Day 91 of 2024

Fireball and Jesper are enjoying their afternoon chat.

Day 90 of 2024

Fireball and another sunset.

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Day 89 of 2024

Bermuda sunrise before we all wake and go flying kites.

Day 88 of 2024

Tonight we attended the awards ceremony for an art contest 

in which Little E had a piece entered. 

She did not win an award but it was such a fun event. 

We got to see her piece and all the other entries in the gallery, 

eat cookies and drink champagne.

Day 87 of 2024

A fast walk down the road and up a hill 

gave us the opportunity to see this beautiful sunset. 

The answer to where we are should be evident from the picture below.

Day 86 of 2024

 

Fireball and I are off on another adventure. 

Can anyone guess where we are? 

These chickens are part of the wild life here 

although these specific ones are definitely treated as pets.

Day 85 of 2024

The weekend sewing didn't get done on the weekend, 

 but some of it got done today.

 

Day 84 of 2024

Monday's list is a long one. 

Monday is also laundry day. 

I'm going off script and starting laundry tonight to make tomorrow easier. 

This plan works for me.

 

Day 83 of 2024

Blue and the moon

99% waxing gibbous

 

Day 82 of 2024

All washed and ready for some weekend sewing.

 

Day 81 of 2024

GB#3

Day 80 of 2024

Happy Spring just a day late.

 

Day 79 of 2024

Here is a blast from the past. 

I made this dress in 2017 for GB#2 for her Easter dress. 

Now it seems that it may fit GB#5 this Easter. 

It is pressed and ready.

 

Day 78 of 2024

This is my goal for tomorrow: 

Start and finish this project. 

 

Day 77 of 2024

I broke out my forever scarf tonight. 

I will have some free time soon in which I'd like to insert a knitting project

 that can feel productive while at the same time be relatively mindless. 

I'm trying this out to see if it fits the bill.

 

Day 76 of 2023

You know I love building things and seeing how things are built. 

I saw this slant-roofed "grill gazebo" and had to see how it was made. 

I took a couple pictures.

 

Day 75 of 2024

I've been working on some little gifts. 

I'm very happy to be finishing some things ahead of time. 

Does anyone want to guess what these will be used for? 

What is it?

 

Day 74 of 2024

vinca minor, close up, 

after the thunder storm

 

Day 73 of 2024

It looks like my new hydrangeas 

might have made it through their first winter.

 

Day 72 of 2024

Contrails and sunset.

 

Day 71 of 2024

I bought a new-to-me pair of pants over the weekend. 

I got them at a thrift store so the first thing that happens is a good wash. 

That happened today because Monday is laundry day around here. 

The stretch at the waistline is almost nonexistent

 so I will be replacing the elastic. 

Unfortunately, this means tearing out three rows of stitching. 

I started that task today, but then my neck light started to lose power 

and now I have to wait for either my light to charge up or some daylight. 

And since when did pants get so expensive? 

This pair is the same brand and exact style and color 

I had just tried on at the retail store earlier in the day. 

These pants were just over 10% of the retail cost.

 

Day 70 of 2024

The Indiana Flower + Patio Show 2024 was full of the promise of spring

 and full of inspiration for my own yard.

 

Day 69 of 2024

In just a few hours, this clock will finally show the correct time. 

It will be correct for the next 34 weeks

 at which time it will go back to being wrong.

 

Day 68 of 2024

The stack on the left in yesterday's post turned into this cutie.

 

Day 67 of 2024

I'm beginning to not mind trimming these squares. 

It's a good thing since I will be doing so many this year

 for the temperature quilt. 

These pretty ones are for another project.

 

Day 66 of 2024

My temperature quilt blocks are coming along. 

The left is January and the right is February. 

If you go back to my other "temperature" posts, 

you can compare the January blocks  

and see that I did replace one of the fabrics. 

I am happy with this decision. 

Here is a little more information about the set up of the blocks. 

The house facades depict 30 days of the specific month. 

If the month has 31 days, that house gets a tree in the yard. 

Since my quilt will have both high and low temperature blocks, 

I have split the tree in the same manner as the house blocks. 

Since February has only 29 days, 

I have added something special in the empty spot. 

 

Day 65 of 2024

Well, this was certainly a surprise I wasn't expecting today. 

Note: It wasn't for me specifically but for anyone who entered this room. 

It was fun, though, and made me smile.

 

Day 64 of 2024

Fireball and I have the task of choosing new flooring

 for one of our bathrooms. 

These are just some of the samples we are looking at.

Decisions are hard for me. 

Please wish us luck.

 

Day 63 of 2024

Besides a good power wash, the deck needs a bit of repair. 

It has come to our attention recently that the two boards

 which I have removed were rotten. 

Upon closer inspection, it appears that I will need to remove more boards 

to determine exactly how much will need to be replaced.

 

Day 62 of 2024

I'm much more focused tonight.

 

Day 61 of 2024

My brain is all over the place today. 

I wanted to go upstairs and cut the new pieces I need to swap a color in my temperature quilt 

and also look for an appropriate fabric to fussy cut for the February window. 

But wait, first I need to clean up the dishes from dinner. Ok, done. 

But wait, I forgot I have fabric in the washer that needs to be put in the dryer

 and fabric that needs to go into the washer. 

Fabric? Oh, yeah. I bought a cute kit for a Halloween table runner

 that I'd like to be ready to make so I'm preparing the fabric. 

Oh, yeah, the pattern was missing a page and I contacted the maker

 to see if I could get the missing page.

 Let me check my email to see if she wrote me back. 

I finally got upstairs and remembered 

that I wanted to look for the knitting needles that I need

 to start a Halloween hat for which I bought a kit last weekend. 

I found four of the one size I need and none of the other. 

I weigh the pros and cons of just using the one size that I found. 

I read through the pattern again and am very confused by the sizing and gauge. 

I do some math to see if I can make it work anyway. 

My conclusion is to cast on and see what happens. 

I pick the shiniest of the needles as the yarn will slide best on it. 

I begin the cast on and the first round with the black yarn provided 

and realize I will need my light to see. 

I set up my neck light and now I have a terrible glare 

from the light hitting the shiny needle. 

I will stop for the night and knit the next round onto one of the other three needles

 which will hopefully not create a glare. 

Now it's very late and I just remembered that I need to go switch the laundry again.

How did I start my evening? Oh, yeah, I need to cut out new fabric. 

Maybe tomorrow.