WEEK 8 UPDATES

 

There are reasons to celebrate this past week.  I will share that information at the end of this post.

In the world of crafting, I have kind of been slacking.  I have been waiting on floss for my favorite Madonna and Child XS.  It was mailed from Ohio on the 8th of this month.  Normally, I receive floss from them in about 3 days.  It was scheduled to be delivered on the 12th.  Got a note from USPS it was going to be delayed.  Well, by the 20th I was a bit peeved and contacted USPS and was informed only the sender could do anything!  Contacted the vender to inform them about it.  That night I got informed my package was in Kent Washington!!!!  What???  So it took 12 days to go from Ohio to Washington.  It showed up in my mailbox on the 22nd.  So, only 2 days from Washington to Arizona.  And USPS keeps raising their rates?  Now I know why.  Takes so much more gas to go from Ohio to Arizona these days. LOL

So, while waiting for the floss to arrive, I started another To The Point shawl.

This will be #42.  I have 2 more colors to use before I am out of this type of yarn.  I am very limited on Worsted Weight yarn now. Once I no longer have enough worsted weight skeins to make these shawls, I will start making scrap-ghans with what I have left until I am completely out.  How exciting is it to think I might actually deplete one of my yarn weights by the end of this YOP year!

That is all I did for crafting.  I did play with my sourdough again this week.

I made a boule of pumpernickel fennel  sourdough bread.  It is so yummy.  I also had one of my cookie tubs returned to me last night with wishes for more SD cookies.  Makes me happy to know they were loved that much.

Hubby and I decided to become a one car family.  It has been a thought of ours for the past several years and we finally decided to do it.  We traded both of our cars in and decided to go with a 3 year lease.  Since we are both well into our 70's we truthfully do not know how much longer we will be driving safely.  Here is what we now have in our driveway.

Yup, we decided to go with an all electric vehicle.  It is a 2025 BMW SUV and we are thrilled with it.  I am sure we will even be more thrilled when we figure out all the bells and whistles that are on it.  We picked it out on Tuesday evening and picked it up on Wednesday afternoon.  Our charging box should be installed sometime this coming week too.  

So, that is one reason to celebrate this past week.  Here is the other reason....................

Jaxon!!!!!!!! 

Top left photo is from August 16th, bottom left from August 19th and the big right photo is from August 24th!  What a difference a week has made.  She is now at a rehab facility and getting 150 hours of physical, occupational and speech therapy per week.  She still has a way to go.  Her concussion/brain injury is probably the hardest thing for most of us to handle.  Her time lines are way off and she thinks things have happened that have not happened.  She has pulled herself off her pain meds as she knew they were messing with her thinking abilities too.  We figure she has at least another week if not 2 weeks before she will be able to go home.  Each day we see more and more improvement.  We have been blessed!

Today is the day I really do not do much.  I will go and visit Jaxon for a little bit.  There is a jigsaw puzzle that is screaming to be started.  Actually, I have 15 puzzles that are wanting to be worked.  There is a loaf of 'regular' bread that is going to be made.  We have plenty of leftovers in the fridge for our dinner tonight.  So, a nice and relaxing day for me.

Here is your chuckle for the week.......................

Until Next Time....................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WEEK 7 Can We Get A Break!

 

Oh My Goodness.  This week was not a week I care to ever repeat.  I will explain at the end of this post.  But, first, I will regale you with my crafting adventures.

I finished the To The Point Shawl #40.

I still need to add the medal and tag before turning it into the prayer shawl group.  I played around with my photo gallery to see if I could do a little something different .  Well, it's different LOL.

Believe it or not, I picked up the RCR sock and actually put some rows on it.

This is my take a-long project.  It got taken a-long quite a bit this week.

Now to explain the title of this post......................

Thursday night I got a call from our son, Jay.  He was on his way to a hospital 40 miles away from our homes.  His daughter, Jaxon, had been in an accident.  Well, of course, my heart dropped to my ankles.  This is what we know so far.................

Jaxon was at a sanctioned motorcycle meeting/rally.  When it was over, her boyfriend decided he wanted to do a wheely and got permission from one of the shop owners to do so.  He did the wheely and at the end of it, went airborne, hit a curb, hit Jason, hit a pole and flew off his bike.  Jaxon has a compound fracture of her femur, two huge gashes (the Dr said they look like shark bites) in her broken leg, two small fractures of her pelvis, gash on the top of her head and many many abrasions on her body.  As for her boyfriend.  He suffered multiple fractures of both legs and multiple fractures of his pelvic bones.  He was wearing a helmet thankfully.

They both will heal...........eventually.  Jaxon has had surgery on her fracture and now has a titanium rod in her leg and the gashes have all been sutured.  We pray the ones on her leg will heal properly or there may be skin grafts in her future.  

The family was in the hospital all day Friday waiting for her to come out of surgery and get updates to her condition.  She finally opened her eyes late Friday evening and they were able to pull her breathing tube that evening too.  She was moved from ICU to a regular room yesterday afternoon.  She is extreme pain and does not remember anything that happened.  

This family is ready to catch a break here.  

