Good Bye Laura

      What devastation from this hurricane.  I feel so bad for the people who lost loved ones.  Lost homes.  Businesses.  Vehicles, as well as precious photographs of family members and loved ones. It will be weeks before all the power is restored, and the heat and humidity is hard on everyone.  We need to keep all people that are going through this in our prayers.  I so wish that there was something that I could do to help.

     Well I've been keeping busy right here at home....like where else! LOL  Really though.  Billy and I are so fortunate to have our health and to have so many interests that we do enjoy here at home.  Billy did find out though that he has arthritis in his right forearm and wrist, and it has been so painful, that some days he can't pick anything  up at all.  Nothing they can do.  So he has been taking it a little easy for the past few days.

     Here's my pines that I've been working on.  Wondering if any of you seem to stitch more and/or faster as you get close to finishing up a piece.  I think some of you must.  I think I get excited about finishing up and starting a new piece, so away I go.  Now this may not be for some, but I love greens,

so it has been a great stitch for me.

     Someone help me! I've started knitting dishcloths and I can't stop! This below is my 29th. one, and I still enjoy making them.  I love the colors in this one.

     My peanut butter tree has gone through another couple of phases, and is getting prettier as the summer goes by.  The baby that I planted by my shed is doing beautifully.  Here are a couple of pictures below.  The first is right after the seeds from the center of the flowers started showing, and the second is from today.  The next picture I show you, will have the beautiful purple centers.

     I must show you this picture below.  It had just started to rain when we left for a trip to Jacksonville.  I happened to glance at the window in the back seat, and at first, I thought I was looking at trees.  Then I realized that what it actually was.  The streams of water flowing downward on the glass, was being blown sideways.  Maybe it just doesn't take much to interest me!

     The clouds are turning real dark and we're supposed to get some leftover weather from Laura with some wind and all.  We're so fortunate to not experience many of the strong hurricanes and storms that other areas have to endure.

     One last thing I believe.  We had our monthly book club meet, yesterday.  Outside with lots of space between the ten of us, and a beautiful breeze.  Here's the book below, and it looks like it has been passed around a lot! I've read the first couple of chapters, and I think I'm going to enjoy the read.

     I'm going to say "good night" to all of you, and head for my stitching chair.  I have my cross stitching, my knitting and my book calling my name! Ya'll  take care and stay well.  Lots of love to each and every one of you.

     "Feel the colors".  They're out there, just waiting to be noticed.  This little one below sure enjoys them!

 

     

Sunday Afternoon

     Well, I'm going to try to make sure this post goes as planned.  After two posts back when the font all of a sudden changed along with the colors and all kind of threw me for a loop.  I have no idea why that happened, and I'm sorry to those who couldn't make out the teeny tiny print.
     I spent some quality time in my she shed yesterday afternoon.  With the air conditioning in and running, it was so comfortable out there.  The shed has a silence all its own, and it is easy to get lost in it.  I got my spring piece out to just do some back stitching, and it was great seeing all the colors again.

Tonight I'll pick up my pine tree piece again, and work on that.  Easy stitch and not a huge piece.  About eight by eight once done.

We've been enjoying the yard when it isn't too hot to get out and do a little gardening.  It does get awfully hot and humid in this part of  North Carolina.  Of course the fact that we're getting older has nothing to do with it! LOL Here's just a small bouquet that I put together, and if you're wondering, yes that's dill in there also.  I love how wispy it is.

There's the "chocolate tree" which always catches my eye, with its ever changing flower buds.  They've gone from tiny green buds to larger turning white ones.  I love watching this tree every year, and will be putting one right outside of one of my shed windows.

Another dish cloth in the works.  I have so many full and half skeins of this kind of yarn and just read that one skein will indeed make two of the cloths.  So, with my question answered, I decided to keep the yarn right beside my stitching chair and use it up.  They take no time at all to work up, so if I have just a few minutes here and there, I'll add another few rows.

     Well my dear friends and followers.  I hope you all had a good long weekend, and that you all stayed safe.  Be careful and stay well.  Love you all.

     I didn't forget......................Look around you and "feel the colors".