Friday

 Not much stitching. I did finish the sky on the cross stitch. Now it is outline work. I started with the wagon and wheel.

The loons were visible on the lake today.

Fall is in the air.

The family of 7 ducks visits each day.  This was this morning. 

Tuesday Mom and I went to walk on the Cascade trail. It is about 15 minutes from camp. A nice trail along the brook with some natural waterfalls. 

Another afternoon with my sisters and mom. Time to settle in with some more outline stitching.

Friday

 I got my epp parts thread basted yesterday and will start putting them together later today.

There will be 4 of the middle sections to make a circle.

The stack. The edges were too long to just do the fabric, so I stitched through the papers. Hopefully they will come out ok. I left the knot on top so they should clip ok.

The geranium in full bloom. Mom has the green thumb, not me.

Some black eyed susans from my walk last night. I started a walk and heard thunder so turned around.  I was able to go an hour later.

I loved these when i was little.  You squeeze the little green shoot and it popped open. Google lens says these are orange jewelweed or spotted touch-me-nots.

A quiet partly cloudy day at camp with 70 degrees temps. I've got 1.5 hours of work left for the day after morning meetings. I think we will take a trip to do garbage and recycling and then pick up some fresh corn on the way home for dinner. 

Vermont

When I realized the crochet project was too bulky for my 2 carry on bags, I pivoted and decided to cut some yellow fabric to make a brimfield epp block while in Vermont. I also have the baggie of previous prepped ones... that i am not happy with the color plan I had. So, I'm going to merge those with the RSC and see what happens! I'm going to use accent colors as they fit and will see how it turns out!

I picked some blueberries off the bush this morning. 

All 12 ducks have visited.

My view this morning with a coffee. So peaceful.

 I've got today off,  so will do some errands with Mom and enjoy quiet time at the lake.

Stitching toward a finish

 

I've been plugging away on this cross stitch from A quilt for all Seasons book by Paula Vaughn. I believe this is November. The blue sky area is remaining and then the finishing stitches. 

I have another 2 flights planned this summer up to Vermont for a couple of weeks to just be there out at the camp with Mom through the end of the summer and get her moved back home. I'm debating if I start the Summer stitch along from Melissa, a little lighthouse that has been in my travel bag all summer but has not seen the light of day, or a cute Christmas stitchery with cardinals next. We will see what gets packed. I will bring the crochet project with the pretty blue variegated yarn. That one is easy to stitch in bad lighting up there. I still have a busy bag packed that will go with me as well. Maybe those EPP pieces will start to get stitching for Brimfield Awakening. 

Linking up with Kathy and the other slow stitchers. 

Waiting on my MIL to arrive to go out for her delayed Birthday meal. She likes a place up here near us so that's where we are headed. Emily and Greg have got her car all detailed - washed, waxed and shined - and she put her senior parking sticker onto it today. 

I think the pantry needs a good clear out and organizing, so that is on tap next and a loaf of bread needs making for the nice yummy tomato's we got at the farmers market yesterday. I do love a tomato sandwich. White bread toasted, butter, mayo, tomato and salt and pepper. Summer in a sandwich!

We have tons of eggs, and a big bag of flour tortillas, so I cooked up some scrambled eggs, peppers and onions, bacon and took out some shredded cheddar. I had one breakfast burrito this morning, then let things cool and Emily took over making the rest while I wrapped them in saran wrap and popped them into the freezer. She now has a quick breakfast to go this week. I might make more of these later today to clear out another dozen of eggs and one dozen will go with Grandma for her neighbors. Considering the girls are pretty old, they still lay quite well. 3 are from the fall of 2020 and 2 are a couple years younger than that. 

Time to start the bread so it is rising while we are gone.

RSC in yellow

I have missed a bunch of the RSC this summer with too much travel. I did manage to get a couple of yellow houses added to the collection this week and added another teal house that was under construction delay and got approval for finishing this week. I think I was doing 6 of each color, so need to add four more of each to the pile before the end of the month. 

Lots of progress has been made on the cross stitch. Do you notice when you are getting close to the end of something, it becomes the only thing you want to work on until it is done? No? Just me?

I took this one using the 3x lens on my phone. Google suggested indirect light and a 3x or 5x to limit the distortion of the fabric. 

Emily had senior sunrise breakfast at school today and a marching practice after school. The football game is away and far away so they are working their routine instead. Dinner will be egg roll in a bowl. Different from the southwest egg rolls earlier this week. This one is just hot Italian sausage, cabbage and some garlic and soy sauce. Quick and easy. I got a huge head of cabbage a couple weeks ago at the farmers market I need to finish up. This will be a great usage for it as all 3 of us like this one. 

Linking up Saturday with the RSC. Who knows, I might add a few houses tonight.

 

Progress

After working, the stack of empty boxes was getting to me (been in the dining room for a week!) so I took them to the recycle center. Stopped at Aldi on the way home to get carrots, celery and some jalapeno peppers. Needed the peppers for the southwestern egg rolls last night. I might have picked up a few other things like apples and oranges and Greg's standard chocolate order. 

The last few stitches of the dish cloth were finished and the ends worked in. Then I got the pumpkin in the grass done and all the standard stitching done in that area. Just the wagon and seat part to do, then the finishing backstitching and adding in the tall grasses to the bottom. 

 

Emily has marching practice after school tonight. I'm planning fish for dinner, which she dislikes so I'll pop wings in the oven for her when she gets home later. Might be 6:40, might be 7:40. Depends on if she is driving a friend home after practice or not. Either way, she gets sweet potato wedges with them! 

Sunday - moving off to college day

 Today we moved A to college! He is now about an hour away from us. It took about an hour from the time we arrived, unloaded, parents parked and shuttled back while the kids brought things up to his room on the 3rd floor. His roommate arrived 30 minutes later. I wanted to see his room - so a quick check and hug goodbye and he was ushering us out! He was very excited to start this next adventure for 4 years. 

It all fit nicely into the back of the car. Emily was going to make sure it fit!

Saturday I almost got this dish cloth finished. I started it eons ago during a meeting and it was just sitting under my desk. I took it with me to Orlando yesterday to knit while E had her ice skating lesson. Since I could not find a Saturday riding lesson, she is learning to ice skate. Her first lesson was last week and I drove. This week, she drove in I75 and the Turnpike for 1.5 hours there and over 2 hours home. There were some accidents slowing things down. 

The snowbank from the Zamboni. Yes, it was feels like over 100 so I'm not sure how that was not melted!

Progress on the cross stitch. Both wheels are now done. I need to stitch a pumpkin and add some grass around it to finish off that area. Then I'll move up to the wagon part and add the bench and another pumpkin.  

Bear's (the dog) ear is looking much better after the procedure Monday morning which was a shot to go and find the cancer cells and destroy them. They said it will take up to 4 weeks and see how it is. We delayed the treatment a bit with all the travel this summer, but it appears to be working well. He is now weaning off the meds and is more himself the last day or two. Toothy dog grins are 

the best.

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers. I need to make a Sams Club trip and get keurig coffee. I had A go last week and he got the Donut House K cups.... but I get the generic Makers Mark brand and he picked up the Keurig ones. Boy, the medium of that is much stronger than the other medium blend! Hubby likes them so they will be his! I had the non fridge/freezer staples on the list for him. I'll grab a few other things while there. I only got one idea for dinners this week - southwestern egg rolls or what we call Mambo's rolls. We first had them at Mambo's in Cocoa Beach.