this point I just have to distribute pumpkins on the dining room table and then put a cornucopia filled with Fall leaves and wooden apples on the family room mantle…then my decorating efforts will be finished.  Surely I will be able to finish up tomorrow! 🤞

I am home from prayer meeting and hope to relax in my recliner, stitching on the latest Christmas ornament and watching a cooking show or a needlework YouTube (what we stitchers call FlossTube).

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious.

Sunday Favorite Alaskan Photo

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Saturday Doings

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I have zoomed around today…well…as fast as I zoom these days!  I just know that I did a lot of tasks today all related to cleaning and decorating. And, one task just lead to another.  I did accomplish quite a bit, but am not finished yet…but getting closer! My living room is finished except for clearing off the pumpkins on the table in the living room.  Those are the pumpkins that are waiting for me to pick for their place in my Fall decorations for this year.  I cleared off the dining room table getting ready to make a center piece.  Then I will finish in the kitchen and do the mantel in the family room.  I also have the buffet in the dining room decorated. I did a lot of furniture dusting and polishing.  And, moving aside furniture to vacuum under it.  Once I got started, I just wanted to keep on…but…at a point my back said it was time to stop.  On top of the decorating,  I did two loads of clothes

I will rest tonight and hopefully get to put a few stitches in a Christmas ornament…or give myself a treat and stitch on a sampler.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Remembering

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Can you believe that it is the 25th anniversary of September 11th?  

I have had a fairly low-key day…though a bit busy.  I did go to the grocery store and ran another errand.  I have done a little decorating…but not as much as I wanted to…a lot of my energy went out the door with my getting groceries, putting them away, etc. 

I did get the Christmas ornament finished last night and got underway with the next one…the number done is rising and the to-do list is growing shorter! I think the count of finished is 16…(seems like it should be more!).

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

A Peaceful Moment

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Tonight's photo shows one of the most peaceful moments that I had on our Alaska cruise…walking into Tongass National Forest. We visited this area while we were in Sitka, AK.  I just looked it up to make sure of the name of the forest and found out that the Tongass National Forest covers 16.7 million acres across southwest Alaska. It's the world's largest temperate rain forest.  There's your school lesson for the day!  But walking into that forest was a very reverent moment…very peaceful, though there were others from the tour all around me.  A refreshing memory!

I have kept pretty busy today…vacuuming, dusting, polishing, and distributing pumpkins to cleaned surfaces.  I have even moved some pieces of furniture so I could vacuum under them…now this was only smaller pieces of furniture…no couch!  But I have moved end tables and the coffee table.  All these efforts took place in increments  of time during the day.  I cleaned one area and then sat and rested for a while before I moved to the next area.  And, the living room is not cleaned nor decorated completely.  But it is cleaner than it was and hopefully tomorrow it will be even cleaner…and, decorated! 

I did stitch some last night and am closer to a finish on another Christmas ornament.  I’m hoping that I will be able to finish it this evening.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

  

Cook, Clean, Decorate

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Of the three things that I listed in tonight's blog title, cook took up the most time.  I did clean off one half of the countertop on the sink side…moved everything, wiped off the countertop really well.  Then when I put things back I added in some pumpkins and got out the cooking items I needed for my cook of the day.  

I made chicken and shrimp gumbo…tasted very good for a late lunch.  While cooking I tried to keep the mess under control.  And, it did help when I had the gumbo finished.  I haven’t run the dishwasher, yet…waiting to put the last of today's dishes in.  I plan to turn it on in a little while.

I’m later checking in tonight as a couple of friends and I visited while their husband's were in choir practice.  

It has been a good day…really a little cleaning, a little decorating (at least I have started!), and spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen.  My house smelled like gumbo when I came in the house tonight.  There are worse smells!  I guess I had better get that dishwasher going to perhaps take some of that smell away.  

I hope to stitch for a while tonight.  I need to get back to working on Christmas ornaments.  Last night I took a break from Christmas ornaments and stitched on a sampler.  I think I need to be disciplined tonight and get back to Christmas stitching!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

A Fun and Busy Day!

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I did get underway with my decorating for Fall today..but didn’t make a tremendous amount of progress as it is slow at first since there is cleaning to do.  I washed a lot of glass objects and started clearing off tables to give them a good dusting and polishing.  I got the vacuum out to do a more thorough vacuuming job then my usual "push it through traffic areas." 

