Day 223 of 2025

 I'm off again. 

You know the drill.

Day 222 of 2025

 I'm off again. 

You know the drill.

Day 221 of 2025

 I'm off again. 

You know the drill.

Day 220 of 2025

 I'm off again. 

You know the drill.

Day 219 of 2025

I know it's hard to see what's going on here so I will explain. 

I wanted to make a pair of pajama pants. 

I went to my fabric stash to look for three yards of fabric. 

Before I was even able to really look 

I found this pair of Vera Bradley pajama pants 

that I bought at Goodwill years ago to cut up 

and use as borders on a quilt. 

I had even picked out coordinating fabric 

which I found rolled together with the pants. 

It appeared that they might fit me so I took a closer look. 

The elastic in the back waist was rotten so I replaced the elastic. 

My favorite thing though is that I was able to add inseam pockets. 

I love inseam pockets and intend to add them to most anything I can. 

I can't wait to wear these.

 

Day 218 of 2025

Update on the glue search: 

I looked in a drawer in the kitchen desk 

to see if I could find the glue for my shoe repair. 

I did not see it so I started cleaning out the drawer instead. 

In the back I found an old cigar box. 

When I opened it, this is what I found. 

I don't need these so they are not going to stay here, 

but I had to take a picture as they reminded me

 of this puzzle I did back in 2020. 

When I cleared out the rest of the drawer, I did find my glue. 

I have now fixed my sandals. 

There is no need to shop for new sandals 

or buy more shoe repair glue.

 

Day 217 of 2025

When we were in San Diego Little E gifted me with a beautiful shawl she knit. 

I plan to take it with me on an upcoming trip 

so I thought I would give it a nice wool wash soak and blocking. 

Even in cool water it was bleeding color. 

I believe it was coming from the contrast color trim yarn. 

I rinsed it five or six times and it finally stopped. 

It now lies on a beach towel on a bathroom floor

 along with a cute cropped sweater 

that Little E made for me a couple years ago

 that I also plan to take with me. 

I hope they are both dry in time. 

Note: All previous Big Adventure posts (Days 204-209) 

have been updated with photos.

 

Day 216 of 2025

This is the top three shelves of the laundry closet. 

I am looking for something again. 

A while back I bought some shoe glue from the shoe repair shop

 to fix a favorite pair of boots. 

I did not repair them yet 

but did repair another pair of shoes with it. 

Now my favorite sandals are coming apart. 

I have no idea where I put this random item, 

but the logical place seems to me to be here with the shoe polish. 

I did not find it here. 

I'll look somewhere else tomorrow. 

If I can't find it by Wednesday, I see two options - 

buy more shoe glue from the shoe repair shop

 or buy a new pair of sandals. 

They should be on sale by now.

 

Day 215 of 2025

Everyone enjoys it when the neighborhood cat comes around, 

including the cat.

 

Day 214 of 2025

Fireball and I are cleaning up after finally

 getting the tree, in the background next to the ladder,

 that was damaged in a storm in June trimmed up. 

(click here to see the original post about the damaged tree)

While I was up on the ladder, I also cut out all the dead limbs I could find. 

The job took much longer than I had imagined it would.

 

Day 213 of 2025

Evidently our ginkgo tree has a dead limb somewhere. 

It is throwing parts of it down on our shade structure to let us know.

 

Day 212 of 2025

The answer to yesterday's question, what is it?, is pee pee teepees. 

I made a whole stack of them

 as they come in handy for diaper changes of newborn boys. 

Those with boys will know what I'm talking about.

Say hello to our newest, GB#6.

 

Day 211 of 2025

I made it to my sewing  machine for a little bit today. 

I made this little thing. 

I also finished the stack under the scissors. 

Do you know what they are? 

What is it? 

Answer quickly as I may give you the answer tomorrow.

 

Day 210 of 2025

While we were on our big adventure

 I was able to get all the ribbing sections done on my Geddy Tee.

  My goal is to wear it in eleven days. 

That's a lot of knitting for me but I'm going to give it my best shot.

