Wow! I didn’t realize it had been so long since I
posted a blog. I guess that means
nothing exciting has been happening. It has
been a slow time around here.
Nothing
has been happening with the shed/shack.
Kevin decided to take some time off and get some of his fishing rods
finished. He has been a busy bee working
on them and they look really good. On
his website he mentions that he is a third generation making fishing rods, and
this is correct. My grandfather Myers,
his great grandfather, my mother’s father, made fishing rods for many
years. He also made fishing flies (types
of lures to catch trout). Grandpa supported
his family doing this during the depression.
Grandma Myers had passed away and he had four children to support.
Kevin
has asked me to work with Ryan on the Opelika Rods website. I said sure.
I am hoping to get with Ryan on Sunday to go over a few ideas that I
have. It just seems like everyone is so
busy that we are all behind. Ryan has
done a great job so far, even though he has never created a website
before. He is using a program that I am
not familiar with, but I am sure I can learn.
No
other outside work has been done either.
It is still summer here. It has not been out of the nineties during the
day since forever (at least it seems that way).
They are predicting that MAYBE next week it will be in the mid-eighties. We will be having a cold wave. YEA!
I
have been busy quilting. I had taken my
t-shirt quilt to Sunday Best Quiltworks to be quilted. I picked it up this past week and it turned
out very nice. I am very happy with
it. Now I have to decide what to do with
it 😊
I also made a fall wall hanging that I quilted myself. It turned out nice, except it isn’t as wide as it should be, and it doesn’t look right hanging where I planned to hang it. So…..I have it hanging on a kitchen wall next to my pantry. It looks nice there. The colors are much brighter and prettier than it looks on this picture. I will try again later.
I
am still working on what I am embroidering for Jana for Christmas. I ended up telling her what I was doing
because I will probably still be working on it when she arrives. But, that’s okay because I had planned to
give it to her early when we started decorating for Christmas. I have a smaller wall hanging that I have
started for me for Thanksgiving. I also
have two tote bags to make. One will be
used when I go to SBQ. When I do that I
will get a surprise gift. I just had to
buy my material from them and put their logo on the tote. I also have two Christmas wall hangings that
I plan to make. BUSY! BUSY! BUSY!
This
morning, before it got too hot, I did go out and water all the trees in the
containers. I also weeded them. It seems no matter what kind of dirt you buy
to plant items in containers you still get weeds. I also watered the “lovely” magnolia
tree. It is really sad looking. You must agree with me right? It almost has some leaves. If it doesn't look better next year it will be gone!
I think we may have lost one of the forsythia bushes, but the other one looks good. We shall see. I definitely need to find time (when it cools down) to get some weeding done. My yard looks terrible.
Now
for the spider lilies. I have them growing
up all over my front yard. This doesn’t
happen every year, but for some reason I sure have a lot of them this
year. They are very pretty. A couple of years ago I dug some up and
planted them in containers. For some
reason, they did not grow at all, so I gave up on that project. Sure is a shame because I do like them.
They didn't show up too good on this picture, but they are all over the yard.
A closeup of the plant,
I
am going to take a break now and have lunch. Then I plan to do some
embroidering before going to church. I
will, hopefully, finish this tomorrow.
Good
Morning! It is now Sunday. Yesterday I did have lunch. Then I did some embroidering. Next it was
church. After Mass I went to Kevin and
Renea’s for supper. Kevin had smoked a
brisket and it sure was good. Renea had fixed macaroni salad and hash brown casserole.
She also baked banana bread and made an
oreo cookie cheese cake. Everything was
delicious.
Came
home after eating, talked to Jana, watched some television and went to
bed. Tired today. Had a bad night. I did a lot of dreaming and waking. Oh well.
That happens.
Talked
to Brian this morning. He and Tracy are
on their way home from visiting Samantha and Brandon. They are doing fine.
That’s
about all the news I have for now. Have
a good week y’all.