I put the cleaning/decorating aside to head off for an early lunch with Linda H.  We had a nice visit.  She came to Tullahoma for an appointment so we met up before her appointment.  That worked out perfectly for me to meet Donna to work in the church library this afternoon.  Donna and I worked and visited.  So I got a lot of visiting done over the hours that I was away from home!

And, I guess I was tired as I was awakened by the phone about an hour ago.  I can't remember when I have fallen that soundly asleep in the middle of the day!  I guess…that I must have been tired!  Wondering now if I will be able to get to sleep at a decent hour tonight! 🙄

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Maybe the Great Pumpkin Visited?!?

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Looks to me like the Great Pumpkin visited and turned my table into a pumpkin patch!  I guess it is time to do some picking and choosing and placing of them throughout the house…a job for another day…at least they are all gathered in one place!

It has been a nicer day…heat and humidity were down some.  When I got to church tonight for prayer meeting, I actually sat in my car with the windows down and didn’t burn up and there was a bit of a breeze blowing through the car windows.  Now it isn't actually cool yet, but we "only" got into the upper 80s for a high today. But it does seem that the weather folk were right.  They put us under a heat advisory last Wednesday at 11am…that was just supposed to last until Friday, but they ended up extending it a couple of times and their last extension took it through last night at 8pm.  Glad that that advisory is behind us.

Today I had a hair appointment after lunch.  Which made this a good day…as all hair cut days are!  I have stitched a little and plan to stitch more this evening now that I am home from prayer meeting.  I’ve looked through cookbooks trying to decide on which recipe that I want to use for Chicken Gumbo.  Wade and Melany brought me some okra and part of the barbecue feast they provided on Saturday was some smoked pulled chicken…that should be good in gumbo.  And, I have some shrimp in the freezer that should be good in it, too.  BUT…it is still rather hot for gumbo!  So I am gearing up to do some cooking.  I also want to use the leftover pulled pork in a tamale pie…both of these items freeze well so I may sample them, but if they make me feel too warm, I may slip them in the freezer for upcoming cooler autumn days.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Sunday Favorite Alaskan Photo

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A Cool Scene for a Hot Day

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We had another day and when I looked through my photos to choose one for tonight's blog! I saw this photo taken at the Butchart Gardens and it just made me feel cooler!  Supposedly the heat advisory ends in less than an hour…we will see what tomorrow's temperatures bring!

I had a nice visit with Melany, Wade, and Erin today.  I was hoping that Erin would feel like coming with them.  I thought she might come since it could be a shorter visit.  Melany brought her stitched Christmas stocking and we visited for a while.  Then Wade went to pick up lunch.  He got Piggy's Place barbecue.  This is a local barbecue restaurant.  Woody worked with one of the original owners so we used to get it more than we have lately.  Piggy's Place had a special part in Melany and Wade's Wedding celebration.  Their rehearsal dinner was held there.  So we shared some memories with Erin today.  We sat around for a while after lunch and talked.  One of the things we talked about were things we can remember where we were when something in history happened.  What started that train of thought was that Dolly Parton died on Erin's birthday.  I told Erin that I would remember the date Dolly died because of it being Erin's birthday.  Then we went on to remember where we were when other things happened…like the day Elvis died…Woody, Melany, Nathan and I were visiting in Massachusetts.  We were sitting at he dinner table when my Uncle Don casually dropped that piece of information…well, my cousin, Sue, was one of the biggest fans of Elvis…I think we went into mourning for most of the rest of the trip!  We remembered about: where we were when the Challenger Shuttle exploded;  our location on September 11, 2001; where we were when the assassination attempt happened for President Regan.  Erin, of course, didn’t remember most of those.  And, I shared where I was when I learned that President Kennedy was assassinated.  And, one very random one…when Marilyn Monroe's death was reported…Daddy, Mother, Cheryl and I were visiting San Francisco.  I’m thinking that maybe I heard that news called out from a newsstand…not absolutely sure about that…but I know we were walking along a San Fran street when I found out…and in those days we wouldn't have anything with us that would give us news when out walking!  I just looked that date up for Marilyn Monroe's death and it was announced on August 5, 1962…so I was 14 and my sister was 7…I doubt that Cheryl remembers that.  Funny the things that stick in your mind.  But that was the direction that our memories ran this afternoon.  

