A little more progress

Saturday night I walked in our local "Relay for Life" race for the cure. The people who were in charge of the program put on a very moving power point presentation. I felt very honored to be a part of this team. Cancer touches a lot of lives, and you never know who will be struck next,so please schedule a yearly checkup. I was also thankful it was 75 degrees at 11pm about 40 degrees higher than last year when I participated.

The next picture I wanted to share is of our pond. Can you see the 2 eggs on the nest? When we built our pond DH had them put in an "island" so the girls could jump off the dock and swim to the "island" as they called it. Well, erosion has worn away most of it now, but in its day it had enough room that ten girls could stand on it. They even wanted to camp on it. lol! Times have changed. Now the geese are nesting around the pond. Looks like we will have some goslings soon.

I made a little more progress on the CHS stocking. I also started Earth Sampler by The Primitive Needle. I thought it would be a fast stitch but it has a lot of color changes, so it didn't go as fast as I hoped. I want to have it finished by Sunday. Time will tell.

Lastly, I said I had a polio shot which was incorrect. It was a small pox shot that left that lovely scar. In class, we were talking about the iron lung and polio and I was running that conversation through my head as I was typing. Sorry about that.

It was interesting to hear your comments, and you remember the same experiences. I am anxious to see what grade I received on my paper. Vonna commented on kids not working today. You have to wonder what our next generation will bring.

It will be May soon, and in Indiana that means Indy 500. My daughter has worked as an ambassador at the track for the pass few years. She operates the elevator where the VIP's are escorted upstairs to the suites. She has met McDreamy & McSteamy, Paul Neuman(although she didn't have a clue who he was) just some old man with beautiful blue eyes. I immediately had her watch "The Sting". lol! Gene Simmons from Kiss, Ray Liotta, Danica Patrick & Helio to name a few. I call her to talk about(drill her) who she met that day. I can't wait to see who she meets this year.


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A very little progress

I can't believe it's Thursday already. Time to post progress on my CHS stocking. I am almost embarrassed by my lack of stitching this week.

I had to write a paper on,"Were we better off in 1920 rather than 1980?" Since I was born in the early 60's, twenty-five years earlier than my fellow students. I have a little more first hand experience than they do. I have seen plenty of changes so far in my lifetime. My girls have not had the pleasure of listening to a record player or 8-track tape. They never talked on a telephone party line,watched a black/white TV,or detasseled corn for a summer job. Company computers use to take up a whole room, you could not afford to buy a personal computer and car phones came in a portable box. Boy, do I feel old!

Last week one of the students asked the professor if he had one of those ugly polio marks on his arm. He replied he was not old enough to have a mark then he looked at me. Speaking before thinking, I said I do have one, but is not on my arm. That was probably TMI because I heard a few snickers. Then I could hear them gossiping in the background, "How old is she anyway?" lol!!!! Then I felt really old. I knew I should have taken this class online.

It is mushroom season in Indiana. It is quite the contest with the men around here on who can find the most and earns bragging rights for the next year. You can almost smell the testosterone. Mushrooms sell for $18 a pound. Ridiculous! I would rather have shrimp or lobster or both. My dh loves when mushroom season rolls around. Not me, I like to eat them but I do not like to hunt them. It seems like I come home with more than mushrooms(ie-poison ivy or ticks). No thank you. This weekend there will be a festival at Mansfield. They have a contest on who brings in the most or the biggest. Vendors come to sell a few crafts and antiques. I like to go just to walk around and enjoy the day.
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A Virtuous Woman

I am doing a CHS stocking SAL with Annemarie at Orts & Ends and Barbara at Mainely Stitching. No deadlines, no pressure, I just have to post every Thursday my progress. Two stitches count as progress, yeah!

I received this stocking as a gift and I hated not working on it when quite a bit of money was spent on something I had to have. So after reading Ort & Ends blog, I emailed Annemarie to ask her if I could join in the fun.

I am stitching the stocking on 36ct. Pearled Barley with NPI. Please check back next Thursday, for more progress. I need to be kept on task until completed. Sometimes I feel like I have ADD and can be easily distracted by a new design. Know what I mean?

I thought I would share one of the covered bridges of Putnam County. I have four covered bridges with 15 minutes of my house. There use to be quite a few more in this area but they were lost to floods or arson. They did come in handy during the buggy wagon era. People use to pull into them to get out of the weather.

I also thought I would share with you an old building on the DePauw Campus in Greencastle. It is one of the those building that you drive by and don't notice any more. Although I don't know how, it looks so stately. (I hate it when the pictures post out of order.) Thanks for stopping by and leaving comments.

Peyton

I don't know if you follow football or not. I certainly wouldn't call myself a football fan. I listen to the Colts play on Sunday or Monday nights but only if I am not busy doing something else. My world does not revolve sports of any type. But I did go the grand opening of the new Lucas Oil Stadium. I thought it might be the only time I would get to be inside the locker room or on the field for that matter, or sit in the swanky suites of stadium.

My boss called me today at 12:00 and told me to lock the door and report out at the middle school. Being the model employee and always doing what I am told I did. They were having a surprise visitor.

The surprise visitor turned out to be Peyton Manning. He talked about following your dreams and don't let anyone stand in the way of your goals. (Same speech I gave last semester in my class & to my girls growing up.) Peyton talked about comittment & practicing hard, following through with your goals. He also mentioned his dogs (see previous post, he must have watched B.Stein too). He said when he wanted to complain to someone, he complained to his two dogs- Colt & Receiver(?). He also took out his linesmen every week to dinner. He wanted to keep on their good side, so they would protect him every week.

I was excited to hear him speak. He is admired and a great asset to Indianapolis. I can also tell my grandkids, how I chased Peyton out of the building to get his autograph.

On the Rocks

I haven't gotten as far as I would have liked on CHS Shores. I made it to the rocks. There was a little frog gigging going on at my house. It seems I have a little trouble counting to 92. Someone mentioned doing half stitches every ten stitches but I was to far in to the block when I heard that tip. But believe me, I won't forget that tip on the next block.

Then Friday night I started reading Historian. I couldn't put it down. I am really going to have to invest in audio tapes, that would be the best solution. When I am reading this book, I have the sensation of wanting to looking over my shoulder.

Saturday morning, I got up bright an early to work on CHS Mary Margaret. I made a little progress on her. Obviously, I didn't warn off the frogs good enough Thursday. They reappeared on Sunday, and I had to have another gigging session. I stitched the q three lines to high and it had to be frogged out. Megan has asked me when I was going to stitch her mouth. Has anyone stitched a smile on the girl's face?

Do you watch Sunday Morning on CBS? This morning they had an episode with Ben Stein and dogs. How you should get a dog when you get a divorce, lose you job or spouse. They don't judge you if you don't wear the latest fashion, or care how much money you make or where you work or how much money you lost in your 401K. They love you for who you are. They are great companions.

When my girls went off to college it was very quite at my house. You would think coming home to a quite house might be nice but after 30 minutes it was too quite. I was use to the hub bub of going seven days a week. Girls coming and going, games to played or dresses to buy. So I have two small dogs-Tuffy & Sidney. They are always glad to see me, even if I am gone 10 minutes or all day. They are interested in what I have to say or at least pretend to be interested. lol! They make me laugh at the antics, running through the house, or stealing each other's bone. Tuffy & Sid don't complain that I have watched Twilight more times than they can count.

Here is a picture of Tuffy. Tuffy seems to be camera shy. He didn't like it when I was trying to take his picture. I will get a picture of Sidney later and show you what a pretty girl she is.

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