Gosh! Where did that day go to???????????????????

I declare! You cook a few meals and wash a few dishes and do a few chores and all of a sudden you realize that a day has just slipped right out of  your grasp!

Then on top of that watching this crazy weather???  One minute it is just dark gray cloudy and the next minute there is what specks falling from the sky. It is like an adventure that you had not signed up for?

I know that DH went out and cut a new load of wood. That stove almost eats more than we do. :)
I went out and did all my chores , but it takes longer to do them when all of the water bowls are frozen solid. I have been carrying them in and running hot water over the bottoms of them to make that ice release its hold! At least everybody has clean bowls that way. :)

I am still working on that shirt. Since it is thermal I am learning about how to use my differential setting on my serger and that is neat. :) I had wanted to make my brother-in-law a thermal shirt out of the same material-but I have been puzzling over -wondering if that color would be alright for a man too? I mean it is not pink -but it is in the "red" family -maybe maroon???? What do you guys think?

Well my two shelties just came in from playing in the new snow that is falling. Their backs are covered in snow. They are just like kids when it comes to snow -so I better go dry them off. LOL
Love to all!

Misadventures of a granny who keeps trying :)

Wonder why it is that sometimes things just "seem to fall in place" and  other times no matter how hard you try it seems that they just go awry?

This was a snow shower that kinda blew in . I decided that sometimes we manage to Just get stuck -and then there is times like the weather that just blows in from "who knows where " -so we can either accept it or hate it for the complications it causes.

But I am attempting to learn that every experience in our life is there to teach us and make us wiser. Of course when you are stubborn like me - it might make it just a tad bit harder! :)

So, with that in mind I decided to go ahead and tackle a birthday shirt for my sister-in-law on groundhog's day. I decided that the one piece I had with enough in it was a knit that feels like thermal and I had been debating whether she would enjoy something like that? Sometimes I have a REAL problem with my " mind-reading skills"!

So I picked out a design and started down this path. It was a bird design and I thought she might enjoy that because she used to raise birds and was great at it.

It seemed like things were going excellent and I had high hopes that this was going to be my "New Start" in a New Year. So, I plugged away and things were moving along nicely. My Brother PE-700II was acting like such a Professional and I was so proud of it. But that only lasted until the very last part of the design!

The outline in black started out perfect , but then took off like a misbehaving child????? I was heart-sick. I even took my needle and thread and "filled "in a lot of it so it does not look SO terrible. And I have been carrying it around trying to decide whether to just "trash-it" or go ahead and sew it up????? A certain way you hold it in the light it looks like one of those pictures that seem to change as you move it? 

Then I have a hard time "wasting" anything  - much less fabric! Maybe I should go ahead with it and she can always use it to just clean house in? I would like it for that because it will not show dirt easily. I am still "straddling" the fence here? Maybe I should just go feed DH and hope the right decision will pop in my head? You guys are welcome to "hop in on this one" anytime. :) 

Have I Got A Surprise For You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you still remember when I was so upset about something killing my pigeons?????????? WELL::::???????

Here is the little "murdering predator"!  On a night that my main worry is the 15 degrees right now with wind whipping  and it is suppose to go on down to -15 with those winds. DH had made his trip up to feed the woodstove  and he said he heard something clicking .

So I wrapped a quilt around me and followed him out doors and up our little walk way and then looked up to where he was shining the flashlight and this is what we saw! Isn't he just so cool!

AAAHHHH - this one is better - just look at those little Gold eyes. He has the same eyes as our black cat and she always looks angry  - like he looks angry at being discovered right out at the back door. DH said that he should kill him. Of course I begged so pitifully to save his life.

He certainly does not look like he appreciates my efforts! But , I do so love owls!  I snapped these pictures and ran in to see If they turned out to where we could see him.