I’m settled in for the night.  I haven’t done any stitching today.  Maybe I’ll stitch in a while…not sure I feel like stitching tonight! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Friday…Again!

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It seems like all I have to do is blink and another Friday has rolled around.  Today I chose not to go to the grocery store…I really didn't need anything, at least as far as I know…now.  Another reason to skip grocery shopping today is the fact that it is Labor Day weekend and I’m sure that more than usual would have been at the store getting ready for cookouts, etc. Pretty hot for cookouts, though!  Our heat advisory has been extended until tomorrow evening.  I think most of us are ready for a break in this heatwave. Once again, today, I stayed inside keeping out of the heat…so thankful for a comfortable air conditioned house!

I have done more puttering around doing a little of this and a little of that.  I did get a bit more physical and actually vacuumed…finished vacuuming downstairs and then have started upstairs.  I plugged in the vacuum in my bedroom…vacuumed in there and then as far as the cord would let me vacuum…the bedroom, the sewing room, half the hallway, halfway down the stairs, and just through the doorway into Melany's former bedroom.  I’ll hopefully do the rest of the upstairs tomorrow morning…or when I plug the vacuum in next!  I have the downstairs vacuum parked next to the stairs to vacuum the other half of the stairway…I will definitely do that in the morning so I can put away the vacuum.  I did do a lick and a promise with dusting downstairs.  I will be doing a better job dusting when I get underway with my Fall decorating.  

Melany and Wade and maybe Erin are coming for a visit tomorrow.  Melany is bringing the Christmas stocking she has cross stitched so I can make it into a stocking.  She brought it once before, but I suggested that she do a little more stitching at the top of the stocking that the pattern didn't say to do. I think it will make the stocking top more stable.  She has finished doing that extra stitching and is bringing it back tomorrow.  And, we'll get to visit for a while, too. 

I managed to do some stitching today, too, so I am closer to a finish on it.  I think that I will work more on it this evening…ready to rest from the more vigorous efforts that I have done around the house today!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

It's Mighty Hot in TN

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This is one of the hottest looking photos that I found in my Alaska/Canada photos.  This was taken in The Butterfly Gardens that we visited n Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  And, I will say that it was very hot inside this building…they definitely had it at a tropical temperature.  And, most of us had on jackets due to cooler temps outside.  

It has been very hot here today.  Alexa just told me that our high today was 99° and the heat index reached 109°.  I can't say much about the heat, as I just stayed in today…I only went outside to check the mail and put something in the outside garbage can.  All I can say about that short trip out is that it made me glad that I had stayed in and just puttered around, again.  I did start my vacuuming downstairs and also mopped the kitchen floor.  I finished the ornament that I had been stitching and moved on to the next one.  I counted and I think that I have finished stitching 17 ornaments so far.  I checked on my list today to see how close I am to finishing and I am getting closer.  I think there are 6 ornaments so far 7 left to stitch for gifts…then there a couple that I want to stitch for myself…but those can wait! 

I pulled down a cookbook the other day that I am now enjoying going through and just reading about the recipes in it.  It is the 15th Anniversary edition of the Test Kitchen TV show…one that has every recipe that they cooked on their show in the years 2001-2015.  Woody gave me this cookbook, probably in 2015.  We used to look at the show together.  Now this is one very big and very heavy cookbook!  I have it stored with the rest of my cookbooks in the cabinet above the stove.  It is so heavy that I rarely get it out.  But I was looking for a recipe the other day and thought that there might be one in it so I got the stool out and got it down…very carefully!  I put it on the small section of counter next to the stove.  I looked up the recipe and then left it there on the counter to put up when I had the stool out the next time and when I had the energy to hoist it up there!  Well, I left it open and stopped when walking by and got to looking at some of the recipes…each recipe tells you why the recipe works…interesting in and of itself!  So I have been thumbing through it when I walk by and stop for a moment to read about another recipe.  So not cooking from this cookbook at the moment, but am enjoying perusing the recipes and information about the recipes…and enjoying it on the counter, since I don't have to feel the weight of it on my lap or in my arms. Maybe I’ll find a recipe I want to try!  Then, again, maybe I won't!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!  