(Big Adventure pictures will start filling in tomorrow.)

 

Day 209 of 2025

It's just a short car ride from here and we'll be home. 

It's always good to be home.

Day 208 of 2025

It's our last day at Comic-Con and we had to get our photo by the wall. 

We've had a blast.

Day 207 of 2025

Part of Comic-Con is panels. 

The panel could have celebrities, actors from tv or movies, 

authors and other such things. 

Today we sat in on a panel all about the making of a book 

celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip. 

The panel consisted of everyone associated with the process 

of getting this book made. 

It was a great panel and the book looks amazing. 

I can't wait for the book to come out in October.

Day 206 of 2025

Lots of people were dressed up like lots of different things or characters, 

but this is probably my favorite. 

Day 205 of 2025

Yesterday we landed in San Diego 

and today we joined the crowd of thousands to attend 

Comic-Con International on its first day. 

We were lucky enough to get admission

 to all four days of the convention. 

We heard from a multi-year veteran vendor couple 

that the odds are very low of that happening.

Day 204 of 2025

I am off on One Big Adventure with Fireball and Little E. 

I know this picture doesn't give you any clues as to where I am, 

but we did all have to fly here 

and our main purpose for being here starts tomorrow. 

Day 203 of 2025

When packing a bag, 

you must make sure there's room for your knitting, right?

 

Day 202 of 2025

This shirt I'm making will not get finished tonight, 

but I'll manage it first thing in the morning.

 

Day 201 of 2025

My sewing is going but, of course, 

things are going slower than I had planned. 

I hope to finish this one tomorrow.

 

Day 200 of 2025

We were invited to go to a new-to-us farmer's market this morning. 

We love a new adventure.

 

Day 199 of 2025

There is a whole lot of sewing on the docket for this weekend. 

Once again Michaels came through

 with the materials I needed for this project. 

 

Day 198 of 2025

Sometimes I feel like the buds are more beautiful than the blossoms. 

 

Day 197 of 2025

I found the book I was looking for the other night. 

It took six minutes.

When I talked to Little E today, I forgot to show it to her.

 

Day 196 of 2025

Dinner.

 

Day 195 of 2025

I've decided I need to make a new t-shirt to wear next week.

 It shouldn't be too difficult as I've made this pattern before,

 but I want a longer sleeve than I've done before 

so that piece needs to be traced. 

I'm hoping to get started tomorrow.

 

Day 194 of 2025

It  appears that Michaels has picked up all the thread

 I would have purchased at Joann for clothing and bag sewing, 

especially for topstitching when a very close color match is wanted.

Good to know, Michaels.

 

Day 193 of 2025

A birthday celebration is in progress.

 

Day 192 of 2025

The mailbox flowers are thriving this year.

 
 

Day 191 of 2025

I've finally joined the two fronts and the back together. 

It's time to knit around and around for a while.

 

Day 190 of 2025

This is where I keep most of my knitting and crochet books 

along with some of my sewing, but not quilting books. 

I am looking for one in particular 

that I was telling Little E about this morning. 

Do we want to guess how long it will take me to find it

 or if I will find it here at all?

 

Day 189 of 2025

I hit a couple speed bumps with this tee since I last showed it here. 

There has been little progress but some decisions were made

 as to how to proceed with the challenges I am facing. 

Today I began working on the plan and found that I had made a few mistakes

 in previous rows that I could not ignore. 

I slipped my stitches to a spare needle to the offending spots one at a time

 and dropped the stitches down to the place that needed fixing. 

Then using this quite helpful tool, picked them all back up to the top

 and put them back on the needle. 

I think i've done them all (4 or 5) and am ready to resume knitting.

 

Day 188 of 2025

This is something I made a long time ago. 

It has come back into my possession and attention recently. 

I'll give you more information and my thoughts on it soon.

 

Day 187 of 2025

"Limelight Hydrangea"

The first of many more to come.

 

Day 186 of 2025

Yesterday we gathered for a 4th of July celebration. 