I told DH to give me a little while and then I will go out and grab up the pigeons and Mr. Owl will have to go search for his supper in another place. I did not realize it was such a little owl and now I understand how he could just walk through that chain link fence -then I could not figure how something could get up on the roosts to get a meal, but of course now I see - he just flew up to help himself. If he was anything like a hawk that had come to the yard one day while I had my silkie chickens out on the grass in a dog crate turned upside down. That way they had fresh grass to munch on. We pulled up in the yard and all I could see was white feathers. We went closer and there was a beautiful big hawk standing beside the crate with his foot stuck through the metal and in his claws was one of my favorite silkies. I just wanted to cry - but for some reason -these domesticated birds seem to not see these guys as something to fear because they are just another bird and they will let them just walk right up to them - and get their little heads bit off! :(

I was so excited , I just had to share it with you so we can now settle the mystery of the pigeion killer for the past year. I now know how to fix it , but it will sure have to be  warmer weather than what is outside now! :)

End of week brings snow showers

Even Cowboy enjoyed the snow showers. He had gone out on the front porch and curled up with his favorite blanket. It seems that the tiny snow that was falling left a "very still" sound to the air and I think he was sneaking a nice nap before coming in for the night.

The snow is so tiny that I cannot capture it in a picture Drats! I think the weather sometimes has an affect on our moods because I want to sew, but for some reason I am stumped . I wish I had some new knit material because what I have in my stash seems to just not feel right for the projects I need to work on.

I did manage to fix us a nice pot of soup and homemade breads . DH had peanut butter with his and I had a cheese sandwich with mine.  Then I went to searching for my blood pressure cup. The doctor yesterday had noted that DH's pressure was up and she was curious what was going on. I told her that it  might have something to do with getting mad at the traffic coming down or the thought that he was going to get a shot -which turned out to be 2 shots. One was the flu shot-last year was the first year I had ever talked him into getting one and with good results so I think he liked that and the other was the pneumonia shot. She said that they don't usually give the pneumonia shot until a person is 65 , but with his fight with cancer she recommended it because she did not think he should have any more to deal with than he would have to.

I had told his doctor that I had a blood pressure cup at home and she said that would be good to monitor his pressure for a couple of weeks just to make sure it was something else going on.

I am beginning to think that I must have filed my brain where ever I filed that blood pressure cup! :(

I did have my side-kick watching over me  outdoors . Maybe she thought I would get into trouble all by myself?  :)
I am not having the best luck in town! So far -no blood pressure cup and so far- no project lined up? Plus, my tummy is complaining. I think it is wishing I could get my "ducks all in a row" and quit being such a scatter-brain. :)

O SHOOT!

I tried so hard last night to get online to post - I could get it to pull up ,but when it came to where you write your post it had that little circle thingy that just kept going round and round and round. I even walked off and left it one time and 30 minutes later it was still going round and round and round. After a hour and half I finally had to give up and call it quits. :( I don't know what was causing it -but at least I could not blame it on a sewing machine this time.! :)

Look at this! This is what I found in our mailbox this afternoon and it came all the way from IRELAND! I was soooo excited that I could hardly contain myself. I just had to "Pace" myself so I could enjoy the thrill as long as I could. :)

IF it could talk -think of the tales it could tell about how the address has almost been ripped from the package - and - WE definitely would not want that to happen. I carried it close and I could just feel the rush of "IRELAND" and I wanted to hold onto that experience.

But you know how we gals are - sooner of later our curiosity has been known to get the best of us SO I kinda reluctantly opened it up! WOW! Check this out! :)

It was a Christmas present from my beloved Micki  at  Irish Muses(http://thedote.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-newsa-giveaway-and-my-irish.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/SscZ+(Irish+Muses) . I think we all know Micki with the heart of gold and a truck load of talent!  I recognized as soon as I opened it -that beautiful "mug-rug"!  I know this because I fell in love with the little teapot button!!!!!!!!! when she had posted about it when she created it.  I would have to agree with the gal who said hers was too pretty to use ! LOL And the pincushion is so beautiful and it is so Soft and I just absolutely adore it. Then she topped it off with some chocolate with some berry pieces in it. I have never had any like that , but I am dieing to sample it! It is in the refrigerator right now -chilling, as I love chocolate chilled. Matter of fact just mentioning it makes my mouth water. LOL

UPDATE! I just HAD to go get into it and it is Wonderful!!!!  I guess there is more than one way to "get more fruits in your diet"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so very honored to be remembered. I think I definitely have some very real "Angels" out there in my blog family. :)
Love to all!

Well, I guess I just "stumped my toe" with this New Year

It was a feeling a little like drowning so far this week. I had , what I hoped to be -my schedule for this new week-but yesterday after ending the day attempting to pay the bills we were making our last stop of the day at the drug store.DH had just used his last new cancer medicine and we were going to get his refill. I had called in our prescriptions because that makes the process so much faster.I had money in hand and then she said one hundred and ninety seven  dollars and I felt my smile trickle away as I said, something is wrong -what has happened from last month?