Small Accomplishment = Good Day

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Tonight's photo shows that small accomplishment…are you laughing!?!  I took a picture of it on my cutting board that is marked in one-inch increments…so it is just a little over an inch in diameter.  I stitched this little acorn and fall leaves a year or more ago.  This morning, when I was shuffling through a pile of stitched projects, I found this tiny stitch.  I had it all ready to finish…even had the interfacing ironed on the back.  I got it ready last year when I was finishing Christmas ornaments.  Since it was past Fall, I set it aside to do some other time.  I ordered the covered button size that I needed at some point when ordering from Amazon…so had that on hand, too, as well as had already copied the circle size I needed to cut it our with.  So I decided that today was the day to finish this tiny stitch.  I will prop it in with other Fall decorations in my antique scoop. An accomplishment that made it a good day.

I spent more time in the sewing room today,  I did start getting all the things put back that I emptied from containers that I washed yesterday.  Still have to sort through pencils and pens.  I brought my needlework bag upstairs and neatened up the linen pieces by serging cut edges so they won't fray when I stitch on them.  These linen pieces were ones that I have stitched something on already, but there is still enough to use them to stitch something else on them.  I very much enjoyed my time in my sewing room…one of my favorite places in my home.  I just haven't spent much time there over the last years.  When Woody was so sick, it was just so hard to find blocks of time to be able to accomplish sewing tasks.  Plus the sewing room is upstairs so was farther away from him…couldn't hear him when I had the machine running.  So it was easier to do things downstairs…at that time or do stitching in my chair upstairs.  Stitching can be set aside more easily than sewing can!  I am hoping that what I am doing…organizing some of the sewing supplies…that I will be ready to get back to sewing an actual garment.  I have a top in mind that I want to make…I found the fabric online and ordered it when sitting at Vanderbilt, I believe during Woody's last inpatient stay there.  So the fabric has been hanging in my sewing closet for a little over two years, waiting for me to get back to sewing.  I’m getting closer to being ready to make it.

I went to Bible study this evening and am now home ready to sit and relax for the rest of the evening.  I plan to finish another ornament.  All I lack is a small portion of the border around the design.  The Christmas ornament stack is growing! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Another Calendar Page Turned

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Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

How can it be September…already?!? Time is definitely flying.  Fall is just around the corner, but one wouldn!t know by our temperatures…today's high was 97° and the heat index climbed above 100°.  We have been issued a heat advisory from tomorrow morning through to Friday evening.  Heat index could get up to 109°.  I’m staying in unless I have to get out.  Today I waited till the sun went down to take the garbage can down to the road.  That's the only time that I stepped outside today.  I got my mail while I was out there.  Donna and I didn’t work in the library today.  

I have puttered around the house today…doing little things…one task that I had told myself that I would was put away some clothes that I had stacked up on my sewing cutting table instead of getting them into the drawers where they belong.  That task got accomplished.  Since I am working up to getting back to sewing! I decided to go though some of my many sewing notions and put them in a better order.  Some of these notions reside in mugs.  I had noted the other day that these mugs had gathered quite a bit of dust inside of them.  So today I emptied the mugs of their contents: pencils, pens, rulers, glue pens, tweezers, etc., etc., etc! Amazing all the little things that I have to help me with sewing tasks.  I wrote with each pen to see if they worthy of saving.  Some of the unworthy ones got taken to the road inside the garbage can.  I put the mugs in the dishwasher to clean them up.  I have some flat pattern weights that are shaped like sewing items—scissors, ironing board top, sewing machine, an iron.  These are coated metal and they had for some time had a sticky feel to them.  I wipe them off from time to time, but doing that never seemed to cut the film that was on them.  Having put the mugs in the dishwasher, made me think that these could go in the dishwasher, too.  From there I found several other items that could benefit with a good washing so added them into the top rack of the dishwasher.  When the rack was full, I ran a cycle just doing the top rack.  So I have some sparkling clean items to store my notions in, as well as some non sticky pattern weights.  I will put things back into these tomorrow.  It is good or me to go through these items and remind myself about all the helps I have when I get back to my sewing.  I will admit that what I dealt with today is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg!  I have many, many sewing helps stored in one place or another.  Today's cleaning mainly dealt with things that I use when cutting out patterns.  