The other good news, I was not the only one knitting in the waiting room.  A lady across from me was making a baby blanket and had just taught herself how to knit via youTube!  She was at least my age.  I was very impressed!

And now for your chuckle for the week...............

Until Next Time......................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEALTH & BREAD UPDATE

 

HEALTH UPDATE

Ok, so, I got good news from my urgent care visit.  No infection!  Thanks for asking.

I went to see the surgeon today about my thyroid nodule.  There will be a biopsy done....sometime.  First, permission from my cardiologist to stop my blood thinner for three days, then blood work, then schedule it with the hospital radiologist.  Good Grief!  It is the hurry up and wait game now.

BREAD UPDATE

 I am happy to report, my sourdough is going great guns.  Look at this beauty I cooked this morning after it rested last night in the fridge.

It has not been cut into yet.  Hopefully it is just as pretty inside.

My starter is going nuts!

She went from 200ml to 600ml in 2.5 hours!  I could make a boule of bread everyday with the way she goes.  I am now looking for discard recipes to help keep that crock down to a manageable size.  There might be tortillas and chocolate cookies made with it.  My family members love both so will be able to give them away.

That about covers everything around here.

Until next time.............happy crafting!

WEEK 6

Another week has passed.  It was full of activity, family and crafting.

CRAFTING

I spent a fair amount of time on XS.  At this point I am still only working on the full coverage one.

It may not look like much but, trust me, this took several hours of time.  The spotted area took me 3 hours!  I must be the slowest cross stitcher ever.  It is still enjoyable for me and that is the most important part.

I am bored with the RCR socks so decided to make an old faithful pattern:

To The Point shawl is being worked on.  The color of this is much brighter than shown.  This will make #41.  An easy project to take along when transporting people to appointments.

KITCHEN STUFF

My sourdough starter is going crazy!  It doubles in size within just a couple of hours of feeding it.  That means I was obtaining a plethora of discard.  What to do?

Belgium waffles seemed like a grand idea.  They were delicious too.  

There was also a loaf of sourdough bread made with the active starter.

This was a success.  I have had a horrible time getting a good loaf of sourdough made.  This one used beer in it but you can not taste it.  I will be making this type again in the next day or two.

I made two other items with discard. One was Chocolate chip cookies.  No photo of them but I do have a photo of my new cookie jar they are stored in.

Isn't it cute?  My friend in Vegas had this jar but in white.  It seals tightly and keeps the cookies fresh for quite a while.  I think the cookies will be gone before we see how long the freshness will last.

The other discard item was crackers.  Hubby loves them and they are super easy to make and use a lot of discard.  I use different spices in them to make them super yummy.

HEALTH

I had quite an unusual experience this week.  I needed to go to urgent care for a suspected infection.  (Waiting on the results)  The Dr was busy doing a procedure so they asked if I would be ok with a telehealth Dr.  I was ok with that.  So, this is what I saw when taken into the room.

I chuckled about this.  If you have seen NCIS LA, you know, Heddy had one of these that followed her 'team' around the office.  She would keep tabs on their activities and talk to them.  Well, I am happy to report, Heddy was not the Dr on this one.  It was interesting to say the least though.  I was still laughing when I left and the staff started laughing with me when I explained why.  They all agreed.

LIFE

I spent some time going about town with Tiff (TX DIL).  We had errands to run and decided to do them together.  It was 6 hours of pure joy.  Then, yesterday, we went to her house to celebrate the 25th birthday of their bonus daughter.  This girl had NEVER had a birthday party, EVER!  Well, we took care of that.  Josh is holding his own.  He has a few new noticeable things happening.  Nothing anyone would know unless you knew him well.  But, the family notices.  We take each day with him as a gift.

Here is this weeks chuckle for you.................

Until Next Time............................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!

WEEK 5 MEMORIES

 

Hey there.  I am a day late again.  We just got back from our family weekend in Las Vegas.  I will talk about that as soon as I show you my pitiful craft activity.

I finally finished the area in the upper right hand corner.  There is still much more to do in that area though.  The enjoyment of working on this is still going strong.

As for the sock.............only about 4 rows added to it.  It even went with me to Las Vegas but only came out of it's project bag for about 20 minutes in the 3 days we were there.  Since I drove both ways, there was not any car knitting either.

As for the trip...............What great memories we made.  Three of our 4 kids and their spouses went with us.  We stayed with our one of our dearest friends.  They open their home to us anytime we request.  More family lives in the area so we were able to see them too while we were there.

Here is the motley crew.  We had so much fun making memories to last our lifetime.

The kids went down to the Freemont experience one night.  Just to have time with themselves and no parental units went.

From left to right.............Jay, Jenn, Josh.  Yes, I like 'J' names.

Here is a sweet photo.

Our DIL, Tiffany (Jay's wife) holding our youngest family member.  He is 3 months old and such a sweety.  They were watching the olympics.

We had one other exciting event happen.................

Josie turned 19!  Where did the time go?

It is very nice to be home again.  That was 2 road trips to Vegas in under a month.  I am not even wanting to think about another road trip for quite a while.  I think I hear my bed calling my name too.

But before I close, you need a little humor.  This will be me tomorrow.

Until Next Time..............................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!