They tried to explain that DH had to pay for a certain amount up front before the insurance kicked in, and just his prescription was 179.00 which was more than we had left to get us through the month . You can imagine how horrible it seemed to see that bottle of pills that was helping to keep my DH here with me and money was standing in the way.Of course when it was taking me longer to come out than usual DH came looking to see what was going on and when he heard -he had a fit.  The little girl was upset -because she was so sweet and she could not do anything about it - I was upset and that was why I was trying to hurry and DH was definitely upset because he did not want to die. So, it made for a pretty miserable evening and then I could not sleep as I tossed and turned trying to figure it out.

Then this morning I called his insurance agent asking for help explaining the process. ___Of course -they were on vacation and might be back next week. Next I called the doctor's office looking for suggestions and -of course they have not called me back all day. I even stayed right with the phone all day , I cleaned the space under the phone and then I cleaned the living room floor because the phone is on the wall there.

I finally had to give up and go outdoors and do my critter chores and that got my mind off of it for a few minutes. But even still -no body called back?That seems to happen to me most of the time-I think it is bad business and very rude for a business to act that way.

I now have a sink full of  dishes and not the heart to wash them. I need to sew to help steer me in a different direction. My oldest son and my sister-in-law both have birthdays the first part of next month and my "stash" is getting low. Thank goodness for a stash!

Our weather was beautiful here today -made you think it was a day in Spring. I saw on the news tonight that Australia is having a Terrible flood and that worried me because I have E-friends there.

Love to my blog family

Double knit , lovely bluebirds tee shirt

Well, Hello Dear Blog Family,
     Sorry to not post last night - I think I must have had a little "Too Much" New Year  with my kids and grandkids and great-grandkids. I was SOOOOOO tired I thought I might "croak" , but had no time to rest until I fell in bed - thinking I would go fast asleep-But - things do not always work out the way we plan.

I was just so tired that it took me a while to calm down and let sleep sneak in on me. I kept thinking I should get up and do this or that or that or this and then I would think , that would disturb DH since he was fast asleep.

Then after we had breakfast this morning and DH had his nose buried in some kind of  hot-rod trucks  I decided to work on one little corner of the kitchen so I would not make as much noise as running the vacummn cleaner.It was a very "busy" corner because it help all of my clear canisters with dry goods like beans and macaroni. I thought that would be a good idea because I would not only get some dirt conquered -but would also "remind" me what I had in stock!

Then one of the young people who helps us just because he wants to showed up and he and DH went and busted a big load of wood. There I was , " still working " in the kitchen and the day just got away from me and I realized that evening was almost dark and they would be quitting -so I wanted to at least Feed James for all of his hard work.I washed and peeled and chopped some potatoes and put them in a pot to simmer while I went out and did the outside chores before dark settled in on us.

Then I came in and just added the last few touches on the potato soup as they were headed toward the house. I fixed James a cheese sandwich to go with his soup and a peanut butte sandwich for DH with his soup. I chose a cheese sandwich with mine . All of these were made on nice fresh homemade bread that I had just sliced and it was all good -maybe because we were all hungry and everything tastes better when you are good and hungry. :)

I cleaned up our mess and headed to the sewing room and got a XL size tee shirt with those "cutest " little birds on it. I really love the tye dyed fabric as it so so nice and soft. As I was working on the shirt my mind was wandering to our youngest son still without water since his pump went out?  If only there was some way I could come up with some money. I looked down at the shirt and wondered IF I would do any good trying to sell some shirts?If only????

This is the end result and the neck is kinda large on it, but it will be nice for summer as it is so soft. My sister-in-law has a birthday coming the first of next month and time just loves to plum run off from me-so that will be a size IIIX. I really do enjoy sewing for large size ladies and I really do love this pattern of tee-shirt.It looks large but this is a deliberate "OVERSIZED" tee shirt pattern.

It was sooo lovely here today too. It was in the forty's , but there was a stiff wind blowing so that made it feel colder. The land is so wet and so slippery. So, I guess our new week in a new year is off and running already. With this next week of nice weather -I believe that we are cheating OLD MAN WINTER out of his plans for a week and that works great for me! :)