The two spray bottles with battery operated fans, one of which is broken, 

that I had were a big hit with the children 

in these ridiculously hot temperatures. 

There is a lot of summer left.

Today we hit the jackpot. 

These should cover the children and possibly some adults 

who might crave a spritz of water and a little breeze

 in the effort to stay cool.

 

Day 185 of 2025

The wait is over for the fireworks to begin.

 

Day 184 of 2025

I finished the right front yesterday and the left front today. 

I'm almost ready to connect the front and back 

so I can go round and round.

 

Day 183 of 2025

Funny story: 

Years ago I bought the Kate Rusby songbook.

 At one point I was looking for it and couldn't find it. 

I couldn't find it for a very long time. 

While it was lost, every time something else went missing, 

we would say it was with the Kate Rusby songbook 

indicating that once we found the songbook, 

all the other lost items would be right there with it. 

They were just hanging out together having a great time. 

Today I was knitting and needed to start a new ball of yarn. 

I looked in the places that I thought it might be. 

I was not in those places. 

I did come across the songbook though, 

but, alas, the yarn was not with it. 

Shortly thereafter I did find the yarn

 in a quite close and convenient place. 

Knitting continues. 

Maybe I'll get a progress picture for you tomorrow.

 

Day 182 of 2025

These day lilies are blooming a couple weeks later than last year. 

This is the second year after transplanting them. 

It's good to see them blooming again.

 

Day 181 of 2025

This one is tiny. 

The next driveway seems a long way off. 

And is it just me, or does he need to grow into those ears?

 

Day 180 of 2025

Yesterday I acquired three large containers 

full of textiles including crocheted items, 

old trims, and embroidered things. 

Today I am sifting through the containers. 

There are some keepers and some items I'll pass along. 

I especially like the hand embroidered things.

 

Day 179 of 2025

We visited The Lume exhibit 

Connection: Land, Water, Sky at Newfields today. 

It was amazing. 

Here Fireball is moving the art with just the motion of his hand

 in this interactive part of the exhibit.

 

Day 178 of 2025

The hawk is back.

 

Day 177 of 2025

Well, this is unfortunate. 

I am making good progress on physical therapy

 for a knee injury from three months ago that hasn't healed yet. 

Today I lost my footing

 and felt like my ankle and foot crumpled under me. 

X-rays show nothing is broken,

 but I'm sure this will affect how much physical therapy

 I can do for my knee.

 

Day 176 of 2025

This is the benefit of accidentally letting some of the bananas

 get way too ripe. 

I'm definitely not sad about it.

 

Day 175 of 2025

There is a new Fiesta color. 

This one is called linen. 

I'm looking forward to mixing this one in.

I'm not sure when they started with this stamp 

on the back of the pieces. 

It's definitely new to me 

to have a number stamped below the Fiesta logo.

 

Day 174 of 2025

Monday is laundry day, 

but when you need to be out of the house most of the day, 

laundry gets started late 

and subsequently folding gets done very late. 

But it's done.

 

Day 173 of 2025

The last few weeks have been busy 

and I haven't always gotten to my puzzles. 

Today I'm going to solve all of these.

 

Day 172 of 2025

Click HERE 

to see the original picture in this same spot, 

at the same art fair, 

in the same heat six years ago.

 

Day 171 of 2025

We're headed back to our car downtown tonight. 

I know I'm not giving you much to go on, 

but does anyone want to guess where we were?

Where am I?

 

Day 170 of 2025

Update on my purple dye splotched jean jacket:

I took the advice from the comments and did a Google search. 

While vinegar did come up so did Borax natural laundry booster. 

I happen to already own a box of Borax so I put half a cup in a large bucket 

and added the hottest water I could get from my tap. 

I submerged the jacket and let it soak. 

I can't remember how long I let it soak

 but I'm sure the water was no longer hot. 

When I poured the water out, it was purple. 

I rinsed the jacket and then put it in a regular laundry load. 

It worked fabulously. 

There is no trace of purple splotches.