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. 

Wednesday

 

I might have done a little too much yesterday for my back. I did get a good amount of stitching in though. The second wheel is filling out nicely. 

Aidan took my Sams club list and went shopping with a couple friends after having lunch out with them. He did pretty good, only added a few things not on the list.... but made his Dad happy with a bag of Doritos and a couple things for himself in the dorms.

I started the second skein of yarn on the blanket. I do like the variegated look on this, the new start was not an exact match, but I'm not too concerned with it. Bear likes it as is!

I woke up to a broken lamp in the living room. I guess Bear somehow knocked it over in the middle of the night. His meds are making him drink a lot, so have to go pee a lot. I was not sure what happened, as I knew the boy left home around 9PM to go bowling with friends last night. Hubby explained it was the dog and he tried to pick up a bit and put a throw rug over the area so people can walk without getting hurt. I swept it up this morning and will try to vacuum it later.

Emily was late for her Zero period class today. Seems there was an accident on the main way to get to school, and everything was backed up. Took her 50 minutes to get to school instead of 20-25. I can see this happening a lot this year with the other option of the bridge closed for a year, so no real good way to get across to the other end of town where her school is. 

Got the heating pad plugged in for 15 minutes as I start work today. Weaning myself off the Advil a bit - did not take it last night and managed to sleep. Took one this morning and will swap to 6 hours or as needed instead of every 4 hours. Remembering to not do too much is difficult. 

We will see if I attempt to press and roll the quilt for pinning later today or tomorrow.

Monday

 First day of senior year! She left a bit before 7am.

The bridge she normally takes to school is closed for a year. FDOT  is removing it (hit 3 times by a raised dump truck bed in 18 months) and replacing it. 

We dropped Bear to the vet for a procedure. He has a cancerous area on his ear. We will see if it shrinks over the next 4 weeks. He is sleeping.  Poor guy.

A little progress on this yesterday.  I tried weeding the overgrown garden Sunday, but turned wrong a really messed up my back. Heat and Advil allowed me to be able to move after a few hours.  Very slow moving today but better. Must work on strengthening my core after this heals, I guess.

Started watching Best Medicine on Netflix last night. Pretty good through 3 episodes.

Friday

 I should have worked on the graduation quilt yesterday. I didn't. I felt like doing some cross stitching after some laundry, picking up and getting groceries. I added the wagon part above the wheel that I finished a few weeks ago. Two eggs collected from the coop around noon. The chickens are happy, I just tossed them the remains of the rotisserie carcass and veggies I strained out of the crock pot this morning from making broth overnight. Grandma had gotten that and made pasta salad and watermelon for Tuesday when we got home. 

I've got to go pick up glasses after I log off from work today. I had pulled thinly sliced pork chops from the freezer the other day, so those will be made into schnitzel tonight for dinner. I think I still have lemons in the fridge. I really need to pull up the unsuccessful summer garden and prep it for planting for the fall. This is the planting that up north you do in May/June. Hoping the temps go down so I can get some crops to be happy this fall. Crazy with all the recalls on everything in the grocery store lately. I need to go back to the farmers markets on Saturday or Friday after work I think. Must remind Greg to start my hydroponic lettuce up again. My salads have a base of quinoa right now instead of lettuce.