That puttering dealt with sewing.  I also spent some time puttering in the kitchen.  I did make fried rice to eat with some of my leftover cashew chicken for my lunch today.  The other fiddly/puttering task that I did in the kitchen that may sound as funny as me washing some of my sewing notions.  I attempted to get rid of the crystallized sugar inside my honey container.  I needed honey yesterday and discovered that it was crystallized.  So I heated it up so I could get the small amount I needed for my recipe.  I knew that if I didn't get rid of all the crystals of sugar that it would just all crystalize again.  So I reheated it and rolled it around in its container…reheated it several times…and I have almost been successful, but guess I will reheat it again tomorrow to see if I can get all the crystals gone.  None of the jobs that I have done today are things that had to be done and wouldn't show if any of you came into my house…but I know that they are done and I’m glad that I puttered around and did them.

My latest cross stitch ornament is well underway and I am pleased with my progress and how it looks.  I plan to do more stitching on it this evening.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Bidding August Goodbye

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August is leaving on a hot note and it looks like September will be entering on that same hot note…predicted to be hotter.  I just got home from prayer meeting and the car's thermometer said that it was 91°.  I think our hi today was 94° and tomorrow's hi May get to 97°.  Oh, boy! 

Nathan, Isaac, and Joseph stopped by on their way home from the Motlow BCM (Baptist Collegiate Ministry).  Today was their first Monday lunch offered to the students and faculty, etc. for a minimal price.  It is a way that the BCM raise money for mission trips. Nathan called on their way home asking if my lawn needed mowing.  It has been so dry that the front yard hasn't grown much…pretty crunchy underfoot!  But the back yard had gotten long and it was getting difficult for me to walk to the compost pile because I couldn’t see what was underfoot…like mole hills and walnut shells, acorns, and other hazards for walking!  So he came and made a very dusty run with the lawnmower through my backyard.  The boys came in and worked on their schoolwork. 

Today was a day for me to get into the kitchen and do a little cooking.  I decided that I wanted to try my hand at a new recipe—Cashew Chicken.  I had had that at the Thai restaurant that Melany and Wade took me to a couple of weeks ago. It seemed like a recipe that I could replicate fairly easily and that I could make it a bit healthier than the one that I had a the restaurant…I adjusted the salt levels, but I think I will lower them some more the next time that I make it.  But it was very good.  Both Nathan and Joseph tried a little and gave their approval.  Isaac doesn't like nuts in things so this wasn't something that he wanted to try. I enjoyed it with some Jasmine rice. I think that I am going to make fried rice with some of the leftover rice…I think that fried rice would taste good with he cashew chicken,  

Yesterday I finished another Christmas ornament.  Today I told myself that I could stitch whatever I felt like since I had finished another Christmas ornament, but in the end a new Christmas ornament was what I chose to start stitching.  I'm going to continue stitching that ornament after I go out and wash the few cooking dishes that need to be hand washed.  The rest of the dishes are getting clean in the dishwasher…so glad that after really messing up the kitchen that I don't have to wash them all by hand!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Favorite Alaska Photo

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Russian Orthodox Church in Sitka, Alaska

Just Discovered Something!

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How many times have I looked at my Alaska photos?!? And, I just looked closely at the top photo for tonight and remembered that Melany said that the water in this picture was the ocean…where the cruise ships are docked.  And, I got to looking closer at it and realized that I could see two cruise ships in this picture.  So I cropped the photo down so it was easier to see…though the picture lost some of its sharpness!  I don't believe that it is our ship…not colorful enough.  This was taken from the window of the train that we took in Skagway, Alaska. The train that took us into Yukon gold territory and into Canada.  But do you see in the top photo why I didn't see the two cruise ships that are tucked into the middle of the photo?!?

Today I have done little things around the house.  I did get my lesson "put to bed"…it's all printed out for me to refer to while I teach my class's lesson.  I was privileged to get to go to a birthday celebration of one of my longtime friends at First Baptist, Tullahoma.  It was held at our church's ministry center.  It's always good to get to visit with friends at these gatherings. When I got home, I plopped in my recliner and put my feet up and started stitching…on the latest Christmas ornament and got a phone call so stitched and talked with Connie for a while.  Now I think a light supper sounds good.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Busy Friday

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I woke up pretty early and stitched for a while before I got up and going.  After breakfast, I headed to Kroger.  Putting the groceries away took a bit longer as i had some preparation of several items before I put them away…I bought fresh produce for the first time in a while…banking on the health issues to have settled down.  I guess time will tell on whether that was okay for me to do! 

