26 January - Snow Day!

It's been a mega snowy day here today.  It sort of caught me off guard, even though the news has been blasting about a big storm for days - apparently I haven't been paying attention.  Anyway, I've loved the snow day.  It's been a change from the dull grey of winter and it has covered the dirty snow left from the last storm, making it all white and pretty again.

It's still snowing outside and the weatherman says it will continue through the night.  I'm secretly hoping for another snow day tomorrow - no school run always makes me happy.  Meanwhile I'm inside, nice and warm and working neat rows of stitching on my little star quilt above.  I'll tell you about this quilt one of these days, once the memory of the many swear words that passed my lips whilst creating it aren't so fresh in my mind.  ☺ 

 

Toodles....L x ♥

 

P.S.  I asked the Mister to take a few snaps of the snow for me.  This is what he presented me.....lovely eh?

 

Yes, Charlie is having a wee in the snow!

:: Friday Smile ::

Beets and Charlie snoozing after a long evening of wrestling....

Happy Weekend!  

Toodles ... L x

♥ October ♥

I know, I've been quiet again.  September has slipped by quietly with very few photos on my camera. I've been plodding along day to day, achieving very little it seems, until this weekend.  This weekend saw a flurry of activity....

• I turned the dining room/home office/sewing room into a bomb site....and then back into an almost tidy dining room/home office/sewing room.  Almost tidy, with just a tiny bit of clutter, because it wouldn't be my house without a touch of clutter.
• I started a new/old/new knitting project (no photo yet, don't want to jinx it).  My Paulie Cardigan was nearly finished, just down to one cuff, when I realized that unless I looked like a potato with tooth pick arms it was never going to fit.  While I do possess the potato shape body, getting rounder by the chocolate bar, what I lack is the toothpick arms.  Oh how i wish I had toothpick arms and a toothpick body to go with it....so onward to a new project.  Fingers crossed!
• I've been enjoying the zinnas and sweet peas from the garden, along with a zillion tomatoes.  My first successful year with sweet peas!  Yay for sweet peas, although I am sad I have no sweet pea seed pods growing so I'll have them for next year.  A marketing ploy to make me buy more seeds I am sure.
• Loving this sweet roll top sewing box I won on eBay.  Sorry, no exciting bidding war, just my single bid.  The Mister helped me do a little fix with some wood glue and sand paper and the little top rolls like a dream
• Enjoying the last of the summer flowers in the garden. They'll be gone any day now as the temperatures drop quickly. It is after all October and there will be snow soon.  Big J doesn't believe in snow in October and so I show him this photo. . 
• Our newest edition, Sir Charlies, is settling in well....wellish really.  He cries like a baby whenever I leave, it breaks my heart.  He also escapes anytime I leave, so we've been busy building new gates and fixing fences. It's not working, he can squeeze through anything.  He's fine when anyone else leaves, just me.  He has a fetish for socks, rocks and acorns.  All of which I find rather annoying on the living room rug in the morning, but I rather see the rocks on the rug than listen to him throw them up in the air and crash down on our new wood floors.

 
So there we have it.  

The pumpkin month is upon us and it is almost list summer never happened.  

Why does time go by so fast these days?

 

I do hope all is well with you.  

Thank you for stopping by, I shall be back.

 

Toodles..L x ♥

What's Up?

Long time, no blog.  The age old story.  What's up with that I ask?  Not much really, days just been getting away from me...August is here and...I've been...

• Working - still, by the skin of my teeth, seems this job will drive me crazy before I'm let go.
• Sewing - new curtains for the living room. Bit of a disappointment, but they work
• Taxing - Big J back and forth to the airport (2.5 hours each way!) for him to go off on a lovely jolly to Colorado and leave his old Mum at home.
• Dining - not me that is, but the mosquitoes on me!  I've become the local mozzie buffet.  Little buggers love me.
• Scratching - I'm one bit itch thanks to those mozzies. I'll spare you the photo, but I'm one of those people that only have to have a mozzie buzz past me and I break out in an controllable itch.
• Contemplating - places I can move to where there are no pesky mosquitoes.  Any suggestions?
• Mess making - on my bed, in front of the TV watching Salvage Hunters on Netflix. I want that job.
• Hooking - not on the street corner, but the above little doodad.  Yes, another bag.  Look out linen closet! Actually I like it. Lovely soft cotton and sparkly bits of silver and gold.  Totally mismatched weights and types of yarn, but what the heck!  I loved stitching this little bag. It needs a lining, I will tackle that task tomorrow.
• Waiting -  to see if the Mr. can get Big J's new/old 1973 Monte Carlo running.  Poor boy just bought the beast of a car, drove it three times, went away on vacation and now it won't run!  I told him old cars are like the lottery, you'll spend more money hoping to win and losing most of the time.
• Snuggling - with the new little addition to our house! Charlie!  After 15 years we bid a sad farewell to our lovely old Dachshund, Lucie three weeks ago and within four days we welcomed Charlie. It was fate and as much as I said no no no more dogs, we saw little lost Charlie and new he was meant to be a part of our family.  Sally, our other Dachshund is happy to have the company.

Well that's it really.  Not much, nothing exciting, just the same old same old.

What's up with you?  Anything fun?

Toodles...L x