daily yarns 'n more

late nights early rises

We had another wonderful weekend come to an end.  Our grandson had a hockey tournament North of us, so our daughter, son-in-law and the grand-kids stayed with us for the weekend, along with some close friends who are actually the other set of grandparents.  It was fun visiting and watching hockey.  The weather over the weekend was foggy, rainy and a bit of snow which made the roads a bit slick in some spots.

You can see the horses breath it was that cold outside.  I get very nervous driving past the buggies.  I was gad I wasn't driving past this one, especially as we met right at the curve in the road.

I can't believe Christmas is only 20 days away.  I have to say I'm in good shape with my shopping, I think I'll do some wrapping today.

How are you all, are you done shopping or are you just starting?

I hope you all have a wonderful day today.

trying to embrace the cold

And, I'm doing that with soup.  I think we've had soup the past couple of days.  Well, at least when the snow came and that's okay, because we like soup.  I made some tomato soup yesterday and grilled cheese for dinner.  I kind-of-sort-of followed this recipe.  But, instead of canned tomatoes, I used my homemade canned tomato sauce and eliminated the tomato soup and cayenne pepper.  I also didn't have any shallots so I just used a yellow onion, which worked just fine.

I've been working on another quilting project that started way back in 2009.  This one I'm really excited about.  I think I got the quilting bug from this and I can't wait to show you.  I've learned so much since then.

You all stay warm if the weather in your area is turning colder and you're getting snow.  Our snow probably will be gone by the weekend with the temps heading up to the 50° mark.  That's okay, it'll be back before we know it.

O is for october

Thanks for the Anniversary wishes :)))))

October along with September are my favorite months of the year.

This is how I spent part of the day.  After cleaning up the kitchen and putting a few loads of laundry going.  I kicked back and started on the second glove.

I didn't keep them as planned, I gave them to Lauren.  I seem to keep giving her the items that I plan to make for myself ;)  Oh, I don't mind.  I bought some new yarn at the yarn shop down the street from where we had dinner last night, so I plan to make another pair.  Plus I'm starting on a seamans hat for Jim.  He can't seem to find the other one I made him.

 

This is how Jim spent part of his day yesterday.  Trying out the stain for the logs.  Where ever Jim is you'll find Sadie.  These two are like shirt and pants, they're always together.

We have company coming starting today.  We're going to have a painting party as well as a Birthday party this weekend.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings,

Judy

it's tuesday but feels like monday

How was your Labor Day weekend?  Ours was a lot of fun, busy but fun.  I'm not sure if it's TypePad that won't let me post a picture or having satellite internet.  So no pictures today sorry and I have a lot of them too.

Becky is the last one here and will be heading out this morning.

Today I head back to work after being off for over a month.  That month sure flew by.

I hope you all have a wonderful day and I hope to get some pictures up soon.

Blessings,

Judy

it's...

Today's the day...I'll see you all as soon as we're settled in.

life just can't get any better

Today was my last day of working here in Illinois.  I'm taking the whole month of August off to get settled in.  I'm to report to my new job sometime in September...Yeah!!!

The gal that I share an area with at work gave me a going away party today.  She is such a sweetheart.  She bought a cake and even gave me a nice gift from Bath & Body Works.  I was pretty surprised, I never suspected.

There is so much to do in the next few weeks.  Daughter Carri and her kids are coming along with our daughter Becky to help with the packing.

Everything that is happening in our life right now just seems like it was meant to be and life just can't get any better than it already is.

We have our health, an awesome loving family and we have our faith.

So, I'm going to try and be like our beautiful granddaughter here and take time to stop and smell the flowers.

remember me?

I've almost forgotten that I have a blog and I can't believe that the 4th is almost here.  There's been so much going on here that I wish I could tell you about.  Pretty soon tho, I just don't want to jinx anything.  Not that I'm superstitious and all.

Here's all I can show you for right now...a little teaser.

Strawberry season is done.  I have jars of jam in the freezer and bags of frozen strawberries to enjoy this winter.

The cold frame we used for our tomato plants has helped those plants a lot.  They already have tomatoes on them.  The other plants we planted later are further behind.

The flowers in my flower garden are blooming nicely.

The very first of my favorite flowers.

 

The last lone wild rose left on the bush.

We've been walking in the neighborhood and I don't take my camera on these walks.  I have been doing some running and a camera around my neck would just be in the way.  On one occasion I had wished I had it tho.  A coyote was walking in the back yards of some of the houses.  He just looked at us and didn't seem too worried that we were there.

Last count, I have 301 unread posts in my Google reader...Sorry if I've not been visiting.  Too much on my mind and going on around here.

Hope you all have an awesome 4th.

happy monday

And a happy Monday it is.  For starters the Blackhawks won last night.  Yes, only one more to go...I wasn't even born yet the last time they won the Stanley Cup.

This is a macro shot I took of my clematis growing this year.  It seems like it's been awhile since I've done any macro shots.

 

There is so much going on here...It's busy as usual.  We did manage to get in a hike yesterday.  The view at the peak was awesome.

We hiked on a more rugged type of trail.  You can see the "Y"...We took the trail to the left and it led us into some pretty thick woods.

 

You can tell by this mossy fallen tree that there doesn't get much sun light.

Walking through this we sure got a work out.  We passed two groups of Boy Scouts with back packs on their backs training.

Life is still pretty busy over here.  Nothing ever seems to slow down.

But, life is good and everyday we learn more and more how lucky we are.

You all have a wonderful day!

time is passing by

Where does the time go?  I haven't posted since Wednesday and here it is Saturday already.  How can one be so busy and there is really nothing to show for it.  I guess that's just how life is.  Jim and I have been walking almost every night.  We walk over 3 miles each time.  When we first started walking way back when, just going a half hour was a killer.  Now, a half hour is a piece of cake and doesn't even feel like we've walked at all.  I'm not looking forward to walking in the warmer weather tho and some of the places we have walked lately are pretty wooded and wet. 

 

I know those wonderful mosquitoes will be thick once they come out.  The river has been pretty flooded lately as you can see from the photo below.

We spied a new flower that we have not seen before.

Lots of flowers but also lots of water as well.

Hope you all have been doing well and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

midweek wednesday

I totally forgot to show you the dolphin that was made out of shells we found.  Walking down the beach one evening we came upon this.  Someone really did a lot of work on this and did a really nice job.

The sand dollars and star fish that we found.  Stay tuned for the post on our sand dollar trip.  The sand dollars were the highlight of our trip.

I still don't have my camera back yet.  I hope it doesn't take too much longer.  I haven't been doing any sewing or knitting.  I just don't seem to be picking it up right now.  Too much other things going on.

We did some planting already, onions and radishes, or I should say Jim did some planting.  Jim also planted some wheat and corn.  He hopes to be able to grow it, harvest it and then grind it himself, instead of buying it.  It will be interesting to see how this will turn out.  It's not a big area in our yard.  I gave a book to him for Christmas, Homegrown Whole Grains.  Which he loved so now he's off and running.

The weather is cool again and colds are going through our house...bummer.  I hope I start to feel better soon.

You all have a wonderful day today!