After lunch, I got busy on the Sunday School lesson, again.  I have all the information gathered and out into an order of sorts.  I still have to go back through it to check for typos that will trip me up when I am looking at my notes…sometimes I have no idea what the keyboard decided what I needed to say!  I will go back over it in the morning before I print it out…aka "put it to bed" = when I am through adding more or taking away!  But I am always glad to get to where I am now, as if I have to, I have enough info down to be able to teach the lesson. 

My back told me a while ago that it was time to get up from the table where I had been working on the lesson…that chair is not the most comfortable and my back was objecting to so long away from one of the recliners!  I plan to do more stitching this evening and watch some TV.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Thursday

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Stayed at home today…always something that I enjoy doing…a day that doesn't dictate having to do anything in particular or having to be someplace at a particular time…a perk of being retired!  Two loads of the three that I had planned to do got done.  I need to take the items on hangers upstairs.  I will do that on the next couple of trips  upstairs.  I will do the other two loads of clothes tomorrow.  I have done a little on the Sunday School lesson…very little…I still have tomorrow and the next day to wrap it up!  I had an enjoyable afternoon visiting with my sister and two friends.  Just as I finished lunch Connie called, then as I was hanging the phone up, Cheryl called so we talked for a while.  While I was talking to Cheryl, Marie called so I called her back after I hung up from Cheryl.  At that point I hadn't baked the cake that I got out the ingredients for last night so I would make it today. I got busy putting the ingredients together and into the oven.  It is cooling now.  I am planning on a treat after I blog!  I made a Texas Hot Cocoa Cake…very yummy…and haven't had one in quite a while.  I found a recipe for a "cake for two." I don't need a big cake these days.  I plan to eat a slice or two over the next couple of days and freeze a couple of slices for a treat on down the road when I get that craving for something chocolate!  Planning ahead!  But at the moment just looking forward to that first taste in a few minutes. 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Midweek

Glacier Bay National Park—Black and White Study

I feel like it has been a busy day…but when I look back on it, I’m not sure just exactly what I have done…I guess a little bit of everything!  I had a little bit of a slow start to the day because I didn't have the best night's sleep…ended up sleeping in a little later than usual.  I worked more on Sunday's lesson.  I have read most of the material and have started sorting it out as to what to share and what I can skip!  I listened to some chapters in Genesis for tonight's Bible study.  I did manage to take a power nap a little before it was time to go to Bible study this evening. I went to Bible study and just got home.  Had a nice visit with a friend after Bible study.  It has been a nice fairly relaxing day over all.  I’ve read several chapters in a new book.  So far haven't stitched any today, but plan to before I sleep tonight.  I have some plans for tomorrow…so I made some preparations…got out ingredients for a cake and sorted my laundry…now to see if my preparations help to get the tasks done tomorrow!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Happy Birthday, Erin Elizabeth!

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Erin was our first grandchild…so there is that wonderment and excitement that the first of anything so often brings.  I can remember that she was born on a Wednesday…because her birth was announced to me via a telephone call to our church office from Wade's brother's wife.  She was due on Labor Day…so Melany went into labor a bit early.  No cell phones back in that day so communication wasn't as easy. Woody and I were both at the church…I was working in the library and Woody was outside with his RA boys playing dodge ball or some such.  Someone came to the library telling me to come to the church office as I had a phone call. The message that I got via Melany's sister-in-law was that Erin had already been born, that Melany had to have an emergency C-section because the baby had shown signs of being in distress…and when born the cord was around her neck. But that now Melany and Erin were doing fine.  I hung up the phone and headed out to dodge flying balls to pull Woody out of the fray of young boys to tell him that he was now a grandfather.  That was 33 years ago late this afternoon.  And, I was 45 and still dark headed, as I noticed in photos that I looked at today when hunting the above photo! Tonight's photo was taken just a couple of months before Erin turned 3.  She loved "blow flowers"…what we called the gone-to-seed dandelions.  Happy, happy birthday, Erin!  Enjoy your pizza and a shopping spree in Barnes and Noble…one of your favorite places!

    Decided to post the above photos of Woody and me holding Erin when she was a day old. Time marches on!

Monday Arrived Again This Week!

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Running late tonight, as I just got home a few minutes ago from prayer meeting.  We had a larger group tonight and then several of us stayed around and visited afterwards.  The day has gone fairly well.  I did have a bad headache for a couple of hours.  But it is gone.  And, in the end I was glad that it kept me from running errands when I planned to, as the two errands that I ran later in the afternoon than planned, it was quick in and out.  The person at the Credit Union said that it had been really busy and had finally slowed down.  It was nice to not have to stand in a line..,just walked up and she was ready to help me.  It was pretty much the same at the pharmacy…she just finished with a customer when I got to the counter.  So my errands were accomplished very quickly.  I have begun studying for this coming Sunday's Sunday School lesson, as I am teaching again. Prayer meeting this evening and that about sums up my day.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious.

