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.

Slow Sunday in Vermont

 It has been a long couple of days with lots of family. This was a beautiful morning this week on the lake. Love how the calm lake has the reflection. 

Aidan did most of the puzzle with help from the rest of us (grammy, emily, greg and me)

I've added some rows to the blanket each day. This will travel home with me. I'm almost done the first skein of yarn. It is a variegated blues from red heart. Just a simple single crochet and double crochet pattern. 

Two more days here before we fly home.  Emily wants her senior photos taken here, so Greg brought his camera. Today will be the day to get that done. We might go to the races tonight as we missed going Thursday.  Mom is doing well and will enjoy a quiet day today I think. 

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitching . It appears hand quilting on the grad quilt is not required,  so I'll do simple walking foot quilting this week and hope to be binding next weekend.  He moves to college the 16th.

Cool Vermont weather.

 Lovely cool temps today. Under 70 and we are enjoying it! Just got back from a kayak paddle with Emily.

I did a little crochet with this view yesterday. 

There are 2 mama ducks with 6 babies each. This was one set.

One loon in the middle of the lake. There are 5 or 6 on the lake this year.  

Testing the boat.  Something needs fixing. Someone did too much twisting to check things. Will see if greg and bob can work together on it. 

Dinners are planned the next few days. Mom has been out here with us. Enjoying peaceful lake time. 

Listening to the latest Thursday night murder club on Libby.

Weekend wrap up

 Friday on my morning walk with Bear the dog, we got to see 4 deer! I think I was able to get 3 of the 4 in this photo. I had the leash in one hand, so the shot was not great. 

For the RSC, I was able to add one teal house to the pile. I plan to add a few more later tonight and maybe a chicken or two! Linking up with the RSC.

I did get into the sewing room on Thursday and figured out I had the Graduation quilt bear paws into diagonal rows, but they needed their side triangles added. Then they got sewn into a top. Did I mention I absolutely hate sewing those long seams? I added the four corners today. 

It needs a press and to determine a border or not. I believe it is 80x80 now so might want a little plain border all around. It might just be a slightly darker cream to make it bigger as it will shrink a bit in the quilting. I'll let the boy decide though as it is his quilt. I'll have to find a backing and batting for hand quilting, and put it onto the frame. Someone will have to wait a bit for it but, that is what he wants. The crazy summer delayed it a bit (doubt I would have hit the deadline anyway!). We will see how long it takes. I see a green binding to finish it off.... or maybe the blue? I think I have enough of a couple of fabrics so we will see what happens when I need a binding.

I've been doing a lot of counted cross stitch and I've managed to distort my fabric, so it is horrible in photo's. I've tried spritzing it with water and pressing it. Nothing seems to work. So, here is where I am at this point. I'll work on the pumpkin in the lower left tonight, I think. This will be taken with me for plane work (yup - travelling again but this one was scheduled!Flights 12+13 for me since June 3) up to Vermont. The kids and hubby are going with me this time. We have our house/animal sitter in place again. Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday stitchers.