Sunday Favorite Alaska Photo

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Saturday Visitors

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Melany and Wade paid me a visit today.  We got to talking about some of the things that we did while in Alaska and I mentioned how much I enjoyed this museum.  It was just filled with all kinds of things Alaska.  All of which had been collected by the gentleman the museum is named after.  This museum wqs in Sitka.  I found it quite fascinating and enjoyed looking in all the museum cases and in their drawers.  So many things!  I was intrigued with the sewing implements some of which are pictured in the middle photo above.

Wade took us out to eat at a restaurant that I didn’t even know existed here in town…a Thai restaurant.  I enjoyed my choice from the menu.  I chose not experience the heat of Thai food…I chose 0 heat…Melany went with 1 and Wade went with 2.  They both said that theirs weren't very hot.  That was a first for me trying Thai. I got Chicken Cashew and it was very tasty. I have enough for lunch tomorrow.  

I made it through the day without a nap…but sat down a little while ago and off I dozed.  Maybe that will help me keep my eyes open for a little while to stitch.  I have a new Christmas ornament underway. Or I might read…two new books came in on my Libby App that I had been waiting for so I have started both of those.  Plenty to do…if I can keep my eyes open! 

My Sunday School lesson is all printed out so I guess I am ready for tomorrow.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Friday

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I woke up early…did some stitching and reading.  I did finish another book for the Cottey Bookclub.  After breakfast, I got busy on the Sunday School lesson.  I got it somewhat finished and got it printed.  Now I need to read through it to see if it makes sense.  I have looked through it for any glaring errors…but still need to read through it.

I decided that I had plenty of food in the house and chose not to go to the grocery store today.  I thought through what I have on hand and made a plan for lunch if Melany joins me tomorrow.  I’m not sure if I'm going to cook tonight or get up and do it in the morning…not a major cook…just simple. I did clean the refrigerator this morning,,,one of my cleaning accomplishments for the day. I managed to fit in a nap, too and a few phone calls.  Pretty much a lazy summer day…too hot to do much. I didn’t even walk out to the mailbox today,

I did stitch on a sampler last night and did a little more on it this morning.  Then this afternoon, I began another Christmas ornament. I plan to stitch on it a little more this evening.  I mainly found ways to stay cool inside…still pretty hot out there. We did get a little rain last night…but hardly enough to count.  There is a very small amount in the rain gauge…around 2 tenths of an inch.  At least we got a little.  Rain drops have been pretty far and few between!  Seems like it is either feast or famine when it comes to rain.  

Stay-At-Home Thursday

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The Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada…beautiful snapdragons!

I have had a pretty laid-back day…not much happening…I guess I kept my house company today…or vice versa!  I did get the latest Christmas  ornament finished.  I gave myself a little break from Christmas stitching and stitched for a while on one of the samplers I have underway.  I am trying to decide what I’ll stitch on this evening.  I think it will be a "stitch and a cooking show on TV" evening.  I have spent quite a bit of time working on the Sunday School lesson today so I’m ready to sit back and relax…give my brain a rest so I will be able to finish the lesson tomorrow.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Wednesday Wanderings

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I don't think that I have posted the above photo before.  I took it at the Butterfly Garden in Victoria, Canada…rows of butterfly chrysalises. 

Today I didn't wander too far until it was time to go to Bible study this evening.  I’m later than usual getting back as a couple of friends and I visited while their husbands were at choir practice.

Nathan stopped by today to return the items they had borrowed from me to take on their trip.  Sounds like they had a really nice trip.  I talked to Kathy for a few minutes after Bible study tonight and sounds like she enjoyed it, too.  

My day has sort of been devoted to Bible study…this morning I studied for the Sunday School lesson for this week and then this evening had Bible study at church.  I got a pretty good start on the Sunday school lesson and then this evening enjoyed being just a student in the Bible study! 

I took time this afternoon to do some reading on my book for the Cottey Bookclub and also stitched more on a Christmas ornament,  I’m hoping to get the ornament finished this evening…then on to another!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!